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This is a continuation of my first post on a practical guide to self-care. This post is a little step up from the first one: we’re going to look at how to take care of yourself when you’re already managing to get reasonably good sleep, you’re keeping yourself clean, you’re getting fresh air at leastContinue reading “self-care basics: part two”

I’ve written previously about self-care, but I thought the time was ripe to make a practical post. This is definitely not an exhaustive list! But it might serve as a great jumping off point for you. This is part one of two parts, focusing on the basics of looking after yourself. Take a bath orContinue reading “self-care basics: a how to guide”

What is trauma, or a traumatic experience? Sometimes I think it’s a lot easier for an outsider to define trauma than it is for the person who’s living through it. A simple definition of trauma is an event that leaves a person extremely distressed, frightened, or stressed out. This can be ongoing – such asContinue reading “trauma”

I think one of the most frustrating things for me about lockdown is not being able to plan for anything. I’m a bit of a planner, and I found it difficult to think, back in April or May of this year, about the future because everything hinged on “if we’re finished with lockdown by then.”Continue reading “lockdown anxiety”

Maybe you’ve been looking around my website and come across the email counselling page; email counselling is a new way of doing therapeutic work via writing and written response. Lots of clients like to bring in something they’ve written in between face-to-face counselling sessions – there’s something really cathartic about writing down feelings and sharingContinue reading “email counselling”

Some days are just hard. We miss people we have lost, we listen for the sound of paws that belonged to a pet that’s now passed, we remember days that seemed unbearable, days or years that we somehow survived without feeling like that means anything. Perhaps we think about a time when we were ableContinue reading “grief and loss”

You may have noticed in the past year or two a lot of people using the term “self-care” and questioned what that actually meant. I tend to notice self-care being used in terms of bath bombs, candles, and chocolate – all very good things! But I have a slightly different approach to self-care. Imagine aContinue reading “what does self-care actually mean?”

So here’s the thing about therapy – therapists don’t tend to reveal very much about themselves while they also learn so much about their clients. There’s a few reasons for that; some of them are good reasons, and some of them aren’t. I don’t tend to share very much about me in sessions – afterContinue reading “therapy is about you”