When was the last time you had a tech free day? Perhaps a more pertinent question is to ask how you respond to the very idea of a tech free day? That probably depends on your age. For those who are technology natives – born after the 1980s and brought up in the age of…
Do you struggle with rest?
What does it mean for you to rest well? Do you struggle with rest? Chances are – especially if you are a woman – that you do. We can all-too-easily attribute attitudes like ‘lazy’, ‘unproductive’, ‘selfish‘, ‘self-indulgent’ to the idea of us resting. It might be easier to acknowledge that other people need to rest…
How do we decide what is most important?
How often have you chosen to numb yourself to life during this past week? This was part of what I was musing on last week – the impact of Covid burnout on our mental health, and how numbing is a tactic that we can oh-so-easily deploy in the face of relentless negativity. There is another…
Burnout’s impact on mental health: negativity and numbing.
How is your neurasthenia coming along? Neurasthenia is the term the Victorians used to describe what we would now recognise as Burnout. And having lived with the Covid-19 pandemic for what feels like a lifetime now, there are signs all around of folk heading full pelt into Covid burnout. Last week I was musing here…
What is your body trying to tell you?
What happens to our bodies when we are approaching burnout? How often do you stop to assess what your body is trying to tell you? Last week, I started musing here about Covid burnout, a nasty re-incarnation of a malaise that has been around since the Victorians. Before I became a life coach, I worked…
Covid Burnout – a new variant of an old malaise
Burnout. A word that has been around for a long time, but now has a new dimension: Covid Burnout. The impact of the pandemic on our mental and emotional well being has been much documented. What is interesting is the dynamic of being too busy in a virtually virtual world and how that changes how…
Get organised, get energised!
Get organised. OK, so I have to admit, this is a subject close to my heart. I LOVE organising things. Maybe it should be phrased thus: “Hi, my name is Catriona and I am an organiser.” Those of you who know me, know this about me and may well have been on the receiving end.…
Disconnect to reconnect: Is this possible?
If I say to you: “Why don’t you…”, your age and where you were brought up will probably dictate your answer. Those of you in my (undefined!!) age bracket who lived in the UK as kids will likely reply immediately…. …just switch off your television set and go out and do something less boring instead!”…
Plan in relaxation or planning to relax?
Do you sometimes hear yourself rationalising with your own self that you really are planning to relax as soon as this next event has passed or this project is finished, or such–and-such crisis is over? It is ludicrous, you argue with yourself, to plan in relaxation now, of course you are simply too busy and…
Breaking up is so very hard to do….
Breaking up is so very hard to do. Or so goes the song. Not a very up-beat, life-affirming place to start, especially when we are on the bleak subject of burnout anyway. And since the words of The Walker Brothers song are cheesier than the cheesy vapours emanating from Ian Mellis’ cheese shop, let’s keep the…