Dear working-girl, you spend a good part of your time at work, surrounded by your wonderful colleagues and your boss. We bet you dream of working on yourself, enjoying your job and having a successful career? If those ambitions ring a bell, then you've come to the right place! Here you'll find our best tips and advice for career progression.
It's where we spend the majority of our time, so it's important that we feel good about it. Here we cover a multitude of subjects, from relationships with your boss, with your boss to ambitions, stress or burn-outs. Discover our advice and everything you need to blossom in your job and assert yourself.
'Never allow a person to tell you no, who doesn’t have the power to say yes.'
- Eleanor Roosevelt
Life is full of unexpected things. Sometimes we have nice surprises, sometimes we experience traumatic events. The latter can lead to what we call an “adjustment disorder”. I experienced this when my mother died. The shock was so immense that I couldn’t cope anymore. If you feel like you’re going through a very difficult period after a shock, you may also be affected by adjustment disorder. Let’s talk about it.
Getting involved in a romantic relationship can bring back many painful memories, which may prevent you from experiencing new things in your emotional life. Fear of loving, committing, being abandoned, feeling betrayed, suffering: these are all ideas that can fuel your fears. Here’s our advice on how to overcome this fear of relationships, also known as philophobia. Let me explain.
In the dating world, there’s a word for everything. That’s how I came to learn the name of something very unpleasant that happened to me several years ago. I’d been on a few Tinder dates, things were going well, but from one day to the next I’d heard nothing. I wasn’t in love, so it was fine. However, I found it hard to move on, because he couldn’t stop looking at my Instagram stories and following me keenly... It’s called orbiting. Why do this? How do you react to this behavior?
Crying in front of an advert? Done ✅. Being disturbed by the slightest noise? Of course ✅. Not being able to deal with negative emotions? Sure ✅. All hypersensitive people experience this on a daily basis. At least, I do. Yes, I’m part of team emotions! It’s already difficult for me, so when I’m in a relationship, I know my partner’s lost. So I’ve written a little guide to help people who live with a hypersensitive person on a daily basis.
I’m one of those people who doesn’t put work at the center of my life. On the other hand, I have a friend who does, to the point where her body gives out regularly. Clearly, her work is her raison d’être and she gives everything. Perhaps a little too much. That’s why I wanted to write this article, to remind her to be careful! Maybe it will help you too, especially if you feel that your career’s taking up all the space in your life.
“Which folder do I need to put these videos in again? And how does it work to do the videos? Can you help me? I’m really struggling...”. I think we’ve all encountered these words and this kind of situation at work. Sometimes people really are lost, sometimes you get the feeling that they’re lacking motivation and that they just don’t want to do it. And that’s precisely what strategic incompetence is. Why is this a problem? I’ll explain all.
Imagine you’re having breakfast, you’re heating up your tea or coffee, and you get the urge to toast some bread. Everything’s going well, you sit down at the table and butter your toast. Then all of a sudden, clumsily, the toast falls to the floor. Obviously, it falls on the wrong side, the butter side, and picks up all the dust and hairs lying around on the tiles. YUM! But it seems that it’s not all bad that the sandwich falls on this side... Let’s explain!
Love is such an unpredictable journey that it gives the perfect cover for emotionally abusive partners to hide behind masks of perfect Mr. Darcy-like characters. Now, let's face it, no devious manipulator enters a relationship by showing their true colors. In the beginning, they make for caring and supportive partners, that is, until they've got you completely hooked. Once they believe you are sufficiently spellbound by them, they'll put their despicable plan of emotional abuse into play, and their victims won't suspect a thing before it's too late. Signs of emotional mistreatment aren't always easy to pick up on, however, these types of partners do have a common modus operandi.
"Love stories usually end badly." As you know as well as Les Rita Mitsoukos, love isn’t a direct path to eternity. Sometimes it disappears from our hearts, leaving a great emptiness, if not fierce hatred. That’s when it’s time to say goodbye, and a letter can sometimes be the most effective way of saying exactly how you feel and explaining why you’re leaving. Here are 6 examples of farewell letters, to say goodbye, ciao, or bye-bye to a loved one, but also to a friend or, more sadly, to a loved one who has died.
I always thought that I was surrounded by people who loved their jobs, that is until I started openly talking about how much I hate working. Let’s get one thing straight, I’ve never liked my job, but have only recently built up the courage to talk about it. That's right, I used to hide my despair under a huge smile in an effort to convince myself I was overreacting, plus I was also afraid of other people judging me. In fact, daring to share my thoughts got me asking if I was the problem; was I the black sheep? Or, were my reasons for this bold statement justified? It's time to see if are all secretly on the same wavelength.
