Procrastination: Protector or Provocateur?

By Kate Brassington

Published by Kate Brassington on 23/02/24 on LinkedIn. Let’s take a quick look at everyone’s favourite topic – procrastination. Is it a shield guarding us from hasty decisions, or is it a mischievous trickster luring us into last-minute adrenaline rushes? If I had a £, Euro, or $ for every time a person came to…

Nesting for Rest, Clarity and Confident Action Planning

By Kate Brassington

Published by Kate Brassington on 26/01/24 on LinkedIn. As we Northern Hemisphere folk slowly move through winter, I want to invite you to embrace a beautiful practice that can bring a sense of comfort, control, and renewal to your life – nesting. I view it as a valuable part of our midwinter rituals as we…

Bounce-Back Resilience. Or, When You Are Going Through Hell, Keep Going!

By Kate Brassington

(Trigger warning – trauma, childbirth) My Story of Bounce-Back Resilience Bounce-back Resilience. Words hacked around and much over-used. So to bring them to life, here’s my personal, real, story. Going Through Hell Resilience, to me, is best described by Winston Churchill – “If you’re going through Hell, keep going!” Keep on going. For goodness sake,…

Coaches don’t work with trauma – the lie

By Kate Brassington

In our training, coaches are told that we do not work with trauma because that is the job of therapists. But like so many things in life, this simple statement of black and white actually contains a massive grey area. Specialist coaches work WITH trauma In fact, some coaches DO work with trauma. Here’s how.…

Rebuilding Self-Confidence after trauma – My story

By Kate Brassington

Choosing coaching or therapy for self-confidence after trauma? How I rebuilt my self-confidence after trauma, and now help others regain their self-belief too. Here’s my story. My why. How I turned around the experiences that almost broke me, and now I help others regain self-belief, self-trust and the confidence, inside and out, to go for…