Baby giraffes learn a very important lesson rather early in life. A lesson that many of us should remember. Baby falls from its mother’s womb, some eight feet above the ground. It shrivels up and lies still, too weak to move. Mum lovingly lowers her neck to smooch her baby. Something unbelievable happens. She kicks […]
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Being a perfectionist is no good thing for one simple reason. There’s no such thing as perfection. As long as you keep chasing it, your thing doesn’t get done. You’ll set ridiculously high goals. When you fail to reach them, you’ll suffer crushing self doubt and feel like a fraud. Bring on Impostor Syndrome. I
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“We delight in the beauty of the butterfly, but rarely admit the changes it has gone through to achieve that beauty.” Maya Angelou. You know that if you help a butterfly escape it’s chrysalis – you might kill it? For a host of reasons, the butterfly must get out on it’s own when the time
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Who is Paul Wilson? I help professional people struggling with impostor syndrome, to achieve life goals through hypnosis, NLP & discombobulation. Also. I’ve seen & done enough throughout my 59 years to help people get out of their own way through life coaching. After 25 years at the Channel Tunnel – mainly in Operations –
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This is the last in a four part series. I’ve talked in other blogs about the changes in mental health that have started to happen, my own experience of trying to end my life, and how depression felt to me and the people close to me. This blog is about some things that helped me
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“I don’t have anything to prove anymore. I can relax.” Paloma Picasso – born April 19th 1949. Daughter of the world famous artist Pablo Picasso, a hard act to follow? It depends on how you view your life. From this quote I image that she has spent a lifetime doing everything possible to leave the
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I talked in the last blog about my attempts at suicide, but I’m not going to pretend there are any quick fixes. But you can learn to look out for the signs. Yes, I still have down days. When my dad died in 2017 I had a couple of weeks where I was just out
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Trigger warning: This post contains descriptions of suicide attempts and strong language This is part two in a series of four posts. You can find the first one here. For many years, I struggled with depression and stress and anxiety – all the things I talked about in the first blog/here. And I actually tried
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The first of four blogs about stuff, as men, we find hard to talk about.
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Feeling fake, an impostor in your own life? Stuck, unable to move forward because someone gonna find out? Even though you’re good at your thing, years of experience. They? will see through you. Your self-worth is through the floor. Sitting at your laptop staring at the screen, your fingers refuse to touch the keys. You’re
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