The Unplanned Silence: A Three-Week Experiment in Presence. As an online life coach, relationship coach and counsellor, I often discuss technostress with my clients. But to accidentally find myself in a digital detox really showed me how hard it is to address it. We frequently theorise about how to reclaim mental bandwidth without a phone,… Continue Reading
Career Burnout in Your 30s and Beyond: The Signs No One Talks About (And How to Reclaim Your Energy)
Earlier this year I had a conversation that keeps replaying in my mind, with a woman who leads a Government department researching some of the toughest institutional problems you can imagine. She told me she was looking for signs of stress, burnout, or vicarious trauma in her staff: Exhaustion, avoidance, and ‘checking out’. Basically the… Continue Reading
Escaping Sad Town (Without Pretending It’s Sunny Outside)
How to overcome fear and self-doubt to follow your dreams. Let’s be honest: the news is grim. War, climate anxiety, housing crises, horrifying leaders that not-so-long-ago seemed only the stuff of satire. Bills, burnout, and the creeping sense that the world is cracking at the edges. No wonder you sometimes feel stuck in Sad Town…. Continue Reading
Breaking up with Diane (Brenda, Yasmin and Estelle)
Diane Depression — Breaking up with Diane (Brenda, Yasmin and Estelle) An honest review of the contraceptive pill: Diane 35ED, Estelle, Brenda and Yasmin. And how to treat PCOS without it. “Well, it looks like you have a hormonal imbalance” The family doctor was sitting across from my mother and me. I was aged 18… Continue Reading
[Guest Post] Keep on Driving
Keep on Driving was originally written and posted on October 9, 2015 by Miranda Tetlow (mirandatea) on her blog Postcards from the North: ‘True stories with poetic licence. Some are funny, some are not’. Miranda is a phenomenally talented writer dedicated to the art of authenticity in a distinctly Australian voice (nothing saccharine here!). Recently she has forayed into fiction… Continue Reading
