Tag: working with a coach
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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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FREE Resource for Grief
I recently write a series on grief and its role in recovering from loss and processing disappointment. If that series resonated with you and you would like to go further, I am now offering a free resource. This journaling workbook takes you through the five stages on the Kübler-Ross & Kessler Change Curve with explanations…
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The Problem with Perfectionism
Kicking off a new series, I am going to explore some of the key challenges that clients often bring to coaching: topics like procrastination, imposter syndrome, dealing with rejection, and experiencing anger at work. I’m starting with perfectionism, and in particular its impacts on our ability to produce creative work, because this is something I…
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The Grief of Disappointment
In my previous two posts I introduced the importance of fully processing grief and loss, the time that takes, and the consequences of not taking or not being given sufficient space to grieve. In this post I want to look at a very specific and frequently overlooked manifestation of grief. Often referred to as a…
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Grief in the Academic Process
Welcome back. In the first of a new series for 2023 I am going to explore grief, and how it might affect the academic journey. I realise this topic may sound out of synch with popular New Year culture, when everything around us is about goal setting and fresh starts (and on that subject, for…
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Stress, chronic stress, or burnout?
In my first post I introduced burnout as a collection of symptoms related to sustained nervous system arousal, and highlighted reasons why burnout may be particularly common in academia. In this post, I am going to introduce the stress-burnout spectrum, with some indicators for positioning yourself on that scale, and suggest appropriate interventions for each…
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No one cares, work harder. Or, why I started a specialist coaching practice for academics
We all know what the problems are. Overwork, presenteeism, constant emails and reactivity, lack of resourcing for complex pastoral needs, inadequate mentoring, non-transparent hiring, ever-changing research priorities, lack of opportunities, discrimination and internal bias, precarity, failure to confront the legacies of Covid… Higher education is a mess. Despite being one of the most potentially rewarding…
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Coaching, counselling, or mentoring? Choosing the option that is right for you.
When you are experiencing challenges in your working life, especially if those challenges involve or are impacting on your mental health, it can be tricky to know where to access support. In academia, mentoring programmes or referral to occupational health or counselling are fairly common; coaching remains less so, though perhaps with the caveat that…
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