I once worked with a boss who would regularly bring his young daughter to work with him. She was about 18 months at the time (if I remember correctly) and she would toddle around us in the office and join us for meetings. She’d regularly have...
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So many of us in today’s society live a very busy life. Busy seems to be the new word defining our status in society. If we are busy, oh so busy, all the time, we have somehow made it in life. We are on a busy treadmill, going from one thing...
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Stress, Work-related stress
Making a decision on when to retire is one of the biggest and most life changing decisions we have to do. This is becoming more relevant with the news this week highlighting that the state pension age is now officially 65 for both men and women,...
Successful CEOs of multinational companies do it, so should you follow their lifestyle choice? Getting up early has been hailed as the common factor shared by successful people in achieving greater fulfilment, career progression and overcoming...
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Stress in the workplace is not necessarily a bad thing. Stress is part of what motivates us and what helps us to achieve. Stress in the workplace becomes a problem when it is excessive or continuous. It then becomes something that has a negative...
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Healing Complex Trauma through the Wisdom of the Body When we think of healing, the general picture which arises tends to be that we are healing to become whole or moving towards health or wholeness. There is another understanding which is that we...
When things aren’t ok at work, it can be difficult. Tension and anxiety which are common components of most of our lives to some extent, may increase to uncomfortable levels. The stresses and fault lines existent in our personal lives and...
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Work-related stress
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