THE EMBODIED COACH
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Slow-written essays on presence, contact, burnout and leadership, written between sessions, on trains, and in the quiet hours before the day begins.
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Essay 14
Burnout
Eighteen months of medical exhaustion taught me that recovery is not a return. It is a slow, embodied re-orientation to a life that fits who you have become. Some notes from the inside of that passage, for anyone standing at its edge.
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Essay 12
Gestalt Practice
Gestalt describes the place where we meet experience as the contact boundary. Understanding it can change how you relate to others, to work, and to yourself.
May 2026
7 min read
Essay 11
Gestalt Practice
Incomplete experiences pull our attention into the past. Recognising them is the first step to freeing yourself from their grip, and returning attention to the life in front of you.
April 2026
8 min read
Essay 10
Leadership
The leaders I most trust have stopped performing leadership. What replaces the performance is something quieter, more honest, and considerably more useful to the people around them.
March 2026
5 min read
Essay 13
Emotional Wellbeing
Some of the most important emotional experiences resist language. Gestalt offers a different way in, through the body, through image, through what is present rather than what can be said.
June 2026
6 min read
Essay 09
Embodiment
Long before we can articulate what we feel, the body has already registered it. Working with that primary knowing is the ground beneath every coaching conversation I hold.
February 2026
6 min read
Essay 08
Grief & Loss
Not every loss announces itself. Career change, identity shifts, the ending of a chapter, these carry a grief that often goes unnamed, and unnamed grief has a way of shaping everything it touches.
January 2026
7 min read
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