Written By – Paul Ledger – Accredited Psychotherapist – Team LGT Content Warning – you may find some of the content in this blog difficult or triggering. Please read with care. However cliché this sounds, I never thought it was the done thing to think about how I was doing when it was my wife […]
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By Laura Greenwood How I prepare for big and small speaking events, interviews, exams…has changed over the years. I used to be a huge perfectionist. I used to like to be in total control. To feel like I had done anything in my power to be good enough, because of course on my own merit,
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I know it is cliché but ‘happiness’ really is an inside job. So many of us look to external people, situations, experiences, the achievement of goals, the attainment of ‘things’, to make us happy. Often thinking, “I will be happy when…”. But once we get to these desired destinations, we may find that we
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Hey there, Mama! Are you feeling the strain of balancing Motherhood and marriage? It’s a whole new ball game, isn’t it! But don’t worry, I’ve got you covered. As a matrescence coach and psychotherapist, I’ve worked with plenty of women just like you who are navigating the ups and downs of love after having children.
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Oh Mum Guilt. That ever-present companion that lives in so many of us as we navigate being a Mum at a time of intense Mothering. With the amount of pressure and expectation to be the best in all the roles that we play, higher than ever. Whilst also doing so, in isolation, with little or
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This picture is the day that the trajectory of my life changed forever. The day my son was born. We know it will be life changing. But honestly? Nothing can really prepare us for how life changing. We are prepared for how to physically care for a baby in antenatal classes. We may even have
Many times, in therapy, in coaching, when a client experiences a setback, a bad patch, a stressful period. They say, “I feel like I’ve gone back to square one”. Just because we feel or think something, does not make it true. You can never go back to square one. Why? Because you can never unlearn
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“A picture paints a thousand words” There are many interpretations that can be made from a single picture, yes. BUT, a photo, is a snapshot in time. A photo posted, is a message conveyed. Without words to explain, we make our own meanings. Look at this photo. What do you see? Your interpretation is likely
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As a Mother we are always striving to do our best for our children. But where does ‘our best’ stop? I have met so many women who feel that they are striving for ‘good enough’ when actually what they are striving for is perfection. Something with a never ending, unachievable goal. Driving themselves to exhaustion
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Matrescence…have you heard this word before? I certainly hadn’t. Not until my son was about 10 months old. It is still so much on an unknown term that spell checker doesnt recognise it! Matrescence. A term coined by anthropologist Dana Raphael in the 1970s. It refers to the complete transformation of a woman as she
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