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Family can be complicated! Most often because there is so much at stake for everyone involved.When stress, grief or disc...
27/07/2025

Family can be complicated!

Most often because there is so much at stake for everyone involved.

When stress, grief or disconnection show up in family life, a choice we can make is to get curious about the patterns underneath.

Context questions like 'What may have put strain on my family?’ or ‘How may they have been raised?’ or 'What role am I playing here, and why do I think it was needed?' can open new paths toward healthy connection

You might be noticing:

→ An urge to fix things, even when it costs you
→ Shutting down or avoiding conflict
→ A deep fatigue after family time, without knowing why
→ Repeating the same argument, in different words, for years
→ Guilt for wanting distance or change

We observe such a powerful shifts happen for people when they choose to tap into curiosity over reactivity and habit 🤍

Outdated expectations about family can weigh on us and shape how we show up for ourselves or in our familyThese unspoken...
23/07/2025

Outdated expectations about family can weigh on us and shape how we show up for ourselves or in our family

These unspoken (or loudly spoken!) rules often don’t quite fit who we are or who we want to become.

We encourage you to take a step back and softly explore what feels right and true for you today.

Giving yourself that space isn’t about turning away from family, but about caring for yourself so you can show up more fully and honestly in those relationships.

Big conversations don’t always land how we hope. You might feel relieved, hurt, hopeful, or uncertain, sometimes all at ...
21/07/2025

Big conversations don’t always land how we hope. You might feel relieved, hurt, hopeful, or uncertain, sometimes all at once.

What you shared, and your intention in sharing matters, even if their response didn’t match the care it took to open up 🤍

We mostly move through relationships on autopilot. Change asks for something different. To pause in the space between fe...
20/07/2025

We mostly move through relationships on autopilot.

Change asks for something different.

To pause in the space between feeling and reacting.

Trying to bring awareness to the moment before the habit takes over.

This is the quiet work of growth: Choosing a new way of being, even when the old way still calls for you.�

In the relationships that matter most, growth can feel like disloyalty — like stepping out of sync in a dance you’ve always known.�

What response are you ready to unlearn?

What new way of being wants to take root? 🤍

You don’t need to have a diagnosis or a crisis to explore your inner world. It’s genuinely enough to notice: I keep doin...
17/07/2025

You don’t need to have a diagnosis or a crisis to explore your inner world. It’s genuinely enough to notice: I keep doing this thing, and I’m not sure why

For example, patterns in how we feel comfortable (or really uncomfortable) connecting tend to live just beneath our awareness.

Repeating themselves not because we’re doing something wrong, but because our nervous system is staying safe in the most familiar way it knows how.

What we came to believe about love, safety, and connection early on still shows up (sometimes without us even realising it) in the way we relate now.

Becoming curious about where these patterns began is the first step to softening them, and we’re always here to help explore that with you.

Family relationships can feel really complicated at times, and it’s easy to find yourself stuck in the middle without kn...
15/07/2025

Family relationships can feel really complicated at times, and it’s easy to find yourself stuck in the middle without knowing how to move forward.

Triangulation happens when two people avoid talking directly and instead bring in someone else to feel safer or supported.

Often, it’s a way people protect themselves and the main way they learnt to manage difficult feelings with others.

Being able to spot these patterns will help in setting good boundaries and encouraging clearer, kinder communication.

As always, we’d love to support you as you navigate everything and anything that may show up in your family

Ever caught yourself slipping into an old version of you when you're around family?Like suddenly becoming the quiet one,...
13/07/2025

Ever caught yourself slipping into an old version of you when you're around family?

Like suddenly becoming the quiet one, the fixer, or the one who keeps the peace?

This is known as re-enactment or regression, where our nervous system and psyche respond as if we're still in that old emotional context, not present day

In early relationships, we often take on roles like the achiever, the carer, or the rebel to stay connected or emotionally safe.

These roles can stick, even into adulthood.

Just being back in your family home, or on the phone with a parent, can stir up those old dynamics.
This is called regression or re-enactment—when your system responds like it’s still back then, not now.

