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
[VIDEO] The Seduction of Sad Town: Why am I sad and how can I feel better?
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
The Rules of Attraction: What is Bisexuality?
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
5 Ways Journaling Can Help You Get Through the Hard Stuff
This is a guest post that I wrote for Tiny Buddha and am republishing with permission from tinybuddha.com. You can find the original post here. “In the journal I do not just express myself more openly than I could to any person; I create myself. The journal is a vehicle for my sense of selfhood. It represents me… Continue Reading
VIDEO: Mediocrity VS Imperfection
When you think about these words- Mediocrity VS Imperfection- it may seem as though they are barely distinguishable. The thing about a mediocrity culture is that it has us striving for perfection while shovelling simplicity at us. Simple formulas, thin stories, shallow truths. Real life is grey. Complicated. What I think today might change in… Continue Reading
We Don’t Have to be Confident and Together All the Time
This is a guest post that I wrote for Tiny Buddha and am republishing with permission from tinybuddha.com. You can find the original post here. “At any given moment, you have the power to say: This is not how the story is going to end.” ~Christine Mason Miller Eighth grade was a bit of a… Continue Reading