BIKINI SHOW PREP & SHOW DAY
I slept for 12 hours last Saturday. I’m so glad my body finally let me do it. I’m going to level with you here… I’ve been unable to sleep more than 5/6 in recent months as I’ve been in a constant state of anxiety since lockdown eased and work went MANIC in April… then the […]
How To Stay Focused And Avoid Distractions From The Masses
Distractions are everywhere! It doesn’t take much – merely a conversation with someone, and our minds can be spinning off on new thought patterns, or coming up with new ideas. Or there is of course the online marketers, tempting us with things that, let’s face it, most of the time we don’t really need! Navigating […]
Handling Lack of Support from Friends or Family
So, first things first for a bit of context! If you haven’t been following my stories on social media then you won’t know that a few weekends ago was an absolute disaster at the Pure Elite show in Margate… but with ALL the lessons learned that weekend (there were many!) I picked myself up, dusted myself off, […]
A Lesson To Help You Achieve Your Goal
Yay Friday is finally here! It’s Friday, and I am particularly excited for Friday this week because tomorrow I’ll be getting up early, taking a long drive to Margate, and donning a sparkly bikini on stage! 👙✨ Unless you’ve been following me on social media then you probably haven’t got a clue what I’m on about because […]
How To Build Mental Stamina And Resilience
We’ve all got a juggling act going on these days. There’s just so much pressure to experience all that life has to offer. We feel that we should be excelling in our careers by either climbing the corporate ladder, or growing our side hustles, and businesses… this alongside experiencing daily personal growth, looking and feeling […]
I didn’t take my own advice…
It was one of the hottest days of the year (this Tuesday) and as most people in the UK went to sleep that night with no duvet, their windows wide open, and with very little clothing on as possible… I took myself off to bed in my winter pyjamas, my dressing gown, fur slipper boots […]
Reframing When Life Throws You a Curveball
I’m talking curveballs today and I’m sure you’ve had a few thrown at you… I certainly have! There are many things that are outside of our control and these things all pose a threat to throw us off course at some point. You can do all the planning in the world, but there will be […]
How To Stop Fearing Failure
So let’s talk about the F word – an action or consequence that so many fear, yet without it we wouldn’t experience much of life at all as life would be dull without it. That word is Failure. I’m sure you’ve heard before that you should be leaning into failure, and on paper it makes […]
Lessons From Adversity
Today’s post is dedicated to a little story about my week… a spoiler alert – It’s not been fantastic! BUT there are some lessons to share with you from it! So, some vermin decided to hack our websites on Monday morning and completely destroy everything. And I mean EVERYTHING! This was for both CJC Hair and Makeup […]
How To Deal With Disappointment
We all experience disappointment at some point in our lives, I’ve experienced it countless times in respect of myself, as well as of other people or circumstance. It feels highly frustrating at the time and it can also knock our confidence in ourselves or others and end up holding us back in life as we […]
Why you shouldn’t care what others think of you
So here’s the thing, what others think of you is none of your business. It’s also damaging to your mental health, and here’s why: When you care what others think of you then you are telling yourself that other people matter more than you do. And if you believe that everyone is more important than […]
How to Build Your Self-Esteem In 6 Easy Ways
Ok, I want to share with you 6 easy, and also quite fun, ways of building your self-esteem! But first, why would you want to build your self-esteem? Because the level of your self-esteem determines not only your level of satisfaction with life but also the level of experiences you have in it. And it’s […]
4 Ways to Increase Your Self-Esteem Today
Many believe that building self-esteem and increasing self-worth is a long road. A road that potentially requires the aid of a psychotherapist to uncover things in their past that is causing their poor self-esteem and limiting their ability to view themselves in a positive light today. While there may be some deep-rooted events that need […]
My 5 Most Helpful Habits
Still rolling with this whole goal setting, planning, routine theme right down to the nitty-gritty of habits this week. Because habits are the glue that holds our lives together! Our habits are what shape our days, our weeks, and ultimately our futures. One set of habits can take us one way and another set of […]
The 3 Mistakes With Routine Building
So last week I shared 3 common mistakes with goal-setting and this week I’m sharing 3 mistakes when it comes to routine building – yes, there’s a bit of a pattern emerging here! So, how beneficial really is having a routine? The answer, in short, is very. “But Camilla” I hear you cry, “Routines are […]
Lessons I’ve Learned in Life & Business
I’ve learned a lot in my 33 years on this planet but this week’s podcast episode would have been a ridiculously long one if I called them all out. Instead, I’ve picked the most important lessons to share with you on the #NoFilterNeeded podcast. The first of the lessons I’m going to expand on a […]
The Personal Brand Of You
This post is inspired by a webinar that I did last week with the lovely Petra Smith, founder of marketing agency Squirrels & Bears. The webinar was entitled ‘How to Build You Brand Online & Offline’ and while it was aimed at business owners and freelancers, I felt that there was actually a lot in […]
Have You Been Using An Excuse?
