by Amy Wilkinson | 16 05, 2023 | Burnout Prevention, Mental Health
I have anxiety. And sometimes I have to be medicated for it. There, I’ve said it. It’s mental health awareness week and much as I hate that we have to have an awareness week (we all have mental health after all, just as we do physical health) I feel like...
by Amy Wilkinson | 5 09, 2022 | Communication, Confidence, Habits, Imposter Syndrome, Mental Health, Perfectionism
You know you need to be more assertive at work but you’re worried you’re going to turn into that d!ck that works in Ops* and come across as aggressive, awkward and unhelpful. This probably goes against every fibre of your being as you were brought up to be polite,...
by Amy Wilkinson | 29 08, 2022 | Burnout Prevention, Communication, Confidence, Imposter Syndrome, Mental Health, Perfectionism
A lot of the women I work with come to me feeling super under valued, like their voice isn’t being heard and they may as well be invisible. One of the things that we often explore as a starting point is to work out whether that’s actually true or whether it’s the...
by Amy Wilkinson | 12 07, 2022 | BALANCE, Burnout Prevention, Confidence, Leadership, Mental Health, Resilience, Stress, Uncategorized
Working in Food and Grocery can be challenging sometimes. Ok, a lot of the time! And never has it been more challenging than now – the effects of Brexit, Covid, supply issues and inflation make it more than “challenging”, they make it downright hard. I...
by Amy Wilkinson | 14 02, 2022 | Burnout Prevention, Confidence, Imposter Syndrome, Leadership, Mental Health, Perfectionism, Resilience
“You’re not bringing that in the factory, have you even checked for allergens?” “Don’t you know we’ve tried it before and it didn’t work?!” “Nope, orders take priority, the trials cancelled” Just a few of the phrases I remember being pretty much spat at me early in my...
by Amy Wilkinson | 7 02, 2022 | BALANCE, Burnout Prevention, Imposter Syndrome, Mental Health, Perfectionism, Resilience, Stress
If you had met me back at the start of 2012, you would have seen a woman who “had it all”. Career, fiancé, big house, nice car and lots of friends. I was a work hard / play hard kind of person. My career was on an upward trajectory, I was in a high profile Commercial...
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