by Jenny Maddox | Jun 1, 2016
The old saying is that you can choose your friends but you can’t choose your family (picture from grammarly.com). Last week I met up with two girlfriends that I have known for 30 years. We joined Waitrose together when we were in our early 20s, and whilst we...
by Jenny Maddox | May 12, 2016
Hi All, Just a quickie this week, based on a conversation with a friend who shared that what she had experienced about something was so totally different from what I had experienced it made me stop and think: which is always a good thing. The circumstances are...
by Jenny Maddox | Apr 29, 2016
Not a lot to say this week. Just a short reflection on the profound impact that truthfulness has on our lives, and the consequences created when we are not truthful. 96 people died and 766 were injured on the 15th April 1989, making the Hillsborough football disaster...
by Jenny Maddox | Apr 12, 2016
Hi Everyone, One of the things that has caught my attention over the past couple of weeks is around the issue of trust, or rather the lack of it! I’m finding trusting what anyone says in the build up to the UK EU referendum tricky, but now we also have the whole...
by Jenny Maddox | Mar 11, 2016
Hi Everyone, I’ve been doing a lot of one of the things I love best recently: coaching. And some of those coaching conversations have reminded me of the interesting reality that many of us are wired to most easily recall when things have gone wrong, rather than...
by Jenny Maddox | Feb 25, 2016
Amy Brann’s book “Neuroscience for Coaches” has got me thinking again. Last time (blog of 12 02 16) we were exploring the ability of language to ‘nudge’ us, and there is a chapter in her book that ties in so well with my thought that:...