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When Jealousy Speaks Louder Than Love

“Love isn’t something you guard. It’s something you feel safe enough to trust.” Recently, my client sat down in my office, arms folded, and said, “I know I’m being unreasonable, but I can’t stop it.” His partner has a close friendship with a male colleague. They have lunch together, message about work and share jokes [...]

By |2026-09-30T16:53:04+10:00September 30th, 2026|Articles, news and updates|Comments Off on When Jealousy Speaks Louder Than Love

You Didn’t Become Anxious — You Became Adapted

So many of the people I sit with tell me some version of the same thing: “I don't know why I feel like this. It's just how I am.” They describe living on edge, feeling flat, snapping at people they love, or never quite being able to switch off — and assuming this is simply [...]

By |2026-09-22T14:05:11+10:00September 21st, 2026|Articles, news and updates|Comments Off on You Didn’t Become Anxious — You Became Adapted

Why Being Present Matters More Than Being Willing to Help?

"A person who only helps when they are asked makes the other carry two loads: the ask, and the asking." There's a quiet kind of exhaustion that doesn't come from doing too much. It comes from having to ask. Most of us think of support in terms of willingness — am I willing to help [...]

By |2026-10-09T13:07:44+11:00September 7th, 2026|Articles, news and updates|Comments Off on Why Being Present Matters More Than Being Willing to Help?

How the Power of Your Mind Can Talk You Out of Sleep – Or Back Into It

A client came to see me recently — I'll call him James* — with a problem I hear more often than almost anything else: he couldn't sleep. Not occasionally. Not during a stressful week. For as long as he could remember. He told me, almost in passing, “I've always been a bad sleeper” — the [...]

By |2026-08-31T14:30:43+10:00August 31st, 2026|Articles, news and updates|Comments Off on How the Power of Your Mind Can Talk You Out of Sleep – Or Back Into It

When “Clean Eating” Content Becomes a Trap – What your Instagram feed isn’t telling you about orthorexia

It usually starts innocently enough: a green smoothie here, a “what I eat in a day” reel there, a hashtag promising to help you eat clean, feel light, and finally get on top of your health. For many of us, it feels less like content and more like motivation. But a growing body of research [...]

By |2026-08-18T16:01:33+10:00August 18th, 2026|Articles, news and updates|Comments Off on When “Clean Eating” Content Becomes a Trap – What your Instagram feed isn’t telling you about orthorexia

When Small Things Add Up to a Loss of Trust – and a Loss of Voice

(Mia's story below is a composite drawn from common patterns seen in practice; identifying details have been changed to protect privacy.) Mia couldn't point to a single moment. That was the hardest part. There was no affair to name, no lie she could hold up as proof. What she had instead was a pattern: her [...]

By |2026-08-04T07:56:43+10:00August 4th, 2026|Articles, news and updates|Comments Off on When Small Things Add Up to a Loss of Trust – and a Loss of Voice

“I Still Don’t Know What I Did”: The Silent Sting of Being Ghosted

Claire's story below is a composite drawn from common patterns I see in practice - details are changed to protect privacy. "I still don't know what I did." That's how a client of mine - I'll call her Claire - opened one of our sessions. She'd been part of the same friendship group for over [...]

By |2026-07-23T18:12:41+10:00July 23rd, 2026|Articles, news and updates|Comments Off on “I Still Don’t Know What I Did”: The Silent Sting of Being Ghosted

Why Three to Five Friends May Be All You Need

What the science of friendship tells us about safety, quality over quantity, and the quiet grief of losing a friend Scroll through social media and it can look as though everyone else has an enormous, glittering social life: group holidays, birthday brunches, hundreds of followers. If your own world feels smaller, you might wonder whether [...]

By |2026-07-17T09:35:56+10:00July 16th, 2026|Articles, news and updates|Comments Off on Why Three to Five Friends May Be All You Need

What If It Wasn’t About the Food?

I want to talk about something that doesn't get discussed the way it should. Not in the way that makes people feel judged, or broken, or like they just need to "try harder." But in a way that might,  I hope, make some of you feel a little more understood. Because if you have ever [...]

By |2026-07-01T06:51:08+10:00June 29th, 2026|Articles, news and updates|Comments Off on What If It Wasn’t About the Food?

Understanding your brain is the first step to changing your life

We are living in one of the most exciting eras in the history of human understanding. For the first time, we have the tools, the technology, and the science to truly look inside the brain and what we’re seeing is nothing short of remarkable. Neuroscience has given us a window into why we think, feel, [...]

By |2026-06-22T07:32:02+10:00June 22nd, 2026|Articles, news and updates|Comments Off on Understanding your brain is the first step to changing your life
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