Written by Volker Ballueder An old Japanese Buddhist saying suggests that nothing is permanent, and change is constant. Autumn is in full swing and the leaves are falling from the trees. Winter is coming, it is getting colder. As we start to turn the heating back on and prepare for the...
Written by Volker Ballueder Holiday season is over, and I am back with another post for Scentered. Taking a break is very important. We all know that, in theory. For some people it is a lot easier than for others to let go, take a break and relax. For others...
Written by Volker Ballueder When being asked to write about success, I often answer ‘which bit’? It might sound arrogant, but success is a very wide topic which I have researched for many years. I never did a PhD, but I didn’t give up learning after university, and I decided...
By Lucy Higgins, ICF accredited Life and Mindset Coach @bigtalkformums “In the rush to return to normal, use this time to consider which parts of normal are worth rushing back to.” Dave Hollis. In April 2020, you may remember this quote was doing the rounds on all social media platforms. Little did...
We’ve all come into contact with someone that’s suffered from breast cancer. Yet it’s still a common misconception that breast cancer only targets older women. It’s a lesser-known fact that women and men of all ages can suffer this terrible disease too. Whilst that’s pretty depressing in itself, it doesn’t...
Written by Volker Ballueder When being asked to write about a year in lockdown, I figured I look back at what happened back in February 2020. Having had a continuous cough for 6 weeks, and people moving away from me on the train, I had no idea that - most...
Children around the UK have finally returned to the classroom, after a long period of home schooling and COVID restrictions, it’s what parents everywhere had wanted for so long. A sense of normality, structure and routine could now resume. For many children, seeing their friends and teachers once more was...
A feeling almost anybody can relate to and is in an incomprehensible way almost normalized in today’s society is stress. Every day, we find ourselves facing many challenges on both personal and professional level which can build up to a feeling of stress or anxiety. The work keeps piling up...
Written by Volker Ballueder We all agree that 2020 didn’t turn out to be the year most of us had planned or were expecting. It doesn’t make much sense to remind ourselves of what we could have done differently, or better, or how we could have prepared better. Should we...
New year’s resolutions are a funny thing. We all make them but how long do they actually last? For the vast majority of us, they’ve already been abandoned by the middle of February. Good habits, especially those that are quite different from our current lifestyle are difficult to form. They...
Life these days is lived at a thousand miles per hour. It seems that we’ve got into the mindset that if we’re not constantly doing something, then we’re not productive, successful or popular enough. Consequently, our phones ping with unimportant notifications, we rush from one activity to another, checking off...
Mornings used to be crazy in our house. Invariably I’d hit the snooze button one too many times and wind up running late. The kids, of course, would seize the opportunity and do their level best to not get ready on time. Stress levels would rise. I’d end up shouting,...
