In this final episode of Season Two, I work with Sarah as she explores the impact motherhood has had on her self-esteem and her career. Trained, as many women are, to put others first she now finds herself with an increasingly empty nest, time to spend on creative projects but a part of her that seems to sabotage this time. She has a novel to write but a mind full of limiting beliefs that stop her from being able to sit down and write.
With themes of co-dependency, empty nest adjustments and conflicting priorities this coaching conversation challenges the validity of the “shoulds” we live by and shows what happens when we start to see ourselves and our time in a new light.
If you are struggling to give yourself time for creative projects here’s what I suggest:
Put creative time in your diary, tell your family what you’re doing and guard that time like you would a small baby
Do business with the part of your brain telling you that you’re wasting time - you’re a human being, not a human doing
Be accountable to someone for your creative progress - get a mentor, join a creative group etc.
Enjoy the process and remember this is far more about enjoying the experience of being creative than it is about the output.
If you need to, take a class to improve your skills and confidence
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In this final episode of Season Two, I work with Sarah as she explores the impact motherhood has had on her self-esteem and her career. Trained, as many women are, to put others first she now finds herself with an increasingly empty nest, time to spend on creative projects but a part of her that seems to sabotage this time. She has a novel to write but a mind full of limiting beliefs that stop her from being able to sit down and write.
With themes of co-dependency, empty nest adjustments and conflicting priorities this coaching conversation challenges the validity of the “shoulds” we live by and shows what happens when we start to see ourselves and our time in a new light.
If you are struggling to give yourself time for creative projects here’s what I suggest:
Put creative time in your diary, tell your family what you’re doing and guard that time like you would a small baby
Do business with the part of your brain telling you that you’re wasting time - you’re a human being, not a human doing
Be accountable to someone for your creative progress - get a mentor, join a creative group etc.
Enjoy the process and remember this is far more about enjoying the experience of being creative than it is about the output.
If you need to, take a class to improve your skills and confidence
Episode 7 - Alice - I take things personally at work
Tell Me Who You Really Are
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1 year ago
Episode 7 - Alice - I take things personally at work
Meet Alice - a successful writer who came to me wanting to react less personally to feedback and criticism so that she could do better at her job and find life a little easier in the feedback culture at work. What she reveals in this episode will echo with you if you’ve become convinced that life is a competition. We explore Alice’s draining habit of comparing herself to other people and discover that this is rooted in an upbringing in which she always felt like the silly baby of the family.
This episode is for you if you want to break out of a negative self-image and stop competing with everyone you meet.
If you are struggling with receiving feedback and defensiveness consider this:
If you believed that feedback was simply someone else’s opinion that you could choose to accept or not, how much easier would it be to hear it?
What are you allowing from the past to poison your life today? What negative self-image do you need to drop?
What are the things you don’t like about yourself? Carl Rogers told us that we can only change things in ourselves that we can accept first so maybe it's time to practice some self-acceptance.
Know this - you don’t have to be perfect to be loved. It’s okay to get things wrong
Tell Me Who You Really Are
In this final episode of Season Two, I work with Sarah as she explores the impact motherhood has had on her self-esteem and her career. Trained, as many women are, to put others first she now finds herself with an increasingly empty nest, time to spend on creative projects but a part of her that seems to sabotage this time. She has a novel to write but a mind full of limiting beliefs that stop her from being able to sit down and write.
With themes of co-dependency, empty nest adjustments and conflicting priorities this coaching conversation challenges the validity of the “shoulds” we live by and shows what happens when we start to see ourselves and our time in a new light.
If you are struggling to give yourself time for creative projects here’s what I suggest:
Put creative time in your diary, tell your family what you’re doing and guard that time like you would a small baby
Do business with the part of your brain telling you that you’re wasting time - you’re a human being, not a human doing
Be accountable to someone for your creative progress - get a mentor, join a creative group etc.
Enjoy the process and remember this is far more about enjoying the experience of being creative than it is about the output.
If you need to, take a class to improve your skills and confidence
