by Louise | Feb 26, 2019 | Grief Support
“I don’t want to feel pain anymore, how do I make it go away?”. This was a client request just months after the loss of her mother. She wanted to reach a place of acceptance ASAP and no longer wanted to feel the grief emotions. I understand this because I did a...
by Louise | Feb 26, 2019 | Grief Support
Admittedly, it’s difficult to know what to say to somebody who is grieving. But offering advice is the one thing that makes me do the *eye roll*. You may well have had experienced loss yourself and feel that you “understand” other people’s grief. I’m going to put this...
by Louise | Feb 19, 2019 | Coaching Tips, Grief Support, Mental Health
“When shit happens, turn it into fertiliser” – Kute Blackson. I’ve always loved this quote. It takes the “making lemonade out of lemons” concept to a whole new level, don’t you think? The fact is that shit happens and we have little control over most things in...
by Louise | Feb 19, 2019 | Grief Support
The 5 Stages of Grief model, devised by Elisabeth Kubler-Ross, gets a bit of a bad rep and I want to bust a few myths around this. Kubler-Ross was a Swiss-American psychiatrist who was inspired by her work with terminally ill patients. In 1969, she wrote her first...
by Louise | Feb 19, 2019 | Job Loss
Most of the time, when your job is being made redundant, it’s nothing personal. It isn’t a reflection of you, or your abilities. And you certainly aren’t being made redundant – your job is! Typical reasons for redundancy include: The job you were hired to do no longer...
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