Mandy

Hi, I’m Mandy and I am a certified Coach. For a long time I have been interested in health and wellbeing, and the impact that our biology, psychology and social environment has on our lives. This interest led me to study psychology to postgraduate level. After this I worked on programmes aimed at improving public health and since 2014 I have been delivering consultancy services in the health service.

Resilience: A psychological approach to dealing with challenging times

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As a coaching psychologist, resilience is probably one of the most important areas that I can support my coaching clients to develop. When resilience is low, this can negatively affect performance and increase problems such as stress, anxiety and depression. If we are not able to adjust to change, we will only get stuck in wishing for our previous way of life, instead of being able to adapt to the ‘new normal’ and look forward to new opportunities.

In this article, I would like to share some of my knowledge of the cognitive-behavioural coaching perspective on resilience.

Do you expect too much of yourself and others?

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In an earlier blog post, I reflected on some of the perils of perfectionism. In this post, I am going to focus on one of these in more detail: inflexible or overgeneralised high standards.  Perfectionists often have unrealistic expectations and rigid beliefs. For example, you may find yourself starting a lot of sentences with: ‘should’/’must’/’got …

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