Tag: wellbeing
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Practice updates
News from Beatha Coaching Dear friends Welcome to updates from Beatha Coaching, my new look newsletter. For a while now I have been wondering what to do with the blog space on Beathacoaching.org. When I started my practice in 2022 I was writing here regularly, but since November my primary writing space has shifted to…
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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…
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Finding a definition of workplace trauma
This is an extended version of a short piece I recently posted on Substack. If you would like to connect with my writing more frequently Substack is the place to do it. You can subscribe free and receive my shorter pieces into your inbox every weekday. I had an interesting conversation with a fellow coach recently. She…
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A gentle (re)turn to journaling
Thank you for reading. If you are enjoying this blog, please subscribe, and consider supporting me to keep producing free content using this link. I used to be a dedicated journaller. At one point in my academic career it was the only writing I was doing. I used journaling to get through the pandemic. I spent entire train journeys…
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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…
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On saying ‘no’
At a recent somatic class with Rebekah Ballagh (Journey to Wellness), Becks invited us to practice saying ‘no’. This invitation came as the culmination of a series of gentle practices aimed at opening up our throats and releasing stuck tension from neck, chest, and jaw. Somatic practices, like those developed by Pay Ogden and Peter…
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Starting a PhD with Wellness in Mind
If you are a regular reader and would like to support me to produce more free content, do consider buying me a coffee via my supporters page. Thank you for reading. It’s that time of year when research postgraduates tend to start their programmes, or to be transitioning from their first year reviews. So in…
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Burnout prevention is an act of resistance
Recently I had the pleasure of working with a small group of academics, all at different stages in their career journey, through the Summer Coaching Programme. Over three months we explored how burnout happens, what recovery and repair look like, and in our final session last week, how we can resource ourselves against burning out…
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The Stress Effect & Creative Burnout
In this post I am going to address one of the commonest issues that present in my coaching of academics, creative burnout. I have explored physiological burnout and how it differentiates from stress in this post, so if you are not familiar with burnout it might be worth revisiting that content. However, creative burnout is…
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