Unearthed
Blog by Alison Braithwaite
How do you measure up?
Our mind is programmed Our minds are programmed to judge, assess, and evaluate. Important skills to have. Without the ability to judge, assess, and evaluate, we wouldn’t be able to do our jobs, drive a car or decide what to wear in the morning. But sometimes we use...
To Heck with Coffee Breaks
We need more dance parties in the workplace! Seriously! A few minutes of dancing and singing to an upbeat song can do so much to: shift your energy relax your body still your mind allow you to get focused We can spend so much time in a day just sitting at a desk...
How do you want to feel?
Happy New Year! We have a whole New Year laid out in front of us to: create adventure, explore possibilities, create new relationships and to nurture existing ones. In January the focus is all about setting goals and taking action towards who we want to be. I love...
This is a stressful time of year.
You know you can buy those cookies, don't you? We put so much pressure on ourselves. We can put so much pressure on ourselves to make everything perfect, to make everything magical. The holiday expectations can add to the already overstressed workplace. Did you...
Are you doing someone else’s work for them?
Have you ever found yourself repetitively helping others do their job? It seems like a good idea. In the moment it seems like a good idea. You're a nice person and nice people like to help others when they are in a bind. Right? It may even be a reflex, you say "yes"...
What are you not sharing?
Your story could be precisely what someone else needs. I doubted the value of sharing I was reminded, over the weekend just how powerful it is to share our life experiences. Saturday evening, I felt compelled to share part of my experiences on my personal Facebook...
What have you harvested from the awful?
Are you willing to take responsibility for your part in the awful? When things are awesome it's easy to be accountable. There is nothing more satisfying than taking responsibility for our actions when things are moving along awesomely. When things are going well, we...
Are you denying your greatness?
How do you react when someone tells you how amazing you are? Do you feel uncomfortable then stammer something to invalidate what was said? I was at a workshop on the weekend. One of the exercises we were challenged with was to sit in a group of five or six and start...
Best advice ever
Some of the best advice I ever received... came from Sports Psychologist, Peter Jensen. I heard him speak many years ago and the only thing I remember about what he said is: Act like you have all the time in the world. How do you react under pressure? I don't know if...
Ever feel stuck?
Ever feel stuck? I certainly have and I am feeling stuck right now. I have had so many false starts with this edition of Unearthed. I have started to write about being yourself, about how to communicate more clearly, about getting curious about anger – yours and...
Have you celebrated yourself lately?
Start Fresh For me September has always been a time of starting fresh, of looking forward to what is in store for me, relishing the feel of a new notebook and really feeling the change in the air. It is a time when trees burst into colour, fully celebrating all that...
World events causing you to drowned in emotions?
There is a lot happening in the world right now And that may be stirring up some powerful emotions within you. As an empathic, you may be feeling lost in the swirl of those emotions. Don't Get Lost in Emotions When we get lost in those emotions we can lose...