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Grief & Loss
Grief and Guilt: When Your Mind Keeps Returning to What You Should Have Done
Guilt after a death can involve regret, “if only” thinking and questions about responsibility. This article explores these experiences without offering easy reassurance.
The Invisible Work of Rebuilding Everyday Life After Loss
In the weeks and months after someone dies, rebuilding life after loss can begin in surprisingly ordinary moments. It might be a bill you don't know how to handle, cooking far too much dinner, not knowing who services the heater, or reaching for the phone before...
When Friendships Change: Grieving Someone Who Is Still There
Some friendships end clearly. There is an argument, a betrayal or a conversation that makes it obvious something is over. Others fade in ways that are much harder to name. Messages become less frequent, plans take more effort, and somewhere along the way one person...
Life Transitions
What If You Don’t Feel Ready?
What happens when we keep waiting to feel ready? Acceptance and Commitment Therapy offers another way of thinking about grief, life change and overwhelm.
Finding Our Bearings: Navigating Change, Loss and Overwhelm
When life feels like molasses There are times when life feels like walking through molasses while expecting ourselves to move at Bionic Woman speed. Everything takes more effort, yet we still tell ourselves we should be further ahead, coping better, deciding faster or...
Four Seasons in One Wardrobe: What We Keep During Life Transitions
Melbourne is famous for having four seasons in one day. Life transitions can feel a little like that too. One day, a former chapter feels firmly behind us. The next, we reach for an old reference book, reread a university paper or wonder whether to keep the clothes we...
Chronic Disorganisation
Overwhelm or Overload? When Life Feels Like Too Much
There are times when life feels crowded before the day has even properly begun. Often there is no single dramatic cause; it is the accumulation that does it. The unanswered email, the appointment still to be made, the paperwork on the kitchen bench, the thing at work...
Why Getting Organised Doesn’t Always Solve the Problem
People often seek support to become organised. They may be struggling with clutter, unfinished tasks, paperwork, time management, or a growing sense that life feels increasingly difficult to manage. However, many discover that getting organised doesn't always solve...
The Difference Between Clutter, Chronic Disorganisation and Hoarding
People often tell me they are "a hoarder" when they are actually describing clutter. Others believe they are disorganised when the issue is more complex than a lack of organisation. Over the years, I have found that similar-looking homes can develop for very different...
Working Together
Why Do I Feel Smaller Around Some People?
Most of us have felt capable and confident in one part of our lives, yet unexpectedly unsure of ourselves in another. We may know our subject well, have plenty of experience, and usually trust our judgement. Yet in the presence of a particular parent, manager,...
Why Do I Keep Doing This?
Fiona is sitting in a meeting when someone suggests something she doesn’t agree with. She has an opinion and can feel it forming, but before she says anything, the conversation has moved on. Later, driving home, she finds herself replaying the moment and wondering,...
What Happens When We Walk Slowly Enough to Notice?
Walking slowly enough to notice the weather, light, birds, animals and changing landscape can also help us notice what is happening within us. This reflective piece explores the practice of noticing and its place in ecotherapy.
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