The Blissful Blog

The missing piece in your burnout toolkit!

Here are the real reasons meditation, time blocking, getting up early and trying to look after yourself aren't working!

Don't go part-time until you read this!

It can be tempting to think reducing your hours is the answer to better balance. But here are the key traps you could fall into that makes it worse!

The emerging trend that has me worried

Women are giving up their power and feeling the need to ask for permission everywhere... and it has to stop

Is there a 🔥 in your butt ?

I finally know what the term means.

I've heard personal trainers talk about 'lighting up your butt' and I've thought to myself... "what a funny thing to say!"

Until today... when I finally experienced what they mean. And it really does feel like a fire turns on! Who knew!

Not the type of threesome he'd imagined...

Why couch time with your laptop can cause huge issues in your relationship and how to break the feeling that you 'just need to do a few things' every night

The dark side of living an unconventional life

Exhausted. Stressed. Guilty. Why do so many women assume that wanting a career while you have kids condemns them to a life lived with these emotions?

Are you chasing 1 million rabbits?

When you’re trying to do 1 million things at once because the to-do list is huge, is it any wonder you feel like you never tick anything off and struggle to focus?

Finding the monster lurking under your bed

 Just like your childhood monster, our limiting beliefs can drive fear, anxiety and cause us to do much more than hide under the covers, with far more devastating consequences

Why get sh*t done people burn out!

We might be proud of how much we can get done in a day, but did you know this is a key driver of burnout and will stop you getting to the next level

Does not wanting pizza make you a bad mum?

Julie hated pizza yet found herself having it every Friday night because she didn't feel like she had a choice - good mums put themselves last right? Wrong!

I'm so sorry

I owe you a HUGE apology. I've been wrapping up what's happened in the last few months and have realised just how much I have let you down! So today I say no more... here's why. 

Do you ever feel like a duck?

Are you all cool, calm and collected on the surface but underneath are paddling like your life depends on it? Thought so. It's time to stop and find a better way to live!

How to win the battle raging inside you right now

There are two wolves battling it out for control of your mind, body and spirit, and whoever wins has more influence on your life than you can ever imagine.

A polite, perfectionistic people-pleaser? 

These three words are symptoms of something bigger that’s going to have huge ramifications on your life at home and at work if you don’t overcome it.

He just doesn’t meet your standards, does he?

How to diffuse the resentment when he doesn’t do it right, fast enough or to your standards, or even worse, doesn’t even see that it needs to be done!