by Catherine Stothart | Dec 16, 2025 | Extraversion and Introversion, Personality styles
Who will you be sharing Christmas with this year? What impact will personality differences have on your ability for getting on with everyone? I’ve been reflecting on this, as we will have some new people – and a baby – joining us at Christmas this year, and I’m...
by Catherine Stothart | Dec 16, 2021 | Extraversion and Introversion, Personality styles
Zoe Williams wrote this week in the Guardian about the things that can go wrong when we get together with family at Christmas. It’s not surprising that there are a few, let’s say, “tensions”, when we bring together people of different generations, add new...
by Catherine Stothart | May 27, 2021 | Extraversion and Introversion
Now that we are able to hug people again, we have the dilemma of deciding whether to hug or not. Your decision will be influenced by lots of things – including what the norm is in your family, friendship groups or culture. How comfortable you are with hugging is...
by Catherine Stothart | Jul 22, 2020 | Digital Age, Extraversion and Introversion
When we raced to learn how to use Teams/Zoom/Google Meet, as a substitute for face to face meetings with our colleagues, we didn’t have time to think about what might be the best way to communicate in the virtual world – we simply transferred our meetings from...
by Catherine Stothart | Mar 29, 2019 | Extraversion and Introversion, Resilience and re-energising
What Type of Mother Are You? Are you a “happy together” mother or an “action adventure” mother or, like me, a “love of learning” mother? I came across The M.O.M.S Handbook[1] (MOMS = mothers of many styles) twenty years ago when my children were aged 9 and 7. Based...
