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You’re so used to managing everyone else’s emotions you have no idea what you feel anymore…

  You’ve spent years being the emotional airbag for everyone else… cushioning their crashes, absorbing their outbursts, translating their moods, and tip-toeing through their triggers. Meanwhile, your own emotional world is crumbling. 🤯 You’ve become so hyper-attuned to their feelings that you’ve been completely ignoring your own. Maybe you grew up walking on eggshells, reading the room before you could even read words.  Maybe somewhere along the line you decided that peace was maintained by keeping everyone else happy… even…

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5 Silent emotional patterns keeping you stuck

  Ever feel like you’ve read all the self-help books, journalled until you got RSI, and sat through therapy sessions nodding along… but still feel like you’re dealing with the same old shit? 💩  Yeah. You’re not the only one, legend. That’s because there are some sneaky AF emotional patterns that may be keeping you stuck. 😣  They’re subtle, quiet, and disguised as “normal” – but they’ll keep you spinning in circles until you drag them into the light. Here…

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I was shaking as I logged into his email account…

  My first properly serious relationship was a biggie that affected me for a very long time afterwards. We got together when I was 17; we’d worked together at a gym for a few years by then. I was pretty young and naive and totally in love. 😍  I’d hear my mates bang on about how untrustworthy guys were, and I’d be all “not my man, I totally trust him, he’s a terrible liar so I’d know if he was…

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What do you need to feel safe?

  Feeling “safe” isn’t just about locking your doors at night or carrying your keys like Wolverine claws in a dark car park (although, let’s be honest, we’ve all done it). 🔑   Safety goes way deeper than that.  Feeling safe is about your , your emotional needs and that quiet part of you that just wants to breathe a sigh of relief and finally unclench your jaw. So – what do you need to feel safe? 🧐  For some of…

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5 Ways to stop outsourcing your decisions

  Recently a coaching client asked me for tips on how she can trust her own judgement and make her own decisions. When needing to make a decision, she finds she’s unable to make one on her own without relying on others to tell her what they think she should do. 🥹 To try and get out of this habit, she’s now leaning on ChatGTP for her decisions instead. The danger in this is that by relying on others to…

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What did you fail at today?

  I can’t remember which podcast I heard it on or who was talking about it, but I loved it when I heard it. 🫶🏻 I’ve always loved the question “what are you grateful for today?” – it’s a great question to ask yourself and your loved ones daily. This was being talked about on a podcast I was listening to, and the guy being interviewed said he’d also ask his kids each night at dinner “what did you fail…

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