Category: Life tips
Posted on August 13, 2019
by Courage Coaching
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Emotional intelligence refers to the ability to identify and manage one’s own emotions, as well as the emotions of others. Emotional intelligence is the one part of the human psyche that we can develop and improve by learning and practising new skills. People with higher… Continue Reading “The importance of being emotionally intelligent”
Category: Adversity & support, Coaching tips, Depression, Dysfuntional relationships, Emotional abuse, Life tips, mental health, recovery, Resilience, Self-reflection & self-awareness, UncategorizedTags: emotional health, emotional intelligence, emotional maturity, narcissists lack emotional intelligence
Posted on September 7, 2018
by Courage Coaching
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Before I talk about today’s topic, I just wanted to remind you that I have released my first PDF course which is aimed at helping you become more assertive and stop your people-pleasing habits. To view the contents of this course, please click the… Continue Reading “New beginnings & change”
Category: Adversity & support, Coaching tips, courage, grief, Life tips, UncategorizedTags: anxiety, change, failure, fear of the unknown, new beginnings, new home, new job, new relationship, uncontrollable
Posted on August 6, 2017
by Courage Coaching
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How do we develop ourselves into better human beings? What steps can we take to become wiser, more self-aware and more humble? Self-growth is a topic that I think about a lot and when I am interacting with others in my environment, I feel… Continue Reading “Self-growth”
Category: Adversity & support, Coaching tips, Life (Personal Coaching), Life tips, Self-reflection & self-awarenessTags: acknowledging weaknesses, coaching, introspection, learn from your weaknesses, self development, self growth, self-awareness, therapy
Posted on July 24, 2017
by Courage Coaching
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Love Athina ♥
Category: Adversity & support, anxiety, Blogging, Coaching tips, Life (Personal Coaching), Life tips, Resilience, self careTags: anxiety, back-up plan, Blogging, Coaching tips, Life tips, no control over life, plan b
Posted on July 20, 2017
by Courage Coaching
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When we ask for advice from someone that is very knowledgeable in certain areas or from someone whom we admire, this can be very useful both in the short term and long term. On the other hand, unsolicited advice from close family or even… Continue Reading “Giving unsolicited advice-Why do people do it?”
Category: assertiveness, Boundaries, Coaching tips, Dysfuntional relationships, Life tips, People Pleaser Syndrome, UncategorizedTags: assertiveness, being assertive, Blogging, boundary setting, difficult people, dominant people, Life tips, narcissistic people, unsolicited advice
Posted on June 26, 2017
by Courage Coaching
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Happy Monday dear friends & followers! After a wonderful 10 days off work, celebrating my birthday with friends and exploring new places with my husband, I am feeling grateful and refreshed. Today’s topic is especially important to me, as someone I care about deeply… Continue Reading “High functioning depression”
Category: Adversity & support, Blogging, Coaching tips, Depression, Life tips, mental health, Mental illness, recovery, Resilience, self care, Self-reflection & self-awareness, Youtube videosTags: adversity, Blogging, Depression, high functioning depression, mental health, mental health awareness, mental health blog, mental health vlog, Mental illness, mild depression, self care, self-awareness, support, the seriousness of mild depression, therapy, vlogging
As much as I dislike watching the news and tend to limit what I take in, it is increasingly difficult to not be affected by the constant bombardment of war footage, terrorist attacks, murder and suffering. When you are a highly sensitive & empathetic… Continue Reading “The aftermath of a traumatic incident”
Category: Adversity & support, Blogging, Coaching tips, Compassion, complex ptsd, grief, Life tips, mental health, recovery, Resilience, self care, Self-reflection & self-awareness, Youtube videosTags: anxiety, brutality, coping mechanisms, coping with trauma, disbelief, fear, life threatening, living with trauma, post traumatic stress, self care, stress, terrorism, terrorist attacks, the aftermath of trauma, threat to your life, trauma, trauma brain, trauma survivors, traumatic incident, violence, war, witnessing violence, worry
Posted on May 31, 2017
by Courage Coaching
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Inspired by a comment made by a friend on her facebook page, I wanted to address the difficulty of finding a balance between self-soothing and running away from emotional pain. I also wanted to write about what it actually means to self-soothe. Self-soothing is… Continue Reading “Finding a balance between self-soothing and running away from emotional pain is tough..”
Category: Adversity & support, anxiety, Coaching tips, Life tips, Resilience, self care, Self-reflection & self-awarenessTags: anxiety, avoidance, blocking emotions, coaching, emotional pain, fear, negative emotions, numbing, running away from problems, self care, self compassion, self-soothing
Today marks 1 year since I started Courage Coaching and I can definetely say it has been totally worth it! Although I wasn’t new to wordpress 1 year ago, I was very new to coaching! Since completing my certification and coaching my first clients,… Continue Reading “1 year of Courage Coaching”
Category: Blogging, Life tips, mental health, Narcissistic abuse, Resilience, self care, Uncategorized, Youtube videosTags: anniversary, awareness, childhood trauma, coaching, cptsd, hope, narcissistic abuse coaching, ptsd, recovery, support, trauma, wordpress anniversary
Posted on April 26, 2017
by Courage Coaching
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Following on from my post Are you a chronic over-explainer? , I now want to address why & how to actually stop over-explaining. As I mentioned in my previous post, many individuals who suffer from low self-esteem or people-pleasing, have an almost compulsive need… Continue Reading “Why & How to stop over-explaining”
Category: Adversity & support, Coaching tips, Life tips, People Pleaser Syndrome, Self-reflection & self-awareness, UncategorizedTags: chronic over-explaining, Coaching tips, how to start listening, how to stop over-explaining, how to stop people pleasing, how to stop worrying, introspection, over-explaining, self development, self-awareness
