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Surviving Burnout - On rediscovering well-being, building resilience, and career change.

Patricia Ezechie

Apr 6
7 min

Surviving Burnout - On rediscovering well-being, building resilience, and career change.

I wrote this piece for Thrive Global just over two years ago. Recently a client I was working with asked me why I do what I do. This is my WHY. If anyone had told me 15 years ago that I would be working in the area of career change, well-being, and resilience, had developed and run an online business, held workshops in well-being, and had a 10-year career teaching yoga full-time, I would have thought they had taken leave of their senses. Yes, I had already caught the yoga bu

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Work life balance and Wellbeing during COVID

Patricia Ezechie

Mar 30
3 min

Work life balance and Wellbeing during COVID

Having implemented Tip 1 from the last blog , you have begun developing your new wellbeing habit of stepping away from your desk or work space for 30 to 60 minutes for lunch or a break - everyday. Your #Wellbeinghour should now be firmly and immovably ring fenced in your diary too. Well done. If you are new here, "Welcome" and start here with the #wellbeinghour. For everyone else here's the next step towards re-establishing better health, wellbeing and resilience during C

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Lockdown one year on.....

Patricia Ezechie

Mar 23
1 min

Lockdown one year on.....

Sometimes it's felt a lot longer than 365 days. But it is just 365 days since we went into the first lockdown in the UK. So many of us have been challenged above and beyond the collective struggle we have all faced. But, we are still here today. Many others have not been so fortunate. So there is much to be grateful for. Each of us, even though we have shared a collective experience, have had our own journey of highs and lows over the last year. For everyone who has felt alon

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How to regain work life balance during Lockdown

Patricia Ezechie

Mar 18
4 min

How to regain work life balance during Lockdown

COVID-19 has brought many challenges, but I think it’s fair to say one of the biggest has been the blurring of the lines between work and life. For many that line is not just blurred...... it no longer exists. The space in which we sleep, eat, relax, work out and spend time (alone or with family), has also become the space we home school, work and do just about everything else. Work has not only taken up physical residence and space in our homes, it has expanded to take up me

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On Racism

Patricia Ezechie

Mar 10
3 min

On Racism

I was going to write about tips for re-establishing work-life balance while working from home, but there is something more pressing on my mind today. What’s pressing on my mind is what it means to be Black, Asian or a woman of colour in our society. From my own personal experience, I know how damaging and demoralising it can be to be held to different standards from your white peers. I know what it is like to be expected to tolerate behaviour that no one else would be subject

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What is Resilience?

Patricia Ezechie

Mar 5
3 min

What is Resilience?

It’s a word you are probably seeing everywhere at the moment, which is not surprising given what we have all been experiencing with the coronavirus crisis over the last 12 months. And there are countless definitions for Resilience, many of which I have used myself when I have taught courses about or run programmes on it. But my thoughts when I was asked myself that question this morning, was that for me, "Resilience is the ability to return to a state of wellbeing or wellne

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It always seems impossible till it's done

Patricia Ezechie

Feb 23
2 min

It always seems impossible till it's done

The words are not coming easily today, but it’s Tuesday, and Tuesday is the day I write to you all, and hopefully inspire, uplift, and encourage you to take action, begin, take that step, no matter how small, towards what you want. The words are not coming easily today because there is a lot going on here. I have been in my home for 24 years and I am in the process of packing everything up and moving. In that time, I have created a haven for myself. My home has been a safe

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Lessons from a 70's Classic

Patricia Ezechie

Feb 16
2 min

Lessons from a 70's Classic

I woke up this morning with a tune in my head. It’s been around for a couple of days now but as it’s cheery hasn’t been too irritating. It is also a little ironic given the weather here today. The song is the Johnny Nash classic “I can see clearly now the rain is gone”. As I woke up singing it to myself this morning it occurred to me that in his delight that it was going to be a sunshiny day, Johnny forgot to tell us about the crucial step between the rain, seeing the obstac

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No. Absolutely nothing.

Patricia Ezechie

Feb 9
2 min

No. Absolutely nothing.

12 months from now what will you regret not doing? Heck one month from now what will you regret? I think it was Margaret Attwood that said “Regret is the only wound the heart never recovers from” ….but don’t quote me. So don’t regret. You all know what I do. I help women who have come to a crossroads in their careers and lives to create the career they want for the life they want™. Careers and lives where they thrive personally and professionally, as well as succeed. Why? Bec

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What we all need a bit more of right now…..

Patricia Ezechie

Feb 2
1 min

What we all need a bit more of right now…..

I’m pretty sure most, if not all of you who read these blogs do everything (or almost everything) with the best of intentions. Whether speaking to others, making decisions, or taking action, your motivations are coming from the best place, are genuine, and with an open heart. So if that‘s the case why are we so hard on ourselves when things don’t go as we hoped? Or others let us down? Why do we hold ourselves to standards that we would never hold others to, Or sh

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COVID Lessons

So we've had Blue Monday.... Now what?

Patricia Ezechie

Jan 19
1 min

So we've had Blue Monday.... Now what?

You set out with such great intentions. You were motivated. You had clear goals. 2021 was going to be your year and the new you began January 1st! You even had a plan goddammit ! And you still failed. Fell down flat on your face. So what do you do? You could find the biggest mental stick you can to beat yourself about the head... after all you deserve it.... you're useless. Or you could get up. Yep... get up. Wipe your bloody nose, clean off your scrapes and get right back i

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Overwhelm is a choice

Patricia Ezechie

Jan 6
2 min

Overwhelm is a choice

It's just a feeling. A feeling triggered by a thought. That thought could be as simple as "I have too much to do" or depending on the pitch of your mental drama at the time, be conflagrated into an existential crisis. The result is always the same - inaction. Here are 3 very simple things to get moving and taking action - quickly Stop the melodrama and write a list. Yes write a list. It's that simple. Your brain has enough to do without trying to hold a list of all the thin

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