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Have just had major surgery and I’m on a six week break from work. Starting to feel like six weeks of Netflix will rot my brain, so I may sketch out some ideas for a cheap-eats blog. It’s a great example of how you can use a formal project model like ADDIE to help you…
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Work? Family? Health? Little or big worries? Sometimes insomnia is a lack of vitamins or exercise, sometimes it’s hormones, often it’s psychological stress. If you usually find it easy to sleep and all of a sudden can’t – do talk to your doctor. Especially with night sweats, racing heart, any chest pain – see someone…
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So you want to do better but don’t know how to change? Behaviour change takes a multidisciplinary approach. If you want better mental health, start discussing with your GP, psychologist and/or psychiatrist as applicable. If it’s a mental health emergency for yourself or anyone else, dial an emergency number of your country. In Aotearoa we…
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This is your brain under stress. Chronic stress can effect hormones in the brain, including cortisol and corticotropin releasing factor (CRF). CRF coordinates fight/flight/freeze responses, related to anxiety, cognitive changes, and emotional regulation. This is your body under stress. It affects all systems of the body including the musculoskeletal, respiratory, endocrine, cardiovascular, gastrointestinal, nervous, and reproductive…
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5 July 2021 Empathy, teamwork, leadership of self: these categories of emotional intelligence are how we’re going to navigate a changing world with kindness and learning. Breaking any sort of behaviour down into categories comes with all sorts of difficulties. Categories assist our brain to make quick sense of lots and lots of stimuli. It’s…
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12 May 2021 I am about to finish up at one workplace and start at a new one. My aunt is very sick, and I’ve spent three wonderful days at home down in the South Island, supporting my large extended family in whatever way I can. I’m very grateful to live in the modern world…
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21 March 2021 Article summary: let’s keep talking about inclusion while we address power imbalance in a structural manner. I am a natural collector of things. Pets, friends, spices, cushions, vintage dresses – I want them all. Obviously I need to curtail my collecting for the benefit of paying our mortgage, and also for getting…
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25 February 2025 Mindfulness teaches us we cannot control emotions, but that we can observe them neutrally. The process of accepting your reactions and being present to each moment, choosing a valued direction and taking action is important. As workplaces encourage us to ‘bring our whole self to work’*, more and more, in stressful times team members…
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If you could have something named after you, what would it be? A cat? A dog? A child?
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There are so many wellness articles written in 2021. So why write another one? Well firstly I love to write, and I find myself at almost 40 years of age with no permanent employment but enough opportunities and privilege (sometimes known as wealth) to spend time writing and building my own projects. I have no…
Equity Inclusion Leadership 