by Liz Scarfe | Jan 16, 2017 | Confidence, Personal Power, Therapy
An interesting theme I’ve seen in therapy this week is the pattern of “doing good for others” at one’s own expense. We all do it from time to time, but many people do it all the time! It goes a bit like: “I have to go to the party because if I...
by Liz Scarfe | Aug 26, 2016 | Confidence, Inner criticism, Personal Power
After experiencing my first root canal last week, I can still safely say that looking for a job is my least favourite thing to do. In fact one of my dearest hopes is to never have to apply for a job again. I don’t like writing applications, but even worse, I hate job...
by Liz Scarfe | Aug 2, 2016 | Conflict, Liberation Psychology, Personal Power, process oriented
How we think about ourselves and our experiences impacts on our personal growth. It needs some thinking about. Thinking about thinking…yes it’s a bit circular, but we can’t really get out of this catch-22, so let’s have a go. In Part Two of my...
by Liz Scarfe | May 16, 2016 | Confidence, Inner criticism, Personal Power
How do you define self confidence? Is it a feeling you have sometimes (or wish you had)? How do you know when you are confident and when you aren’t? Defining self confidence is a complex thing, because well, confidence is a complex thing. We tend to simplify it into...
by Liz Scarfe | May 15, 2016 | Personal Power
Not many people like to admit that sometimes, in some situations, they may be a teeny bit powerful. Power’s got a bad rap in our culture, we equate being powerful with being a monster so we shrink away from the concept completely. But this aversion does no one any...
by Liz Scarfe | May 11, 2016 | Personal Power, What I'm Reading
I’m so glad this book exists. In a sea of leadership books based on shallow definitions of power, Power A User’s Guide dives refreshingly deep: author Julie Diamond KNOWS about power. Over the past few years, the discourse surrounding leadership has finally come...
by Liz Scarfe | Mar 28, 2016 | Habits, Inner criticism, Personal Power, Procrastination
I’ve been thinking about procrastination for a couple of years now (a little bit ironic that it’s taken me this long to write about it I know). I’ve come across the theory that procrastination is sometimes intuition about right timing. That if you keep putting...
by Liz Scarfe | Mar 24, 2016 | Personal Power
Personal Power would have to be one of my most favourite topics; it’s complex, nuanced, and paradoxical; and once you see through the lens of power, life is never the same. To celebrate the new edition of my Little Book of Power, I’m sharing a neat...
