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People come to therapy wanting to understand themselves better. When they do, clarity often appears across all areas of life, including career. As a Gestalt psychotherapist, I support this exploration through three perspectives. The first perspective is the inward one – helping a client to tune in to their own experience. We explore bodily sensations…
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Three full days (and one workout!) just to switch out of ‘go-go-go’ mode. I lost half of the holiday before I could even start resting. 😢 This experience made me reflect: does a Mon-Fri work schedule ever facilitate a necessary reset for the nervous system to turn off the ‘fight or flight’? Being a productive achiever…
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I’ve always been fascinated by this paradox: highly intelligent IT professionals can design complex architectures and solve the hardest technical problems, yet cleverness doesn’t protect us from burnout. Why? 💡 Because knowing is not the same as being aware. 📚 Knowing is mental. It’s concepts, facts, and logic. We can “know” all about stress management, sleep…
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You may say I’m a dreamer…. I dream of a work culture where… ✨ we could bring our full selves. Be accepted, be seen, and be understood; ✨ we don’t need to hide behind the mask of “I’m fine”; ✨ everybody understands the true limits of the human body and stops treating people like machines;…
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I have run a quality research peer group in IT professionals. One of the secondary researches questions was which personality traits do people prone to burnout have in common. The research unveiled the following traits: 🤩 Curiosity. We are curious about new ideas, new shiny projects, ohhh… what a speaking opportunity, and I also want…