Kathryn's Blog

8TH NOVEMBER 2018 Loosely defined, resilience is the ability to bounce back from difficult situations and not just survive but thrive. For example, look at your friendship group. Why does one friend’s partner leave them and after a period of grieving they go on to...

14TH SEPTEMBER 2018 You are living a busy, successful life but right now, how are things going? RUOK? Or do you have unhelpful thoughts, persistent ones that return with the tenacity of weeds? Thoughts that shut you down, tell you the future is more of the past (the...

18TH MAY 2018 A piece of advice I like but hold lightly is to start with the end in mind. On the surface, it’s hard to argue with the logic, after all you need to know your destination in order to plan a route there. Simple. But is it?  As a life coach, I often have...

31ST JANUARY 2018 Make 2018 the year you decide you matter. Why? Because for a lot of us, without even realising it, everyone and everything else matters before we do and every day, our own sense of who we are and how precious our one life is trickles away … and it’s...

31ST JULY 2017 Confidence or self-esteem, which do you want most? Many people want more confidence because it is central to succeeding in the world. After all, how do you get the job you want or a date with the person whose company you crave without it? Regardless of...

8TH JUNE 2017 I often get approached by potential clients wanting to be happier, as if coaching might contain a secret formula for business or relationship success.  It doesn’t, of course and I like it when I read something like ‘happiness is solving...

17TH APRIL 2017 Most of us at some time in our life wish it could be easier and happier. One of the misconceptions about resilience is that by learning the skills you will somehow become happier, that things (little and big) won’t get to you any more. However,...

9TH FEBRUARY 2017 Loosely defined, resilience is the ability to bounce back from difficult situations and not just survive but thrive. For example, look at your friendship group. Why does one friend’s partner leave them and after a period of grieving they go on to...

24TH SEPTEMBER 2016 When life gives you lemons, consider margaritas. Or marmalade, or if making art is a delight for you then how about creating a giant lemon sculpture for the next Sculpture by the Sea? Perhaps lemons invoke yellow and you might delve deeply into its...

5TH JANUARY 2016 New Year resolutions, ‘a to-do list for the first week of January.’ What are you doing this week that is new? Will it be a once-off? Are resolutions just a waste of time?  I don’t think so. If you want to commit to being the best person you can be and...