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Needtoseesomeone is founded on the belief that we can all learn to thrive, even when faced with adve Is there a secret formula to happiness/thriving?
Whilst it might not be that simple, the good news is there is a growing body of academic research on what it takes to THRIVE. Unfortunately, that research is often not translated & shared with those who need it mos, those who are surviving more than thriving - those who struggle with mental ill health or experience other adversity. Our mission is to translate the growing body of research on what
10/05/2024
We made it!!! Camino Primitivo ✅
And, we got our backpacks returned by the airline… right at the end of the 320 I’m walk! 😜 A lot to celebrate!
Whilst it was a frustrating experience at times, hiking for 12 days without our gear, there was silver lining…..everything was clean and dry!
Now, it’s time for the beach 🏖️. Some relaxation before I go to London for work and leave Jess to continue her adventures
This has been the most magical mother/daughter time. 💓🙏
We’re both feeling very grateful for the time we’ve had and sad to have to say goodbye. 🥲
But, my girl is brave, strong and savvy and the world is her oyster. 😍🥰
I’ll leave with my heart full and dreaming of the next adventure, knowing it won’t be long!
28/04/2024
Day 2 and 3 of our 320 km walk on the Camino Primitivo in the north of Spain.
Yesterday was bitterly cold and very wet. I wearing was in shorts which got a lot of strange looks and comments of concern from the wonderfully kind Camino community.
We still haven't got our backpacks back since they were lost by the airline, so are making do with gifted clothing and the few items of gear we could gather together. It's amazing how much you can do without! My luggage is laughable compared to my carefully packed hiking backpack! We're loving the challenge but hope to see our backpacks again soon.
The countryside is gorgeous and the community, both locals and other walkers are so generous it's heart warming. 💕
27/04/2024
Day 1 on Camino Primitivo - Oviedo to Grado (25km)
Loving the Camino way! We laughed a lot about the fact that we spent weeks meticulously planning what to bring and yet here we are, walking the Camino with shopping bags covered in plastic, borrowing socks from strangers and just making it work with what we’ve got! I think this is our first lesson.💕🙏
Our backpacks have still haven’t arrived and we’re not quite sure when they will!
Thankfully we had our hiking boots and we’re able to buy a cheap rain jacket each.
The scenery is stunning and our fellow pilgrims like family, helping you with anything you need. Such is the Camino way.😊 💕
Lucky us! 🙏
26/04/2024
Yay!! We made it to Spain and I had the best reunion ever with my "Spanish family" who I lived with as an au pair 35 years ago! It is such a surreal feeling being here again after so long and especially wonderful to be here with my daughter. They welcomed us with such warmth that we leave today with our hearts full to begin our long walk! The only down side is......we still have not received our bags after leaving Glasgow 48 hours ago! A bit of a test of our creativity and resilience. 🤣
26/04/2024
How are you making others feel? This is a question I like to ask myself and especially at this really busy time of year when it's easy to get so busy and to notice the impact we're having on others. When we’re moving so fast, we're exhausted and there are so many demands and expectations we can easily forget how much it matters to show up well for others.
If what matters most in our relationships is how we make others feel, have we stopped to check in? Are our people feeling "felt" by us? Do they feel seen, safe, heard, valued and loved? Do they feel soothed if they're suffering? If not, why not?
I've learned this is not necessarily about the quantity of time we spend with people, but more about quality time. We can start by slowing down enough to make eye contact and really being present, leaning in and listening with our whole heart and focussing on what matters to them. Hearing also, what's not being said, because you're really tuned in.
I'm the first to admit, this is not always easy but it's a gift I'm going to focus on giving those I love this holiday season.
What have you found to work well when it comes to nurturing those around you?
30/11/2022
Let me ask you this...."If you're sick and someone offers to bring you dinner, do you say, "yes please!" or "no thanks, I'm fine"?! So many of us say "I'm fine" even when we're not (myself included).
We worry we will burden others and that by asking for or accepting kindness, we are somehow deficient because we can't cope alone?!
When it comes to boosting our wellbeing, kindness is like a super food, but what if we offer kindness and people won't accept it?
Asking for and accepting kindness, IS kindness.
I call it Kindness.
Could you be KIND and say YES next time someone offers to help?
