Counselling for folks who've lost themselves
(OR ‘what exactly are you Letting Go of my love and would you prefer to Hang On?’) Letting Go. It’s a phrase we use often. Usually in reference to an idea or a plan we had that we’re struggling to ‘move on’ from when it doesn’t happen. Oh! There’s another one: ‘Moving On’. But why… Continue Reading
The Not Good Enough Feeling keeps women staying in shit jobs, toxic relationships, prevents us moving on from a messy separation, and makes us second-guess ourselves constantly. How frustrating and painful are the Not-Good-Enoughs? Here’s a major tip for paying attention to the feeling so as not to get pulled down into the ‘I suck’… Continue Reading
I’m lonely. Two words many of us are frightened of saying. I’m lonely. We aren’t saying it, and yet we are feeling it. We’re demonstrating it in our behaviour. Loneliness has become a deeply worrying phenomenon. In varying surveys and articles towards the end of 2017, around 1/4 of Aussies said that they often feel… Continue Reading
You can’t fix an abuser. Over the years that I have travelled alongside and helped women who have been subjected to some form of abuse in relationships, I have heard the same thing from almost all of them: “I thought if I loved him enough he would heal and then he would change”. It’s beautiful;… Continue Reading
Do you find yourself Googling ‘Why am I sad?’ more than you’d like to? Why do you wallow in melancholy? Do you genuinely believe that you are better off living in sad town than trying to find more happiness? Would you like to be happier but have got stuck in the pity party? Are you… Continue Reading
Keep on Driving was originally written and posted on October 9, 2015 by Miranda Tetlow (mirandatea) on her blog Postcards from the North: ‘True stories with poetic licence. Some are funny, some are not’. Miranda is a phenomenally talented writer dedicated to the art of authenticity in a distinctly Australian voice (nothing saccharine here!). Recently she has forayed into fiction… Continue Reading
