Tag: stress

  • Silly Season

    How stressful has Christmas become?! Since November I have heard people everywhere saying ‘oh god, it’s nearly Christmas…are you ready? I’m not ready, I haven’t even started. Aaaaaaaargh!’ Now Christmas really is nearly hear, the stress is reaching a crescendo…just look at the joyful (not!) faces in the shops. Magazines and newspapers are full of…

  • December Daily Practice: Self-care

    Happy December to you! Woohoo! I love December – despite the fact that I despise the cold and dark, December contains my birthday, Christmas, pressies galore, sparkly lights, holidays and crap tv. Hazah! Hope you are delighted to see the beginning of December too! So, a new month, and it’s time for a new daily…

  • It Doesn’t Matter

    OH MY GOD! I’m not feeling 100%…it doesn’t matter. I didn’t do all the housework today…it doesn’t matter. I didn’t do everything I wanted to do workwise today…it doesn’t matter. I didn’t go to the gym today…it doesn’t matter. I haven’t taken over the world today…it doesn’t matter. Why doesn’t it matter? Because none of…

  • Know When To Stop

    A desk piled with paper, a to-do list 12 people couldn’t complete in a month, and a racing mind. Sound familiar? Do you know when to switch off, or do you stock up on caffeine and adrenaline and keep going late into the evening…day after day after day? Here’s a tip: if you need artificial…

  • Release the Tension

    Yesterday when I woke up, I realised I was tense. My shoulders were tense, my jaw was tense, even my eye muscles felt tense! Now it’s one thing to end the day feeling tense, but to start it feeling tense? Had I had a very stressful sleep? I realised that there’d obviously been a bit…

  • More Fun to Life

    Do you ever wake up in the morning and think “There must be more to life than this”? Back in the 90’s, I woke up almost every day with that thought. I wondered if this was ‘it’, if this was how life was going to work out – a seemingly endless slog of get up,…

  • Conscious Joyfulness

    Well, the office revamp is still going on – today we put together a new wardrobe, which was going to finish off the revamp, give me some storage in there, and turn my office into a little dance studio too cos the doors are mirrored (I’m not a prima ballerina, I just always wanted a…

  • Emptying Every Spare Minute

    Dear reader, I hope your week is going exactly to plan. Mine is not. I had a lovely day out to visit my friend, came home intending to check my e-mail, write a blog, relax and instead discovered that the carpet in my office needed to come up. Some new flooring is going in on…

  • The Best For You

    This week’s OnTheBeach Article – to receive it every Wednesday, sign up here. Something I come across often in clients is that we expect the best from ourselves, but rarely give ourselves the best. There is some kind of paradox that says we should be superwoman …yet we don’t deserve to be given the very…

  • Wearing Your Stress as a Badge of Honour

    Wearing Your Stress as a Badge of Honour

    I was speaking with a client this week about her work ethic and how this affected her stress levels. She told me that she wears her stress ‘like a badge of honour’. She is proud of how much stress she can take. She is rewarded for taking on more projects than one person can reasonably…