-selfcare=despair
14/11/2022
This is what I said to a couple of days ago. Mel is currently facing every parents worst nightmare.... Nursing her child through cancer. I wish I had more than these words to soothe her. All I can do is sit with her in the darkness when she needs it and then gently encourage her to move toward the light. Her little girl Chloe, needs her to be and bring the light and she does this so well, despite her own pain. 🙏
Mel, as you head into this next phase of treatment, please know that you are loved. May you feel the light of others when your own lights are low. There are many of us here, willing to light your way. Sending you so much love and LIGHT.💜🌟
06/10/2022
New documentary offers more than hope this Mental Health Month Premiering this October, documentary How to Thrive: a practical guide to happiness is a heartfelt, hopeful journey.
29/12/2021
ICYMI:
In episode 107 of How to Thrive: Nurture and Getting Splendid Sleep, Ellen and I talk about:
📌 Why maintaining energy is important in helping people thrive
📌 A handy acronym to help us remember how to keep our energy levels sustained
📌 Why do we need sleep
📌 How important is sleep for productivity, performance, and mental health
📌 How sleep deprivation impacts cognitive abilities and emotional regulation
📌 What is sleep hygiene and why we need to think about it
📌 Factors that affect our sleep and some practical tips to improve our sleep quality
Listen to the full episode here: https://www.potential.com.au/podcast
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27/12/2021
Have you started your quest for the week? In episode 107, we talked about how sleep is a mental health superpower. Your quest is about making improvements to your sleep quality.
Listen to the full episode for tips and hacks to improve your sleep quality: https://www.potential.com.au/podcast
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We're back with our 2nd to the last episode of our weekly podcast series "How To Thrive", a collaboration with positive psychology coach Ellen Jackson. Today, we are exploring the last beam of the BEACON model; NURTURE.
Among the four aspects of nurture, which are: eating, moving, sleeping, and being mindful, sleep has the most immediate impact on our wellbeing. Like me, you probably learned the hard way that lack of good night’s sleep impacts how well the rest of your day will go.
Listen in on episode 107 as we discuss sleep and how it is a mental health superpower: https://www.potential.com.au/podcast
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ICYMI:
In episode 6: "Optimism and Creating Jolts of Joy," we discuss:
📌 How emotions impact our brain and therefore our behaviour
📌 Are some people more wired towards optimism than others?
📌 How we can rewire our brains for a more positive disposition
📌 How our brain is hardwired to broaden, build, and perform better with positive emotions
📌 The neurological benefits of optimism and why is it important to notice the moments that give us a jolt of joy
📌 Practical tips to increase your positive vs negative emotions ratio
Listen to episode 106 here: https://www.potential.com.au/podcast
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It's the 6th episode of our new weekly podcast series "How To Thrive", a collaboration with positive psychology coach Marie McLeod.
In this episode we discuss how optimism can help expand our brain and help us perform better.
Listen to episode 106 here: https://www.potential.com.au/podcast
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12/12/2021
Optimism helps us thrive by making us more open to possibilities, answers, solutions, and perspectives.
Learn how optimism can help you perform better and thrive in episode 106: https://buff.ly/2W6qnam
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11/12/2021
Have you started your quest for the week?
This week, we try to infuse optimism into our lives by creating a "Joy Jar."
Find out what a "Joy Jar" is and how to create one in episode 106:
https://www.potential.com.au/podcast
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10/12/2021
It's relatively easy to feel compassion for others but practicing self-compassion is more challenging. Why, when we would give a friend facing struggle words of encouragement, do we beat ourselves up for not reaching expectations?
Listen to episode 105 as Ellen and Marie talk about their real life experience and share the 3 steps to self-compassion.
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ICYMI: In episode 5 of our new weekly podcast series "How To Thrive", a collaboration with positive psychology coach Marie McLeod, we talk about:
📌 What is compassion?
📌 How does it differ from kindness and empathy?
📌 Why is balance is important and how do we avoid 'empathy fatigue'?
📌 Why is it important to pay attention to our self-talk?
📌 What are the most common stumbling blocks on the road to self-compassion? And what are the tips for overcoming them?
📌 What are the three steps to self-compassion?
Listen to episode 105 here: https://www.potential.com.au/podcast
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Welcome to episode 6 of our new weekly podcast series "How To Thrive", a collaboration with positive psychology coach Marie McLeod.
In this week's episode, we explore the 5th beam of the BEACON model: Optimism. We talk about how we can rewire our brains for a more positive disposition, how optimism improves performance, and many more.
