Every couple of months or so I meet with Claire Pedrick for a 1:1 supervision session.

It’s a complete gift of an experience where we unpack and untangle the mushed-up things in my head.

I love it.

How I arrive | With a page full of things that have been on my mind - of thoughts, experiences and feelings that have stuck with me, or that I’m stuck on. I’m so keen to get started! I know there’s useful information and insight in there, but it’s hard to see it as everything is tangled up together.

I absolutely love a good declutter.

Opening something up, seeing what’s there, clearing out what’s no longer needed or relevant anymore, and then organising the rest.

So satisfying!

Every area of my life benefits from a good declutter, and so does my brain.

When you’re doing - or being, or experiencing - something for the first time, do you reach for an existing recipe?

I know I do, it’s been my default.

It can feel easier to look to someone else for the ‘right’ answer or approach.

After all, they’ve done the hard work and figured out the solution - surely if it works for them it will work for me?

Especially if it’s a proven formula, or it seems to be working for other people, or it’s simply the way it’s always done.

And yet so often, it hasn’t worked out that way. The results have been a mixed bag.

Feedback is one of my favourite topics to coach around. There’s so much to unpack and explore, and a lot we can reframe in a short amount of time.

While most often we’re working through how to give and receive it, there can also be times when we want more than we’re getting - because how can we improve if we don’t know where we are?

We just need to remember to ask a useful question, so that we get some useful information in response - instead of defaulting to “Could you give me some feedback?”.

I love fitting pieces together to create a picture - in all areas of life.

It’s such a joy to make sense of things and see how they come together, to join the dots, to see the clarity emerge and the wood for the trees.

I know now that taking time at the beginning to sort through the pieces is an important part of the process.

In a puzzle that’s finding the edges, grouping obvious colours, gathering things to build around. And it’s a pretty similar process in other situations too.

I know how useful it is, and I am always, always tempted to skip it, because I’m impatient to get going and want to be onto the satisfying part!