by NATALIE | Oct 6, 2021 | Happiness & Self-Esteem
Acknowledging that you’re an introvert can be liberating (Ah, now it all makes sense!), but sometimes it triggers and anxiety and stress (Agh! How am I going to survive working in an open-plan office? How do I deal with colleagues who want me to be more extroverted?)...
by NATALIE | Oct 4, 2021 | Happiness & Self-Esteem
Several years back, on the eve of a conference where I was due to be the closing keynote speaker, I became gripped by panic and comparison. Shrinking in my seat, I felt as if I was going to be violently ill. Thanks to the layout of the hall, though, I couldn’t sneak...
by NATALIE | Sep 27, 2021 | Happiness & Self-Esteem
Whether as an employee or business owner, I’ve been guilty of taking work challenges and setbacks too personally. As a recovering people-pleaser, perfectionist and overthinker, I’d learned to associate being good and how much I tried with what I believed...
by NATALIE | Sep 22, 2021 | Happiness & Self-Esteem
Thanks to being socialised to disassociate from our bodies, we assume that if we buy, be, do or have the ‘right’ things then we will feel OK. We expect that we ‘shouldn’t’ feel anxious. And we also expect to be sure of ourselves all the...
by NATALIE | Jul 14, 2021 | Happiness & Self-Esteem
After we break up with someone that couldn’t or wouldn’t commit, or even if they said they could, their emotional unavailability made their words rather hollow, there’s often anxiety that two-twos, they’ll ‘change’ for someone else....
by NATALIE | Jun 21, 2021 | Happiness & Self-Esteem
Several years back, I got into a deep conversation with a man who avoided closeness with his young son because of his belief (and fear) that either of them could die at any time. He loved his son so much and thought being a guarded, emotionally unavailable father...
