Written by Lucy Higgins, ICF Life & Mindset Coach The pandemic has pushed many of us to breaking point. Women have felt stressed, overwhelmed and been running on adrenaline. Since training as a transformational life coach, I have a broad range of coaching tools and techniques based on psychological and...
Written by Volker Ballueder With the pandemic, at least in the UK, seemingly coming to an end this summer, we need to think how we incorporate mental wellbeing into our daily lives. Pre-pandemic, the words of ‘mental wellbeing’ sounded a bit foreign to a lot of people, there isn’t...
By Lucy Higgins, ICF accredited Life & Mindset Coach The dreaded school gates. I don’t know one parent who looks forward to school drop off or pick up. The morning battles of breakfasting, tooth brushing and bag packing are bad enough without being forced into polite conversation. It’s exhausting. Who...
By Lucy Higgins, ICF accredited Life and Mindset Coach @bigtalkformums “In the rush to return to normal, use this time to consider which parts of normal are worth rushing back to.” Dave Hollis. In April 2020, you may remember this quote was doing the rounds on all social media platforms. Little did...
Written by Volker Ballueder When being asked to write about a year in lockdown, I figured I look back at what happened back in February 2020. Having had a continuous cough for 6 weeks, and people moving away from me on the train, I had no idea that - most...
I don’t envy kids right now. After a year of uncertainty, home-schooling, and missing out on crucial socialisation, they’re expected to slot back into school and pick up their studies from where they left off. The ramifications of successive national lockdowns, however, will surely be long-lasting. Our nation is facing...
Children around the UK have finally returned to the classroom, after a long period of home schooling and COVID restrictions, it’s what parents everywhere had wanted for so long. A sense of normality, structure and routine could now resume. For many children, seeing their friends and teachers once more was...
A feeling almost anybody can relate to and is in an incomprehensible way almost normalized in today’s society is stress. Every day, we find ourselves facing many challenges on both personal and professional level which can build up to a feeling of stress or anxiety. The work keeps piling up...
Written by Volker Ballueder This too shall pass; a mantra I have been saying to myself since the beginning of the year. The lockdown, the bad weather, the cold weather, all contribute to us feeling miserable, lonely, isolated. A lot of us are not ‘feeling it’ or are in a...
It’s been almost a year since the coronavirus found its way to us and it now seems like it’s not going anywhere for a little while. The pandemic has had a tremendous impact on our everyday lives and with that, our mental state. Throughout the past year, a lot more...
When was the last time you consciously took some time for yourself? With the stress of everyday life, trying to balance all the balls between your professional and private life, a bit of self-care is easily forgotten. If you have a busy life, it might not fit your schedule to...
After a year of lockdown-release, lockdown-release, working from home has become the new norm for many of us. In some ways it’s been a wake-up call to employers who have had to move into the 21st century and change their working practises. Before the global pandemic, having a workforce based at...
We are continually being told to open up the conversation about mental health with our friends and family. In fact, you may have noticed that this past year, conversations about common mental health issues such as anxiety have dominated the headlines more than ever before. But when it comes to actually speaking...
2020 has been a tough year for many of us, and as the year comes to a close and we look back on what the last 12 months has brought us, it can be easy to have the many positives eclipsed by the struggles and heartache. Despite our lives taking...
We all know the simple lighting of an aromatic therapeutic candle can transform your living room, bedroom, or most likely now your at-home office. Especially during the winter, candles can add a cozy touch and a hint of luxury to your space in the evenings. That's why it's essential to...
The first time I heard about weighted blankets was whilst listening to David Baddiel’s recent ‘Sleep’ podcast. I was, of course, trying to get to sleep at the time. A chronic insomniac, for most of his life, he’d tried every gadget or relaxation technique going. Unsurprisingly, he was pretty cynical. Amazingly,...
Mornings used to be crazy in our house. Invariably I’d hit the snooze button one too many times and wind up running late. The kids, of course, would seize the opportunity and do their level best to not get ready on time. Stress levels would rise. I’d end up shouting,...