by Mary Waring | Mar 10, 2022 | Financial Planning, Mindset, Uncategorized
So often women have a fear around money and carry feelings of guilt and shame. You may think these feelings are experienced by women on a low income or women who struggle to meet their spending needs. But these disempowered emotions are not in fact related to how much...
by Mary Waring | Mar 3, 2022 | Mindset
Have you ever felt you weren’t sure whether you were on the right path? Maybe, not sure exactly what was ahead of you? I had this experience recently when I went out on a nice long walk in the hills. The weather hadn’t been great, and certainly on the...
by Mary Waring | Feb 18, 2022 | Mindset
Here’s what happened to me… The pendulum that was so fully in the “Be safe” zone has now swung fully to the “Oh, it looks fun. Let’s try it” zone. Wild camping, open water swimming, aerial yoga. After decades of playing save and hearing “Don’t do it” I’m...
by Mary Waring | Feb 14, 2022 | Mindset
Standing in the icy cold river inching forward just one small step at a time. My ankles feel as though they’ve lost all feeling and my teeth are chattering noisily. I don’t know how much of the teeth chattering is from the icy water and how much is from the tight ball...
by Mary Waring | Jan 28, 2022 | Financial Planning, Real Stories
Sometimes coaching needs to be non-directive. You let the coachee get to their own answer by asking the right questions. They then end up with a solution that’s right for them and their circumstances rather than a solution someone else thinks is right....
by Mary Waring | Jan 21, 2022 | Financial Planning
So often people have a New Year’s Resolution to lose weight and/or a New Year’s Resolution to manage their finances better. Now, at first thought, you might not think they have very much in common. But actually, there’s a lot of similarities between losing...
by Mary Waring | Jan 14, 2022 | Mindset
Do you treat your self-care as an important priority, or does it always fall further down the list of what’s important? It’s so common, especially during a busy time, for us to think we don’t have a minute to spare. Work, family, friends, home commitments...
by Mary Waring | Dec 29, 2021 | Real Stories
The little girl above, is me. She grew up in a totally dysfunctional family with an alcohol and abusive father and a neglectful, narcissistic mother. Luckily, she had a natural intelligence and soon realised that if she worked hard at school the...
by Mary Waring | Dec 16, 2021 | Divorce/separation
So often I talk to women going through divorce who haven’t dealt with finance during the marriage and instead have left managing finances to their partner. It’s quite common, at least with my clients. The wife looks after the house, children etc and the...
by Mary Waring | Dec 9, 2021 | Financial Planning, Real Stories
It’s easy to think that being a perfectionist is a good thing. Maybe we have the idea that being a perfectionist helps us to achieve what we want, either in work or in our home lives? It is easy to think so. But, there is a big difference between being a...
