Blog
These blog posts are my personal reflections on what I’ve experienced and learned. I hope some may spark your curiosity and bring about different perspectives on your own situations.
Closing the Year with Self-Compassion: A Reflection Guide for Adults with Childhood Emotional Neglect
A gentle approach to year-end reflection. By the end, you’ll have the tools to embrace your journey with kindness and set a foundation for emotional healing in the year to come.
Surviving Christmas from Afar: Staying Connected, Building Community, and Prioritising Wellbeing
If you're far away from loved ones this Christmas, this blog blends practical strategies with therapeutic approaches to help you stay connected, embrace your new community, and nurture self-compassion for the holiday season.
Understanding Childhood Emotional Neglect in Adults (with Multicultural Perspectives)
Are you familiar with Childhood Emotional Neglect (CEN)? Let's look at how this quiet, subtle form of trauma may present in adults (with added multicultural perspectives).
Empowering People-Pleasers: Finding Balance & Moving Forward
Do you consider yourself a people-pleaser? While there are many positives to this trait, it's important to find a balance. By being mindful, we can embrace our people-pleasing tendencies and move forward in a healthy and positive way.
Longing vs. Belonging: Understanding the Differences
Longing and belonging are powerful emotions that significantly influence our lives. Let's address our longings and foster our sense of belonging.
Am I a Third-Culture Kid? Why does it matter?
Do you ever feel like you belong in multiple places and nowhere at the same time? You’re not alone.
How to find joy when everything feels grey
A story about finding joy when the world feels grey after moving overseas and returning home.
Online counselling - more than just flexibility
We love the flexibility of having counselling online, but there’s more to it than that. Here are the additional benefits you may want to know about.
Small ‘t’ trauma - the one that really hurts
Does it have to involve death, serious disaster/injury, or physical/sexual abuse for it to be traumatic? Let’s meet small ‘t’ (or little ‘t’) trauma, the one that doesn’t look that bad, but damn, it hurts!
Hello, Anxiety, my friend
Do you have room to sit and chat with your anxiety? Once we stop avoiding or fighting it, and see anxiety as a friend, curiosity and compassion can grow.
Balancing authenticity and cultural expectations
When living with multiple cultural influences, how do we show up as our authentic selves without damaging our relationships?
Finding peace - Identity and a sense of home (a Third-Culture Kid’s perspective)
A counsellor's Third-Culture Kid’s perspective on how she found peace living with multiple identities, cultures, and where home is.
My personal stress alarm (phantom smells)
Do you always know when you’re stressed? Sometimes the body has a strange way of letting us know.
“Everyone is a bit scared.” Said the horse
”But we are less scared together.”
Charlie Mackesy