Notes From a Slow Coach

Notes From a Slow Coach is my regular blog-style newsletter where I explore something that has recently caught my attention. I often unpack ideas, assumptions, and trends that, if left unexamined, risk diverting us from our natural rhythms and depths. And consider meaningful ways to resist and rebel sustainably, gently, and creatively.

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By Tuula Ahde (https://tuulahde.com)

Responding to the Contagion of Burnout Energy

I saw a reel earlier that made me notice how burnout spreads. An entrepreneurial self-help influencer told followers to demand more power, money, and visibility…

The Quest for Certainty

Mapping Our Relationship With Certainty

Slowing down our thinking can help us process more deeply and explore what is going on beneath the surface. I’ve been noticing that when thinking…

Five Year Plan

Why You Can’t Articulate a Five-Year Plan For Your Life

Where do you see yourself in five years? Does that question fill you with excitement, or a sense of dread? We are wired differently. For…

Choose Your Own Price at the Fireside

Choose Your Own Price Coaching – What I’ve Learned and Why I Still Do It

I realised earlier this week that it’s been three years since I first adopted a “choose your own price” model for Pick The Lock coaching…

It's the hope that kills you sometimes

The hope kills us…sometimes

There is the kind of hope that sustains and the kind that exhausts. As I write this, we are in the middle of an Ashes…

Sensing The Urge to Explain, Justify, or Tidy

The Urge to Explain, Justify, and Tidy Feelings

When do you sense the urge to explain, justify, or tidy what you feel? This was our question for the week, and in this week’s…

The Edge of Usefulness

Wandering on the edge of usefulness

Have you ever noticed that you are still doing or using the same thing you did years ago, with no apparent reason? Some things naturally…

Stop Trying To Make It Mean Something

It doesn’t mean anything…and that’s the point

Does something need intentional meaning to be meaningful? This might sound like an odd question, but it’s been gnawing at me since our Haven Journal…

This is not a coaching conversation

This is a Self-Help Illusion, Not Responsible Coaching

Sometimes I stumble on something that captures what feels off about the way we think about progress, purpose, and success. It happened earlier this week……

Creativity is Always Working

In defence of “wasting” time

Are you worn out by the pressure to be useful, always working to prove your worth through productivity? I saw this post on Threads a…