Jazmin Pursell Consulting

Jazmin Pursell Consulting Providing Boundaries-centred supervision for professionals, Coaching, Masterclasses + workshops
Jazmin holds qualifications in Social Work + Mental Health

04/08/2026

One of the biggest lessons I’ve learned is that the quality of our questions shapes the quality of our conversations.

“How are you?” is kind, but it’s also predictable.

Most of us have answered it so many times that the response has become automatic.

That’s why I often begin supervision, leadership consultation and reflective practice with a different question.

Not because I’m trying to be different, but because different questions invite different thinking.

Whether you’re leading a team, supporting clients or checking in with a colleague, try changing the question.

You might be surprised by the conversation that follows.

If you’re looking for supervision that goes beyond case discussion or leadership support that gives you space to think through complex situations,
I’d love to work with you.

Find out more via the link in my bio.

Have you ever walked away from a difficult interaction at work and thought, “Why did I react like that?”Many of us assum...
30/07/2026

Have you ever walked away from a difficult interaction at work and thought, “Why did I react like that?”

Many of us assume those moments say something about our confidence or capability. But sometimes they’re actually automatic stress responses.

I put together this simple visual to show what the fight, flight and freeze responses can look like in helping professionals.

If you’d like to learn more, I explore this topic in Episode 44 of Not Another PD, including why the fawn response is different.

🎧 Listen here: https://open.spotify.com/episode/3TToaUhOTGqE7faYgDS7LJ?si=Mw7bnq_YTIifOFglt38aow&utm_source=copy-link

I’d love to hear what stood out to you after listening. 😊

30/07/2026

Can we really expect our teams to be vulnerable with us... if they’ve never seen us be vulnerable first?

As leaders, we often encourage reflective practice, psychological safety and open conversations.

But are we role modelling them ourselves?

In this clip from this week’s episode of Not Another PD, I reflect on why I openly share the times I’ve experienced the fight, flight, freeze and fawn responses throughout my own career.

Not because I’m proud of every moment.
But because leadership isn’t about pretending we’ve got it all figured out.

It’s about creating the kind of environment where people feel safe enough to be honest, reflect and learn.

🎧 Listen to Episode 44: Fight, Flight, Freeze or Fawn? What Helping Professionals and Leaders Need to Know wherever you get your podcasts.

28/07/2026

Is this the standard we’ve set for ourselves?

Working through lunch.

Working overtime without being paid.

Delaying our GP, physio or other health appointments because work comes first.

Working from home when we’re unwell instead of taking the time we need to recover.

Most leaders would never encourage a colleague or team member to work this way.

Yet many of us hold ourselves to standards we’d never expect of anyone else.

As leaders, we’re often far more caring towards our teams and clients than we are towards ourselves.

Leading others starts with leading ourselves.

If this resonated with you, I’ve created a free Work From Home Environment Self-Audit to help you reflect on your own work habits, routines and environment.

It’s also a practical resource to use with your team to start conversations about healthier, more sustainable ways of working.

Comment “WFH” below and I’ll send you the link to download it via DM.

Once you’ve had a chance to complete it, I’d love to hear what’s one practical change you’d like to make for yourself or your team.

Sometimes when leaders say, “My workload is ridiculous,” they’re talking about an excessive workload.Other times, they’r...
28/07/2026

Sometimes when leaders say, “My workload is ridiculous,” they’re talking about an excessive workload.

Other times, they’re talking about something else entirely.

Constant interruptions.
Supporting an overwhelmed team.
Carrying responsibility for high-risk decisions.
Making difficult decisions all day long.

Feeling like you’ve been busy from the moment you started work... but somehow the things that mattered most are still sitting on tomorrow’s to-do list.

Different experiences.
The same words.

“My workload is ridiculous.”
Before jumping straight to solutions, it can be worth pausing to ask:
What’s actually making it feel so overwhelming?

Because understanding what’s sitting underneath the feeling is often the first step towards finding the right support.

If you’re not already on my email list, I’d love to have you there. I share practical leadership reflections, resources and updates that I don’t always share on social media.

You can join via the link in my bio.

27/07/2026

“My workload is ridiculous.”

I hear this all the time. And honestly, sometimes people are absolutely right. Some leaders are managing workloads that simply aren’t workable or sustainable.

But here’s something I’ve noticed.

Two leaders can say exactly the same sentence and be talking about completely different problems.

One leader genuinely has too much work. Another spends their entire day being interrupted, answering questions or making decisions. The result feels exactly the same, but the solution won’t be.

That’s why I don’t like jumping straight into giving advice. Before we start talking about solutions, I want to understand what’s actually making the workload feel so heavy.

When you’ve caught yourself thinking, “My workload is ridiculous,” what was really sitting underneath it?

23/07/2026

When did unpaid work become “just part of the job”?

It doesn’t usually happen all at once.
It’s the email you answer on your day off.

The lunch break you work through.
The five-minute phone call that turns into twenty.

The “just one more thing” before you leave.

Over time, those moments can become so normal that we stop questioning them.

In today’s episode of Not Another PD, we’re having an honest chat about unpaid work in the helping professions, why it becomes so normalised, and why it’s not just about having better boundaries.

🎙️ Episode 43 is out now and I can’t wait to hear what you think.

23/07/2026

Are you working for free without even realising it?

Tomorrow’s episode of Not Another PD is about unpaid work in the helping professions.

We’re talking about the different ways unpaid work can creep in without us even realising it. Things like replying to emails on your day off, working through your lunch break, taking work calls after hours, or doing “just one more thing” before you leave.

We’ll also talk about why this isn’t just about needing better boundaries. Sometimes workplaces can make unpaid work feel normal, but I’m here to tell you that it’s not.

Let’s have a chat about where the line is between being helpful and giving away your expertise for free.

🎙️ A new episode of Not Another PD is released tomorrow, and I can’t wait to have this chat with you.

There are moments in our careers that stay with us forever.This was one of mine.For a long time, I thought the workplace...
20/07/2026

There are moments in our careers that stay with us forever.

This was one of mine.

For a long time, I thought the workplace incident was the reason I left.

Looking back now, I realise it wasn’t.

It was the leadership response afterwards.

That experience changed the direction of my career and shaped the way I lead, supervise and work with organisations today.

As leaders, we won’t always be able to prevent difficult situations from happening.

But we can choose how we respond when they do.

Sometimes that response is what people remember most.

If you’re looking to better support your leaders and create psychologically safer workplaces, I’d love to help.

I provide leadership supervision, reflective practice and leadership training for organisations, as well as leadership supervision for individual leaders.

Feel free to send me a message if you’d like to find out more.

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