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‘Giving it a go’ rather than ‘getting it right’: Empathy and Sympathy

by jo1 February 202031 December 2022

Empathy and Sympathy I thought I had empathy figured out. I had learnt that sympathy was not as good and

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A conversation about anxiety with Beth King

by jo8 January 202031 December 2022

Beth and I are colleagues at RISE. The first time I met Beth, in a room of people she didn’t

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Diversity and inclusion are not just buzzwords

by jo27 November 201931 December 2022 1 comment

What do diversity and inclusion mean to you? Have they become buzzwords or do they hold meaning in a useful way?

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Your Own Words

by jo13 November 201931 December 2022

“The books, the authors who matter the most are those who speak to me and speak for me all those

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Fuck you, random man.

by jo26 June 201931 December 2022

I haven’t been feeling too mousy recently, but I did feel it today and I keep thinking over what I

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losing yourself in people-pleasing

by jo14 May 201931 December 2022

I haven’t posted a blog for over a month, after a period of posting every week. Why is this? It

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the struggle with sharing opinions

by jo3 April 201931 December 2022

As I write this, I am in the Czech Republic with twelve of my colleagues, figuring out together how we

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Living with anxious thoughts

by jo26 March 201931 December 2022

I’ve known for a while that doing something scary or challenging makes me feel pretty good afterwards. This can be

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Finding my spontaneous voice

by jo19 March 201931 December 2022 2 comments

In a previous post, I wrote about being a little mouse and how it has been wasting my headspace and

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Leaving Britain’s Conversation

by jo12 March 201931 December 2022 2 comments

Late one weekday evening last week, I received an unexpected message via Twitter.. The irony of this appearing only 2

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