Category: Lifestyle
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Lessons learnt in Siena – Preparation is key
This week we’re looking at how to best prepare for your holiday. Many people, including myself, often find the lead-up to a holiday quite stressful for various reasons. There’s finalising the travel plans, packing, leaving your home in order and tying up loose...
Monthly Highlights & Something Worth Sharing
This month, we explored the harmful cultural trend of the 'summer bikini body,' often characterised by rapid weight loss through restrictive diets, fasts, detoxes, and intense exercise regimes. We began by debunking the bikini body myth, emphasising body...
Monthly Highlights & Something Worth Sharing
This month, we focused on habit formation. We explored why it's tough for many of us to stick to new habits, shared practical strategies and mindsets for successfully establishing new habits, and answered a client’s question about finding time for regular...
How can I stay consistent with exercise?
This month's subscriber question comes from Karen: Hi Kate, In my 20s and 30s, I used to be very active and would typically swim 2 to 3 times a week, as well as find time for a weekly 5km run. However, now that I’m in my 40s, I have found myself barely doing...
How to build lasting, healthy habits
In last week’s blog post, I started the conversation about why people fail to sustain new habits. If you missed it, you can find it here before reading this post, as I always think it’s best to understand the ‘why’, before getting to the ‘how’. In this post,...
Why most people fail to create new habits
Creating and maintaining new habits can be a real challenge for many of us. In my coaching practice, I often find that helping people to establish sustainable habits is just as important as helping them reach their goals. It's about transforming these habits...
Monthly Highlights & Something Worth Sharing
This month, we looked at the problem of chronic stress in today's world - the type that our bodies aren't built for. We started by understanding why chronic stress is harmful, I then introduced a powerful tool that I believe offers the most effective solution...
How I manage my stress
In last week’s post, I introduced the concept of the ‘Stress Cycle’ – what I believe is one of the most important ways we can successfully navigate the modern-day world. The key is in breaking the constant of chronic stress, with intentional forced moments of...
The Stress Cycle – the best tool for managing stress
Last week, I identified chronic stress as being a big, if not the biggest, threat to our wellbeing in our busy, modern lives. Understanding why we struggle is key because it helps us take responsibility for our challenges and enables us to pre-empt and navigate...
Chronic stress – a modern-day companion
Stress is an unavoidable aspect of modern life, affecting each of us to varying degrees. Whether we're dealing with the constant pressures of daily life or facing unexpected challenges, like the loss of a loved one or a sudden job loss, stress is an intrinsic...
Monthly Highlights & Something Worth Sharing
This month, we tackled the often-overlooked issue of over-exercising - a common problem that deserves attention. We started by identifying the signs of over-exercising and understanding its impact. We then explored practical tips to avoid it. Finally, we...
Monthly Highlights & Something Worth Sharing
This month, we explored strategies to help you mentally disconnect from work. Mental disconnection from work means the ability to ‘switch off’ when you're not supposed to be working. We explored why it’s so important and how it can negatively affect us (and...
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The secret to your success is hidden in your daily routines
More specifically, it's your morning routine or lack of, that truly sets the tone for the rest of your day: your health, mood, focus, energy and overall productivity. Which is why I've created this free 12-page guide to help you design your own custom morning routine so that you can be at your best every day.