It’s Stress Awareness month! And we’re going to be talking all things stress over the next four weeks. Stress shows itself in us regularly, but we often ignore the signs and carry on regardless. Behaviours, physical ailments and emotional shifts regularly act as red flags that show us what’s going on. This …
Sometimes money – or the absence of it – limits our capacity to vision the future that we really want. If money was no object at all (if you didn’t need it, or it was always taken care of) what would you create in your life? Would it be a home? More breaks …
I’ve been doing a lot of stories work with clients lately, both in 1:1 sessions and in workshops. We’ve looked at how the stories we carry in our minds drive our behaviour. We all have stories and often we’re not conscious of them. A really simple example of this is with yoga. …
One of our lovely Bird associates sent me an article on the wellbeing issues in the medical profession. The article shines a light on the emotional challenges doctors face when navigating their careers, and the lack of infrastructural support available to them when they first start out. Much like the police, social services, charities …
People say home is where the heart is. I’ve always taken that to mean home is where your loved ones are, or home is where you feel most comfortable. But just recently I’ve understood it to mean something different. Home is where your heart is – literally. I have spent a lot …
I hope you’re keeping warm if you’re in Europe right now. It was a bit of a shocker to return to the bitter cold after relaxing in 30-degree heat over in Australia the past few weeks. Which brings me to my topic this week. It’s something I’ve held for a long time …
Now, I don’t in any way claim to be an expert around nutrition. However, I wanted to share on the blog this week, my own personal experience of building emotional resilience by being conscious of what I put in my body. For a long while I’ve been following interesting nutrition writers like Kris …
At Bird, we understand the current wellbeing and resiliency challenges the not-for-profit sector is experiencing. Purposeful work tends to attract empathic, passionate, emotionally intelligent individuals, who often find themselves taking on emotional responsibility for others. Over time, such empathic, passionate and emotionally intelligent individuals can lose resilience. This unfortunately leads to burnout, …
As a self-care advocate, I try my best to prioritise my own self-care. I’ll confess I sometimes completely forget, and end up tired out and experiencing what Thich Nhat Hanh calls ‘radio non stop thinking.’ But most of the time I remember what makes me feel good, like yoga and mediatation and reading and …
Priorisiting wellbeing is effective in two ways: it helps us to create a calm, confident and empowered default state for ourselves, and, it helps us to fill our toolbox with effective strategies for challenging future times. Recently I experienced a period of uncertainty and found it really challenging to be with, to …
