Imagine turning up for work one day and being told that your client has died. Maybe it was a patient you'd been treating for months....or a participant you saw every week - someone whose routines, preferences, and wit you knew better than most. You might have seen them only days before, and then they were gone. Just like that. The thing is, we almost never intend for a meeting with someone to be our last. It catches us off guard - no warning, no time to prepare. But it has ha

When conflict stirs old wounds, it’s often our protective parts stepping in - the patterns we learned long ago to keep us safe. Drawing on Internal Family Systems, this piece explores how our relationships awaken these parts and how, through gentle awareness, we can reconnect with our calm, compassionate Self - the steady presence beneath our defenses that allows for deeper connection with others and within ourselves.

Exploring the cost of over-functioning empathy, this post unpacks what happens when we carry the emotional weight of others for too long. A gentle reflection on boundaries, emotional labour, and learning to care without losing ourselves.

ADHD is often framed as a disorder. It’s the kid who can’t sit still in class, or the one who interrupts impulsively. It’s the teenager...

"Be a good girl." Many of us grew up hearing these words, learning that our worth was tied to how well we pleased others.

In the late 1980s, scientists launched an ambitious experiment in the Arizona desert called Biosphere 2. It was one of the first and...