Career Change, Career Development, Career Management
It’s a funny thing, anxiety. It can be both helpful and overwhelming. Galvanising and paralysing. We can be its master or like me last week, squashed. I’ve been squashed for a couple of weeks actually….
Tags: Anxiety, Dealing with difficult thoughts and emotions, Values
Career Change, Career Development, Career Management
My latest blog post on anxiety was partly based on a book called Things Might Go Terribly, Horribly Wrong by Kelly Wilson and Troy Dufrene. The title alone does it for me, but it’s a…
Tags: Anxiety, Dealing with difficult thoughts and emotions, Experiential avoidance, Flexible thinking: using ACT in career change, Headstuck, Resources
Career Change, Career Development, Career Management
(5 minute read + a downloadable checklist) I’d originally anticipated lockdown to be a slower pace, a reconnection with what matters and a welcome realignment of my values. Maybe I’m doing it wrong, but the…
Tags: Anxiety, Creative thinking, Dealing with difficult thoughts and emotions, Marginal gains, Resources, Step 5: Making a plan and getting into action, The Career Psychologist
Career Change, Career Development, Career Management
Many people find that anxiety is unpleasant so they try to wrestle with it to get rid of it. For many this sets up a ‘doom loop’ where they start feeling anxious about their anxiety. …
Tags: Anxiety, Dealing with difficult thoughts and emotions, Values
Career Change, Career Development, Career Management
Of course, many people are not thinking about career change right now, but about how they can hold on to their jobs, careers and livelihoods. I know from the enquiries I get that the main…
Tags: Anxiety, Dealing with difficult thoughts and emotions, Headstuck, Resources
Your encouragement to think about what really made me feel good about working helped me take a bit of a leap which has really worked for me. I find myself this week starting work for an organisation that meets my needs in terms of my integrity, remuneration, security (and a pension plan) as well as allowing me time to be a mum too! What you do really works and you do it with such kindness.
