Your Zen Life - with Summer Bradshaw

16/06/2026

It is my belief that you are supposed to have bad days.
It is impossible not to.

That might sound contradictory coming from someone who is an expert in human flourishing, but let me explain why. 🌺 🧠

Our psychology is not designed for a flatline of contentment. It never has been. And yet so many of those I work with, arrive carrying a quiet guilt and personal disappointment, that a bad day means they’re failing.

It isn’t. It’s evidence that you’re human.

This is also what the science tells us.
Positive psychology doesn’t study the absence of bad days, it looks at why we might have landed there, what allows us to move through them, the tools we need to equip ourslelves with to help our wellbeing and give us greater control around how we get back to a place of feeling good.

I always work on the -10 to +10 scale.

Our emotions naturally move up and down that scale, that’s normal and expected, not a sign something’s wrong.

In my own work, I call this the Flourish Cycle. We move through flow when everything feels aligned and energised, then into friction, where resistance can creep in and sometimes into depletion if we’ve pushed past our signals for too long.

This isn’t failure! It’s information from your mind and body. It’s your nervous system doing exactly what it was designed to do.

The problem isn’t the bad day. The problem is the story we tell about it, (and I keep seeing too many people online trying to completely eliminate our bad days!)

It’s really, really ok (and necessary) to have bad days.

Chasing perfect is exhausting, impossible and it’s also based on a misunderstanding of how flourishing actually works.
You don’t flourish despite the difficult days. You flourish through them and often, because of them .

So if today is a hard one you’re not doing anything wrong, just ask yourself, ‘What it is I need today?’

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Hi, I’m Summer,
Positive psychology coach and practitioner for w°men in business. The place where life satisfaction + wellbeing, meets ambition. 🧠🏎️🍃

10/06/2026

💛

This year I have hit my next level.
Personally and professionally.

Not going to lie, it’s been incredibly HARD.

Over the last 3 years I have fully committed to showing up for myself and healing in as many ways as possible.

Coaching.
Counselling.
Reiki
Meditation.
Sounds baths.
Nature.
Events that put me in rooms where I felt true connection from amazing supportive, inspirational w0men that are a few steps ahead of me in business.

A MASSIVE amount of mindset work, digging in to what has made receiving so hard for me over the years. Proper deep shadow depths.
That was my decision. I didn’t want to be dictated to by past wounds. I wanted to hold the memories and the lessons, but not let the scars hold me back anymore.

I wanted to put the load, down.
Because I deserve to.

I’ve confronted confidence issues as I’ve navigated leaving one fully fledged career and jumping headfirst into another in my 40’s which (eye rolly or not) is my calling and my absolute soul led meaning & passion. That said, standing in your authority with something entirely new, no matter whether I am an expert or not (I am😉) is not for the faint hearted.

I have hit new income goals, ones that even 2 years ago seemed impossible to me. Which is because at the time, they were.
My self worth needed work, my money mindset needed work and my knowing that my nervous system could hold the next level of income and capacity, needed work.

Your internal self HAS to move with you to support your own sustainability.

I have been coaching professional w0men through for 7 years, and mentoring for many years before that and I can tell you now, I have been in awe of every single one of them.

You already hold together so much!

Give yourself permission to put down and let go, of anything that does not serve you any more, and see what happens.

You know how the saying goes?

It was never yours to carry in the first place.

Much love to YOU!

Here’s to growth and handing back the baggage. 🧳🍸

Summer X

10/06/2026

This year I have hit my next level.
Personally and professionally.

Not going to lie, it’s been incredibly HARD.

Over the last 3 years I have fully committed to showing up for myself and healing in as many ways as possible.

Coaching.
Counselling.
Reiki
Meditation.
Sounds baths.
Nature.
Events that put me in rooms where I felt true connection from amazing supportive, inspirational w0men that are a few steps ahead of me in business.

A MASSIVE amount of mindset work, digging in to what has made receiving so hard for me over the years. Proper deep shadow depths.
That was my decision. I didn’t want to be dictated to by past wounds. I wanted to hold the memories and the lessons, but not let the scars hold me back anymore.

I wanted to put the load, down.
Because I deserve to.

I’ve confronted confidence issues as I’ve navigated leaving one fully fledged career and jumping headfirst into another in my 40’s which (eye rolly or not) is my calling and my absolute soul led meaning & passion. That said, standing in your authority with something entirely new, no matter whether I am an expert or not (I am😉) is not for the faint hearted.

I have hit new income goals, ones that even 2 years ago seemed impossible to me. Which is because at the time, they were.
My self worth needed work, my money mindset needed work and my knowing that my nervous system could hold the next level of income and capacity, needed work.

Your internal self HAS to move with you to support your own sustainability.

I have been coaching professional w0men through for 7 years, and mentoring for many years before that and I can tell you now, I have been in awe of every single one of them.

You already hold together so much!

Give yourself permission to put down and let go, of anything that does not serve you any more, and see what happens.

You know how the saying goes?

It was never yours to carry in the first place.

Much love to YOU!

Here’s to growth and handing back the baggage. 🧳🍸

Summer X

07/06/2026

It’s been a while! 📢
Life has been lifing and I haven’t put my hat in the ring for many events recently but, sharing what I know to help others build their life and business on wellbeing and positive life satisfaction, is what I absolutely love to do. 🧠➕

If you’re planning a panel event (or any event, but I do especially love a team!) between now and November and are looking for a passionate expert to join your line up, do drop me a line.

I’d be super happy to chat about potentially supporting you with anything you have coming up over the coming months.

(*London / Southwest based preferable.)

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Hi, I’m Summer,
Positive psychology coach and practitioner for w°men in business. The place where life satisfaction + wellbeing, meets ambition. 🧠🏎️🍃

02/06/2026

How’s your calm doing these days?

