Yowzers how nice is this sunshine we're having in the UK! Doesn't life seem so much lighter when the sun shines? (The pun isn't lost on me ;-) So we've been talking all things stress over the past few weeks. This week I want to focus...
In honour of Stress Awareness Month we're talking all things stress in our blogs. This week we're looking at how, when we're stressed, our behaviour is impacted. When we're stressed our natural tendency is to ignore the feelings that come up in response to it. We plow...
It's Stress Awareness month! And we're going to be talking all things stress over the next four weeks. Stress shows itself in us regularly, but we often ignore the signs and carry on regardless. Behaviours, physical ailments and emotional shifts regularly act as red flags that...
Sometimes money - or the absence of it - limits our capacity to vision the future that we really want. If money was no object at all (if you didn't need it, or it was always taken care of) what would you create in your life? Would...
I've been doing a lot of stories work with clients lately, both in 1:1 sessions and in workshops. We've looked at how the stories we carry in our minds drive our behaviour. We all have stories and often we're not conscious of them. A really simple...
One of our lovely Bird associates sent me an article on the wellbeing issues in the medical profession. The article shines a light on the emotional challenges doctors face when navigating their careers, and the lack of infrastructural support available to them when they first start out. Much...
People say home is where the heart is. I've always taken that to mean home is where your loved ones are, or home is where you feel most comfortable. But just recently I've understood it to mean something different. Home is where your heart is -...
I hope you're keeping warm if you're in Europe right now. It was a bit of a shocker to return to the bitter cold after relaxing in 30-degree heat over in Australia the past few weeks. Which brings me to my topic this week. It's something...
Now, I don't in any way claim to be an expert around nutrition. However, I wanted to share on the blog this week, my own personal experience of building emotional resilience by being conscious of what I put in my body. For a long while I've...
At Bird, we understand the current wellbeing and resiliency challenges the not-for-profit sector is experiencing. Purposeful work tends to attract empathic, passionate, emotionally intelligent individuals, who often find themselves taking on emotional responsibility for others. Over time, such empathic, passionate and emotionally intelligent individuals can lose...