Tag: stress

• We are Three!

  Beatha Coaching is three years old! I officially launched the practice on 1st October 2022 after twelve years in academia as PhD candidate, RA, and TF Lecturer. When I set up the practice I had a handful of academic clients (some of whom are still with me!) and my freshly minted coaching certification. Three years…

  francescayoungkaufman

  October 1, 2025

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  academia, Burnout, coaching, Higher Education, mental health, stress, wellbeing, working with a coach, writing

• June Newsletter

  Burnout in academia AND 24 hours to claim early bird on the Summer Coaching Programme Dear friends, It’s hard to believe we are half-way through the year, but this weekend marks the summer solstice and all that that entails – heat, light, endless nights, and the imperceptible beginnings of our shift away from the sun.…

  francescayoungkaufman

  June 17, 2025

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  academia, Burnout, coaching, health, Higher Education, mental health, self-care, stress, wellbeing, wellness, working with a coach, writing

• May Newsletter

  updates and AI Anxiety in Academia workshop Dear friends It has been a mad couple of months. Even though I have officially left academia, it turns out I am still operating within the norms of the HE calendar. I feel as though I just finished the spring semester and am wrapping up the last of…

  francescayoungkaufman

  May 18, 2025

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  academia, Burnout, coaching, Higher Education, mental health, stress, wellbeing

• March Newsletter

  …just a day late… Dear friends I was back in my beloved St Abbs at the end of February and it was just starting to feel like the edge of spring. Now, a month later, the garden is flourishing, there are new leaves on the apple trees, and I’m about to head out for a…

  francescayoungkaufman

  April 1, 2025

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  academia, Burnout, coaching, health, Higher Education, meditation, stress, wellbeing, wellness, working with a coach, writing, yoga

• February Newsletter

  Dear friends last night I spotted the first blossoms on a local cherry tree, and this morning a cluster of daffodils in a sheltered area of the park. Spring is (finally) upon us. How has the winter been for you? Are you welcoming the longer days and milder weather? Or do you feel like you…

  francescayoungkaufman

  February 21, 2025

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  academia, books, Burnout, coaching, creative-writing, Higher Education, imposter-syndrome, mental health, poetry, stress, wellbeing, working with a coach, writing

• Endings and beginnings

  Hogmanay 2024 Dear friends How has your Christmas been? And your betweenmas? I recently wrote about this season on Substack, and the feeling that the days at the end of the year always give me – potential, possibility, reconnection. I tend to struggle to slow down, but the enforced break of Christmas, when everything gets…

  francescayoungkaufman

  December 31, 2024

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  academia, Burnout, coaching, Higher Education, stress, wellbeing, writing

• December Newsletter

  Slow Writing Club launches, and new members calendar for Jan-Mar 2025 Dear friends… And here we are, just a few weeks away from the end of the year and a real rest. Over on Substack recently I have been thinking about the effect that seasons, weather, and time have on my writing and on my…

  francescayoungkaufman

  December 3, 2024

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• November newsletter

  All the freebies! Dear friends, As the weather gets colder and darker I think we all have to fight the urge to turn in on ourselves. It feels like that atavistic urge to hibernate and stay safe through the long dark months could so easily take over. But I know from experience that less daylight…

  francescayoungkaufman

  November 8, 2024

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  academia, Burnout, coaching, Higher Education, mental health, stress, writing, yoga

• And then, life happens…

  When I was in academia, March was the hardest month. Judging from the conversations I have been having with clients recently, that is still true. There is something about the uphill slog to Easter, through the bulk of the Spring teaching, with increasingly stressed dissertation students, committees starting to plan for the next year (and…

  francescayoungkaufman

  April 22, 2024

  Burnout, Uncategorized

  Burnout, mental health, nervous system care, stress, trauma informed, wellbeing, window of tolerance

• On Writing

  I have been writing every day for November over on substack, in an online research diary. The daily substacks give little insights into my thought processes around the writing part of my life, ranging from notes on a research idea to my frustration at a disrupted evening when I had planned to write (this blog…

  francescayoungkaufman

  November 14, 2023

  Uncategorized, writing

  academia, Burnout, Higher Education, stress, trauma, wellbeing, writing