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What kind of listener do you want to be? An open or closed one?

7 days ago

What kind of listener do you want to be? An open or closed one?

How to listen from the heart What kind of listener do you want to be? An open or closed one? Someone who asks a question so you can...

HeardinLondon

Dec 6

What people pleasers won’t tell you

How rested they are How valued they feel How much they enjoy giving That last one may surprise you, because I think a lot of us would...

Drop That Shit and Run - how to ask for help before a crisis

HeardinLondon

Dec 1

Drop That Shit and Run - how to ask for help before a crisis

How I learnt to ask for help and how you can too I'm notoriously hard to support. My friends tell me often. I used to pride myself in...

HeardinLondon

Nov 17

A fat girl's manifesto

Just because no one rescued the fat girls in the movies, that doesn't mean you can't rescue yourself. Pleasure and intimacy and...

Maybe you don't have a strong immune system. Maybe you just lucked out.

HeardinLondon

Nov 6

Maybe you don't have a strong immune system. Maybe you just lucked out.

There is a really pervasive narrative I've been hearing a lot since the beginning of the pandemic: that a lot of people are very...

HeardinLondon

Oct 14

Before the jump

Who are you when no one is watching? This year, grief ripped me away from myself. And even in the most bleak moments, I knew it was...

Finding Balance: How to Work When Your Body Craves Rest

HeardinLondon

Sep 27

Finding Balance: How to Work When Your Body Craves Rest

In a world where we constantly juggle way too many responsibilities and obligations, finding a balance between work and rest can be...

Are you waiting for other people to respect your boundaries?

HeardinLondon

Sep 22

Are you waiting for other people to respect your boundaries?

You’ll find that people with strong boundaries don’t feel the need to explain themselves an awful lot – because they are rarely looking for

Why many relationships are not forever - and that's ok.

HeardinLondon

Aug 14

Why many relationships are not forever - and that's ok.

In my moments of ultimate sadness the story often leads back to the headline: “No one has ever chosen me”. It punches right to my solar...

Don’t leave those big, scary uncertainty questions unanswered

HeardinLondon

Aug 11

Don’t leave those big, scary uncertainty questions unanswered

Uncertainty sucks. Yet life is full of it. So, what do we do with those big questions? I’m talking the kind of “What if I am not good eno

Why We Expect to Be Fixed (and how coaching can help)

HeardinLondon

Aug 4

Why We Expect to Be Fixed (and how coaching can help)

I know it's not fashionable for a coach to say, but I don't think you are broken. But I do think it's worth looking into. Why so many of...

Do you need to be busy to avoid burnout?

HeardinLondon

Jul 14

Do you need to be busy to avoid burnout?

We all have these well-known numbing out techniques which we know are bad for us, like drinking and smoking and doom-scrolling, but I think

HeardinLondon

Jul 5

Using Nature as Guide

I'm trying to pay more attention. To the seasons. To nature. To myself. Nature always teaches me. It guides me home to myself whenever I...

HeardinLondon

Jun 23

Perfectionism says: "Be the best"

Apart from when you’re not - perfectionism is not going to be on your side There is such hype around trying to rise above the crowd that

Why photoshoots are important for personal empowerment

HeardinLondon

May 31

Why photoshoots are important for personal empowerment

And how we can use photoshoots to reclaim our body image. As an empowerment photographer, I understand the fears and insecurities which...

HeardinLondon

May 19

3 Phases of Self-Development

In self-development there are quick wins, there are life transformations and there is the bit in the middle. And this is where most people g

Nature Does Not Reject Me: How to Thrive and Carve Space for Yourself in a World Not Designed for Larger Bodies

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May 18

Nature Does Not Reject Me: How to Thrive and Carve Space for Yourself in a World Not Designed for Larger Bodies

The ocean never rejects me. It never runs away and says there is too much of me (or if it does, it returns in the next breath). It never...

HeardinLondon

May 12

3 weird things insomnia taught me

Insomnia can be a relentless beast, but I discovered some unexpected things which helped me

People Pleasing - The secret way to make patriarchal socialisation actually useful

HeardinLondon

May 8

People Pleasing - The secret way to make patriarchal socialisation actually useful

People pleasing is something you were taught, and maybe that not 100% bad

HeardinLondon

May 5

People Pleasers and Growing up English

I think the majority of people who grew up in England find people pleasing particularly difficult as we have so many unwritten rules about w