Your behaviour and habits
‘Behaving our way into a new way of thinking and feeling is easier than thinking our way into a new way of behaving’ (Various) In my 1-1 sessions with clients, we focus on what they…
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Boosting your self-image
I’ve been talking with a client recently about the importance of self-image, how we see ourselves, our self-perception, and we’ve explored how much this can dictate how we behave, what we do and don’t do.…
‘A Path through the Jungle’ book review
I’ve been working through ‘A Path through the Jungle’ by the estimable Professor Steve Peters with several clients, and I’d like to recommend it here. Professor Peters is responsible for the best-selling ‘The Chimp Paradox’,…
Understanding and Overcoming Social Anxiety and Shyness training (extract)
I wanted to share here an extract from a group session I run in understanding and overcoming social anxiety and shyness. It consists of a simple and straightforward method we can use if we’re approaching…
Our ‘fight or flight’ stress responses
I wanted to share the enclosed as I’ve found it fascinating what our sympathetic nervous system – there to protect us – can do for us, and to us (or I suppose more precisely what…
Change your mind: from thinking errors to Thinking Skills
I work with a number of 1-1 coaching clients focussing on a number of these thinking skills, and their relationship with how they feel, and behave as a result. We typically talk about what they…
Self-talk and self-compassion
I very much enjoyed running a training session on Monday last for a local mental health peer support group – Depression Xpression, based in Reading and Wokingham in Berkshire – entitled ‘Preventing and Managing Stress’,…
You and Your Stress: Stress symptoms exercise
This exercise is in the form of slides – on the Slideshare platform – just click on the pic to take a look. This exercise aims to enable us to ‘normalise’ the experience of stress…
Managing emotions and preventing stress: keeping on an even keel
I wanted to say a few words here about ‘keeping on an even keel’ and responding, rather than reacting, with a view to managing emotions and preventing stress. We’re exploring here how useful it can…
How to manage your Chimp
I wanted to share with you here an exercise that my coachees and I have found very useful, as part of a coaching programme I run based on Prof Steve Peters’ ‘Chimp Management’ mind model. Below is…