A couple of weeks ago, one of the building blocks of my emotional resilience fell out when I couldn’t access an early morning online yoga class.

It prompted a mini-meltdown before a compensatory walk in the park, during which I heard a woodpecker. If this sounds familiar it’s because I wrote about it on LinkedIn, then promoted it on other social media.

I had some misgivings about doing this. When you make your living as a coach, admitting publicly that a minor technical hitch caused an off-the-scale emotional eruption could be seen as an unwise move.

What actually happened was…