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  • Psychiatry, psychotherapy, psychology and counselling… what’s the difference?

    Let’s just assume we’re all on the same page that everyone could benefit from a little bit of personal therapy. Probably couple’s therapy too. But we’ll hold that thought for the moment. Whether you… … a little bit of support can’t be a bad thing. But where do you start? Searching “I need a therapist” online throws

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  • A week of 10,000 steps

    I have ended up writing this piece slightly before I intended. I’ve been away, which always gives me a busy brain with lots of ideas… some of which I started straight away; drafting, researching, editing, scheduling. Others I planned to build up to. I banked them. I hoped to mull and consider them for a

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  • Seasonal review: Summer 2025

    Two years ago, a friend and I decided to be each other’s accountability buddies. He had read an article on Medium that had stayed with him for years. He’d mulled it over, considered if he could do it, how he could do it, who he could do it with… but hadn’t quite been ready to

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  • Dressing intentionally

    This might be a terrible idea, but I’m on the precipice of an enormous wardrobe cull. Something appeals to me about having less of more. I’m really up for having less stuff, and for the stuff I have to be of higher quality. Higher thread count, better fabric, less prolific, more rare. More stuff that goes together.

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  • A month of pleasing myself

    About a month ago, I started delving slightly deeper into the topic of people-pleasing. I had noticed the term being used more than ever before; people self-identifying as people-pleasers, people casually labelling others as people-pleasers, people pushing back on their pleasing compulsions… people… people… pleasing. If you don’t know what people-pleasing is, I wrote If you

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When life gives you lemons (the Mayo Jar exercise)

Ten ways to go phone free

An ode to fizzy water

People-pleasing

If you do this… you’re a people-pleaser

The cost of people-pleasing

A week of pleasing myself

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