The Secret ‘S’ Word
Raising the secret 'S' word that no-one wants to talk about. October is Mental Health Awareness Month and more and more of us know someone who has committed suicide or has a family member who has taken their own [...]
Busyness Addiction Is A Real Thing
Busyness addiction is a real thing Rest. What's that? Busyness? Oh, we know what that looks like! In fact, busyness makes us feel in control when what we really are is often out of control. It's a default setting [...]
The Link Between Managing Mental Health Issues and Authentic Leadership
Embrace and Manage Mental Health She’s warm. She’s funny. She’s genuine. And she loves sloths for a reason known only to her. Join me for this podcast episode as I chat with Yael Geffen about the link between embracing [...]
Addiction: An Attempt To Fill A Hole In The Soul
“Killing Karoline” and “Mad, Bad, Love” are provocative book titles that track the life journey of my podcast guest, Sara-Jayne Makwala King. She's an award-winning radio presenter, best-selling author, journalist, and public speaker. Much of Sara-Jayne's work focuses [...]
Have You Lost Your Social Fitness?
Has your world shrunk? Experts say that our circle of acquaintances (our social networks in the real world) have decreased by at least 25% due to lockdown and isolation. That's a lot! It means that our world has become much [...]
Hot Chickens and Hairdressers this Freedom Day
It's Freedom Day 2020 and an invisible virus has removed the same freedoms from all of us. The impact of the loss of our freedom to move about and do what we normally do is different for everyone - we [...]
Depression, Anxiety And Suicide: Contributing Factors In Children And Teens
Photo Dan Meyers www.unsplash.com When statistics tell us that 5% of learners think about suicide and 8% of them actually follow through and commit suicide, one has to wonder what the contributing factors are. Suicide - taking one's [...]
Be a skunk and sniff out the energy vampires in your life
Every thought or free choice you make and every behaviour and action you take are all based in love or fear. Fear contracts. It closes us down. It wraps us tightly in its clutches. Love, on the other hand, opens [...]
Get off the grid for a while this holiday season
These days the ultimate detox is to get off the grid, be uncontractable and disconnected from the digital world. There is so much to be said for a few days of this to enhance family life. In fact, I am [...]
How to keep something back for you….
While I strongly believe in being emotionally present and showing up for your children, in our busy, multi-tasking lives today we have to find creative ways of doing this on the run, without committing self-sacrifice in the process. While all [...]