by alessandra | Sep 5, 2016 | Blog
Spring should be a time for renewal, regeneration and growth. Brighter and longer days should trigger a renewed sense of optimism, enhancing our professional and personal performance. Yet so many of my professional clients report the most fatigue, irritability and...
by alessandra | Aug 10, 2016 | Blog
We tend to categorise ourselves in terms of our likes, dislikes and pre-defined statements such as “I’m good at this” and “I’m not good at that”. We usually assume that those thoughts and categories are true as we have been...
by alessandra | Jul 24, 2016 | Blog
The French poet and Nobel Prize laureate Anatole France once said “I cling to my imperfection as the very essence of my being”. It is amazing to think how much our values have changed in little over a century. Agents of culture We are now agents of a...
by alessandra | Jul 7, 2016 | Blog
‘Grace’ first came to see me ten months ago. She had the hunched shoulders and spent gaze of someone who’s given up on the idea that life is ever going to be anything but misery. “I can’t cope anymore”, she said. “My children...
by alessandra | Jun 29, 2016 | Blog
One of my favourite books when growing up was a beautiful collection of Aesop’s Fables that my father had given me for my 8th birthday. It was a collector’s edition, with colourful, intricate illustrations complete with a gold tassle bookmark that was...
