by Annie | Apr 9, 2024 | mind-body, Mindset
Does this sound familiar: The kids are finally in bed and the kitchen is relatively clean. You sit on the couch with your phone in your hand. Before you know it, it’s midnight and you’ve just spent 2h scrolling. You aren’t proud of how much time you...
by Annie | Mar 11, 2024 | mind-body, Mindset, positive psychology
Valuing heath-unhealthy. Quite the oxymoron.With the right mix of a need for control and perfectionism, being a health-conscious parent like I am can be very harmful indeed. The following is a true story (hint, it’s my story after my first was born).I had...
by Annie | Jan 29, 2024 | energy, mind-body, Mindset
The other day I was talking to a client of mine, a woman in her 50s. We were going through her history, looking at it decade by decade, putting together the pieces of the beautiful puzzle that had been her life until then. ‘My 30s? Oh, I don’t know. They...
by Annie | Jan 22, 2024 | Mindset
It was 7pm, we had finished dinner and my eldest was playing on the floor with her dad while I was cleaning the dishes with my youngest next to me. Just a quiet evening, the day coming to an end. The countdown had started until the little ones were in bed and we could...
by Annie | Jan 18, 2024 | mind-body, Mindset, positive psychology
For Christmas this year, we went to Cyprus to visit friends and family. We had packed and were ready to go. My eldest had been counting down the days for weeks, excited to visit her grandfather and play with her cousins. And then my youngest got a fever that...
by Annie | Jan 18, 2024 | mind-body, Mindset, positive psychology
If you’re like me, you like things to be done well.There is nothing wrong with that need. Having high standards, and being self-disciplined, are good things – until they paralyze you and create all sorts of negative emotions. I didn’t realise how much this affected me...
