You Don’t Have to Be in Crisis to Start Therapy
Many people believe therapy is only for when things are really bad — but that’s not true. In this post, I explore why you don’t need to be in crisis to start therapy, and how online counselling can support you through the everyday struggles too.
What is healing your inner child and why its a big deal
Healing your inner child means reconnecting with the part of you that formed during your early years—usually from birth to adolescence—that still carries emotional wounds, unmet needs, or limiting beliefs based on past experiences. It's not just a metaphor; it's a practical psychological process that involves identifying and nurturing the emotional experiences and vulnerabilities you carried (and may still carry) today as an adult.Was there addiction, neglect, emotional or physical abuse in your home. Where you praised on how grown up you was and how you fitted in with the adults. Did you assimilate to get your needs met. Was made to feel that you could not speak up, was exposed to the family secrets and became skilled at reading other people, especially around authority figures.Well this is where it can end, make a change, take a step towards healing, step out of the old dynamics that you used as a coping mechanism and start looking at who you are.
How to Actually Process Your Feelings Instead of Shoving Them Down
Let’s be real: most of us were never taught how to deal with feelings.We were told to “calm down,” “stop overreacting,” or “just get on with it.” So it makes sense if your go-to response now is to push feelings aside and hope they disappear. (Spoiler: they don’t.) If you’re the kind of person who bottles things […]
Toxic Love: When You Can’t Let Go, Even When It Hurts
Have you lost yourself in it?
In the rush, the chaos, the cycle you can’t seem to break?
In the rush, the chaos, the cycle you can’t seem to break?
Do you find yourself wanting to leave desperately but feeling like you can’t?
Do you forget how painful it was, only to go back again… hoping it’ll be different?
Are you hiding the truth from others, from yourself?
Making excuses for their behaviour? For yours?
Covering the bruises the emotional ones, maybe the physical too?
Have you started shrinking your life to fit around theirs?
Questioning what’s real and what isn’t?
Losing your sense of purpose, of self, of peace?
Is this the love you thought you deserved?
Do you believe this is all there is?
You might not know what “better” looks like yet.
But you are allowed to want it.
You are allowed to have it.