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11/11/2025

It's been an absolute privilege facilitating workshops for Catalyst Performance Agronomy Regional teams both online and in person over the past few weeks.

These teams are right amongst their busiest time of the year but were still able to be pro-active, stop, reflect and take the time to look after their businesses biggest asset - themselves.

This industry is tough - high constant cognitive load, battling the weather, farmer and contractor expectations and significant seasonal workload peaks.

It's not easy to start the conversations about stress, burnout, anxiety and overwhelm. This is often even harder for rural people, and men - but the open-ness from these teams has been incredible (I've really loved the banter & laughs too!)

I look forward to hearing more about you all nailing your wellbeing goals!

05/11/2025

Are you constantly moving between "threat" and "drive" systems and rarely dipping into the "soothing system"?

This is a huge pattern with clients I am currently seeing - their soothe systems are tiny in comparison to the others creating overload, stress, anxiety and a pretty meaningless life.

Tips to help activate and strengthen our soothing system include:

* Being kinder to ourselves (speak to ourselves the way we would to a friend)
* Mini pauses during the day - taking notice
*Having a laugh
*Warmth - hot shower or bath/heat pack
*Gentle stretching
*Music
*Slow breathing
*Hugs

We are not designed to be constantly in a state of threat and drive. Our ancestors had periods of intensity and periods of rest.

I am 100% confident that many of us could really benefit from more time spent in our soothing system - give it a try for yourself and see what happens!

24/10/2025

Love being able to give back to our awesome wee community in Cromwell! This year, Workitwell sponsored the Goldfields school duathlon and a nice bonus was seeing Mila and Neve make the podium - great job team!

07/10/2025

Society often equates success to busyness. Particularly when you are self-employed - the message is that if you are constantly hustling, busy, working 100 hours a week, aiming for bigger, better, more, that means you have it together, you are doing well in life, you are 'successful'.

But sometimes when we are really busy hustling, we also lose sight of why we started a business in the first place. Most people will name autonomy and flexibility to enable time for fun, family etc as some of the biggest drivers.

But what is the point of working so hard creating a business, the graft, unpredictability, uncertainty and cognitive load of being self-employed if you never actually get to reap the benefits of the 'autonomy and flexibility'?

Last month maxed out my worklife flexibility and was spent with family Northern Territory and East coast of Australia - exceptional😄

04/09/2025

The more workshops I facilitate the more I acknowledge it's not really about the content.

Its about the connection. The ability to be real, human and authentic. To listen, validate and acknowledge that sometimes life is actually just bloody tough. To bring people together through sharing my own and each other's challenges, to have a laugh, and feel a bit less alone.

Its a privilege to share my story to help others, its a privelege to have knowledge and skills backed by science that can massively enhance wellbeing - but the biggest privilege is being the person that brings the "glue".

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29/08/2025

Super exciting news for Cromwell. Park run is coming!

27/08/2025

Burnout can creep up on you. Sometimes without you even noticing.

Workshop participant comments:

👉 "I'm so burnt out I am essentially just embers"

"After your workshop I realised I am definitely burnt out and I need some help"

"I've been running on fumes for years, and its not healthy"

Burnout occurs due to chronic work related stress and a complex interplay of both workplace and individual dynamics. Ideally solutions need to happen at both levels.

Workitwell helps organisations and individuals catch warning signs & risk factors early and intervene with best practice techniques.

Do you see any of these warning signs in yourself or others?

21/08/2025

I laughed, and cried reading this book. What an incredibly brave, raw portrait of the challenges of parenting & the realities of battling hospital admission and mental health diagnoses.

Thank you Sinead, for sharing your journey and making those of us who endured similar feel validated and seen 🥰

Highly recommend this read to any Mum or family battling post babies!

14/08/2025

Did you know this week is Women's Health week?

Let's be honest, we are often really great at putting our kids health first, our partners, our parents, but not so great at focusing on ourselves.

I really believe it's time to turn the tide on this - time to value ourselves, be proactive, put ourselves first occasionally and be much better citizens because of it!

As someone who has experienced PND I am really interested in the role of hormones on our mental health. I offer support to women with PND/anxiety and perimenopause/menopause. Get in touch to find out more!

10/08/2025

Awesome "Managing Stress & Building Resilience" workshop with the Felton Road Winery team last week.

Fantastic discussions, collaboration and problem solving to create real, meaningful team and individual wellbeing action plans.

Thank you so much to Gareth King, Nicola and Sarah for your foresight & recognition that a strong, cohesive, productive team has high levels of wellbeing.

Waiting until your team experiences burnout and then actioning support and processes is a poor business strategy. Early pro-active intervention matters.

Keep up the awesome work Felton Road team!
.. And, your wine was delicious - thank you! 😃

01/08/2025

5 signs you need a Winter wellbeing WOF check!

* Angry & frustrated for no specific reason
* Constantly tired
* Chaos is your normal
* Over-thinking
* Never feeling enough

Invest in a 30 or 60 minute session - your brain & body deserve it!
👉 https://www.workitwell.co.nz/

20/07/2025

Our final Wellbeing breakfast 2025 was completed last week and what a fantastic one it was! Huge thanks to Santana Minerals for your sponsorship of this event.

Sincere thank you to Highlands - Experience the Exceptional for your considerable support of these projects, your flexibility and enthusiasm.

Huge thanks to Karen and Beth Cromwell Community House, the admin superstars behind funding applications, reminders, last minute comms and support with marketing efforts.

We are grateful for multiple businesses and community providers who have created the opportunity for Cromwell to learn more about staying strong, looking after ourselves and others.

Its been an absolute privilege to facilitate these workshops - hopefully small beginnings can make a big difference.

We have received endless positive feedback but these are the ones that I have loved the most:

"We need to keep reminding staff it is ok to seek help and make it a healthy habit"

"Keep talking"

"Stress is natural and healthy but learning to recognise and cope with it, is essential to keeping us healthy"

The breakfasts have come to a close, but keep an eye on our future innovations - there is more cool stuff to come! :)

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