Tag: writing
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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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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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Understanding Procrastination…and finding compassion
Procrastination is something that we all struggle with, but in the creative life it can feel and become profoundly disabling. For academics, the discourse around procrastination is typically quite unhealthy – you are ‘lazy’, or ‘not doing well enough’, or just ‘not cut out for academia’. These kinds of comments have the unfortunate effect of…
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