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
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...
by Stephanie de Niese | Feb 14, 2021
Body image is a big topic in this day and age. I remember from my high school days that it was something we were educated about quite early on. And even though we were given the education, there were still people I knew who suffered from eating disorders. Eating...
by Stephanie de Niese | Jan 30, 2021
Love is one of the most well known and yet elusive concepts out there. We are all familiar with the term ‘love’ in one way or another and yet, we are still befuddled by what it actually is. Love is one of the concepts that I like to live my life by. In order to do...