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We have been living in a comfort crisis. Blindsided by bright lights, endless supply chains and the fatality of distraction. And in doing so we have depleted the most important currency we have. Our food. Our connection to the earth. Our ability to think clearly about what is actually happening. This is not abstract. This is not distant. We are at risk of not being able to eat. As a mother and an educator who has burned out multiple times carrying the weight of this reality,

I have had to reset and become quieter to work with intention...whilst it was exciting being in spaces communicating my skills and experience, I lost sight of what words we should be talking about. Two words I hear in my own growth and in every conversation, every piece of research, every room I walk into...Grief. And love. As a coach I think we need to sit with that for a moment. We are grieving for a life that felt abundant that everything was possible, a time of exuberanc

Can I be honest with you for a moment? Because I think we have stopped being honest with each other and it is making us all deeply unhappy. I spent time in a world that was not mine. A world of fanfare and stages and people talking endlessly about change while creating very little of it. And I will be straight with you, I did not enjoy it. I have an incredibly receptive mind and I can recognise within moments when someone is performing rather than being real, when the convers

Sometimes the most important things happen completely by accident. Leo (a guinea pig) came to the school where I was teaching as part of an educational visit from a local farm. The children adored him. Alongside the other small animals, it was one of those simple but magical experiences that brought joy, curiosity, and connection. A wholesome wellbeing event that had everyone smiling. At the end of the day, the farm packed up and left. Life carried on....Or so we thought. Tw

Joy, to me, looks like a warm sunny evening where you walk and listen and take time in nature to sit and ground and breathe and reflect on the day. Or maybe with your dog on a run or a snuggle on the sofa...Or to dance like no one's watching with every bit of energy that you have. To look at the world through the eyes of a curious child and to never stop learning. It is the laughter with your friends. The connecting over a phone call. The reaching out rather than staying in

I think this is really worth speaking about because at the centre of it is something quite simple, but we’ve drifted a long way from it. We’ve ended up in this belief that we don’t really need each other anymore. That independence is the goal. That being able to hold everything on your own is the highest form of strength. And I just don’t think that matches how humans actually function. If you look back at how we’ve lived for most of history, it wasn’t individual like this. I

Modern life right now feels like a scene from The Hunger Games or The Handmaid’s Tale. Heavy words perhaps, but if I am honest, that is the energy many of us are absorbing every single day. Everything feels loud and fast and too serious. We are constantly being fed fear, division, urgency and noise, and after a while it becomes very difficult to hear your own thoughts clearly amongst it all. What if we all stopped feeding ourselves so much negative narrative? Not ignoring rea

You will hear this word spoken often right now. It is one of the most important practises we have to focus on. It isn’t woo woo it’s biology. We have to reduce how we are working and disconnect from the overwhelm. We have in the UK burnt out and then some. To pretend it isn’t tough right now is like saying climate change isn’t happening. Both are true and both are frightening, however if we don’t face the fear we can’t overcome it. Or create the solutions to redesign our brok

Let me be honest with you. I have been that person. Working and scrolling at midnight. Checking notifications before my feet hit the floor, using my phone as a comfort blanket when the world felt too much. In 2023 and 2024 I was online heavily for my work as a coach. For a while it was exciting and supportive It connected me to my work, my network and my purpose. Our government changed and it became overwhelming, the world was changing rapidly and being a highly receptive pe

Not comfortable. Not just busy. Actually safe within yourself… There is a difference. And it’s one that most workplaces miss completely. I work at the intersection of wellness, green business and sustainability. And what I’ve come to understand is that we cannot build resilient businesses or strong communities if the people leading them don’t feel safe within themselves. So before we talk about strategy or impact, let’s talk about you…what do you know about attachment styles?

Are you the leader who walks into a room and feels everything? The one whose brain never really switches off. Who already knows the energy before a single word is spoken. Who sees the gap in the strategy nobody else has spotted. Who cares, genuinely and deeply, about the people around them. That person is probably neurodivergent. And right now, in the middle of the most complex period most of us have ever lived through, that person is exactly who we need leading. It is okay t

Why empathetic leaders don’t just feel better. They perform better. Somewhere along the way, we got it wrong. Or we have been led down a garden path? We started measuring leadership by pressure. By pace. By who could push the hardest and show the least. And we called that strength. But if you look around right now-at our workplaces, our teams, the wider world -it’s worth noting… it's not working. Especially from what I see and hear... WHAT THE NUMBERS SHOW There’s plenty of r

Being innovative and a forward thinker has always been part of who I am. It took me time to realise that. I used to wonder why no one else understood what I was saying. It’s the same with my approach to sustainability...I’ve been wearing pre-loved clothing for the best part of 30 years, and for a long time, people thought it was unusual. Now, everyone is jumping on the trend. But these choices aren’t about trends...they’re essential micro-habits that create meaningful, lastin

In boardrooms everywhere, the conversation is dominated by ROI, the so what? But I want to ask a different question: What are we truly investing in? In our rush for profit we are leaving behind the very foundation of business and life: nature. Because business does not exist in a vacuum. Supply and demand, goods and services, the connections across communities and ecosystems-they all flow from nature. According to the US $44 trillion of economic value-over half of global GDP-

How do you find light at the end of the tunnel? It's time we start talking honestly about nature-based solutions and what they mean for the world of work. Wellbeing strategies are often box-ticking exercises. Fruit bowls, yoga sessions, another webinar about resilience. They help, but they're not the full story. What if the real answer lies outside the office? What if the solutions are literally growing around us? Through my partnerships, I see one thing again and again. When

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