Ask Tammi Anything - The Help We All Need In Pursuit Of What We Are Seeking

Today on the show is Tammi Miller, who was previously a guest in episode 38 after she released her terrific and first book, Paperback Therapy. She’s back today for a different type of episode - a take on the AMA format, but instead of me it’s Ask Tammi Anything. Tammi is a certified practising counsellor, a mental health therapist and as I mentioned, an author.

Having been doing Finding Nature for 18 months, something that has been absolutely apparent for those of us working in the field of sustainability and social impact, is the sense of collective struggle and individual strain to make a positive difference, that too often seems overwhelming. Across a spectrum of ‘what’s the point of carrying on’ to restrained rage at inaction and ongoing approvals of pollution, the individual actor perspective can feel daunting and insurmountable. Yet, we keep showing up. Digging deep, finding stores of resilience and capacity to try again. I’ve learnt - usually the hard way - that I need help, especially with my thinking and cognitive patterns that have a tendency towards binary options, a sensitivity to rejection and a seemingly always on radar for validation and acceptance. None of these help me to live and work anywhere close to my potential, and getting help with professionals has been and remains vital for me.

So knowing all of this from so many doing this work, I wanted to collect up questions from the audience and have a real professional offer insights, suggestions and healthy action to deal with the problems you’re experiencing - from challenging management to negotiating information acquisition and avoiding doom scrolling, to the role and value of therapy as a tool for any and all of us. Tammi is an expert, and as someone who straddles the worlds of counselling and corporates, offers valuable knowledge as both an expert and a practitioner dealing with the daily goings on of workplaces and colleagues and families and all of our other obligations as responsible adults.

Tammi is easy to find online. Check her out on Instagram and LinkedIn, her website, plus go and get a copy of her book, Paperback Therapy. I know professional help with counsellors has helped me enormously, so if you think anything we’ve discussed here you’d benefit from - or your whole team - get in contact with Tammi.

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