Free peek: Resilience requires boundaries
Every couple of months I remove the paywall from a post to give my readers a peek behind the curtain, to see the kind of writing you can get weekly if you...
Intellectualising Your Feelings
Just because you’re aware of your patterns, doesn’t mean you can defeat them. This is one of those posts where I have multiple different points I want to...
I don’t want to pay someone to just agree with me
Programming note: I am dealing with some health stuff that will be fine, but is affecting my fatigue levels while I’m going through the tests and everything...
Learning from your successes
Programming note: I am dealing with some health stuff that will be fine, but is affecting my fatigue levels while I’m going through the tests and everything...
Reflection on therapy training
This is a free post, so feel free to forward or share it to folks who might find it useful. This newsletter is entirely reader-supported. You can upgrade to...
Self care for redundancy and job searching
I've been asked a couple of times about resources for dealing with redundancy, or if I have any tips. I always struggle with this, because all the self care...
Manifestation as planning
Some of you will know I'm a lil witchy (I offer tarot pulls as part of my coaching, for example). While I am broadly a sceptic, I basically use tarot and...
What have you thought about and discarded?
I was once having trouble at work. I was working at the intersection of multiple teams and trying to figure out interfacing, continuity, and confidence as...
Resilience requires boundaries
I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again: boundaries are an integral part of resilience. I think people see emotional and mental resilience still as...
Introducing The Mental Workload Podcast!
I’ve been beavering away over the past few weeks on a new project and I’m finally able to share it! Announcing… The Mental Workload podcast! The Mental...
Super Secret Announcement!
Super secret announcement post for my paid subscribers! I’ve been working on something exciting, which is why this post is a lil shorter than normal for my...
Empathy and bias
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Learning to let go
Thank you for being a paid subscriber <3 This post is a follow up from my last paid post: https://buttondown.email/SelfCareBackpack/archive/on-being-...
From Tech to Wellbeing
I pop a poll on my linkedin every month to see what people want me to write about, and the winner this time was From Tech to Wellbeing, so here we are. This...
On being triggered
Self care has to be deliberate. If it’s not then you’re not fully embedded in the process. That doesn’t mean you need to be thinking ‘I am going to do self...
Accepting Nurturing (free)
Occasionally I remove the paywall from posts to give you all a sneak peek into what you can get if you sign up for a paid subscription. Want to get weekly...
I've passed my exam
Fear and grief still exist, even when the change is something you want, and it’s something I’ve not had much space for. I think it’s still been theoretical...
Empathy wrap up post
I’m doing some virtual events in July! I have a mid-year reflection workshop on July 2nd, and on July 3rd, I’m doing a mid-year affirmations session! I’m...
Rest as restorative
I’ve put a miro template together for this activity. If you want to give it a go for yourself you can see it here: https://miro.com/miroverse/rest-activity-...
Self-empathy
This is the last of the empathy as a skill series. The next free newsletter (out on 19th June) will be a collection of things that didn’t fit in the series...
