Brilliant Blogs

Ahead of International Women’s Day on Sunday March 8th – a quick shout-out from Art of Brilliance.

What working as a Healthcare Assistant taught me…

I don’t mind people not reading the room. What I struggle with is people reading the room on behalf of everyone else.

If you’ve ever finished a message thread and realised you still don’t know how the other person is actually saying, welcome to emotional intimacy, translated for the over 40s!

My daughter’s a midwife. She’s present for the best of times, and sometimes the worst of times. Her 12-hour shifts regularly stretch into thirteen. Sometimes more. Because when you’re present at the very moment life begins, clocks become… flexible.

This week is Random Acts of Kindness Week. When we think about kindness, we often focus on the things we should do to make a difference.

When I was a kid, Pancake Day was simple. Lemon. Sugar. End of discussion. And to be fair, it was magnificent.

Question: What does your team have in common with a class of primary school pupils?

A globetrotting romp through history shows just how far we’ll go for love.

If you work in the NHS, the idea of ‘embracing change’ can feel faintly ridiculous. You’re not short of change. You’re swimming in it!

Productivity anxiety is the uneasy sense that you should always be doing more, faster. You feel stressed when you’re busy, guilty when you rest, and faintly haunted by the idea that whatever you’re doing… it’s probably not enough.

Negative capability is the ability to have two different ideas in your head at the same time. This is super useful in relationships because love is full of contradictions, messiness and mixed messages.