May 19, 2025
*Why it matters, where it goes wrong, and how to lead without losing yourself* In my thirties, running companies I’d founded, I believed that warmth and compassion made me a good leader. I wanted people to feel safe. I wanted to be approachable, empathic, generous....
May 13, 2025
You Don’t Have to Have Been There — But You Can’t Be Afraid of It On Empathy, Experience, and the Therapist’s Capacity to Stay Present There’s a belief, often spoken quietly or passed between therapists, that you can’t sit with a client’s pain if you haven’t known...
May 11, 2025
James was, by all accounts, a high performer. Reliable, intelligent, and deeply committed, he had been with the company for over a decade and was widely respected. He rarely took holidays, worked long hours, and often carried more than his share. But behind this...
May 11, 2025
When overcommitment looks like loyalty — but quietly costs the system. Every team has one. The dependable one. The first in, last out. The one who knows everything — and shares very little. They’re seen as heroes. But they often become bottlenecks. Unchallenged....
Feb 28, 2023
If we don’t develop self awareness we can be like a programmed machine sleep walking through our lives. We become simply an accumulation of what has gone before and the result of what happened to us in the past. But it is possible to break from the tyranny of the past...
