This started life as a newsletter I sent to my myofascial release clients earlier this week. I've had such a positive response from it I thought I would share it more widely, I hope it offers some calm in these uncertain times.   How are you? No really, how are you? I hope you're doing [...] The post Words of Wisdom in Troubled Times appeared first on Ellie Guest ..read more

My approach to health and wellness has changed so much over the years. From being in the Army and having expected goals and standards to being a self employed business owner where I am master of my own choices. So often we focus on the end goals of many aspects of health and wellness, rather [...] The post My Approach to Health and Wellness appeared first on Ellie Guest ..read more

I’ve been talking to other business owners about their health recently. There seems to be a range of views around how, as a small business owner (and usually the only person in the business), health affects your business success. I see a fundamental link between your health (which is being free of illness and in [...] The post Connecting the Dots Between Your Health and Business Success appeared first on Ellie Guest ..read more

Working at home is great, but it can negatively affect your work life balance. You get to do what you want, when you want, and usually wearing your favourite Sweaty Betty leggings and slippers. There can be a downside though; you don’t ever truly switch off from work. Just five more minutes one evening after [...] The post Six Steps to Create Work Life Balance When You Work at Home appeared first on Ellie Guest ..read more

I've been seeing the signs of burnout is so many business owners recently. So I wanted to share five things that I did in my business to prevent business owner burnout. What is burnout? I just wanted to set the scene here for what burnout is and the way I look at it. Total burnout [...] The post Five Ways to Prevent Business Owner Burnout appeared first on Ellie Guest ..read more

I often share tips on self care on my social media (follow me on IG here if you haven't already), I see loads of other people sharing tips on self care. Self care is obviously a big thing, and we have to keep telling ourselves that too. But it's obviously it's not working, the tips [...] The post Self Care Doesn’t Work appeared first on Ellie Guest ..read more

What are the Symptoms and Behaviours of Burnout? Strange things happened to me when I was going through burnout. There were the symptoms of the actual burnout; exhaustion, brain fog, apathy, confusion, overwhelm and physical pain. There were the unhelpful thoughts that came along to accompany the symptoms; what’s wrong with me, I’m a failure, [...] The post Secret Burnout Behaviours appeared first on Ellie Guest ..read more

Strong, capable, fearless. Able to do anything, take on all the responsibility, do all the things. That’s the image I wanted to give to the world, from childhood to my recent adult life, I wanted you to think I had it all together. Slowly and secretly I was losing my energy, motivation and enthusiasm for [...] The post How I Healed My Symptoms of Burnout appeared first on Ellie Guest ..read more

How Burnout Changed My Life For The Better... When I look back over the times I went through burnout, I wonder how I could let it happen three times. Why didn’t I learn the first time? The first time I experienced it I was in a high profile role within the organisation I worked in. [...] The post How Burnout Changed My Life for the Better appeared first on Ellie Guest ..read more

Although you're all different, and find different things stressful, the physiology of what’s happening in your body when you feel stressed is pretty much universal. Fight, flight, freeze Way back when there were wild animals hunting you and trying to eat you, you physiologically developed a sequence of responses that helped keep you alive. This [...] The post What Happens When You Feel Stressed appeared first on Ellie Guest ..read more