Kim Sturgeon Counselling

06/05/2026

I would argue that we all have different parts regardless of trauma, but that trauma can intensify the conflict between parts.
Getting parts to work together can be powerful.

06/05/2026

05/05/2026

Being at home doesn't guarantee protection from sexual violence and abuse, unfortunately.

Telling women not to walk home by themselves late at night won't magically erase all possibility of sexual assault.

In fact, it's not uncommon for women to have been r***d while taking a taxi home. Or to be subjected to r**e in their own home, and often by someone they know.

It's high time society focused on those who perpetrate these acts of violence, hold them accountable for their actions, and deliver swift criminal justice for those who survived them, and those who did not.

R**e culture is the culprit, and we demand an end to it.

Are you with us? 💜

05/05/2026

MJ. Mike Fields

03/05/2026

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25/04/2026

20/04/2026

I saw a book review from a man seeking support with depression recently. Let me first be clear – I care about men experiencing depression. I really do. However, he seemed to think that the societal expectations on men to suppress their emotions was as a result of ‘misandry’. The definition of misandry can be simplified as ‘a hatred towards men’. As much as I’d like to laugh in the ridiculousness of his misunderstanding, it also angered me... it angered me because the result of this misinformation is harmful to us all.
Let’s educate ourselves a bit – the suppression of emotion in men IS NOT due to misandry. It is a direct result of PATRIARCHY. Yes, women can perpetuate the societal expectations on men within a patriarchal society just as much as men, but it is not women, or feminists, or ‘feminazi’s’ that came up with this whole system that is harming both men and women.
IN FACT, the majority of women that I speak to are actively encouraging their partners to share their emotions. They are exhausted by carrying the emotional load for everyone. Over and over again I get told by women attracted to men, that above everything, they are looking for a man who is emotionally mature. A man that can hold and regulate his own emotions as well as hear hers, not blame, not attack, not dismiss, not withdraw or play the victim.
Women have woken up. Women have stepped back from traditional gender roles, because they have fought to be able to. Men are not catching up. This is the very essence of the manosphere. Until we all step back, critique and dismantle the systems that keep us in place, the patterns persist.

Patriarchy harms men by disconnecting them from their emotions, and frames seeking support as weakness. It’s an endless pressure for men to conform to a narrow prescription of masculinity, to compete with one another, and to prove their manhood by surrendering their individuality and denying their...

20/04/2026

Even in a ther**eutic ralationship where we are safe, supported and seen as clients we can still do some of the following