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When Identity Changes Quietly: On Becoming, Letting Go, and Learning to Trust the In-Between
There is a moment in every transformation that is almost invisible. It is not the moment we decide to change.Nor the moment others start noticing. It is the moment when we realise, quietly and with a little surprise:Oh… I have travelled a long way. That moment has...
Enthusiasm Is Not Naïve. It Is How I Choose to Stay Alive.
Let me share something with you, simply, honestly. I had one of those moments recently. Not a dramatic revelation, more a quiet internal click. The kind that gently rearranges things rather than shaking them apart. I was listening to an interview with a filmmaker, and...
Can your planning really be your best ally?
Or what if organising your time was also an act of self-respect? Let me ask you something, friend to friend. Have you ever spent a long time crafting the perfect plan for your week, colour-coded, well thought through… only to feel strangely resistant, heavy, or...
On Authenticity, Alignment, and the Courage to Be Seen Without the Mask
I have been thinking about authenticity a lot lately. Not the Instagram version.Not the corporate slogan.Not the well-meaning but vague injunction to “just be yourself”. What I mean is the real question behind the word — the one that feels tender, sometimes...
Science’s Big Problem Is Influence, Not Trust — And Why Emotional Intelligence May Be the Missing Link
Why is science not reaching people in the moments that matter most? For years, public debates have been fuelled by a familiar refrain: “People don’t trust science anymore.”But a growing body of evidence — including a recent article in Nature by Larson & Bersoff...
Intuition & Emotional Intelligence: A Rational Alliance
This blog article was inspired by the piece I wrote in French in the Janette Magazine Issue 109 dated December 2025 pages 52-53. We often speak of intuition as if it were a mysterious impulse — a flash of insight that comes “out of nowhere”. In everyday conversations,...
Excellence Without Self-Punishment: Finding Balance Beyond Perfectionism
Striving for Excellence… or Trapped in Perfectionism? This past week offered me a humbling reminder of something many of us struggle with — the delicate line between striving for excellence and falling head-first into perfectionism. I felt it emerging very clearly as...
Quand la science du bien-être rencontre le leadership
Le parcours d’une ingénieure devenue coach Il y a des conversations qui éclairent un chemin.Ma rencontre récente avec Dr Hynd, dans le cadre de The BAL Leadership Series, en fait partie.Nous y avons exploré un sujet qui me tient profondément à cœur : la façon dont la...
Why I Stopped Hating Bucket Lists
How I turned planning from a pressure tool into a practice of joy — and what a trip to Prague with my daughter taught me. I used to hate bucket lists.Just like goal-setting, they made me feel uneasy — even a little trapped. For a long time, I thought these lists were...
Why It Is Important to Care and Not to Care
On fierce love and being serious Over the past few days, this idea has been resonating deeply with me. It lies at the very heart of coaching — and of how I understand life itself. So much of our work in coaching is about reclaiming agency: not going through life...
From Toughness to Tenderness: Redefining What It Means to Be Resilient
This week I have been reflecting on resilience — what it truly is, and what it is not. We admire it so much that it almost feels sacred: the capacity to stand strong, keep going, push through, and rise above. But what if that version of resilience, the one we’ve been...
Do you allow yourself to truly feel successful – or are you already chasing the next goal?
This past week has left me profoundly moved. We have just closed the doors for the second time on our Wealth & Mindset Academy for women at Flourish Financially. The response from our community, and the women we have had the honour to support, has humbled and...
Quand la science du bien-être rencontre le leadership
Le parcours d’une ingénieure devenue coach Il y a des conversations qui éclairent un chemin.Ma rencontre récente avec Dr Hynd, dans le cadre de The BAL Leadership Series, en fait partie.Nous y avons exploré un sujet qui me tient profondément à cœur : la façon dont la...
Le pouvoir du planning : et si mieux s’organiser vous aidait à mieux vous aimer?
Rentrer, et reprendre le fil La rentrée, c’est ce moment de l’année où l’on aspire à reprendre notre vie en main. Un nouvel agenda, une page blanche, un nouvel élan. Et pourtant, souvent, à peine deux semaines après septembre, notre enthousiasme s’essouffle déjà… le...
Et si notre santé financière devenait une nouvelle forme de leadership ?
En préparant mon intervention pour l'événement "Health is Wealth" organisé par la Banque Internationale à Luxembourg le 19 juin , une idée m'a percutée de plein fouet. J'étais en train de répéter quelques passages de ma présentation, confortablement installée dans mon...