by emmavallin | Aug 25, 2021 | coaching, self leadership, stress
So, you’ve come a long way in your personal development. Your self-leadership skills are well developed, you’ve made friends with your values and know your overdeveloped strengths. You know what drains you and what makes your dopamine flow. Suddenly the growth stops....
by emmavallin | Jun 8, 2021 | coaching, self leadership
Mairi is the Head of Leadership Development at the Karolinska University Hospital and has recently completed the Executive Coaching Program. It’s a six-month intensive coaching program for leaders based around the EQ-i 2.0 Emotional Intelligence Framework. The...
by emmavallin | Apr 26, 2021 | CBT, coaching, self leadership, stress
We’ve come the end in our series Achievement patterns and strategies with the Comparer. The Comparer lives by the words: ‘The grass is always greener… ’. Comparison is nothing new. In 1954 Festinger came up with the social comparison theory. At the core of...
by emmavallin | Apr 20, 2021 | CBT, coaching, self leadership, stress
Motto: ‘winning isn’t everything, it’s the only thing’. Competitors see life as a race and always try to be just that little bit better than everyone else. If you identify as a Competitor achievement archetype you often ignore your own basic needs such as sleep and...
by emmavallin | Apr 12, 2021 | CBT, coaching, self leadership, stress
This is probably the achiever archetype I identify the most with. People who are Constant Achievers (and I at times) live by the motto: ‘You can rest when you’re dead’. The constant achiever is a multi-tasker who always juggles several big projects. If you identify as...
by emmavallin | Apr 8, 2021 | CBT, coaching, happiness, self leadership, stress
Most of us know which activities keep us healthy and protect us from negative stress. Yet, we so often neglect them: Meaningful conversations Exercise Reflection Nature Introducing ‘Walkflections’ = Walk + Reflection As Margaret Wheatley said: “Without...