In recent months I’ve heard from a handful of business managers that some of their employees are refusing to go back to work due to COVID. While there may be some legit cases, most are excuses. Because for some, furlough is a breeze – doing nothing and getting paid for it is a dream come […]
Lessons From My Podcast & Dropping Perfectionism
So today the #NoFilterNeeded podcast is exactly 5 months old… and what a surreal 5 months it’s been, eh? As the months have gone on it’s certainly got a lot easier and quicker to edit the podcast – it took me nearly 10 hours to edit the first episode! My interview with Zoe was recorded […]
Are You Meeting Your Needs?
According to Maslow we have 5 human needs; basic needs, psychological needs and self-fulfillment needs. The catch, however, is that the self-fulfillment needs cannot be met without the psychological needs, and those needs can’t be met until the basic needs have been fulfilled. So, in short, you cannot live to your full potential unless you […]
Is Your Environment Supporting You?
My awareness around environments perhaps borders obsessive, but only because I know first hand just how damaging the wrong environment can be to one’s mental health and energy. It doesn’t matter how much work you do on yourself in terms of personal development, mindset or meditation practices, if you keep placing yourself in an unsupportive […]
Don’t Fall Into The Diet Trap
This may seem like a random post but I felt compelled to share this with you after my chat with Tom Blackman on the #NoFilterNeeded Podcast last week. We discuss lots of things but one of them was what Tom calls ‘The Diet Trap’ and it got me thinking about my own past experiences with […]
7 Things That Are Destroying Your Self-Confidence
Confidence is a word that is thrown about quite a lot. Confidence means different things and looks a different way to each of us, but generally, the essence of self-confidence is the ability to believe in yourself to complete the task in hand no matter the odds or the adversity. There are 3 main obstacles […]
Is Your Lifestyle Working With You?
Everything we know is made up of cycles. There is the movement of the planets, the oceanic tides, and our very own seasons here on earth which come around each and every year. We have cycles of sleep and wake times, cycles of blood around our bodies, and let’s not forget our breathing cycles. And […]
A Crash Course in Acceptance
I feel like we’re all having a crash course in acceptance at the moment. There are things so outside of our control and on such a huge scale that we simply have no choice but to surrender and accept. And there’s something rather peaceful in that. A few weeks back when the prospect of lockdown […]
7 Tips To Boost Productivity In Self-Isolation
When one door closes another door opens. So while our front doors are remaining firmly shut during this period of self-isolation, that then swings the door of the mind wide open. Now, the door of the mind can open into a land of opportunity or a total minefield of fear and anxiety, so let’s make […]
The New Journey
It’s funny how things work out… actually, no, funny isn’t the right word, that’s just a stock phrase which we’re all so used to using; and not just phrases, stock everything – stock lifestyles, stock clothing, stock emotions. The word “funny” would be a huge downplay over the monumentality of what is happening across the […]
This Time Last Year…
I was at my wits end this time last year… I had a TOTAL meltdown while working at my mum’s house last February – which was my temporary office space in her attic when I closed my Highgate office – I just completely lost it while sitting at my laptop looking at my accounts and […]
Life: Do It Your Way
There’s been a real shift in language these last few years and buzz words such as ‘conscious,’ ‘mindful’ and ‘purpose’ are featuring more and more across magazine articles, social media feeds and being used in people’s everyday language. I’ve always been pretty straight-talking; none of this wishy-washy vocab or jumping on these hippy-dippy trends, but […]
GOALS: Start where you are. Use what you have.
It’s usually around mid-January when our energy and motivation for our new year’s goals begin to dwindle. Our grand ideas of going after big, meaty goals for 2020 and our promise to take better care of ourselves; like managing our workload better, eating the right foods, abstaining from alcohol and hauling our asses into the […]