Thank you to all those who shared thoughts and feedback in response to last week’s blog. It’s lovely to both hear your support and to hear what you are doing to support yourselves as well. So, an update, after sending the blog last week I very much stayed off the wagon for …
At the moment I am not nailing my self-care. This feels vulnerable to share given that I’m an advocate for looking after yourself in order to be of service to others. But for some reason, I’ve fallen off the wagon a little bit. This morning I sat down to meditate with my …
Nonsense is everywhere. My definition of nonsense is ‘actions and words that make situations more complicated, noisier, and are not at all aligned with personal or organisational values, vision or purpose.’ Nonsense can be found in organisations, in relationships and sometimes in our own brains. Nonsense is stuff like ‘this person said …
When you do a job that involves supporting others in some way it can feel challenging, overwhelming and emotionally tiring. It’s natural to feel this way when working in the not-for-profit or public sector. When the emphasis is always on helping others it can be easy to forget your own needs. We …
At Bird we work with brilliant people in the not-for-profit sector to help them build robust self-care toolkits in order to stay resilient. We work on dealing with self-sabotage, developing mindful or meditative practices, building strategies to process emotions, establishing boundaries so resilience is preserved and built. But beyond all of the …
In honour of Stress Awareness Month we’re talking all things stress in our blogs. This week we’re looking at how, when we’re stressed, our behaviour is impacted. When we’re stressed our natural tendency is to ignore the feelings that come up in response to it. We plow on ahead and disregard what’s going …
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. …
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 …
This week Elloa, one of our fabulous Bird associate facilitators, has written a piece on sleep. Sleep is such an important, and often overlooked, part of self-care. Read on for Elloa’s insights into why. ‘I’ve always loved sleep — my body would happily soak up 8-10 hours a night whenever possible — but …
