About self-care

About self-care

About Self-Care: Self-care is a really personal and individual thing. Each person has different needs, preferences, commitments, and challenges and there’s no one-size-fits-all formula that will be useful for everyone. It’s one of those things that a...
Returning from holidays

Returning from holidays

Returning from holidays Returning from holidays can be (often is!) challenging and even daunting. After spending days/weeks away mostly doing what we want and like to do – as opposed to what we should and need to do – then it takes some effort to readjust...
The journey

The journey

The Journey Changing our lives is one of the hardest things possible. We work so hard to gain some sense of stability, security, and safety that it can be unthinkable to leave it all behind and risk some unknown pathway that may or may not succeed. It’s hard...
Trauma recovery & empowerment

Trauma recovery & empowerment

Trauma recovery & empowerment One of the biggest issues with trauma experiences is that they affect people’s sense of autonomy. As a result of trauma people often feel out of control and they might lose the connection with their own source of power....
Offering help and support to others

Offering help and support to others

Useful or not useful? Shortly after the war in Ukraine started, on a listserv of an association of therapists that I’m part of, I saw an email from a Ukrainian member with an urgent call for help and support in relation to the looming invasion from Russia. Considering...