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Notes on clarity, courage, and change.
Short, honest reads on the decisions that come with leadership, separation, family change, and starting over. New posts roughly once a month.
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Blended Family Coaching: What It Is, Who It Helps and What to Expect
You met someone. One of you has children, or both of you do, and everyone said it would be lovely. A lot of it is. Then the first Sunday dinner turns into a negotiation about who sits where, a ten-year-old tells you that you are not the boss of them, and your partner gives you the look of someone who would have liked to be consulted first.
Blended Family Coaching: What It Is, Who It Helps and What to Expect
Absolute Candour
4 days ago8 min read
Divorce Coach or Therapist? How to Know Which One You Actually Need
You've probably typed some version of this into Google at 11pm. Do I need a therapist, or a divorce coach? Most articles answering that question give you a neat one-liner: therapists look backwards, coaches look forwards. It's tidy, it's memorable, and the research suggests it's not quite true. A study published by the British Psychological Society looked specifically at where the boundary between coaching and therapy actually sits, interviewing accredited practitioners from
Absolute Candour
Sep 305 min read
Blended Family Coaching: What It Is, Who It Helps and What to Expect
You met someone. One of you has children, or both of you do, and everyone said it would be lovely. A lot of it is. Then the first Sunday dinner turns into a negotiation about who sits where, a ten-year-old tells you that you are not the boss of them, and your partner gives you the look of someone who would have liked to be consulted first.
Blended Family Coaching: What It Is, Who It Helps and What to Expect
Absolute Candour
4 days ago8 min read
Divorce Coach or Therapist? How to Know Which One You Actually Need
You've probably typed some version of this into Google at 11pm. Do I need a therapist, or a divorce coach? Most articles answering that question give you a neat one-liner: therapists look backwards, coaches look forwards. It's tidy, it's memorable, and the research suggests it's not quite true. A study published by the British Psychological Society looked specifically at where the boundary between coaching and therapy actually sits, interviewing accredited practitioners from
Absolute Candour
Sep 305 min read
Why New Managers Over Explain (And How To Stop)
You made the decision on Tuesday. You explained it in the meeting. You explained it again, (slightly differently), in the follow-up message. On Thursday you found yourself explaining it a third time to someone who had already accepted it on Tuesday and now looks faintly concerned that you keep bringing it up. This is one of the most common patterns in new management, and almost nobody names it, because it doesn't look like a problem. It looks like being thorough. Being transp
Absolute Candour
Sep 196 min read
How to Have the Conversation You've Been Avoiding
A calm setting can make a hard conversation feel less like a confrontation The conversation you keep postponing is probably taking up more space than the conversation itself ever will. You replay it while driving. You rewrite the opening line in the shower - and then, inevitably, use none of it. You imagine the other person getting defensive, or shutting down, or saying the exact thing you're dreading. So you wait for a better time. The issue, unbothered by your scheduling pr
Absolute Candour
Sep 78 min read
Your First 100 Days as a New Manager
You got the promotion. For a week or two, that felt like the whole point - very satisfying, genuinely deserved, possibly a small celebratory dinner involved. Then Monday came round again, your calendar filled up with one-to-ones you don't quite know how to run yet, and it hit you: nobody actually told you how to do this part. That's normal. Almost nobody is properly prepared for the jump into management - it's treated as a reward for doing the old job well, not as a different
Absolute Candour
Sep 27 min read
"Most coaching ends up softening the truth to keep the peace. Real change happens when someone is willing to say the hard thing — and stay with you while you work through it."
Alexander, Managing Partner
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