Stephanie Terre Blanche Clinical Psychologist and Psychotherapist

02/09/2025

“Third things are essential to marriages, objects or practices or habits or arts or institutions or games or human beings that provide a site of joint rapture or contentment.”

02/09/2025

Although its a bit more nuanced than this - I've found this to be very true. Hard work, even too much of it, does not necessarily burnout make. Rather, when we work, under difficult psychic conditions, often that compromise who we are at our core, slowly but surely that little spark that keeps us animated feels like she is fading. (She's never gone, but we can feel like she is).

Burnout isn’t just about overwork… it’s about disconnection.
From your body.
From your truth.
From the version of you that’s been quietly waiting to feel safe enough to be seen.

You don’t need another productivity hack.
You need rest.
You need repair.
You need to come home to yourself.

Your body is ready.
Your truth is safe.
Your healing begins here.

02/09/2025

"When it comes to awakening, the point is not 'self-improvement' or simply a change in status. Changing one’s fate means awakening to another way of seeing and being. Not simply doing things differently, but becoming a different person, both more aware within and more alert to the mystery of life. The point of change is to become as another, to become the other that was hidden inside all along. In order for such a thorough change to happen people must let go of who they think they are. Letting go of one’s habitual self turns out to be one of the greatest difficulties in life. If that were not so, many more people would escape the common traps that keep life small and self-confining.

Any meaningful change must begin with recognizing and letting go of what entraps us. Yet the little self feels it will lose what it holds so dear. Even when life begins to feel like a trap and the pain becomes undeniable, the monkey-minded little self will not simply let go. Often enough it seems better to cling to a familiar pain than suffer a genuine change of state."

- Michael Meade, "Fate and Destiny"

02/09/2025

Just beautiful. Via Psyche's Call with Donna May

"Your body is your subconscious mind and you can’t heal it by talk alone.

Your mind, your feelings are in your body, and it's there, in your somatic experience, that feeling is healed." -Candace B. Pert, Ph.D., Molecules of Emotion, p.293.

📷 Image by Goldziitfotografie, Shutterstock

(This post via The Horse's Truth with Angela Dunning, 2022 🦋)

01/09/2025

Even a pause is part of the journey.

01/09/2025

September poetry

01/09/2025

Having just come back from a major canyon hike, this is such a welcome article. Maybe it resonates with you too?

Anything you polish with attention will become a mirror. Anything to which you give yourself fully, vest all your strength and risk all your vulnerability, will return you to your life annealed, ma…

31/08/2025

Birks is a phenomenal mental health activist who is currently walking a beautiful route across Europe in a campaign called Beyond Silence. The campaign is about raising awareness around su***de and su***de prevention. Her work, resilience, and courage is so inspiring. If you love nature, and you work or are interested in mental health, this is such a powerful channel. Go give her a follow, and here is a recent video from her adventures:

My name is Kit Birks and I am attempting to walk the ENTIRE length of Europe, all in the name of su***de prevention. This trek is called Stride Beyond Silenc...

31/08/2025

From The Power of Myth.

31/08/2025

I love this