You might have heard the term emotional bucket floating around (excuse the pun), but what does it actually mean? And more importantly, how do you know if yours is overflowing? Let’s break it down, because understanding your emotional bucket is more crucial than ever...
The Best Way to Help Leaders with Burnout
When I first spoke to the Chief People Officer at a medium size Housing Association, they were at a breaking point and seriously worried about leaders with burnout. One of their key department heads, let’s call her Sarah, had been running on empty for months. She was...
Why it’s Worth Investing in Stress Awareness
Why it's Worth Investing in Stress Awareness in 2024 April is Stress Awareness Month, and the 2024 focus is to talk about stress and it's effect on people. Doing this raises awareness, helps people to ensure they don't feel alone and enables sharing of things that are...
Lessons for Leaders 99: How to Persuade Leaders to Invest in Wellbeing
How to Persuade Leaders to Invest in Wellbeing This week I'm sharing top tips and conversations I have frequently with people in organisations to help them persuade leaders to invest in wellbeing. We're covering: What to do to persuade your leaders The 3 R’s that I...
Lessons for Leaders 91: De-stigmatising Mental Health
De-stigmatising Mental Health This week I'm sharing tips and information about De-stigmatising Mental Health. I share key points on: Why mental health is stigmatised How stigma brings shame and what that looks like How it will impact on your organisation Good news on...
Lessons for Leaders 90: Tips for Children’s Mental Health Week
Tips for Children's Mental Health Week Since this week is Children's Mental Health Week, I'm sharing some of my top tips and experience that I've used with my own children and hope will be helpful for you too. 1 in 6 children and young people have a diagnosable mental...
Lessons for Leaders 89: How Stories Challenge the Stigma of Mental Health
How Stories Challenge the Stigma of Mental Health When we tell stories there are areas of the brain that light up and create feel good chemicals and reactors in the brain that mean that stories are retained much better than just facts or figures. Listen to this...
Lessons for Leaders 88: Challenging the Stigma of Mental Health
Challenging the Stigma of Mental Health Paul McGregor joins Emma to talk about Challenging the Stigma of Mental Health. Paul is a Mental Health speaker and founder of Everymind at Work. Listen in where we talk about The key reasons Paul does this work in the mental...
Lessons for Leaders 87: Looking Ahead for 2022
Looking Ahead for 2022 Looking ahead for 2022 in this podcast, I'm sharing some insider secrets and top tips about the conversations I've been having and sharing some of the trends I've seen and the issues that people tell me they have in their organisations. I also...
Feeling Overwhelmed?
That feeling of overwhelm can become a negative spiral once it starts.
- You start to feel out of control
- There’s too much to do
- Not enough time to do everything
- Worry or panic sets in
- You can’t think clearly and everything seems so difficult
- Before long, you’re wondering if you can cope at all
This free guide has simple steps to breaking that overwhelm cycle. You can use each step individually or all together. There are 7 simple and straightforward steps to get you out of overwhelm, feeling calm, clear headed and in control.