Feather your own nest

Feather your own nest I offer tips, workshops and coaching to inspire positive change. Feather your own nest is run by psychologist, and mum of two Lisa Walsh

Feather your own nest was born out of a desire to educate, facilitate and inspire others to understand their true selves and help them live more authentically. Lisa conducts a powerful workshop to enable you to deal with burnout, manage your boundaries and maintain balance. She also offers individual coaching from her Sydney office to help rid you of those pesky limiting beliefs and take charge of your life. Having been a workshop junkie for all her adult life Lisa accumulated a vast amount of knowledge, but grew tired of the jaded seminar rooms, powerpoints and bland course material. This is where Feather your own nest was born to offer practical psychological training using inspiring material to understand and increase our own self-care.

11/04/2026

The mind body connection when it comes to stress is bigger than we think.

06/04/2026
27/03/2026

Good on Ant talking about su***de

23/03/2026

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16/03/2026
01/03/2026

Lovely way of describing counselling

21/02/2026

For anyone in pain ❤️‍🩹🌠

16/02/2026

Profound, regarding self distortion if brought up by a narcissistic parent.

Poignant and for those of us that have doggedly believed in someone’s potential more than they ever had, it can be so ha...
12/02/2026

Poignant and for those of us that have doggedly believed in someone’s potential more than they ever had, it can be so hard. But what about your own potential ?

"Have you ever fallen in love with someone else’s potential?

If so, you already know that it’s nothing but a constant string of disappointments.

But it also reveals a bias we can all be susceptible to: the willingness to bypass what the actions of a person are showing us, in exchange for an alternate reality we desperately want (need) to believe is real.

But what happens when that person with great potential happens to be… you?
And what’s at stake when we begin to believe more in our potential than in the proof of our everyday actions?

It's an unhealthy pattern I recently caught myself repeating without realizing it:

I had begun using my potential—my higher self; the human being beyond my mistakes, fears and inhibitions; the person I really think I am deep down—to bypass the person who was showing up here and now in my everyday actions.

It was an eye-opening revelation that left me with a profound realization:

You cannot believe in your potential more than you believe in the person you currently are."

—Jovanny Varela, Excerpt from Gentle Reminder 121: "You Are Not Your Potential: Why believing in 'who you could be' may be keeping you stuck"

I wrote this vulnerably honest piece about the dangers of falling in love with potential—your own.

Read the full piece: https://bit.ly/you-are-not-your-potential

Artwork by Andrzej Kulig

10/02/2026

Clever how confirmation bias can affect us

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Manly, NSW
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