Is the intense pressure and constantly changing work environment taking their toll on your wellbeing? Has your need to perform well and prove yourself left you feeling stressed, exhausted or overwhelmed? Would you like to take control of your wellbeing, feel energised, motivated and engaged again, instead of feeling more and more stressed out? In …
This year, many teams who were used to regularly working and meeting in an office environment have been forced to adapt to remote working. In many cases, this happened almost overnight without much warning and without much recognition of the required infrastructure, the different home set ups of individual team members, and little (if any) …
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If the majority of your working day is spent in front of a computer screen, on endless calls and with a never-ending task list, you are probably finding it difficult to find the space to come up with more creative solutions to your problems. Even if you haven’t personally tried contemplative practices such as meditation, …
This year, World Mental Health Day takes place on 10th October and the theme is ‘Mental Health for all: Greater Investment – Greater Access’. For much of 2020, as a result of the global pandemic, many more people have been experiencing high levels of stress and anxiety, financial stress and pressure, depression, poor family relations …
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As someone who grew up in a country where warm and sunny days were the norm, moving to London and enduring my first winter here was a bit of shock to the system. At the end of that winter, I remember muttering “never again!”. Although to be fair to my younger self, because I thought …
https://www.mandymurdoch.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/Video-how-to-achieve-financial-freedom-webinar-2020.mp4 In June 2020 CF Wealth Management invited me to present this webinar – the first in a series which CF Wealth Management is hosting around the topic of financial freedom. I explain from a coaching psychology perspective, why understanding your relationship with money and what is important to you is key to achieving financial freedom. …
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Why is it important to be aware of your emotions? Accurate self-awareness and the ability to manage and control your emotions are emotional intelligence skills that consistently emerge among the top predictors of leadership performance. It is worth spending some time becoming aware of the emotions that underpin your behaviours. Without this awareness, emotions will tend to …
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.
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 …
Have you ever been put off from starting or completing something because you were afraid you wouldn’t be able to do it ‘perfectly’? There is nothing wrong with aiming for the best possible outcome, but there are downsides to perfectionism. Those of us with perfectionist tendencies, can put an awful amount of pressure on …