Echo Counselling

09/05/2026

06/05/2026

Words from my book Blooming Bare 🍁

06/05/2026

If a person in your life knows you're coping with death, serious illness, crisis, or any form of devastating loss — and still chooses to be cruel to you — that surpasses abuse.

That's pure malice. And you need to hear that clearly.

Because there is a baseline of humanity that most people extend even to strangers. When someone is visibly broken, visibly drowning, visibly carrying something no person should have to carry alone — the natural human response is to soften. To give space. To at minimum do no additional harm. That instinct exists in almost everyone.

Almost.

The person who looks at your grief and sees opportunity — who chooses that exact moment of vulnerability to cut deeper, to start arguments, to withdraw love, to pile on — that person isn't just struggling with their own issues. They are making a conscious choice. You don't accidentally kick someone who is already on the ground. You have to decide to.

That decision tells you everything about who they are at their absolute core. Not who they are on good days when life is easy and being decent costs nothing. Who they are when loving you requires something from them and they choose themselves anyway. When your pain is an inconvenience to their agenda.

That's not a flawed partner. That's not someone having a bad season.

That's someone showing you their foundation.

And a foundation that cruel cannot be fixed with love, patience, or time.

Believe what they showed you.

Then protect what's left of yourself accordingly.

01/05/2026

Welcome May💗

28/04/2026

Words from my book The Healing You Hear ☀️

28/04/2026