Another mother recently told me that it was unthinkable that a mother of two young children would travel to Texas for life coach training, or training of any sort, as I had last Summer. I hadn’t asked her what she thought either before going or since coming back. She believed that I needed to hear …
It’s Easter week and that means schools are out, routine is about to go to pot, sugar levels are high and rising; and you might have travel arrangements made to spend the break with family or to make use of the school holidays. Times like this tend to require more of us in terms of empathy, judgement …
How often have not articulated what you really thought in a situation because of some flavour of fear of being misunderstood. It sounded like this in your head: ‘I didn’t want them to think…’ ‘I didn’t want anyone to feel…’ ‘I didn’t want to seem…’ You had something to say but your concern for how …
Just imagine Imagine having time – on your calendar – to curl up with a book and a cup of tea and just read a book, knowing that everything has been taken care of and will be taken care of, just not at this minute, because this next hour is just yours? Imagine the contentment …
Think about these two different scenarios. DAY ONE: KILLING IT You left the house 10 hours ago and now you’re on the way home. You feel great. All day long you had a great sense of purpose about what you were doing. You planned out your day in advance. At each stage of the day …
I once got 103% in a test. It was in third form Latin. A project assigned over the Easter Holidays on Roman Gods made up 15% of the total mark and I got 18/15 for that because – remembering it now – the Latin teacher himself may not even heard of the Greek Gods that …
For quite some time after I moved to Austria 12 years ago, I was a victim. A victim of the fact that my husband is Austrian. It was such an easy excuse to reach for to cover a myriad of every day problems: “It’s not like this in Ireland” “Irish people just aren’t like this” …
Last week, a client of mine corrected her (male) Partner in a meeting. He didn’t like it, she said, and made it clear that he didn’t like what she had done. When I asked her how she knew he didn’t like it, she said ‘she could tell’. She told me that when the meeting was …