We often see people avoid family altogether or keep ‘playing along’ to stay connected. It can help in the short term, but often costs us a sense of authenticity.

If you're feeling the tension between who you are now and who you feel expected to be, try exploring:

→ Notice the role you slip into. Ask yourself who you're prioritising
→ Thought prompt — 'When I’m around my family, I feel pressure to…'
→ Pay attention to your body. Do you feel braced, shut down, or on high alert?
→ Reflect on how the role once protected you. It likely made sense at the time

Change doesn’t have to be loud. It often begins with quiet noticing.

And from there, different choices start to open up.

Sometimes it’s the slow, quiet ache of change, when someone you love is still here, but not in the same way. Maybe they’...
10/07/2025

Sometimes it’s the slow, quiet ache of change, when someone you love is still here, but not in the same way.

Maybe they’ve changed, or life has. Roles shift, relationships evolve, and the connection you once counted on feels uncertain.

It’s the kind of loss that doesn’t come with closure, just moments that remind you things aren’t how they used to be.

This is called ambiguous grief — the kind that lingers without a clear ending. It can feel confusing and hard to explain.

But it’s valid.

You’re grieving what was, or what you hoped would be. Be gentle with yourself here.

In families or groups, most of us slip into roles without meaning to. These patterns can become so familiar that we stop...
09/07/2025

In families or groups, most of us slip into roles without meaning to. These patterns can become so familiar that we stop noticing them, and so does everyone else.

When you start showing up differently, perhaps by saying no, being more honest, or just not playing along the same way, it can feel really uncomfortable.

It might even feel like you are being disloyal or letting people down.

That feeling doesn’t mean you are doing something wrong. It just means you are doing something new.
In many families or groups, sameness is unconsciously equated with closeness.

So any shift, even healthy ones, can cause friction or guilt. That’s just the system trying to return to what feels familiar.

It helps to expect some pushback, even from yourself. Change can feel messy and lonely, especially when you are the only one trying something different.

But you can care deeply about your family or group and still choose to relate in ways that feel more honest and healthy for you.

Both things can be true.

What role do you find yourself slipping into in your family or group settings?

What small change in how you relate to them could make a big difference for you?

Our connection cards are a gentle ways to open dialogue, encourage understanding, build bridges, and strengthen bonds!Se...
08/07/2025

Our connection cards are a gentle ways to open dialogue, encourage understanding, build bridges, and strengthen bonds!

Send them to your mum, dad, a sibling or someone close to spark a special conversation 🤍

A lot of people long to feel more trust in themselves. To know that when they set an intention, they’ll follow through. ...
07/07/2025

A lot of people long to feel more trust in themselves. To know that when they set an intention, they’ll follow through.

Sometimes the hardest part is knowing where to start.

From a psychological perspective, self-trust isn’t something you either have or don’t. It’s something we practice into being.

One of the most powerful ways to strengthen trust in yourself is by following through on small commitments.

When you say you’ll do something and then do it, your brain begins to associate your words with reliability and safety.

Internally, your words start to become law.

In developmental psychology, this process is sometimes called self-attunement, or the ability to listen to your inner signals and respond well.

What’s one small thing you could follow through on this week, just for you?

This will help you validate your own experience and strengthen your confidence in making choices for yourself that are supportive 🤍

Some grief has no funeral. It lingers in the quiet, the version of family you hoped for, the warmth you needed but never...
06/07/2025

Some grief has no funeral. It lingers in the quiet, the version of family you hoped for, the warmth you needed but never felt, the repair that never came.

Acceptance, doesn’t mean it didn’t matter. It means you stop waiting for the past to change.

From an Acceptance and Commitment Therapy lens, it’s important to first acknowledge that this grief is real. It’s not self-pity.

It’s the heart’s response to unmet longings.

ACT invites us to stop fighting what we can’t change and instead, turn toward what we can choose.

→ What kind of person do I want to be, even with this pain?
→ What do I want to stand for in the way I love, relate, and live?

We don’t move on by suppressing.

We move forward by honouring our grief and bringing it with us.

There’s room in us for both the ache and the becoming.

Both can belong 🤍

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