Your invitation to take time to set the tone for the months ahead, with the power of self-care, to transform your wellbeing.

I share some tips and ideas for effective self-reflection; drawn from my therapeutic philosophy, practices, and experience.

Your invitation to reflect, or consider, in the lead-up to the festive season is: How do I wish to be this Christmas? What qualities & attitudes am I aspiring for?

Self-care and boundaries are game changers in moving through family celebrations, which can be fraught with complicated emotions.

The pressure to meet year-end targets, finish projects, and manage personal and professional obligations can become overwhelming. Let’s chunk down 3 key tips for effectively managing end of year stress.

Grief can have a big impact on holiday times and special occasions, especially in the first year following your loss.

Disenfranchised grief is a term used to describe the unique pain that arises when society doesn’t acknowledge or validate a particular loss.

There is no one way to grieve. Tonkin’s model of grief helps us to understand how we can continue to grow around our grief.

If you’re navigating grief, there are some evolving ideas around the stages of grief and how we heal, that you may find supportive.

Robert Neimeyer's meaning-making model of grief, and the Dual Process Model.

Exploring 4 Models: The Tasks of Morning, Growing around Grief, Making Meaning & The Stages of Grief

Journalling can be a supportive and therapeutic way to engage in personal development and self-therapy…

Different examples of journalling styles, including stream of consciousness and letter to self journalling.

Some prompts to support you as you establish your own journalling practice. 

I will sometimes offer journalling to clients who resonate with writing, as a complementary activity alongside therapy. By writing down our thoughts and emotional experiences, we can ‘externalise’ them (get them out of our heads and out into the world).