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ADHD in adults is still widely misunderstood as a ‘childhood behaviour issue’ or a ‘lack of discipline’, when it’s a lifelong neurodevelopmental difference affecting attention, impulse control and emotional regulation. This article explores what ADHD Awareness Month is trying to correct, and what that means for adults starting to make sense of their own minds.

Every October, ADHD Awareness Month rolls around, and every October I notice the same gap between what many people think it is and what ADHD looks and feels like for those who live with the condition.

Most people still hold the stereotype of a fidgety child who can’t sit still in class. That&#...

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Obsessive Compulsive Disorder (OCD) and perfectionism can look remarkably similar from the outside. Someone checks the front door twice. Someone rereads an email before sending it. Someone needs things to be just right. But whether what you’re dealing with is OCD or perfectionism comes down to what’s driving the behaviour underneath, and that difference matters more than the behaviour itself.

Perfectionism isn’t automatically a problem. Sometimes wanting to do something well is simply part of who you are: you care about your work, you have high standards, you take pride in getting things right.

Other t...

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Resilience at work is usually treated as a quality individuals should have more of. It’s better understood as a team’s capacity to recover between demands, which is built through how work is designed and led rather than through training people to withstand more. This article explains why most resilience training changes little and what does make a difference.

Your best team is delivering. Deadlines are being hit, clients are happy, and the numbers look right.

They are also three months into a pace nobody has described out loud as unsustainable, and the first thing to go will be the thing nobody is measuring.

I’m Drew Fobbester, a hypnotherapist, NLP practitioner and corporate transformation consultant working in leadership, high...

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Miscarriage can affect every part of life, not just the days immediately around it. This guide explains why the grief often lingers longer than others expect, how hypnotherapy after miscarriage can support emotional healing, and practical ways to find calm and hope again, whatever stage you’re at.

Miscarriage is an experience that can leave a profound emotional impact, often affecting every aspect of your life. You may feel overwhelmed by grief, anxiety, guilt, anger or even numbness. While family and friends may expect you to move on, many people find the emotional effects linger long after the physical recovery.

If you’re navigating the aftermath of pregnancy loss, you are not alone. In this guide, I’l...

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Smart, articulate teams still misunderstand each other. It’s rarely about intelligence or effort. More often, it’s about what happens in the space between what someone means, what they say and what another person hears.

We have more ways to communicate at work than ever: email, Teams, Slack, Zoom and now AI tools that can draft, summarise and respond for us. So why do teams miscommunicate more than ever, rather than less? More communication doesn’t necessarily mean better communication.

We can be in the same meeting and leave with completely different interpretations. A neutral message can sound abrupt. A conversation can feel fine in the moment, only for tension to appear later.

So what gets in the way? Often, it’s not the words. It’s everything happening...

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Neurodivergent adults consistently report higher rates of anxiety and depression than their neurotypical peers, which makes this an area managers genuinely can’t afford to get wrong. This article explores what struggling looks like for a neurodivergent team member, and what supporting neurodivergent employees realistically involves for a manager.

World Mental Health Day exists to widen the conversation about mental health at work. This year’s theme is ‘Lived Experiences Heard,’ and it matters particularly for neurodivergent employees, whose experience of struggling often looks nothing like the standard advice managers are given.

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Stoptober challenges smokers to stay smoke-free for 28 days, because the evidence behind the campaign shows that’s the single biggest predictor of being able to quit smoking for good. This article looks at how hypnotherapy can help you get there and what a session involves.

Every October, the same question lands in my inbox more than any other time of year: does hypnotherapy actually work for quitting smoking?

Smoking is one of the hardest habits to break, precisely because it isn’t just physical. Nicotine withdrawal fades within days. The habit, the association, the hand-to-mouth ritual built into a hundred small moments of your day, that’s what tends to outlast the...

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Team misalignment rarely looks like conflict. It looks like a group working hard, hitting deadlines and still falling behind, because each person is quietly operating from a different picture of the goal, often the single most common reason a team with good people and good tools underperforms. This article explains what causes it, how to spot it early, and what actually rebuilds a shared picture the whole team can see themselves in.

You’ve sat in that meeting. Everyone nods, the plan sounds settled, and two weeks later three people are doing three different things, each convinced they were following what was agreed.

That is why ...

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Mindfulness at work is often mistaken for a break from the job: a breathing exercise, a moment of calm. In a professional context it’s closer to a cognitive skill, one that shapes how people think, decide and lead under pressure. This article explains what the evidence actually shows and what it looks like in practice.

Most people picture a yoga studio or a guided breathing app when they hear the word mindfulness, something to reach for on a break rather than use during one. That association isn’t wrong, but it undersells what’s actually being asked of people at work every day: to notice what’s pulling their attention, and choose where it goes instead.

I’m Katie Fobbester, a mindfulnes...

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Feeling completely drained but still lying awake has a name: tired but wired, a genuinely recognisable pattern rather than a contradiction. This article explains what’s actually happening in your body when exhaustion and sleeplessness happen at the same time, and what genuinely helps.

You’ve been running on empty all day. Your eyes are heavy by nine. You finally get into bed, certain you’ll be asleep within minutes. And then nothing happens. You lie there, wide awake, more alert than you were an hour ago, wondering how you can be this exhausted and this unable to switch off at the same time.

If this sounds familiar, you’re not imagining it, and you’re not...

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