It's Mental Health Awareness Month
And it was Mental Health Awareness Week in the UK this month. Here's why I've not written about it (until now)
When empathy is difficult
Figuring out where you're blocked from empathy can be an interesting exercise
Plan for bad days on your good days
This sounds obvious, and it is, but it's also a surprisingly powerful exercise
On finding and choosing joy
It can be hard to choose/find joy, because the fallout can be exhausting
Working with your bullshit
Being kind doesn't mean going easy on yourself. It means knowing yourself and working with yourself, not against yourself.
Accepting where I am
Acceptance of whereI am in my mental health journey, and what that means for me now
On writing
I'm writing a book! Because apparently a weekly email newsletter isn't enough writing for me... (this is a free version of the newsletter, please subscribe to support if you like my work!)
Empathy is something to be practiced
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Free sneak peek: Empathy, boundaries, and resilience
This is a sneak peak at a paywalled post, originally posted 2nd March. It's one I love, and it's a really good example of what you'll get every 2 weeks if you upgrade to a paid subscription
Challenging in the counselling or coaching relationship
Challenging is a really interesting skill in the toolbox of person-centred counselling and coaching
scraps #2 - Gratitude journaling
This is a free series of scraps of things I wrote that never found a home. I'm proud of them, but they didn't fit into what I was doing at the time. So I'm sharing them here.
Empathy, boundaries, and resilience
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Why I cut contact with my bio-fam
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Shame, motivation, and moving through it
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scraps #1 - from lockdown
This is a free series of scraps of things I wrote that never found a home. I'm proud of them, but they didn't fit into what I was doing at the time. So I'm sharing them here.
On trauma responses and healing
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