What happens when your carefully built career suddenly… crumbles? For Susannah De Jager, who was a hedge fund CEO at 32, it was losing her biggest client at work and realising her role was untenable as she watched one of her closest friends die of cancer that upended everything. For Patsy Day, it was crashing…
Have you ever felt judged or held back because of your appearance? It isn’t enough that women face gender inequality in the workplace affecting everything from pay and promotions; if you’re a woman living with obesity, it’s been proven that you’ll also be battling an unspoken weight bias. According to Napala Pratini, founder of Habitual,…
Feeling like your energy tank is permanently on empty? And climbing the stairs is an effort? Welcome to the wild ride of perimenopause, where your hormones start playing by new rules and it feels like your body is controlling you, not the other way around. But rather than battling through the chaos and feeling like…
Hands up if you’ve been through any of the following: ☐ Redundancy ☐ Bereavement ☐ Divorce ☐ Caring for elderly parents ☐ Chronic illness ☐ Menopause ☐ Abuse ☐ Caring for tricky teenagers Chances are you’ve just ticked a few of those boxes… and perhaps you’re still reeling from the effects. Because by the time…
“In the end, we only regret the chances we didn’t take, the relationships we were afraid to have, and the decisions we waited too long to make.” – Lewis Carroll You’d think escaping violence in your home country and arriving in the UK with just £300 and not knowing a soul would be a pretty…
A ‘lifequake’. That’s how Helen Kewell describes the moment she collapsed at work after experiencing burnout. Having been someone who would push through tough situations, someone whose identity was built on doing and achieving, Helen says she felt she was being stripped of her sense of self as her body said no and forced her…