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The end of an era: preparing to say goodbye
How do you prepare yourself to say goodbye to a workplace that has been part of your life for more than ten years? I made the choice to leave a long time ago and have delayed leaving twice for different reasons. Now it is finally drawing to the end of my time there. This is the next right step for me but pain is still involved. I have to give myself permission to grieve. I am masterful at pushing aside emotion and expecting myself to carry on. There is part of me that feels I don’t have permission to be sad as this is my choice and something I have…
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A letter to Em. You are missed.
Trigger warning: please look after yourself and your mental health as you read or choose to stop reading. Dear Em I miss you. It’s been a lifetime since we just sat quietly together or laughed together. It’s been an age since I saw your spirit break through and radiate around the room. And yet, you still pop into my mind when I want to share good news, or need someone to commiserate with me. I wonder sometimes about what we would chat about now. I imagine you hanging out and loving on my daughter. I can almost feel you cheering me on as I take each next step. How deeply…
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Lessons learned this summer
Stop and pause with me. Press pause on the intensity and the conflicting priorities. Press pause on the demands and the dreams. Pause to look back and reflect. At the end of each season, I join Emily Freeman and many others in reflecting on what I have learned before diving into the next season. Sometimes the list is light and frivolous. Sometimes it is joyful. Sometimes it is filled with the hard lessons of life. This list is one of the latter. You can do all the right things and progress still be slow I was never promised a quick and easy recovery from shoulder surgery but the reality was…
Encouragement for women in leadership
