Balkin Coaching Leadership Insights

"Tumble outta bed and I stumble to the kitchen Pour myself a cup of ambition Yawn and stretch and try to come to life" Dolly Parton Click here for the full music video "working 9-5" https://youtu.be/UbxUSsFXYo4 Two clients in the past week have told me of times during their career where they needed to take an extended break from work due to extreme exhaustion. My client yesterday is a driven and successful businesswoman, managing a complex business with competing stakehold

One in five Australians aged 16-85 experience a mental illness in any year. https://www.blackdoginstitute.org.au/docs/default-source/factsheets/facts_figures.pdf?sfvrsn=8 The 12th September in Australia is R U OK Day, the day we are meant to pause think about mental health and check in with our colleagues, friends and family. Caring about others is certainly not a once a year event, and discussing mental health is certainly not a once a year event. If you stop and think ab

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There are four aspects of health that impact our wellbeing: physical health, sleep, food and exercise. Physical health: In my undergraduate psychology we learnt about power of the mind when it comes ot healing the body. A recent study on the placebo effect - (ie creating the the mindset that people will heal), accounted for clinically significant benefits in an estimated 60-90% of conditions, including pain, anxiety, depression, Parkinson’s disease, asthma, allergies, hype