Managing Change
How to Beat Stress
Two of the very common themes I come across in executive coaching is how to change the relationship with oneself and with stress, AND why do we beat ourselves up? What positive purpose could it possibly serve? In this month’s blog, I’ll explore these scenarios for you. Hi I’m Josie Thomson. I’m a multi-award winning…
Continue ReadingHow To Simplify My Life
Does life feel like it’s getting out of hand? Is there time for those people you love and the things you love to do? This month I’ll show you how to simplify your life to make room for more of the good stuff. Stay tuned… Hi I’m Josie Thomson. I’m a multi-award winning coach, mindset…
Continue ReadingA Simple Plan for The Holiday Season
Hi, I’m Josie Thomson. I’m a multi-award winning coach, mindset and resilience expert, author and 2 time cancer survivor. Today, I’ll share some ways for you to make a simple plan to maximise your own joy, and share the love too, over the holiday season. With the holidays just weeks away, some of our most…
Continue Reading17 Questions to Free Your Mind
A New Year… great. But a new year doesn’t mean a new you or a new life, especially if your mind is still boxed up in its comfort zone. You know this is true. You can’t live the same year 82 times and call it a life! What I’m saying is: don’t just think outside…
Continue ReadingThis is the Answer you’ve been looking for
So many people set off in search for answers in their life. Some will consult ‘experts’, some will seek advice from friends, and many will travel far and wide to ‘find themselves’. And there are others who do something a little different. As many of you know, I have just returned from a two week…
Continue ReadingPost Traumatic Growth
My experience of the past two months leads me to write about a tough subject we’d rather avoid. Trauma such as the loss of a loved one or the diagnosis of serious illness can test us to our very limits – trust me, I know this first hand as I’m certain many of you do…
Continue ReadingRising from the Falls of Life
Just in this past two weeks I have known tragedy and loss, fraud and disappointment, shame and isolation, depression and despair, aloneness and regret, pain and defeat, sadness and grief. In spite of and despite all this, I have also known kindness and generosity of spirit, compassion and humility, love and care, encouragement and hope. …
Continue ReadingWhy life seems harder than it needs to be
Busyness!Busyness is an illness.Think about it: ‘I’m busy.’ How often is that your excuse? It used to be my excuse every single day. My schedule used to leave me zero time for unplanned presence and awareness. And I was proud of my busyness. I wore it like a badge. It gave me an illusion…
Continue ReadingAre we really too busy?
Warning: I’m going to rant…nicely! I visited a very dear friend of mine who is now 78yo in the UK prior to going to Egypt last month. He lives alone in a small 2 room apartment. All his favourite personal belongings surround him in an attempt to keep his memories intact. I am one of…
Continue ReadingBuild Resilience: My Top 10 Tips for Coping with Adversity
Download this article here. We have all at some stage been absolutely astounded at how well someone has managed to stay afloat – emotionally, psychologically and physically, through the most awful situation, and at other times have been deeply concerned about another’s lack of ‘buoyancy’ in the same situation. What makes these people different? It’s…
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