THE FRIDAY THREE STRESS. NUTRITION. HORMONES. Three ideas for working in sync with yourself Hi Reader Three things for your Friday: one for stress, one for hormones, one for nutrition. STRESS - Minimum Viable Health Your health routine needs a version that works when life doesn't. When work gets busy, trying to maintain every habit can turn looking after yourself into another job. Choose the few things that make the biggest difference to how you function: perhaps sleep, proper meals and...
13 days ago • 1 min read
THE FRIDAY THREE STRESS. NUTRITION. HORMONES. Three ideas for working in sync with yourself Hi Reader Three things for your Friday: one for stress, one for hormones, one for nutrition. STRESS - Borrowed Urgency Someone else's urgency doesn't automatically need to become yours. A client, colleague or manager may need something quickly. Sometimes it genuinely is urgent. Sometimes you're simply absorbing the pressure with which the request arrived. Before reacting, separate the two: Is this...
20 days ago • 1 min read
THE FRIDAY THREE STRESS. NUTRITION. HORMONES. Three ideas for working in sync with yourself Hi Reader Three things for your Friday: one for stress, one for hormones, one for nutrition. STRESS - The Capacity Question Having time for something doesn't mean you have capacity for it. A free evening after a demanding day at work is technically available. But if you're already mentally and physically depleted, filling that space may cost more than it gives you. Before saying yes, ask: Do I have...
27 days ago • 1 min read
STRESS. NUTRITION. HORMONES. Weekly reflections on health, capacity and sustainability Hi Reader Have you ever had one of those weeks where everything is suddenly... irritating? Your clothes don't sit right, training feels harder, you look in the mirror and somehow decide you've aged approximately seven years since Tuesday, your workload, which you were happily managing a week ago, suddenly feels completely unreasonable and your partner chewing becomes an offence punishable by law. You start...
about 1 month ago • 4 min read
STRESS. NUTRITION. HORMONES. Weekly reflections on health, capacity and sustainability Hi Reader I recently found myself talking to my male boss about menstrual cycles and it ended up being one of those conversations that stayed with me afterwards, not because we came up with some groundbreaking solution for women's health in the workplace, but because of how refreshingly normal it felt to talk about it. At one point we both acknowledged something really simple. I will never truly know what...
about 2 months ago • 5 min read
STRESS. NUTRITION. HORMONES. Weekly reflections on health, capacity and sustainability Hi Reader Last week I wrote about the menstrual cycle as something much bigger than the few days each month that we bleed. This week I want to tell you why I care about this subject quite so much. Because my relationship with my menstrual cycle hasn't always looked the way it does now. In fact, for a very long time, I barely had a relationship with it at all. I went on the contraceptive pill when I was 15...
about 2 months ago • 6 min read
STRESS. NUTRITION. HORMONES. Weekly reflections on health, capacity and sustainability Hi Reader We're talking about menstrual cycles this month. And before anyone who isn't currently trying for a baby switches off because they think this isn't particularly relevant to them... stay with me. Because one of the things I really want to explore throughout September is the idea that our reproductive health is about so much more than reproduction. I think for a lot of women, our menstrual cycle...
2 months ago • 5 min read
STRESS. NUTRITION. HORMONES. Weekly reflections on health, capacity and sustainability Hi Reader We've spent most of August talking about holidays, taking proper breaks and giving ourselves things to look forward to, which has felt very appropriate after my slightly last-minute escape. But there's something I've been thinking about since coming home. We can't holiday our way out of a life that doesn't give us enough space to recover. As wonderful as Malaysia was for me, I don't want to get to...
2 months ago • 5 min read
STRESS. NUTRITION. HORMONES. Weekly reflections on health, capacity and sustainability Hi Reader After spending the last couple of weeks talking about holidays, I have a confession… …I am already thinking about the next one! Not necessarily another big, expensive, long-haul trip. My bank account would probably like a word with me if I suggested that quite so soon after Malaysia. But I do think I've learned something from the whole experience. "I'll book a break when I need one" is apparently...
3 months ago • 4 min read