The Blog
Even Superwoman Needs Play Time 💃
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...
The Default Dance: How Coping Styles Shape Our Relationships
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....
Learning to be Me
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.
EMOTION REGULATION
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...
BODY IMAGE
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...
LOVE
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...
SELF-TALK
Self-talk is one of the things that we all do. We talk to ourselves more often than we talk to anyone else in our lives. Sometimes we talk to ourselves in our heads and sometimes we talk to ourselves out loud. Sometimes we aren’t even aware we are speaking to...
WHAT IS EMOTION?
Emotion is one of my favourite topics to talk about! Why? Well, I believe that it is the root of the way we behave and interact with others. I’ve always been fascinated by the way people are and how they function in the world. I noticed at a young age that a lot of...
SLEEP
When I was younger, I never wanted to go to bed. There always seemed more that I wanted to do other than sleep. That said, when it was time to wake up, I didn’t want to do that either and I still don’t! The older I get, the more I value my sleep time. I often...
FOOD MORALITY
 Food Morality is a concept that I have only recently come across. When introduced to me by a friend who was participating in one of my 6-week challenges, I was instantly curious. Looking into it more, I have discovered that food morality is quite prevalent in our...