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I blogged recently about the cost of not having an ending, of what happens when a relationship just stops, without it’s passing being...

"There is a genius that can be found only in our coming together, and it's our combined abilities that elevate and strengthen us. True...

This Friday’s poem is a celebration of love which I wrote back in 2010. To me love is what life is, it is the flow I become part of in...

This week I want to share a poem I wrote back in 2008 about the nature of change, using a water metaphor. Have a wonderful weekend...

It seems natural to be distressed when something awful has happened. A death. A traffic accident. Abuse. Faced with situations like...

One of the most useful metaphors I have for the brain is to consider it as a road network. There are some thinking patterns that are...

It is a common wish, isn’t it, the desire to go back. ‘I wish things were the way they used to be’ or ‘I wish we got on like we did...

On a call recently a colleague used the term ‘truth-bumps’ to express her reaction to something that was said. While we might more...

I open Warm and welcoming I feel the flow Uplifting It gently takes my weight The deeper I yield The higher my flight Silently I give...

Rumi’s beautiful poem, The Guest House, invites us to embrace all comers in our inner world, to welcome our emotions as the messages they...

I want to reflect today on the idea of leaving well. So often in modern living I hear stories of people disappearing from the lives of...

Do you say yes when you feel maybe, or even no? Or does it take a resounding inner YESSSSS for you to decide something is right for you?...

“In the beginner's mind there are many possibilities, in the expert’s mind there are few” Shunryu Suzuki I was reminded of this familiar...

I had a profoundly moving experience recently, of sitting in the company of women, in a space of deep trust and warmth. I was...

I went to a breath workshop led by my yoga teacher last month, and she got me really curious about breathing and the impact on...

Feeling insignificant and invisible while in relationships is sadly not an uncommon experience. Therapeutically and in life more...

“When I am at home with myself, everything I do ends as a love poem” Yeats What we experience depends on our state, on our way of being,...

I often say I like contact with other people to be real. A few weeks ago, someone curiously asked, what does real mean to me? It was an...

As a psychotherapist and trauma therapist, a big theme in my work is somatic wisdom. The body remembers, we are all mammals, and to...

“Listen to the wind, it talks. Listen to the silence, it speaks. Listen to your heart, it knows.” Native American Proverb, quoted by...