Being exiled from my real self …

I know what it feels like to “lose’ my confidence.  A few years ago in the midst of what should have been an exciting time of growth and adventure I felt I was losing my confidence.  It was as if

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Early Warning Signals

Confidence can feel like ocean tides – it rises and falls and is always there even when it appears to have almost disappeared. Unlike tidal flows changes in self-confidence are less predictable. The good news is we can learn to

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Being Ready to use Therapy or Coaching

The amazing Eloise Ristad in her wonderful book A Soprano on Her Head (1982) says that when a person is ready for change extraordinary things happen.   She is right, but I also think that there is at least one stage

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On Juggling

Last year someone told me something which changed the way I experienced stress, disappointment and thwarted expectation. He said to me ‘Wanjiku, the important thing for you, for all of us, is not that we don’t feel balanced, the real

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