We Couldn’t Afford to Keep Them. Then We Paid More to Replace Them.
I’ve lost count of the number of times I’ve heard it. “There isn’t any budget.” “We’d love to increase salaries, but the funding isn’t…
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Tag: Leadership
Trauma-Informed or Trauma-Aware?
Over the past few years, I’ve noticed a significant increase in organisations describing themselves as trauma-informed. On one level, that’s encouraging. It means conversations…
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Trauma-Informed Practice Starts With Curiosity
One of the most powerful shifts I have witnessed in trauma-informed practice is surprisingly simple. It is the moment we stop asking: “What’s wrong…
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The People Who Made Us
When we think about the people who shaped our lives, our minds often go to the obvious ones. Parents.Partners.Children.Family. But lately I’ve found myself…
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When Power Needs to Keep Reminding You It Exists
One of the things I have become more aware of over the years is how some workplaces do not simply operate through leadership, they…
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Why We Shrink Ourselves To Feel Safe at Work
One of the hardest things to realise in leadership, and honestly in life generally, is that not everyone will celebrate your growth. Sometimes people…
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Why Systems Sometimes Feel Safer Than People
There’s a quiet shift that happens in organisations over time. We start building systems to protect people.Policies. Processes. Structures.All with the intention of making…
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Trauma-Informed Leadership Requires a Different Way of Working
There’s a kind of frustration that doesn’t always have a place to go. Not the loud kind.Not the kind you speak about easily. But…
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The Emotional Cost of Being the “Easy” Person at Work
I became easy to keep the peace but it came at a cost. There’s a version of strength that gets praised quietly. The one…
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The Protective Beliefs We Carry After Trauma
Learning to Trust What Feels Safe After everything we’ve carried,safety doesn’t always feel the way people expect it to. It’s not always calm.It’s not…
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