By calling it “emotional baggage”, we immediately label the emotions as heavy, inconvenient, cumbersome, and something to be manoeuvred.

the circumstances around you can change, but if you are still having the same old thoughts (hello ingrained beliefs) you’ll still feel

ne of the ways that you can find a connection to some of these words is just to find some incremental, neutral thoughts that are more in the

When we prioritise self-care, we give ourselves the space and time we need to recharge and refocus. This, in turn, helps us build

when we fixate on this idea of "solving" the problem that we have at the moment, we miss out on what is most of our lives because we're

A common symptom of imposter syndrome is the inability to accept compliments.

Boundaries are a set of values about your life that you want. That's it. Well, this puts us in the space of trying to look at boundaries

The motivation to put others' needs before our own is motivated by the fear of potential rejection if we don't.

the good news is that our brains can change, through a process known as neuroplasticity. It is the same way we have learnt everything, from

We become fixated on trying to prove our worth to ourselves and to others, and this often leads us to see the actions of our partner as a

Is that managing your mindset and looking after your emotional health and giving yourself tools to stop yourself spiralling and things feel

The problem is that taking responsibility for our own emotions means that we're going to need to feel some of our negative emotions.

Being confident means being kind to ourselves, which is infuriatingly more difficult than it sounds. Especially when, logically, you know it

The more we are able to untangle our needs from other people's reactions, the easier it becomes to get really honest with ourselves about

Do you believe that confidence is just something that some people have and some people don't have? And you don't have it?

Unconditional acceptance sounds like a radical idea which drips with fear of forbidden things like laziness and indulgence. But rather than

It's hard to build confidence for ourselves when we don't have a set definition of what that means.

Most of life is not happy and peaceful. Most of my life is a complicated mix of feelings and often a lot of things simultaneously, and some

Many of us have been socialised to make ourselves as small as possible so we're not an inconvenience. How many of us have been taught that

Where do you feel you need to perform perfectionism to give you confidence? It can feel like a tantalising lure, can’t it?