The wellbeing of yourself, your team, and your organisation as a whole must be regularly tended to. Wellbeing isn’t just about putting a few strategies in place; it’s an ongoing, ever-changing process. Our needs change over time as we grow and develop. Within organisations, wellbeing needs change when even one person leaves …
When I worked with my first coach, six years ago now, I expected positive change to happen immediately for me. I wanted my self-sabotage to disappear overnight, I expected my own coaching business to take flight immediately and soar. In this world of immediacy, I wanted everything now. But I realised, after some …
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 …
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 …
January traditionally is a time for resolutions and hopes for a successful, productive year. Most of us start off with really good intentions, that unfortunately, as life gets in the way, seem to wane over time. This year I haven’t made any resolutions. The only intentions I do have are to continue …
As you might know I’ve been seeing a physiotherapist recently on account of my dodgy knee. But my physiotherapist, Mark, is way more than a physiotherapist – he is some kind of yoda guru. He rarely does any work on my actual knee, but focusses more on where I hold tension in …
In honour of mental health awareness week I want to write to you about the mind, and the body. For years I ignored or suppressed feelings that arose in my body. I saw anxiety in my chest as a nuisance to be powered through, feelings of tiredness or awkwardness to be managed …
I did dry January this year, and in fact I’m carrying on through February and March in the run up to the Brighton marathon at the beginning of April. Not drinking alcohol has helped my training enormously. I’ve been sleeping better and it has made me lighter which makes it much easier …
I’m loving the turn of the season at the moment, autumn colours are just spectacular, and I love the build up to the various celebrations we have this time of year. At the moment I am packing up and getting ready to head off to the first Bird Retreat, due to take …
