by Rachael Roberts | Mar 23, 2021 | Anxiety, Confidence, Happiness, Personal Development
For those of you who might not know, an affirmation is a positive statement that you repeat to yourself as a fact. E.g. ‘I am beautiful inside and out.’ Now I don’t know about you, but that does somewhat make me cringe, even after all the work I’ve done. It just feels...
by Rachael Roberts | Mar 16, 2021 | Business, Career, Happiness, Personal Development
Some people teach that developing self confidence is about learning to pretend to be self confident until eventually you are. ‘Fake it ‘til you make it’. While I think there can be a benefit in acting ‘as if’- in other words choosing to do things before you feel...
by Rachael Roberts | Feb 16, 2021 | Anxiety, Emotions, Happiness, Inner Troll, Stress
Put simply, self-compassion is about liking yourself and treating yourself as well as you would treat a good friend, rather than talking to yourself and pushing yourself in a way you wouldn’t dream of doing to anyone else. It sounds kind of obvious, and yet many of us...
by Rachael Roberts | Jan 19, 2021 | Career, Emotions, Happiness, Saying no
Have you ever continued doing a course you don’t actually find useful, or stayed in an unsatisfying relationship because you’ve already invested so much time and effort in making it work? Or perhaps you’ve kept something you don’t like because it was expensive?...
by Rachael Roberts | Nov 24, 2020 | Career, Happiness
Times of crisis have a way of focusing the mind and making us question whether what we’re doing (or maybe the way we’re doing it) is actually right for us. Follow your passion? People often talk about following your passion. This is definitely part of the picture. You...
by Rachael Roberts | Nov 3, 2020 | Anxiety, Emotions, Happiness, Negativity, Personal Development
If you look up failure in the dictionary, it’s defined as ‘the fact of someone or something not succeeding’. When you think about it, what does that even mean? How do we define success? Is it about what other people say about what happened? How we feel about it?...
