Shauna Cathcart - Positive Pathways - Counselling & Wellbeing Services

25/03/2026

Self-respect in relationships looks like ….

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11/03/2026

A child held with kindness learns that love is safe to return to.🧡

09/03/2026

The body keeps the score.

07/03/2026

I know you’ve heard this before. Probably from me. Probably from others wiser than I am. But here it is again, from another thoughtful voice. Some ideas are worth repeating because they’re easy to forget and hard to live.

06/03/2026

04/03/2026

When you feel the heaviness gathering, move.

Stop waiting to feel better. Stop waiting for motivation. Just move. Move scared. Move sad.

Step outside and let the air hit your face. Walk fast enough to feel your pulse wake up. Run badly. Dance in the kitchen like no one’s grading you. Swing your arms. Do ten jumping jacks. Then ten more. It doesn’t need to be elegant. It doesn’t need to be impressive. It just needs to interrupt the stillness.

Because stillness is where depress1on settles in. It prefers you still. Small. Contained.

So become harder to hold. Become breath and blood and motion.

Sweeney writes, “I don’t run to be happy. I run to be harder to kill.”

And she goes on to write a complete book around this concept, a deeply insightful and liberatg one, which I listened to during my long morning walks.

You should check it out.

BOOK: https://amzn.to/47mmkMF

26/02/2026

Kindness is an active practice - a choice you make in real time.

Every moment you choose kindness and communication, you strengthen your relationships, your resilience, and your sense of self.

It’s not softness. It’s skill.

Drop a 🩵 if you’re open.

26/02/2026

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24/02/2026