Listen to the full episode 106 here:
https://www.potential.com.au/podcast
We are now on
07/12/2021
Self-care is more than just bubble baths and face masks. Listen to episode 105 to get some real life, practical examples of where people struggle with self-compassion and how to overcome them. https://www.potential.com.au/podcast
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06/12/2021
Have you started your quest for the week?
This week, the quest calls for you to recall a time when you were not proud of the way you showed up. How did you take the more self-compassionate route? Did you follow the 3 steps to self-compassion? Tell us about it, we'd love to hear from you!
Listen to episode 105 to learn the 3 steps to self-compassion: https://www.potential.com.au/podcast
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Welcome to episode 5 of our new weekly podcast series "How To Thrive", a collaboration with positive psychology coach Marie McLeod.
In this episode we discuss how self compassion is a super power, tips to overcome the most common stumbling blocks on the road to self-compassion, and many more.
Listen to episode 105 here: https://www.potential.com.au/podcast
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We've reached the mid-point of Season 11 with episode 5 of our new weekly podcast series "How To Thrive", a collaboration with positive psychology coach Marie McLeod.
In this week's episode we explore the fourth "beam" of the BEACON model: Compassion.
We learn the difference between kindness, compassion, and empathy and discuss so much more.
Listen to episode 105 here: https://www.potential.com.au/podcast
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ICYMI: In episode 104 we explore the third "beam" of the BEACON model: Accountability.
Listen in as Marie and Ellen discuss:
📌 What accountability means when it comes to thriving and why it's important.
📌 Real life, practical examples of where people struggle with accountability (because it's something we all struggle with from time to time).
📌 How our personal beliefs impact our goals and motivation.
📌 How to find your "why" to build motivation.
📌 Tips and techniques for holding yourself accountable to your action steps for thriving.
Listen to the full episode here: https://buff.ly/2W6qnam
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29/11/2021
You can't sit back and watch "thriving" happen, and knowing what you need to do to thrive is not enough. It requires action and constant attention.
Listen to episode 104 to get some real life, practical examples of where people struggle with accountability (because it's something we all struggle with from time to time). https://buff.ly/2W6qnam
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25/11/2021
Have you started your quest for the week?
This week, we get curious and challenge ourselves to try a new activity for a week that we know will help us to thrive - even if it's difficult to get started.
Listen to episode 104 to get some ideas: https://buff.ly/2W6qnam
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This is the 4th episode of our new weekly podcast series "How To Thrive", a collaboration with positive psychology coach Marie McLeod. This series is all about exploring how to thrive and practicing the BEACON model; a model that Marie has developed to guide us through the simple steps to thriving and flourishing in life.
In this week's episode we explore the third "beam" of the BEACON model: Accountability.
This might seem an unusual element of thriving but there is no thriving without doing - and sometimes we need to hold ourselves accountable to get the doing, done.
Listen to episode 104 here: https://buff.ly/2W6qnam
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21/11/2021
ICYMI: In episode 3 "Engagement and Getting into a State of 'Flow'"
We discuss:
📌 Deep focus or "flow" and how it improves our quality of life, satisfaction and happiness
📌 Does personality affect how easy it is to get into a state of flow
📌 How can we craft our lives in order to get into a "flow" more often
📌 Understanding your profile of individual strengths and how to use that to increase engagement
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Listen to episode 103 here 👉 https://buff.ly/2W6qnam
21/11/2021
Belonging and connection are a key component of thriving and the first beam of the BEACON framework. You may have heard this on Episode 2 of the How to Thrive podcast series?! 😊
This weekend I got to hang out with these awesome peeps at their farm in Gippsland. We sat around the camp fire, had a few vinos and really connected. We talked about real stuff.... The highs, the lows and how much we'd missed this in lock down. The fire seemed symbolic, place to come together, slow down, open up and really bond with each other. Where/what is your fire side? My husband cycles every morning, then gathers in the Cafe for a coffee. He commented that this is his daily dose of "fireside connection" and that it builds his "social capital"
It got me thinking about what that is for me... I think it's Friday afternoon where I gather with my team to debrief the week with a glass of champers and a cheese platter. Are you making time and places to gather your people by the "fireside"? ❤️
19/11/2021
Have you started your "state of flow" quest? We'd love to hear about your experience. Share them with us!
For those of you who missed episode 3 of our "How To Thrive" series, we have mini quests in each episode to help you apply the lessons and tips we've discussed. This episode's quest is about going with the way you're wired and spending more time doing the things you're good at. It's not too late to join the quest! Find out more about episode 3's quest here 👉 https://buff.ly/2W6qnam
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