A swarm of bees
What a Mac Tech Support podcast taught me about managing low moods 🐝
3 min read
Metaphor
Resilience
Not a dirty word, or something that can be built, or trained, but a natural capacity we cannot be separate from 🔮
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You've got one job
Is there anything else, really? 🧐
2 min read
Stress
Be more goldfish
Some folksy wisdom from everybody's favourite hapless football coach 🐟
2 min read
Quick insight
Ripples on the pond
A metaphor to help you face life's many challenges 💧
3 min read
Metaphor
Being more resilient
It's a nice idea, but is it even possible? 🤨
3 min read
Resilience
Do you let bruises heal?
Looking to the body for the mind cheat-sheet 🤕
2 min read
Metaphor
I burnt myself and it taught me all sorts
What this slowly blistering, pebble-sized burn on my hand reveals about all our struggles 😫
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Metaphor
Protective bias
When the thing that's trying to help you, innocently gets in the way instead 😬
3 min read
Trauma
Traffic lights
A super-practical metaphor that will get you through the toughest of situations 🚦
7 min read
Metaphor
A career poem
Written by a much younger Giles, and remarkably prescient ✍🏻
3 min read
Poetry
Getting low moods to move on
The two tags I use regularly on the website that hold the key to this 🏷️
4 min read
Moods
Putting your hand back in the fire
We wouldn't dream of doing this, physically. So why is it ok to do it mentally? 🤦🏻
3 min read
Resilience