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May 26, 2026
You don't need fixing. You may just need perspective.

There is a particular kind of stuck that doesn't look like stuck from the outside. You are functioning. You are getting through the day. And yet something feels off. Seven signs you're not broken, just stuck, and what to do about it.

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May 19, 2026
The words you use are clues. Especially when you are stuck.

When someone tells me they are stuck, I listen for the metaphor before I listen for the detail. Going round in circles. Uphill struggle. Brick wall. Wood for the trees. At a crossroads. Five everyday metaphors and what they are really trying to tell you.

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May 19, 2026
What one coaching session can do (and what it won't)

There's a question I hear from people who get in touch about coaching. Not always out loud, but it's there underneath. Do I have to commit to something big? A six-month programme? A year of work on myself? And the honest answer is no. Most of the people I work with come for one session. […]

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January 14, 2025
Five Keys to Achieving Your Goal

I took an intention to embrace my eldership / elderhood for a Transformation Game * this week and was so inspired and enthused by the outcome I thought I’d share some of the key highlights for you – highlights that can apply to any goal in life. If you want to understand a little more […]

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November 21, 2024
16 Reasons You're Not Achieving Your Goal

If you've not achieving a goal, if there's a lack of progress towards your goal and you don't know what's going on one of these 15 reasons might just be the difference that will make the difference. If you’ve got a goal (I used my YouTube channel growth) and think you’re missing a trick have […]

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March 20, 2024
How to regain that sense of place and connection in your life

In today’s blog I’m sharing a new tool from the Landscaping Your Life coaching and problem solving toolkit that helps you get that sense of being in the right place at the right time back. The premise behind the technique being - if you can get that sense of place and connection back you’ll feel […]

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February 20, 2024
Analogy or metaphor that is the question

Knowing the difference between using the iceberg as an analogy or a metaphor could make such a huge difference to the amount of insight you get about the situation you’re grappling with. That is, it could make the difference between finding a solution and not finding it – or put another way the difference between […]

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February 14, 2024
What does love want you to know?

What does love want you to know? Seven years ago I developed a coaching toolkit which was a series of postcards from individual soft skills sent to you whilst on their holidays. It read like a series of love letters from aspects of yourself each asking to be understood better including, for example, postcards from […]

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June 16, 2021
You're interested in coaching but...

You may be one answer away from engaging me as your coach, and yet asking the question to get that answer is easier said than done. Instead you're stuck in a holding pattern of knowing coaching will help get you back on track, and still wondering if I'm the one for you. Here's some answers […]

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May 30, 2021
The LANDSCAPE toolkit

The poem From not knowing to knowing (what to do) shares why I do what I do and the benefits that arise from working with me. The main characteristics being: you don't know what to do you believe you have no or limited options logic isn't helping you want to get back on track you're […]

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