In a society where some feelings are labelled positive and others are labelled negative, it can be challenging to feel. The pressure to use your feelings as a metric for success can be a trap to depth, growth and relating. In other words, it seems that many of us carry the limiting belief that in order to be successful, you need to feel what we collectively name as positive feelings. The assumption is that if you feel anything less than happy, joyful or exciting; if you expe

I coach both women and men working in the arts or in the creative industries (to speak in broader terms). They both face common issues, but I can't stop but noticing how there's an issue that my female clients bring up which doesn't always feature with their male counterparts: the issue of guilt. I decided to research this a bit further, and started to connect this issue with the lack of representation of women in the arts. And so I decided to speak to that in this weekly's n