Don’t answer the Knock of Neurosis

April 27, 2020

Have you ever experienced a state where everything seems to be going right in your life, then suddenly you feel yourself swinging into depression, anxiety or stress? Have you tried dealing with it by suppressing it with drugs, alcohol, wrong sex or food? And found this made it worse in the long term? In my

Are you asleep dreaming that you are awake?

March 17, 2020

Are you asleep dreaming that you are awake? Confused? Well this was a question I asked at one of my recent Life Coaching workshops.  It’s fair to say most of the group looked rather perplexed at first.  But soon they all grasped its true meaning. Unfortunately the only time you can realise you were asleep, dreaming that you are awake,

Where there is NO WILL, there will be NO WIN!

February 17, 2020

Fed up in your job and looking to do something different?  Got that big business idea which you want to turn into reality? Have you already  started out on your own but it’s not quite working out? Do you have the WILL to WIN? WILL you do the things today that WILL get your career or your

Combating negativity workshop

February 7, 2020

Another week and another successful workshop.  This latest session run for BCHA centred around an individual’s negative beliefs and negative self talk.  Many people suffer from this needlessly with the result being that we become what we think about most of the time.  This half day workshop helped participants to begin to think about approaches

There really is a cure for your workplace stress

January 21, 2020

How are you feeling? How is your morale? Is it low and impacting on your productivity and creativity? Then it’s quite likely that you are suffering from the impact of work place stress. Having worked with a wide range of individuals at many levels of organisations who have dealt with the negative effects of workplace

Do you treat your car better than you treat yourself?

December 18, 2019

As I’m about to take my car for its annual MOT and service, it occurred to me that it’s around this time of year when we all get bombarded with adverts on TV, radio and billboards as well as those overhead signs on motorways.  All of them reminding us to check our cars to ensure they

10 Top Tips on how to stay emotionally intelligent over the Christmas period

December 11, 2019

Do not try to be happy! This false state of being will just make you feel worse rather than better. Instead try sitting with how you are feeling, don’t do anything to suppress it and you will find the feeling won’t last for long. Have the courage to say no to those invites where you usually

Helping reduce stress in students

November 20, 2019

At Irwin Edgehill Training we specialise in helping to reduce ‘unhealthy stress’ in students whether they be at school, college or university. As part of our series of workshops we work with students to explore what stress really is and how it is caused. We help them appreciate the importance of stress for motivation, but

Why you should work on yourself harder than you work on anything else!

October 21, 2019

When I first began my journey of personal development one of the prompts that my mentor kept on repeating to me was: ‘If you work on yourself harder than you work on anything else, everything else will take care of itself.’ When I started my journey all I wanted was the right knowledge, tools and

Always dare to do the right thing regardless of the consequences

September 23, 2019

Have you ever avoided making a decision, failed to attend an important meeting or not completed an activity because of the possible consequences? Have you ever reflected on your decision and in hindsight regretted it? I’m guessing the answer is probably ‘YES’. During a recent workshop I was running on Emotional Intelligence someone asked Tony,