Deep Listening: Are You Being Helped, Hugged or Heard?

Sometimes, the most powerful response is simply being present. Sitting in comfortable silence. Nodding encouragingly. These small acts signal: "I'm here, and I'm not rushing to fix or change anything about this moment."

Empowered Self-Care: Harnessing Your Agency and Choices for Wellbeing

Welcome to Day 5 of Mental Health Week. Today, we're exploring the powerful intersection of empowerment, agency, choice, and self-care.

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The Time Paradox in Self-Care: Reframing Our Relationship with the Clock

Welcome to Day 4 of WA Mental Health Week. Today, we're diving into one of the most complex dimensions of self-care: time. It's the resource we all wish we had more of, yet often struggle to manage effectively. Let's unpack the various faces of time and discover how to make it work for our wellbeing, not against it.

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The Habit Loop: Unlocking the Science of Lasting Change

Welcome to Day 3 of Mental Health Week, and our focus is habits - those automatic behaviors that shape our daily lives and, ultimately, our wellbeing. Understanding how habits form and how to reshape them is a powerful tool in your self-care approach and embodiment.

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Embracing Joy: A Non-Negotiable in Your Self-Care Toolbox

What will your first intentional moment of joy be today? Joy is like the confetti of emotions – sudden, unexpected, and oh-so-colorful. It's that high-intensity feeling that washes over you in short bursts, leaving you feeling connected to others, to nature, or to the universe at large…and to yourself.

Citizen Wellbeing Scientists: Empowering Self-Care Through Documentation and Community

A Citizen Wellbeing Scientist is an individual who actively engages in documenting, reflecting on, and sharing their self-care practices to contribute to a broader understanding of wellbeing.

Essentialism Meets AI: How We Wrote a Book in a Weekend While Prioritizing Self-Care

We wrote a book in a weekend! Discover how AI and essentialism can transform your project management and self-care practices. Learn from our cyborg writing retreat and embrace intentional living for optimal wellbeing and success.

Try Quiet Flourishing Instead of Quiet Quitting: Working with your strengths

But what if we flipped the script? Instead of dialing back with a “quiet quitting”, let's talk about "quiet flourishing" - optimizing your effort by intentionally leaning into your unique strengths and values.

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It just comes back to kindness

I’ve just returned from several weeks travelling in North America. The space to think, observe new things, people and contexts, and to be curious was so embraced. Here is what I have learnt that resonated as most important.

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Quiet Quitting or is it Quiet Flourishing?

Quiet quitting can be harmful, so what about quiet flourishing? So what does this look like? Let’s explore as you coach yourself and find a balance between one's inner world and the external demands of work and personal life.

Festive Five: Celebrating 1 Year of Wellbeing Whisperer

Wellbeing Whisperer has just turned one. Thanks for your support, for sharing and for reaching out with what has resonated with you. As we move into the end of year and to mark this celebration I’ve collated the top five posts from the past 12 months as a Festive Five gift to you. Read them individually or as a set in an act of care for you and our colleagues.

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Collaboration and the PhD experience (Part 4): Mentorship and nurturing your supervisor relationship

Mentorship and nurturing your supervisor relationship are hot topics in the PhD journey. Part 4 of the Collaboration and the PhD experience series focuses on some reflective questions to support these relationships.

Do you need a Boundary Manifesto?

I’m just going to say it. I’m exhausted. My personal and professional life has blurred so much that I have developed this pattern in the last few months where I work 7 days a week. I keep telling myself I am doing it to keep up or even get ahead on tasks. But after months of doing this I’m not. That’s not cool! My boundaries need a serious refresh. What about you?

Rest as our companion to productivity: And who knew there are different types!

Rest and sleep. We know we need both. Some of us need more than others. And at different times we need more than at others. They are different, but what exactly are they and how can they help us?

The care in requests

I love receiving email requests to collaborate, speak, or run workshops. I especially like emails, tweets and DMs that share an appreciation. I honestly love hearing from others, it brings me joy. I love ideas. I love being generous. But, there is an art to communication and showing care to those you are reaching out to. Here are my 9 flips that place care at the centre of the cold call or new connection with a busy person.

July is for connecting with your colleagues and peers

July is for connecting with your colleagues and peers. Download, print or set as your screen saver this guide to building positive relationships with your teams.

June is for Jolts of Joy

Welcome to June and daily reminders to self, intentions and ideas to bring some joy into your life.

It’s time for a self-care check in

We have a new moon. Well actually we are moving into an "eclipse season" with a super moon amongst many other moon-like changes and astrology happenings over the next few months. An eclipse season is a culmination of some energy changes, and for those who follow along with astrology know that this is possibly a time for taking inventory about how we have dealt with things. So, it’s a perfect time to do a self-care check in.

Collaboration and the PhD experience (Part 2): Connecting to your why and job crafting

Connecting to your why is an important first step to working out how to achieve the goals that excite you. Let’s talk about how this may be possible with your PhD.

Collaboration and the PhD experience (Part 1 ): Positioning your self-care

Undertaking a PhD is a lengthy process. Taking care of yourself is an imperative to last the distance. Let’s consider what this might look like and how your PhD is a collaboration with yourself and others.