by Stephanie de Niese | Jul 16, 2025
Have you ever found yourself asking, “Why am I so angry?” Maybe it was after an intense conversation, during a moment of overwhelm, or perhaps you just noticed a slow-burning frustration in your day-to-day. Whatever it looked like, anger showed up—and it might have...
by Stephanie de Niese | Jun 17, 2025
As June rolled around, I found myself pausing to reflect — how was I really feeling? The answer surprised me: I wasn’t unhappy. I wasn’t unwell. I wasn’t even doing things I disliked. But I was stressed. Not the bad kind — just a lot of good stress. The kind that...
by Stephanie de Niese | May 20, 2025
We All Have a Default We all have ways we respond when conflict or emotional needs show up in our relationships. Most of the time, we don’t even realise we’re doing it. We just default to these automatic, learned behaviours—what we call coping styles in therapy....
by Stephanie de Niese | Jul 27, 2022
Something I’ve been learning – am still learning – is how to be unapologetically me. A hard task for a people-pleaser! Something you may or may not know about me is that I am a devout Catholic. If you follow me on my personal Instagram it’s...
by Stephanie de Niese | Feb 14, 2021
Emotion regulation is something that we all do and have done since we could remember. Sometimes we have useful, helpful strategies and other times we don’t. These strategies were often unconsciously learnt when we were very young through co-regulation with our primary...
