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Losing my phone made me realise I was a slave to the impossible game of ‘inbox zero’. I will only rest when every email, what’s app or text is attended to: replied/ filed/deleted ✅ This makes me feel incredibly productive (I like feeling productive). Until, as @glennondoyle describes ‘the never ending game of ping pong starts again’. Oliver Burkeman in his book, 4000 weeks, shares a similar epiphany - we will never get to inbox zero (for long) so why bother? Why not spend the short amount of time we have on this earth doing something we enjoy, is meaningful for you or restful. After realising this, I spent my usual compulsive reply/file/delete time reading my friend’s @adeleplayworker new book. And it felt great. I got goosebumps of inspiration and pride reading her memoirs. This felt much better than feeling ‘productive’ or ‘worthy’ of rest I can tell you. #oliverburkeman #inboxzeronotahero #glennondoyleuntamed #rest #wellbeingwonderings #kpwellbeing

It can be really painful when we open our eyes to what it feels like to act or think in ways that don’t support our wellbeing. We see the destructive and damaging habits we’ve picked up along the way, and that hurts! Possibly more than doing the damaging things in the first place. And we want to change it. Right now! But this stage of awareness is key to change. We need to look right at it to see what it’s teaching us. “Ah, when I xxx, I feel xxx! And that’s not great for xxx.” It’s really uncomfortable when we notice what we’re doing, know we want to change it but that change takes time. Sit tight, gather your supports and soothing strategies and ride the wave of awareness. You will come out the otherside and feel much better for it. With 1:1 coaching (£40) or my Wellness Planning workshop (£60 for your group or workplace) you can work out what’s going well, less well, what you want to do more or less of and how to action that to help you feel a whole heap better. [Image Description: blue background with dark blue words ‘awareness leads to wellness’ with a light blue outline of an eye underneath]. #awarenessleadstowellness #wellbeingcoachuk #wellbeing #moreinfomonday #kpwellbeing #lifecoach #lifecoaching #feelbetter

Did you ever get that sinking feeling as a kid as Sunday evening approached? Starting perhaps just after your swimming lesson or Sunday lunch at Nan’s. Even if you’d done all your homework there’d still be a sense that you’d forgotten to do something important, or that because school was the next day you simply couldn’t (or shouldn’t?) have that much fun. The sky just seemed a touch greyer than yesterday as you went to the park with your dad or swept leaves with your mum. You longed for the excitement brought by the Top of the Pops theme tune of two days ago; resenting the instant anxiety triggered by the dull tones of Antiques Roadshow.

“It’s about the questions that are asked and things that are done when no one is looking, when there are no likes to receive…” @candicebrathwaite 📚 Just finished this on the train. An important text for anyone who is a mother, who works with mothers (@acaciafamilysupport let’s all read it!) who knows a mother and who may have only seen the world through their own lens (though you may not know it yet, like me) and who wants to hear how brilliantly @candicebrathwaite describes her life and experience leading up to being a mother, being a mother, starting a business and holding difficult conversations on and off-line. Thank you for this offering. The chapter where your daughter experiences racism at school as young as 5 really stung, but was so necessary for me to read. #kpwellbeingbookclub #candicebrathwaite #iamnotyourbabymother

Shared quiet creative time: Inspired by the delicious Creative Quiet Morning I did with art therapists Gillian and Becky @leverarts a few months ago where we explored Van Gogh’s eternal light with oil pastels on watercolour paper with 6 other women in silence on zoom, I have been doing regular creative quiet evenings with a few friends in the same way. We do anything we like or one of us chooses a theme or medium for us all to play with. This week was nature and I loved doing leaf rubbings and prints. I always feel so relaxed and content afterwards. There’s something so powerful in sharing quiet time over a medium where we’re usually forced to talk. Creativity was something I wanted to engage more in to support my wellbeing and I was just fortunate a few friends agreed to sharing this with me regularly. I don’t think I would have kept it up on my own! #creativity #creatingwellbeing #creativecommunity #arttherapybirmingham

I let this phrase roll off my tongue in small talk at a party once. My conversation partner didn’t try to hide their surprise. “You’re in therapy?!” “Err, yeah? Love it. Go when I feel good, go when I feel bad. It’s great.” Whether and how much we engage in formal therapeutic supports is personal (I go on and off because I’m so fascinated by my mind and because it supports me to support others in their wellbeing journeys. I’ve just made the leap from a few free short-term services to someone private who I’ll see for as long as I like / can afford!) as well as cultural and sociological. In the states people (the rich ones?) seem to be in therapy all the time. Living in Australia for 6 years it was easy to see a psychologist of my choice regularly at a really reasonable price with a generous reimbursement from their NHS equivalent. And in the UK there are more and more options available (eg @springtolifecic @livingwellbrum ) but it seems the cultural norm is still only to go when you’re feeling really bad. I know talking therapies aren’t for everyone but I do hope people access them when they want to and not when they absolutely need to. What do you think? ⠀

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