Pace Counselling

20/09/2025

This memory from 2016 has reminded me that not everything we want is necessarily best for us.
It’s so difficult to see this when you’re in the middle of a season you feel should be changing. I get it 💯!
If the changes you’re trying to make aren’t going in your favour right now, don’t lose hope. Oprah Winfrey said on her show once, “I pray for closed doors,” and that is knowing emphatically that it’s the wrong road for you right now, so you don’t linger unnecessarily, then you take a step forward.
(Obviously, I didn’t get the writing job 😉)

21/08/2025

15/05/2025

It took a few days of Mental Health Awareness Week to build up to this...tunnel vision isn't always a bad thing; at least not in this case ☺️

14/05/2025

This graphic by Autistic Girls Network hits hard for me. As a mum to a neurodivergent daughter (possibly two, but nobody ever saw behind the masks my eldest wore), this hurts.
I sit with countless neurodiverse girls in school who share with me that they’re in unkind or unsupportive friendship groups just to avoid being alone. They tolerate teasing and feeling like they’re on the outside looking in, just because they want to be part of a group that accepts them. The sad irony is they aren’t accepted - they’re laughed at and they’re used.
We all strive for community, but we don’t all find one so easily. Thankfully charities like this are there to help. Please don’t feel isolated or alone.
The brilliant Brené Brown wrote in Atlas of The Heart that she taught her children true friends will keep your candle flame flickering, keep it from burning out. Fake friends will allow it to burn out or will even s***f it out for you.
Avoid the candle s***fers!

12/05/2025

This Mental Health Awareness Week is all about celebrating community, and how it supports our mental health and wellbeing. Communities connect, support, and give us a sense of belonging and purpose. From local to global, online to in-person, we all need community. What's yours?

24/04/2025

Tonight I feel different. I feel like I’m on the cusp of another new chapter. Mental health and wellbeing is all I can see right now. I want to be part of a community of compassion. What community are you in? School, work, church, social group, friendship circle? Mental Health Awareness Week is May 12-18, and the theme is community. Our communities build us, challenge us, and sustain us. We weren’t created to live alone.

12/04/2025

Chag Pesach Sameach! 🫶🏻

12/04/2025

I love this visual by Matty Piazza. We can get stuck in a downward spiral thinking repeatedly (ruminating) of things inside our circle of concerns. When we acknowledge this, pause, and redirect what we can influence or change, we can move towards peace. 🫶🏻

30/03/2025

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09/03/2025

I can hold my own hand up to being stuck “comfortably numb” on many occasions. I love these gentle, but absolutely true words from Iyanla Vanzant 💜.

08/02/2025

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04/01/2025

The last few days have shown me that when we learn a loved one will soon be gone, the constant feeling of impending sorrow will be overcome only by the permanency of grief.
Loss creates a deep and dark feeling, and it’s so important that it’s shared with someone. Even if you talk about it for a few minutes and sit in that moment with a person you trust, it will start to make the forthcoming moments slightly more bearable. It’s good to talk. 💜