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➡️ Systemic Family Therapist
➡️ HR Consultant
➡️ Speaker
➡️ Workshop Facilitator

20/11/2025

People sometimes ask: “Why does therapy always go back to childhood?”
I get it, as a client in therapy, early on, this used to irritate me. You want to focus on what’s happening now.

Thing is: A lot of the ways we think, relate, cope, or shut down in the present were shaped early on in our lives, in our childhood.

👉How we learned to deal with conflict.
👉How safe we felt to express emotions.
👉Whether we were allowed to have needs.

These aren’t just “childhood issues”, they often become the lens we carry into adulthood.

✨So going back is critical to understanding.
✨Because once you see where something started, you have a better chance of changing it.

17/11/2025

📌“It takes a village” is something we often say about raising kids.
But honestly, it applies to all of us.

⚡We all need a village, at every stage of life.
No matter how much tech advances, no matter how many things AI can do for us. We will always need human connection, we will always need each other 🫂

Your village might be your family, it might be the people you’ve chosen as you innermost circle. The ones who check in, who show up, who share the load.

We don’t thrive alone. We need each other.

👉 What does your 'village' mean to you?

13/11/2025

I have an 18-year-old and a 10-year-old, two very different stages of parenting.

🤯And honestly? Even with everything I know as a therapist, parenting still stretches me more than anything else.

🫨It brings up things I thought I’d already worked through. It shows me where I still need to grow.

💪Some days I feel like I’ve got it.
🙈Other days I lose my patience and feel guilty five minutes later.

I keep learning that it’s not about getting it all right. It’s about showing up, being real, and repairing when you need to.

✨That’s the work. And that’s enough as long as you keep trying your best.

❓What’s one lesson you’ve learned so far?

10/11/2025

Happiness isn’t a life goal it’s a side effect of living in alignment with your truth.

There will be highs and lows.

But when your life reflects your values and purpose, you can feel anchored, even in hard seasons.

As Viktor Frankl reminds us:
“Those who have a ‘why’ to live, can bear almost any ‘how.’”

💬 What’s one value you’re building your life around right now?

05/11/2025

We often think our comfort zone is a safe, stable place.

But the truth is, when we stop challenging it, it starts to shrink.

Little by little, we lose confidence in our ability to cope, to adapt, and try new things.

Growth doesn’t require huge leaps.
We need small, steady stretches.
Enough to remind your nervous system:
“I can do hard things, one step at a time.”

What’s one small way you’re stretching yourself this week?

04/11/2025

Thank you to for the feature.

On the quieter strain of self-employment: balancing independence with rest, doubt with discipline, and building support that lasts.

Article ➡️ https://timesofmalta.com/article/the-quiet-strain-selfemployment.1118821

❗ If this resonates, I’ll be unpacking the real pressures of solo work, and practical ways to stay steady, in my workshop:

When You Work for Yourself 👉 details in Bio

❓ What helps you stay steady when you work for yourself?

Times of Malta

03/11/2025

Your shadow is not the “bad” part of you.
It’s the unseen part, a true part of you. The part still waiting to be welcomed home.

Shadow work is about meeting yourself:
The anger. The longing.
The shame. The desire.

One question: Are you living from your truth or just surviving by being “normal”?

What do you meet when you’re alone with yourself?

29/10/2025

When you work for yourself, you carry everything: the vision, the delivery, the admin, the pressure.

And let’s be honest: it can (and will) take a toll.

🗓️ This is your reminder: Early bird price for the “When You Work for Yourself” workshop ends this Friday, 31st October.

This half-day workshop is for self-employed professionals who want to better understand how stress, doubt, and fatigue show up in their day-to-day: and walk away with practical tools to stay steady when it’s all on them.

📍 21 November | Land’s End, Sliema
💶 €185 + VAT until Friday
🥗 Parking, free flowing coffee, Light lunch + networking included

No fluff. No hacks. Just the real work of leading yourself.

🎟️ Book your spot via the link in bio.

28/10/2025

You don’t have to choose between therapy and community.

They do different things, and you probably need both.

Therapy gives you insight, support, tools.
Community gives you belonging, connection, perspective.

One helps you understand yourself.
The other reminds you you’re not alone.

If you’ve got one but not the other, that might be why something still feels off.
Both matter.

27/10/2025

𝐍𝐚𝐯𝐢𝐠𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐓𝐨𝐮𝐠𝐡 𝐂𝐨𝐧𝐯𝐞𝐫𝐬𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧𝐬: 𝐏𝐨𝐬𝐭 𝐖𝐨𝐫𝐤𝐬𝐡𝐨𝐩 𝐑𝐞𝐟𝐥𝐞𝐜𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧

Facilitating is something I enjoy doing because it allows me to connect with people and ‘accompany’ them in considering a new perspective or take a deeper dive into . Which, in turn, will shift the perspective on the situation. This (and more) is what went down during our workshop held last week.

My own takeaway, is that no matter who we are, or what position we hold: 𝐇𝐎𝐖 we speak to people and how we are will always matter.

𝐓𝐡𝐢𝐬 𝐛𝐞𝐜𝐨𝐦𝐞𝐬 𝐚𝐦𝐩𝐥𝐢𝐟𝐢𝐞𝐝 𝐢𝐧 #𝐥𝐞𝐚𝐝𝐞𝐫𝐬𝐡𝐢𝐩 𝐩𝐨𝐬𝐢𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧𝐬.

Thank you goes to the participants who joined us, for their , the readiness to push themselves out of their comfort zone and for teaching us a thing or two during the day. We always learn from each other.

Thank you also to for another meaningful collaboration and for embodying the we both stand for. Looking forward to the next.

thanks for the bts support. The day ran smoothly as Elaine and I could focus solely on facilitating whilst you handled the rest.

📸 .iskander.photography

🔥 𝐈𝐟 𝐲𝐨𝐮 𝐦𝐢𝐬𝐬𝐞𝐝 𝐭𝐡𝐢𝐬 𝐨𝐧𝐞, 𝐝𝐨𝐧’𝐭 𝐟𝐫𝐞𝐭, 𝐰𝐞’𝐫𝐞 𝐫𝐮𝐧𝐧𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐭𝐡𝐢𝐬 𝐰𝐨𝐫𝐤𝐬𝐡𝐨𝐩 𝐚𝐠𝐚𝐢𝐧 𝐨𝐧 𝟕𝐭𝐡 𝐌𝐚𝐲 𝟐𝟎𝟐𝟔! 𝐑𝐞𝐚𝐜𝐡 𝐨𝐮𝐭 𝐢𝐟 𝐲𝐨𝐮 𝐰𝐚𝐧𝐭 𝐭𝐨 𝐣𝐨𝐢𝐧 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐰𝐚𝐢𝐭𝐥𝐢𝐬𝐭.

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