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Dealing with Stress
Author: Sarah Collier
30/11/09
‘To be or not to be.. The rabbit caught in the headlights’ Sarah Collier November 2009 “I have been there, I have looked over the edge, and I have returned” Sir Laurence Olivier wrote these words in his autobiography about how he coped with his stage fright. Many actors, singers and performers have experienced anxiety or stage fright at one point in their career. Stephen Fry famously ran away from his West End production of Cell Mates after only the 4 th night when h...
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Dealing with Stress
Author: Jennifer Louden
30/03/09
I am a glutton. It's the passion of us 7's on the Enneagram (also perhaps Scanners or Renaissance Souls?). It may not be about food (although that fits for me) but a glutton for anything -- experience, doing, seeing, touching, hearing, learning, etc.. I can feel like a giant mouth searching for things to CONSUME. Which can be really, really fun, if I keep coming back to the place of "Nothing is required of me, there is nothing to do, nothing to complete, nowhere to get to." (I learned "Nothing i...
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Dealing with Stress
Author: Jennifer Louden
11/03/09
That's really the question we're all trying to answer, isn't it? Personally. Globally. In our daily choices. In our search for work that fits us. In our efforts for grow our businesses in sustainable ways. Another way of asking this question is, "How can I live in a way that doesn't continually deplete me?" Perhaps a less positive take but it works better for me because it's more targeted to my challenge. Thinking about this question on Sunday, I read Barbara Ehrenreich editorial in New Yo...
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Dealing with Stress
Author: Ali Cam
06/03/09
I have built my reputation on being able to get results, FAST and often when many others have tried and failed. That’s why I often travel the globe working with rock stars, celebrities, diplomats and even royalty. So what’s the key to finding the answers? Simple, ask good questions… One of the first questions I often ask my clients is ‘how do you know that?’ It doesn’t matter whether we are talking about a craving for a drink, or a cigarette or food the question is the same. ‘How d...
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Dealing with Stress
Author: Jennifer Louden
06/03/09
I always preach this to retreat pilgrims and I remind coaching clients- beginnings are always slower than middles and most certainly than ends. Beginnings can be dangerous, feel crafty, shift under your feet. We must never compare our output or clarity or mood during beginnings with what we remember about finishing our last project or about the pleasure that can come from the middle, when we are plunked down in the abundance, thrumming with intention each morning. The longer we have been c...
