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Category: Confidence & Self-Worth

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Last month I wrote an article about how to stop overthinking, in the hope that I could offer some tips to help nudge you out of the mental loops that...

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If there’s one common trait that exists among my clients, I think it would be this – how to stop overthinking when you can’t switch off. Almost everyone who comes...

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How to start doing less and trusting it’s enough I’ve had so many lovely responses to my recent article about overfunctioning, with many people asking the question: what can we...

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  When I first wrote about the signs of ‘not feeling good enough’, I focused on four of the most common ways this difficult belief tends to surface, particularly when...

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Understanding the origins of overfunctioning If you recognised yourself in my last post about overfunctioning, you’re not alone. I had a huge response to this article which tells me that...

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  Overfunctioning is one of the four hidden patterns I wrote about recently that often arise when we don’t feel good enough. The other three – avoidance, paralysis and people-pleasing...

The four hidden patterns of feeling not good enough

How overfunctioning, avoidance, paralysis and people-pleasing all stem from the same core belief — and what happens when you begin to let it go. If I could identify one theme...

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  So many of the leadership coaching women I work with tell me that when they were young, they were praised for being good, nice, and well-behaved. This lines up...

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  It took me many years to discover that there is a quiet strength in being a sensitive person, though it’s not always recognised or celebrated, and many of us...