Dr Toby | The Burnout Queens

Hello from London!

September 8, 2014

Wow, summer went by so fast. Autumn is definitely in the air in London. This summer was exceptionally hot and beautiful, but there are plenty of creative ways to cool off!

At the beautiful Victoria & Albert Museum you can enjoy the coolness of the courtyard with tea and strawberries & cream while you watch the adventurous amongst us ditch the clothes for some splashing around!

This is just the greatest place, everywhere you look there is beauty…even the cafeteria!

September brings a rush of art fairs and exhibits like the retrospective on the life of writer Virginia Woolf at the National Portrait Gallery. We couldn’t miss this opportunity and it was fascinating…and rather sad.

One of the coolest things about London is that even when you just have a bunch of errands to do you can head to someplace like Piccadilly to accomplish all. Certainly takes the boring out of errand day! We spend hours (with apologies to our feet) meandering through side streets and shopping arcades. Then happily land in an oasis of calm like St. James Square right in the middle of the mad-mix.

September always brings a sense of ‘newness’. Must be the many years of anticipating a new pencil box for school! Well we are busy here designing new classes and courses which will be available shortly online to all of you. (Watch for announcements.) Planning workshops we are being invited to give and in- between it all still dashing off to the seaside days out and of course…art fairs! Another invitation just arrived.

Enjoy your September!

An interest could be a beginning!

September 4, 2014

If you get all choked up watching a news piece on a crisis or a touching story of helping–take note, this could be an interest you could build on.

You could take that interest one step further. Why not email (contact) the organisation and ask how you could get involved. There may be several options that suit you and your sensitivities and gifts.

Your new interest could just be a new beginning.

xx The Burnout Queens

If something is a struggle it is wrong for your life

September 3, 2014

Ladies how are you aging?

September 3, 2014

Ladies, how ARE you aging? This question may surprise you, but The Burnout Queens know that what we are about to suggest is rarely, if ever, what a woman does!

If we ask do you make lists? then all of you will say, “of course, what woman can hold all the details she needs to remember in her head…best to write them down”

But that’s not the kind of list we are meaning. We know stuff and things are readily written, but what about this powerful list?

Have you a list of strengths about yourself that have gotten better with age? Did we just hear a groan, sigh, silence?! How many of us are encouraged to write this list? Let’s pretend you do have such a list handy (and you will after reading this) and ask you again.

HAVE YOU A LIST OF STRENGTHS ABOUT YOURSELF THAT HAVE GOTTEN BETTER WITH AGE? If the answer is:

Yes, then embrace them fully and enjoy the power and wisdom of knowing and accepting.

No, then start your list (this kind of list not the stuff) and act on them from today onward. Still wise and powerful.

With respect — The Burnout Queens xx

It’s ‘Back to’ everything time

September 2, 2014

Autumn has definitely arrived on our doorstep here in London. There is a coolness to the morning air, the nights are drawing in earlier, and the leaves are turning colour and falling.

It’s back to school, back to work, back to the rat race we all have a love/hate relationship with.

Sooner, rather than later, all the family schedules and work projects will have consumed us and we will be thinking longingly (perhaps excitedly for some) of that next holiday or break. You know, that time when you can just Be with Yourself uninterrupted. Here’s our Tuesday remedy before the next holiday arrives:

Remember who you are outside of your job: Take a little piece of you to the office — a family photo, a picture of the last trip to the beach (no this isn’t me, I’m not quite that old) or a favourite art piece.

Nothing like a visual reminder to keep You on track with You.

Until that next moment…Grab Life by the Crown! — love The Burnout Queens