via GIPHY How are you doing? I mean, how are you doing really? I know how being in lockdown, especially this last one in the UK, affected my own mental health so I can only imagine how others have been affected too. As Mental Health Awareness month comes to an end, I wanted to check…
Credit March is Women’s History Month and we celebrate International Women’s Day. This year’s theme is #ChooseToChallenge. The motto this year is “a challenged world is an alert world and from challenge comes change.” And the challenge starts with you! To achieve your goals and live your best life, you must challenge yourself to be…
Have you ever said to yourself: “I don’t know what I’m doing.” “Any moment now, someone’s going to catch me out.” “Why did I even attempt this?” “I’m feel like such a failure. A total, absolute failure.” If you have, then you are amongst 70% of people who suffer from Impostor Syndrome. Impostor Syndrome is…
Me as a teenager with my cousin My Dearest Yaa, You, like most teenagers, are unsure of yourself and the world around you.You think by acting tough, you can cover up your insecurities, but this just creates lots of fear. You’re afraid because you don’t know what you are doing and think you would look…
According to Reach.com, a confident person: does what they believe is right, even if it’s unpopular is willing to take risks admits their mistakes and learns from them is able to accept a compliment is optimistic. Many people are not naturally confident and suffer from a lack of self-confidence. This often comes from negative past experiences and…
We have all come across negative people and let’s be honest, the worst kind are the ones we just can’t get away from.In most scenarios, we can choose to spend as little time as we like around negative people. However, there are those who aren’t so easy to escape. You know that family member who…
I’m a true believer that Love begins at home. As Pierre Corneille said “Self-love is the source of all our other loves.”It is important to Love yourself first if you want others to do the same. If you’re on a plane and something goes wrong, they always tell you put on your own oxygen mask first before you help others, even children….
I’ve watched this video many times: I remember when I first watched it, I simply thought it was a classic example of how men and women communicate differently. What means one thing to a man can mean something completely different to a woman. But then the more I thought about it, I realised that it…
People often ask me “how do you remain so positive?” I would like to reply with lots of optimism, faith, compassion and empathy, but the truth is I’m not always positive!?I have my off days like everyone else, but I have adopted some practices that definitely helped me become a lot less reactive and, more…
I’ve always beaten to the rhythm of my own drum, but if you knew me 10 years ago, you would know confident was something I definitely was not! As I have said before, I was a people-pleaser. I would make those around me happy because I thought it would make be happy. But it didn’t! I…