You are an amazing, sparkly human being with a wide range of skills and abilities… but I’m sorry to tell you, mind-reading is not among them. Yet, how many times have you held yourself back from doing something or trying something new because of what somebody in your life will think? Even worse — a …
Narrative therapy is built on the observation that we humans understand ourselves and the world around us through the stories that we tell. We tell these stories continually, to ourselves and to others, and other people tell stories about us. Not all of these stories are true, or kind, or helpful. Although we largely cannot …
I’m currently studying Narrative Therapy as another tool to help people during coaching sessions. Basically, Narrative Therapy helps us to become conscious of the stories we tell about our lives and to question how (or if!) those stories reflect our values and what we want for our lives. One thing that has really fascinated me …
The first book I read in 2022 was Brené Brown’s new Atlas of the Heart. Essentially, this book is a catalogue of emotions, 87 in all. Its subtitle — ‘Mapping Meaningful Connection and the Language of Human Experience’ — perhaps gives a clue as to the intention behind it. For each of the emotions described, …