While working with a client these last few weeks, an image kept appearing in my mind: it was a of a bright green plant trapped in a black box. The plant’s leaves were pushing up against the box and couldn’t grow any bigger. Instead, it began to wilt and rot away. What I didn’t know at the time was that research shows that some plants actually do this; they grow only to the extent that their pot allows. If the pot is too small, it restricts how expansive the plant can grow to

After spending days facing the onslaught of New Years resolutions while scrolling through social media, a thought occurred to me: Why are we so determined to follow the ‘New Year, New You’ ideology? Why do we need to be NEW versions of ourselves when we can just be the TRUE versions of ourselves? For some, perhaps this radical change is paramount. Maybe that’s the only way they know how to do something; go all in, feet first with nothing to lose. They wipe the slate clean and