If you are a stressed out or burned-out OT, feeling overwhelmed and underappreciated or stuck in your current role or you are simply interested in creating a more fulfilled and balanced life, increasing your clarity and confidence in both your career and personal life, please reach out! I am a Licensed OT in the state of New Jersey (USA) & an ICF-credentialed PCC [Professional Certified Coach]. I have been an OT for 30+ years and a coach for 20+ years.…
To be read before, during, probably after, and at other times during the entrepreneurial journey! FOCUS When I say focus, be honest with yourself about how many projects/things you have going on right now. Without some sort of focus, ideally, a soft but boundaried focus that allows for changes and creativity, you won’t move forward. Be honest with how much time you are spending on marketing/banding versus actually doing “the work”. SEED Do you want to grow something from seed,…
If you haven’t “met” Rhiannon Crispe and her fabulous work creating and running The OT Lifestyle Movement, you really are missing out. With a fabulous podcast (more about that in a mo) a growing and active Facebook community, Rhiannon has created something very special. Here is the truly inspiring and juicy introduction on the website: “We believe in a holistic approach to healthcare and creating sustainable behaviour change through lifestyle optimisation. We believe in a back-to-basics approach to living well; real food,…
With a background in the NHS, Annie weaves occupational therapy, coaching and menstruality together to create a unique offering as a Cycle Coach. Having trained with Co-Active Training Institute (CTI) and Red School she is part of a growing movement in the field of menstruality. Knowing and understanding the powers in each phase of the menstrual cycle is the key to radical self care, emotional resilience and so much more. Often called the fifth vital sign, your menstrual cycle is…
More often than not, the answer is not a simple one. Whether it’s ourselves or our clients, changing jobs, habits, behaviours or beliefs which we have had for a lifetime, is one thing, but just making the decision to change can be torture. As a coach I became fascinated in the concept of decisional balance, as a simple(ish) way of seeing whether change was likely or not. I use it in my own reflections when I realise that I am…
We are living in uncertain times right now, but right now I am pondering a different type of uncertainty we grapple with, as OTs who coach. I started to read the Occupational Performance Coaching (OPC) book (mentioned above) and the following phrase jumped out at me: “Getting comfortable with (this) uncertainty has been a key part of the journey to becoming skilful at OPC” The uncertainty that Fiona Graham talks about is to do with an internal shift we need…
This week I finally took a look at the International Journal of Evidence Based Coaching and Mentoring. I try not to look too often as I get rather excited and distracted! I’m always interested in what makes coaching “work” and what hinders it, but also how occupational therapists can use coaching to strengthen their practice and ensure relevance. It’s with that lens that I read papers such as this: “Exploring Health Literacy and its Relationship to Health and Wellness Coaching”…
I have long struggled when I see perfectionism slowing things down unhelpfully, reducing spontaneity, limiting creativity, preventing people making a start and when it squashes delicate confidence. The mantra is “I am not good enough”. Sticking too rigidly to rules and protocols which have often been invented out of nowhere and somehow now flourished with certainty, can also have the same effect as stifling perfectionism, but the mantra is often “I am not allowed to…”. I am aware that my…
I am writing this from my bubble – a bubble which is more middle class than I would like to admit, working from home, ticking along, just got a secondhand hot tub, kind of bubble (yep but please bear in mind that the hot tub only cost £200 and is powered by solar water and electric, as best we can). At this point in time, as a family, we can manage financially, emotionally is a different matter. Long terms goals…
