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...
by alessandra | Jun 8, 2016 | Blog
When I was in my 20s I worked in the corporate world as a marketing manager. One of the girls I shared an office with would regularly start huffing and puffing around lunch time and by early afternoon I would hear her moaning about being so bored from behind her...
by alessandra | Jun 2, 2016 | Blog
Do you ever wonder why when you first start a new job you feel so excited, so motivated to go the extra mile and work your socks off but after a while the enthusiasm wanes and you find it hard to remember what got you all thrilled in the first place? Why is it that...
