Online counselling ~ Narrative therapy ~ Real help for real humans
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
Making new friends as an adult can be really tough. You have more of a sense of what your values are, the things you like doing, and what deeply matters to you. You’re busy, you don’t suffer fools lightly, and you want something more than ‘I like green, you like green. Let’s be best friends!!!’… Continue Reading
Childfree women Sometimes not doing something can be even more scandalous than doing something. (And speaking as someone who has done a number of scandalous things in her life, the response to this particular ‘not doing’ has been the most shocking, and caused me the most bewildering amount of sadness. Perhaps other childfree women can… Continue Reading
Sharing women’s knowledge at an important stage of their online counselling journey that can help YOU with yours Recently I sent a special message to 3 of my counselling clients. I’d noticed something similar jumping out at this stage of their therapy, so I gathered my notes from our sessions and wrote a paragraph capturing… 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
What is bisexuality, why does it matter to mental health, and a response to this nonsense plebiscite… Say it is time for dessert and you have the options of cake or pie. The cake is a family recipe and your entire family expects you to or assumes that you would choose the cake. If you… Continue Reading
