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15/04/2026

Most people were never taught how to move through conflict, only how to avoid it, shut down or push through it.

But rupture is not the problem. It’s a normal part of every relationship. The part that matters is what happens after. Repair is what builds trust. It’s what creates safety over time. It’s what allows a relationship to hold honesty without falling apart.

If you’ve experienced relationships where things were never addressed, it can feel unfamiliar or even uncomfortable to come back and reconnect. But this is where so much depth and stability is built 🤍

09/04/2026

There are so many “rules” in this industry that I’ve been taught to follow, and if I’m honest, a lot of them have never sat well.

I understand where they come from. Boundaries matter. Ethics matter. Safety matters. But somewhere along the way, some of these rules have started to feel more like creating distance (which is the opposite of my work).

Things like not speaking between sessions. For me, if a client is having a hard moment and reaches out, I’m not going to ignore that. I’m not available 24/7, but I’m also not someone who believes support has to be confined to a 50 minute window once a fortnight.

Or the idea that everything has to be completely one sided. That you should reveal nothing of yourself, keep everything clinical, question the questions and never let the relationship feel human. My work is relational. It’s grounded in connection, attunement, understanding and lived experience. I’m not sitting across from someone as a blank slate, I’m sitting there as a regulated, present human being. If a client asks me something about my life or my experience, I’ll answer. It doesn’t take over the session, and it’s never the focus, but it’s acknowledged.

Even things like gifts. If a client feels called to express gratitude in that way, I receive it with so much appreciation while always making it clear it is never expected. It doesn’t cross a boundary for me, it acknowledges the relationship that has been built.

I also don’t rush people, follow set structures or push for outcomes just because that’s what a model says should happen. I work with the body, with the nervous system, with the present moment and with what is actually happening in front of me. Sometimes that means slowing things down, sometimes it means sitting in silence and sometimes it means meeting someone outside of the “traditional” approach.

I am a qualified counsellor and lean on many tools and techniques from that world but the way I practice leans more into coaching, into real human connection, into creating a space that feels safe enough for someone’s whole self to be there.

At the end of the day, people don’t heal inside rules and one sided relationships… ❤️

08/04/2026

Grief isn't something you move through once and leave behind.

It comes in waves. Some are very, very obvious and some are just subtle. Sometimes it looks like sadness and other times it shows up as anger, numbness, exhaustion or a sense of disconnection to life.

Trigger warning: pregnancy loss. I remember months after my miscarriage, I had been having a really good week. I felt great and like myself again. I got in the shower and was washing my hair with a red shampoo because my hair was copper at the time. When I looked down at my hands, the colour running over them caught me off guard. It looked like blood, and in that moment everything came rushing back. I just sat down in the shower and cried.

It wasn’t planned or expected in any kind of way. I wasn’t thinking about it. It just hit me out of nowhere.

That’s what grief can be like. It doesn’t always show up when you expect it to. It can meet you in ordinary moments when you feel like you’ve finally moved on and remind you that it’s still there.

Your body will often set the pace. If something feels too overwhelming, it might shut things down, avoid or create distance from the feeling as protection. Over time, as more safety is built, the grief can come up in smaller pieces that feel more manageable to sit with.

A lot of people think processing grief means understanding it or finding closure. But most of the time, it’s less about figuring it out and more about allowing it to exist without trying to rush it away.

What that often looks like is letting the emotion come up without needing to make sense of it straight away. It might not feel logical or convenient and it might not come at a time that suits you. But processing grief is more about allowing those moments to move through your body than trying to explain or control them. The more space you can give it without rushing it away or trying to tidy it up, the more naturally it can shift over time.

There is no right way to process it and no timeline you need to follow. What matters is that you give yourself permission to feel what is there, in a way that feels safe enough for you. You don’t have to rush yourself through it. You can take it as it comes 🩷

02/04/2026

Pretending you’re strong can become second nature. Saying you’re fine, pushing through, keeping it together, showing up for everyone else while ignoring what’s actually going on underneath. It becomes second nature quite easily...

But there’s a difference between being strong and feeling like you have to hide everything to be okay. You’re allowed to be honest about where you’re at. You don’t have to keep pretending ❤

31/03/2026

Sometimes it's not about the big, long routines or rituals to feel more grounded.

Sometimes it’s the smallest moments that help your body settle. These little check ins bring you out of autopilot and back into the present. If you often feel overwhelmed, tense or stuck in your head, start here. Not perfectly, not all at once, just one small moment at a time🫂✨

25/03/2026

Trauma informed has become a common phrase (dare I say pop psychology...?) but it’s not the full picture.

Knowing about trauma and being someone a person can actually feel safe with are two very different things.

If you’ve ever left a space feeling overwhelmed, shut down or like you had to push yourself to open up, that experience is important to pay attention to. And if you’re holding space for others, how you are experienced matters just as much as what you know.

This work asks for more than information. It asks for presence, regulation, awareness and the ability to meet someone where they actually are. Being trauma informed is only a starting point, but on it's own, it's not enough 🫀✨

18/03/2026

Breaking generational patterns isn’t usually one big moment. It’s in the small, everyday choices. Pausing before you react, responding differently than what was modelled for you and choosing not to pass something on.

That process can bring up a lot. Guilt, doubt, questioning yourself, a lot of confusion. Especially when you’re doing things differently to what you’ve always known. But this work isn’t about blame, it’s about awareness and choice. It’s about recognising what was passed down and deciding it stops with you.

You’re not just changing your own life, you’re changing what gets carried forward. That’s definitely not betrayal, that’s responsibility, care and real love.

If you’re in this space and want support while you navigate it, you can join my waitlist for 1:1 sessions or start with one of my online programs when you’re ready 🤍

13/03/2026

For a long time I thought the way I coped meant something was wrong with me. But most behaviours that we judge in ourselves actually began as protection. Your nervous system learned ways to keep you safe in situations that felt overwhelming or unsupported.

Understanding that doesn’t mean every pattern needs to stay, but it does change the way we approach healing. Instead of starting with shame, we can start with curiosity. When you begin to ask what a behaviour was trying to protect, you create the space for real change to happen 🫂

11/03/2026

Maybe you weren't dramatic, maybe you were dysregulated...

When the nervous system is overwhelmed it reacts in ways that can feel intense, emotional or out of proportion to the situation. But those reactions are not personality flaws, they are your body trying to protect you. A lot of us were never taught how to recognise or regulate their nervous system, so their responses get labelled as “too much” instead of being understood for what they actually are.

Once you understand what dysregulation looks like, it becomes much easier to respond with awareness instead of shame 🫶🏻

09/03/2026

For a long time I lived almost entirely in my head. I could analyse everything, explain every reaction and understand my story with all of the details. But even with all that insight, I still felt disconnected and overwhelmed.

One of the biggest shifts in my healing came when I realised that understanding my story wasn’t the same as experiencing what was happening inside me. Real change began when I started paying attention to my body instead of just my thoughts.

This is a reminder that your internal experience is happening in real time. Beneath the stories and the overthinking there are sensations, signals and info coming from your body. Learning to notice those can be one of the most important parts of healing 🫶

06/03/2026

If you’re at the very beginning of your healing journey, it can feel overwhelming to know where to start. There’s so much advice, so many tools, and so many expectations around “fixing” yourself.

But real change rarely begins with a full life overhaul. It usually starts much smaller than that... 🤍

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