What Can a Coach Do For Me?

By working with a qualified coach can transform your thinking and achieve things you thought were impossible.

A qualified coach will:

  • Create an environment of trust and confidentiality, so you feel comfortable to open up, think and talk freely
  • Clarify where you are now and what changes you wish to make
  • Identify where you want to get to and why – so you know what the end goal is
  • Ask questions to increase your self-awareness, enabling you to gain new insights
  • Help identify roadblocks and ways to overcome them
  • Help reframe or challenge your thinking, so you see where you may have been hindered in the past and how to adapt or change course
  • Identify patterns of behaviour that may help or hinder you in making progress
  • Enable you to identify different, more helpful, ways of thinking, feeling, acting and behaving
  • Help you identify options and choices
  • Help you create an action plan that will create meaningful change
  • Support you and hold you accountable for the actions set
  • Help you...
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Can't Switch Off? 15 Ways to Help Reduce Stress and Reconnect

Switching off can feel somewhat of a luxury when you’re an overthinker, but even for the most relaxed of us, COVID presented us with a situation none of us were prepared for.

At the beginning of the pandemic, there was an abundance of support and ideas - from workouts to working from home advice. New hobbies, new ways of working and a feeling of being in it together.   

We continue to be faced with change and uncertainty, it is little wonder many of us are feeling demotivated and anxious, with switching off being an ongoing struggle.

Whether you’re working from home,  running a business, actively seeking work; or finding yourself twiddling your thumbs – you can find your mind is always switched on.

It’s important to keep our minds active, but the stress that comes with rarely switching off can have long term mental and physical health impacts, in addition to the impacts it can have on relationships, connection and confidence.

We have to...

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Burnout - It's a real thing. How to be aware of the signs and how to prevent it.

burnout wellness Oct 13, 2020

Originally written for COACH Magazine (Edition 2, September 2019), this article provides insights and tips to be aware of the signs of burnout and how to avoid it.

With Burnout now classified by the WHO as an 'occupational phenomenon', it's crucial that people pay attention to their stress levels and seek to make changes at the first signs of negative effects.

Not knowing the signs, or ignoring them, can lead to huge impacts on your health and wellbeing, performance and productivity, and relationships.

After 20 years in HR and now running my own business, I've experienced the impacts of burnout.

At first is was brain fog and big dips in energy. I couldn't get past 2.30pm without needing to rest and was struggling to make the simplest of decisions.

I felt disconnected, was increasingly withdrawn, fraught, tearful and anxious. My motivation waned and my confidence plummeted. In the 12 months prior, I'd led an organisational change programme, trained to become an accredited coach,...

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