When it’s time to let go. — It seems that a lot of distress and suffering comes from paying attention to that judging inner voice. Most experiences aren’t as painful as the amount of judgemental thinking that happens as a reaction to them. Broadly there looks to be three types of judgemental thinking — judging yourself, judging…

Quitting can be really hard. It feels like something we don’t always want to talk about. Like we’ve failed if we decide to quit something — whether it’s a job, a relationship or another circumstance that no longer serves us. My parents used to question my decisions on leaving jobs…

Mentoring, coaching, therapy, consulting, facilitating… similar but different. — Exploring the similarities and differences between coaching and other practices that sit in similar territories, that can sometimes be confused. Mentoring Mentoring is helpful if you are looking to better your craft or skillset from someone who has trodden a similar path. It helps to deepen a specialism usually in a…

Something and nothing — Where does creativity come from? How does an idea begin life and take form? How does something come from nothing? I don’t have the answers to these questions but I do like to ponder. Ideas seem to come from nowhere and it intrigues me. It seems like trying to force…

Being seen and heard. — Doing this writing experiment for the last couple of weeks has been a really interesting experience in experiencing acknowledgement… and I just wanted to acknowledge that. Acknowledgement is Acknowledgement doesn’t have to be complimentary or full of praise, what it does is recognise, notice and express that you have seen something. Simple. …

Work is not a place — With offices opening back up in the UK, I’ve been reflecting on why working remotely has been a good experience for some. Working remotely is great when it means Not having to commute to an office on crowded transport, or navigate traffic and find a car parking space — pure joy. The temperature of the environment you’re…

Changing the speed of time — Time is one of those concepts that no one really wants to mess with. We know that there are 60 seconds in a minute, 60 minutes to an hour, 24 hours to a day, 365 (and a quarter) days to a year and so on. We can’t argue with time. …

Rethinking our thinking — It seems to me that the ability to change your mind about something can be really useful. At times I think about my nan refusing to talk to my aunty for 40 years because she didn’t like the man she was marrying. In the end, that man was the person…

Remembering the voice of Thich Nhat Hanh — I was sad to hear that Thich Nhat Hanh died yesterday. He seemed a very kind man and had a very cool job title: Zen Master. I won’t reel off all the amazing work he did and it would impossible to sum up all his 100+ books, but I wanted…