Another year! How are you going to find the energy to get through another one?
Resilience is the ability to keep going even when you have change and challenge in your life and you’re finding it tough. Resilience is about behaviour, not character or personality. That means you can learn to do it. An important thing [...]

In the course of one morning this week I received three pieces of feedback from clients who have been through Straight Talk training.
Spot the pattern in their comments!
“I was always taught that showing emotion is a sign of weakness. so I have bottled up my emotions as long as I could, even with friends and [...]

People often say they make difficult conversations even more difficult by becoming emotional; and later regretting, deeply, what they have said. Expressing our feelings is not easy, and most of us have learned to be very cautious, scared even, about doing it: scared of the negative reaction we might cause, scared that we’ll look foolish [...]