by Bill Sheate
Career change - stressful or exciting?
There can be many reasons to make a career change or change your job. Stress and work/life balance may be a strong motivating force. Sometimes, however much you try to manage the stress and anxiety, changing the principle stressor in your life - your job - may be the only real option. That can seem even more scary than the stresses your current job is putting you under. But it need not be. Maybe the stress is exactly the impetus you needed to step back and look anew at what’s really important to you and where your job fits into your wider personal values…….[Read more]
by Bill Sheate
….. and the timeliness of Mental Health Awareness Week (18-24 May 2020)
During this last week (which has been Mental Health Awareness Week) the theme, aptly, has been ‘Kindness’; the kindness experienced by many people over recent weeks – the kindness offered by others and to others - but also the need to be kind to ourselves. Self-compassion. It’s OK to feel sad, anxious or angry – these are normal human emotions, especially during times of crisis or difficulty. We can’t always be at the ‘top of our game’. Sometimes you need to give yourself the compassion you might normally reserve for others. To be kind to yourself; to give yourself a metaphorical (or even actual) hug! That can seem difficult, feeling perhaps as if we don’t deserve it. But how helpful is it to beat ourselves up for not coping; for not being ‘perfect’? (Tip: there is no such thing as ‘perfect’).
And now, as we begin to emerge from Covid-19 lock-down we may be discovering a whole new suite of emotions…….[Read more]
