“Intuition doesn’t tell you what you want to hear; it tells you what you need to hear.” Sonia Choquette When you connect with your intuition, you have the ability to sense things before you really know them. You might also recognise that this knowing can’t…
A few years ago, I worked with a client, Jess, who was keen to start a side-project making her own blends of herbal teas. At the time, Jess was in a demanding full-time role, leading three people and working long hours. Before she took on…
Most of us don’t need to sell our possessions, take a treacherous boat journey or spend a year in detention to improve our lives. Yet few of us are as brave or as committed as Salam.
Over the past few years, one of the questions I am most often asked is how to write a non-fiction book. The way I go about it certainly won’t be right for everyone, but if you have a dream of being a published author one…
Perfectionism is usually described as an irrational desire to be flawless accompanied by self-criticism and a concern about how other people will evaluate you if you fail. Brené Brown, author of The Gifts of Imperfection, suggests that it’s a trait we adopt to protect against…
I met Suzanne back in 2006 when both of us were working in the city. She and her husband Adam had recently moved home from London and Suzanne had achieved a good degree of success in her corporate marketing role – but she had a…
Last week a friend of mine called to express her growing sense of overwhelm. She’s overloaded at work, she’s had a couple of unexpected financial pressures and her ageing mum is not well. She feels that her time is constantly stretched and she’s having difficulty…
When Ana Nicols from Martha Jean first came to see me for business coaching, we were living a few minutes apart from one another in Melbourne. As it turned out, we both made the move to the Mornington Peninsula around the same time. Not long…
How often in life, in the big moments, do we encourage our loved ones (both children and adults) with the words, “Just be yourself”? We know exactly what that advice means yet in our everyday lives, seeking ‘to belong’ in every situation means this simple…
