blog | Ease | Messy thoughts
You don’t need to know the whole perfect plan
You don’t need to know 398 steps ahead. You just need to know the next small first step.
blog | Ease | PhD thoughts | You-niverse
{PhD} A handful of weekend “permission slips”
Yes, yes, yes – you are allowed to curate your PhD experience the way you want and need it to be
blog | Ease | Messy thoughts | Sovereignty
Are you sick of being told to ‘be confident’?
Forcing confidence is counter-productive. Trying to be confident when you are most definitely not feeling it doesn’t erase or solve all the other yuck; it just intensifies it.
{PhD} The PhD is a strange thing
The PhD is a formless, undefinable, unpredictable, ever-changing, multi-faceted thing – this is why it’s all the more important to get super clear about YOUR intentions, goals and best work practices.
blog | Ease | Messy thoughts | Spark
Who would you be without your fears?
How to dream forward into possibility and away from fear
blog | Ease | PhD thoughts | Sovereignty
{PhD} That person you’re comparing to is a hot mess too
Consider these 3 things the very next time you start thinking, “But I suck and I’m failing my PhD because they’re doing better than me…”
2 nifty steps to release the burden of pleasing everyone and their dog
Our fears of what others will think usually amounts more specifically to a fear that we’ll upset them or they’ll think less of us. So, here’s two nifty things you can do to release that burden of trying to please everyone.
blog | Magic | Messy thoughts | Sovereignty
You’re bigger than your worst-case scenario
We’ve been going about this ‘worst case scenario’ gubbins all wrong. So, instead of focusing all our energy and putting all our boss planning skillzzz into anticipating the worst, how about this…
blog | Ease | Messy thoughts
Did you get everything done this week?
Just because everyone else is driving themselves hard, it doesn’t make it more okay for us to beat up harder on ourselves. It’s the opposite: it’s realising that it’s totally, forgivingly okay that we don’t do everything we set out to do.
{PhD} You’re making more progress in your PhD than you realise
The one thing that is fucking up your head and your own bloody brilliant, amazing, productive, successful progress is this default setting that all our tricksy brains have that insists on comparing.