Metaphors and stories are part of our everyday language, we use them to make sense of the world, relate to other people’s experiences and find meanin…

I am not good enough. I am not smart enough. I am not experienced enough. I am not confident enough. I am just not 'enough'. Whatever it is you tell…

There's no denying it: getting stuck can suck. The shame, the rising panic, the frenzied, useless efforts at extraction, like wheels spinning in a mu…

I was 21 and had just finished my apprenticeship in retail and was only about half-way into my degree at uni when my manager asked me to lead the HR…

Are negative thought loops holding you back? If you’ve ever found yourself lying awake at night, your mind playing the same thoughts over and over a…

Fear is often perceived as bad - but, as Chris Anderson, puts it: “Fear is there for a reason”. It is trying to protect you and keep you safe. If you…

You may have been there before. In a lunchtime slot from work, I mysteriously find myself wandering round the clothes shops in central Oxford with no…

How do you make decisions? For some people, one sense is more important than the other. For me, if it is a good fit, the right decision, then all wil…

Change. A word a lot of us do not like the sound of. Change is scary and it is unnerving. Sometimes it is better to keep things the way they are rat…

Life can sometimes throw unexpected things at us and when this does happen we can feel overwhelmed, uncertain, anxiety and out of control. Here is a…

There are four key words often interchanged when we talk about confidence or how we feel about ourselves. These are self-confidence, self-esteem, se…

As we go through our life and career we start to understand just what it is that we are good at. And to a certain extent, we also discover the things…