Here are five things to try this week that will help give you some more of it… ⛅️

1. Protect one hour of unscheduled time each day. Not productive time, not rest you have to earn, but space with zero agenda.

2. Identify your two non-negotiables. Pick two things that genuinely anchor you (a walk, morning tea in quiet, a specific boundary with your phone) and treat them as immovable this week. Calm often comes from fewer decisions, not more effort.

3. Do a brain dump before bed.
Five minutes, everything out of your head and onto paper. When your nervous system is carrying a lot, externalising it interrupts the loop.

4. Notice where you’re saying yes out of habit rather than genuine want. Just noticing, you don’t have to change anything yet. Awareness is the first step.

5. Step outside for ten minutes with no phone. Not a walk with a purpose, not for content inspiration, just outside. Nature is right there. Let it do some of the work.

Feel better?

🧘

PS. New cycling shorts made the grid. Because- extreme comfort discovered.😎😂👌
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Hi, I’m Summer,
Positive psychology coach and practitioner for w°men in business. The place where life satisfaction + wellbeing, meets ambition. 🧠🏎️🍃

31/05/2026

What I’m invested in?

Thriving - on YOUR TERMS.

Not what a book says.
Not what society says.
Not what anyone or anything else says.

Just you.
In your life.
Yours.

YOUR thriving.

That is what I’m here for.
Supporting you and helping you discover what you really need to maximise living your best, happiest and healthiest life as your are today.

Understanding what positive life satisfaction means to you. And learning from the days when things feel less than. (They’re normal. We all have them and we can learn a lot from them. They are 100% necessary and you should hold no guilt around them.)

I am invested in integrating wellbeing directly into your business strategies as a form of preventative healthcare, a keystone, rather than treating self-care as an afterthought.

Because wellbeing first, means creating a sustainable you = a sustainable business.

Makes sense, right? It’s the future. Trust me.

______ ____________

Hi, I’m Summer,
Positive psychology coach and practitioner for w°men in business. The place where life satisfaction + wellbeing, meets ambition. 🧠🏎️🍃

29/05/2026

Friday afternoon.

I’m sitting with a lot today.
It goes like that, right?

What support do I actually need to grow into the next version of my life and business.
How do I make it happen with relative ease and flow to support ME this year and the next?
The family mental load that doesn’t ever clock off.
A teenager navigating GCSEs, worrying about their mental wellbeing and everything that comes with that.

My own wellbeing. My own ambition.
All of it, at once.

Some days positivity (as we know it,) isn’t available, and that’s ok.
It’s normal.
It’s necessary!

What I do know from the work I do and from navigating through my own nearly half century of life, is that understanding what you need personally, and actually sitting with it, is its own kind of strength.

Most days are not big breakthroughs or making earth shattering memories.
Some days just really need to be felt.

Feeling, is the place from which we can navigate. It’s vital information.
Listen to it. We don’t do it enough.

Wherever you are this weekend
I hope you get a little of what you actually need.

(I need to have a laugh with my teens, probably do some exercise and get outside…🌳 )

What do you need to give yourself this weekend? I’d love to know.

Remember:

A sustainable YOU = A sustainable business.

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Hi, I’m Summer,
Positive psychology coach and practitioner for w°men in business. The place where life satisfaction + wellbeing meets ambition. 🧠🏎️🍃

28/05/2026

You were never meant to choose between your ambition and your wellbeing.

But many of us had to.

The barriers that got us here are real. The pay gap is still real.
The childcare gap is still real.

The expectations, unseen labour and load is still real.

And yet.
We lead, we create we deliver.
We show up with FIRE.

The data continues to back it up.

83% of female founders experience high stress.
78% suffer persistent anxiety.
54% face burnout. (Paper:The True Cost of Female Entrepreneurship, 2025)

Female workers experience 3,220 cases of work-related stress, depression or anxiety per 100,000 workers, compared to 2,580 per 100,000 for male workers.
(UK Government 24/25 HSE)

This was never your failing.

It was a system that was never built for you, who deserves and desires both.

The world hasn’t caught up yet,

~ but you don’t have to wait for it to change before you change how you work within it.

That is the work I’m here to do:

To help you fulfil your ambition centering your wellbeing as a keystone and nurturing your life satisfaction as an essential positive foundation.
Not in sacrifice of it.

Using positive psychology as the science. Your own strengths, identity and design as the compass.

Self awareness, understanding what YOU actually need to thrive.

Through evidence-based wellbeing frameworks, character strengths, identity and coaching that is built entirely around you.

Not a blueprint someone else followed ~

~ Yours!

I work with w°mn who are done with survival mode and are building lives and businesses rooted in their wellness.

We refuse to give up on our ambitions, even though the road has already been way harder than it should have been.

Come with me on this journey.

🌎 The world needs you, your ambition and your wellness, more than ever before.

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Hi, I’m Summer,
Positive psychology coach and practitioner for w°men in business. The place where life satisfaction + wellbeing meets ambition. 🧠🏎️🍃

19/05/2026

We’ve got thriving all wrong.

We treat it like a destination.

Something to achieve, maintain and then, feel guilty about when life gets in the way.

Thriving was never meant to be a standard to meet.

It’s a compass 🧭
Something you return to, not something you perfect.

Some days you’re completely aligned with it. Other days the school run, the difficult conversation, the 11pm to-do list pulls you off course.

That’s not failure. That’s just life!

What I’ve learned through my MSc, through years of working with high-achieving w°men, and through my own life story, is that thriving comes down to three things:

Knowledge. Awareness. Tools.

Not perfection. ~~ Never perfection!

The compass doesn’t judge you for wandering off course ~ It just shows you the way back. 🧭