Category: Stress
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Monthly Highlights & Something Worth Sharing
This Month’s Blog Posts July 8th, 2022 - A healthy diet & attitude towards food with the 80/20 rule I typically recommend approaching ‘healthy eating’ with what I call the 80/20 rule - you get to eat plenty of healthy, nutritious food to support your...
How to set yourself free from guilt
It’s so easy to be our own worst critic. We all do things we might feel bad about – bailing on a friend, snapping at your partner, letting your children have too many sweets. In the work that I do with clients, self-compassion is one of the keys to growth. We...
How can I make travelling less stressful?
This month’s question comes from Philippa: Hi Kate, I always find the process of going away on holiday really stressful, how can I relax and let go more? My Answer: As many people prepare to go on holiday over the next month or so, I thought this was...
Lessons learnt in Lisbon – Part 2
This week’s post is part 2 of Lessons learnt after a week of being in flow in Lisbon. What I mean by being ‘in flow’, is when your awareness is in the present moment. You’re not in your mind planning, strategising or thinking about the past or future. This was...
How do I manage stress & fatigue so my health doesn’t deteriorate?
This month’s question comes from Zaffer: Hi Kate, How do I manage stress & fatigue so that my health doesn’t deteriorate? My Answer: This is a great question because the unfortunate reality is that our health will and does deteriorate in one way or...
How can I stop overthinking & assuming the worst?
This month’s question comes from Richard: Hi Kate, How can I stop overthinking and the tendency to assume the worst or focus on the negative? I realise this causes me additional stress, but I find it hard to stop. My Answer: I’m going to start...
Are you addicted to busyness?
Lots of people struggle to slow down and stop being busy. When they have a chance of a break, they then fill it with other things to do! We all need rest and so if the avoidance is pervasive, I’ve found there are often deeper reasons behind the need to stay...
Six tools for managing stress as a leader
If you're a leader in the workplace, you will have undoubtably developed a good level of stress resilience to get to where you are. Yet, as a leader, you are also juggling a myriad of work-related responsibilities and pressures – mental, emotional, and physical – day...
The burnout epidemic: what’s the real answer?
Last week I talked about rest and how people really need to see rest as an investment and even a competitive advantage. I’ve been teaching my clients about the many benefits associated with rest for years but the main reason I wanted to write another blog post on the...
Rest more to achieve more
There’s a theme that’s been coming up a lot for me and with clients these past couple of weeks: REST I’ve personally had a very intense past few months and so now I’m intentionally prioritising my rest. In fact, at the moment, I’m prioritising my rest over exercise....
Have you exhausted your ‘surge capacity’?
In last week’s blog post I talked about the current low mood... We’ve been dealing with the pandemic for almost a year now! Soon after that came the recession and then we’ve also had significant political dramas happening in various parts of the world! On some level...
Are you struggling?
How are you feeling at the moment? Do you feel low on energy, anxious or overwhelmed? Like many people, you probably thought that 2021 would start off on a ‘better’ footing and we’d be leaving 2020 behind. Although personally I was pretty certain we'd have another...
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