In this powerful guest blog by Financial Advisor Naj Devgun, written for Maternal Mental Health Awareness Week, we explore how emotions and finances are deeply connected—and why it’s OK and perfectly normal to feel overwhelmed. Naj introduces the concept of the Money Manifesto; a reflective tool to help you understand your financial values, emotional drivers, […]
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Compassion Fatigue….is rife in the helping professions! Why? Because most of those who step into these professions do so because of their own previous experiences. Experiences of always being the one in their family who ‘had the answers’. ‘Took care of everyone else. ’ Felt responsible for the feelings and needs of others at an
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Here is an article from our wonderful Sarah O’Callaghan, CBT Psychotherapist at Laura Greenwood Therapy. Here is one for our valued, wonderful, teacher followers. Whether an official teacher or a ‘teacher’ in the home. Because this is what we all are as parents right? Teaching our children how to be in the world and grow
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Written by – Laura Batchelor – Chief Operating Officer – Team LGT My eldest son has turned 10! WOW! So many emotions are running through my head. What a rollercoaster it has been, from the moment he was born. I have felt every emotion going. Love, fear, sadness, loneliness, worry, elation, vulnerability, insecurity, guilt, exhaustion,
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Written by – Sarah Cosway – Accredited Psychotherapist – Team LGT We’ve come a long way from the days when as soon as a woman got married she was expected to give up her job and become a housewife. These days, girls come up through the educational system with the same career expectations and aspirations
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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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