Spring arrives and suddenly you’re meant to clean everything. Wardrobes, cupboards, the shed you haven’t opened in three years. We’re told that clearing physical clutter creates mental clarity, that fresh starts require empty spaces, that you can’t welcome the new without releasing the old. And whilst there’s some truth to this—physical environments do affect our…

You want to be known. You crave it, even. The fantasy of someone truly seeing you—all of you—and choosing to stay anyway. Someone you don’t have to perform for, explain yourself to, or hide from. Someone who knows the worst parts of you and loves you not despite them but including them. This is what…

You want to be better now. Not in six months. Not next year. Now. You’ve done the work—you’ve gone to therapy, read the books, tried the practices. You’ve sat with the discomfort, done the shadow work, faced the difficult truths. Surely that should be enough. Surely you should be healed by now. But healing doesn’t…

Someone says something that triggers you. Before you even register what’s happening, you’ve already reacted—snapped back, shut down, walked away, said something you’ll regret. The words are out of your mouth before you’ve had a chance to think. The damage is done before you’ve even chosen to do it. This is what happens when we…