Book Reviews

Book Reviews
Finance
Money Saving

{Gifted} Personal Finance for Dummies-Book Review

Finance and numbers have never been my favourite topics. I struggled with Maths in high school and, from what I saw, women weren’t expected to be that clued-up on finance anyway. However, this all changed for me two years ago when my partner and I split up, and I had to learn, very quickly and […]

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Book Reviews

{Gifted} A Trans Man Walks Into A Gay Bar- Book Review

For my latest book review I wanted to focus on one which celebrates the queer community, and more importantly, the trans community. A Trans Man Walks Into a Gay Bar by Harry Nicholas and published by Jessica Kingsley, is a coming of age mixed with self/sex discovery story in which Harry wrote about his experience of […]

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Book Reviews
Coaching

{Gifted} Raising Self-Esteem in Adults- Book Review

As a mindset and well-being coach, I am always looking for more practical tools and techniques to use with my clients, and also with friends who come to me for support and advice. Low self-esteem is the most common problem that women come to me with, especially mums. Somewhere after becoming mums we start to […]

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Book Reviews
Coaching

{Gifted} The Queer Mental Health Workbook- Book Review

What challenges do the queer community face? I’ll be honest, 12 months ago I would only have been able to give you a basic answer to the above. However, in the past 12 months, I have been working with the Albert Kennedy Trust (AKT) as a volunteer mentor for young LGBTQ+ people who are at […]

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Book Reviews
Coaching

{Gifted} Looking After Your Autistic Self- Book Review

Why being educated in autism is so important to me. I first became familiar with autism while looking after a young boy in my early 20s. He had recently been diagnosed and I had been introduced to his parents through a friend. At the time, I was preparing to apply for a carers role at […]

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