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Understanding Chronic Burnout When You are Navigating Multiple Identities You wake up. You have already used up your spoon supply for the week, and it is only Tuesday. The cup of tea sits cooling on your bedside table, that quintessentially British ritual of comfort that somehow no longer feels comforting. Instead, it feels like one more thing. One more thing to remember, one more thing to manage, one more thing that requires you to exist in a world that was not quite designe

Vous venez peut-être de rompre avec votre partenaire. Une relation de plus qui s'envole, comme une queue de cerises dans le vent. Encore une. Le début prometteur Lorsque vous vous êtes rencontrés pour la première fois, vous aviez l'impression que, plus que jamais, cette fois c'etatit la bonne. Après tout, vous aviez appris vos leçons, vous aviez votre longue liste de critères et quelques papillons au ventre. Vous étiez prêts à emménager avec votre chat et votre chien, à navig

You came to therapy devastated. Another relationship had ended: "I thought we had worked through our issues. I thought I knew better this time. What am I missing?" This question, so many of you carry it. The truth is, you are simply navigating patterns that, until recently, remained invisible. The Gottmans made them visible. And now, we can work with them. In my previous post, I introduced you to John and Julie Gottman and their ground-breaking "Love Lab" research. Today, I w

The Layers Beneath Identity If you are a French expat, part of the LGBTQ+ community, or living with ADHD, there is a good chance that you have faced a particular kind of loneliness; the experience of masking. Not the theatrical kind, but the kind where you have spent years learning to appear as the person others expect you to be. Only to realise later that beneath that mask, there was even more of yourself still hidden. What makes this even more complex is that masking itself

You know that feeling when you are stuck in your head, overthinking, spiraling, and just cannot shake the anxiety? And what if I told you that simply walking while talking about your struggles could make a massive difference? Walk and Talk Therapy and Life Coaching in Wigan In fact, only 50% of people using standard talking therapies in the UK see recovery after ten to twelve sessions, but with walk and talk therapy that number jumps to a whopping 58%. Left unchecked, chronic

Expatries, Hypersensibles, TDAH, lesbiennes, gays, bi, trans et toutes les autres lettres de l'alphabet LGBTQ? Vous venez peut-être de rompre avec votre partenaire. Une relation de plus qui s'envole, comme une queue de cerises dans le vent. Encore une. Le début prometteur Lorsque vous vous êtes rencontrés pour la première fois, vous aviez l'impression que, plus que jamais, cela pouvait fonctionner. Après tout, vous aviez appris vos leçons, vous aviez votre longue liste de cri