Burnout & stress
Learn how to recognize the signs of burnout, develop coping mechanisms, and create a healthier work-life balance. Our contributors provide practical tips and expert advice to help you reduce stress and prevent burnout, ensuring better mental and physical health.
Reconnect With Pleasure and Passion
It’s been on my mind lately how, as high achievers, we pour so much energy into our people, our projects, and our purpose that we often forget what simple pleasure even feels like. Think: a luxurious...
From Exhausted to Empowered and Breaking Free From Burnout
Burnout is more than just feeling tired; it’s a signal that the nervous system is stuck in survival mode. This article explores the hidden connection between chronic stress, trapped emotions, and burnout...
How to Manage Stress Effectively with Practical Tools
Stress, it’s everywhere. We hear almost daily from someone around us, “I am so stressed.” We hear about it constantly, and for good reason. Stress can affect our physical and mental health. How can we...
How To Reduce Stress and Restore Balance Through Conscious Breathing
Have you ever noticed how your breathing changes when life piles on the pressure? You wake up late after a restless night. Your phone’s already buzzing with unread messages. The kids can’t find their...
Aligned by Design – The Neuroscience of Living Authentically and Acting With Purpose
Alignment isn’t just a buzzword; it’s a powerful neurological reality that can transform the way you live. In this article, Catherine Gallacher, Empowerment Result Coach™ and founder of StepUpcmg™...
When High Performance Becomes Self-Sabotage
From the outside, you seem unstoppable. You meet every deadline, juggle countless responsibilities, and somehow manage to deliver consistently impressive results. Yet, beneath your exceptional performance...
The One High-Performance Habit You’re Probably Skipping
How strategic mini breaks can unlock more energy, clarity, and success without slowing you down. In today’s hustle-driven world, success is often equated with nonstop productivity. For CEOs, entrepreneurs...
Reclaim Your Energy – The Strategic Power of Delegation and Intentional "No's"
As leaders, entrepreneurs, and business owners, you consistently navigate a complex landscape of competing priorities. The demands of work, business growth, family life, and the ever-present need for...
Why You’re Still Enough Even When You’re Not Doing Anything
We live in a culture that, frankly, isn’t designed to help us feel the truth of our worth. Everything is externalised and therefore, everything becomes conditional. Our value gets measured by productivity...
Is Staff Wellbeing Just a Tick-Box Exercise or a Strategic Investment in Performance?
In boardrooms across the UK and beyond, the topic of employee wellbeing is frequently on the agenda. But behind the polished policies and the occasional yoga class or mental health mindset day, a pressing...
The Hidden Cost of Holding It All Together, and Is Your Burnout Trying to Protect You?
Do you often feel tired-even after a good night's sleep? Do you find yourself holding space for everyone else but never quite landing in your own? Are you calm on the outside, but quietly bracing on...
Burnout Recovery for Women and How to Reclaim Your Energy Naturally
I know burnout intimately, not because I read about it in a textbook, but because I lived it. I lived it while building businesses, raising babies, leading women, and trying to outrun my own breaking point.
The Deep Connection Between Emotional Upheavals and Physical Health in Healing the Whole Self
Understanding the mind-body connection is crucial. Emotions are not just fleeting feelings; they live in our bodies. When we experience grief, chronic stress, heartbreak, or trauma, the effects ripple...
The Sensitivity Spiral – Why Yesterday’s Choices Shape Your Energy Today and What to Do About It
Have you ever woken up feeling completely depleted and not sure why? You may have even technically rested the day before. As a Highly Sensitive Person (HSP) or Empath, your nervous system works differently...
10 Tips on How to Find More Calm and Ease Through Motherhood
Motherhood is both beautiful and brutal. It’s filled with deep love, constant giving, and moments that take your breath away, but it can also leave you depleted, overstimulated, and stretched far beyond...