Working with a client who declared she could not give presentations. I asked: ‘How do you know?’ After staring at me her eyes defocused. She looked slightly upward and said: ‘Well, at the very thought of it I just freeze and get anxious. I hear everyone laughing at me and my mouth goes dry, my [...]

Recently a client came to me to lose a significant amount of weight before she got married.
She’d tried ‘everything’. All the fad diets, fasting, bingeing and calorie counting. The results had been patchy and without any real lasting weight loss. By the time she came to me she felt demoralised and helpless. She’d developed a [...]

Have you succeeded in big life-change and kept to it? As you think about it now was it one particular mental switch that made the difference? The other night my partner revealed how he finally quit smoking after many painful failed attempts. At the heart of his success was sticking to one simple [...]

Did you know that according to research you have a thought every 2 or 3 minutes? That equates to 12 to 15,000 a day? No wonder some of us have a headache at the end of a busy day.
But does all this thinking do any good or is it the cause of our stress and [...]

I remember many years ago being very de-motivated and stressed thanks to a young, inexperienced but over confident and bullying manager. Her style engendered an environment of conflict and doubt.
It was a terrible time as I was very stressed and de-motivated and yet tasked with achieving very challenging targets. The job market was [...]