Over the last few weeks I have felt despair and grief.  Grief for lost opportunities,  for the insidious nature of the patriarchy and how...

Adversity and challenge are inevitably interwoven with our increasingly complex lives, when we experience such times we can experience...

A few weeks ago one of my beautiful dogs became suddenly ill and died - within a day.  A day during which I was hosting 10 children for...

Those of you who’ve read my past posts may have read my previous post about Missy Higgin’s incredible song ‘A Complicated Truth’ written...

Susan David is a Harvard Medical School psychologist who writes about emotional agility.  She speaks to the need for each of us  to learn...

Any parent who’s supported their kids through the breakdown of a relationship will I’m sure relate to Missy Higgins inmate and poignant...

Self care is a topic I’m pretty passionate about.  While, in our capitalist society, it is frequently conscripted to be about things we...

Most of us have had numerous experiences of grief in our lifetimes.  Loss is an inevitable part of human life.  It might be the grief of...

This is the place where my two work worlds intersect … a place I am very passionate about … bringing together my experience of working...

When I started counselling one of the things that I was most oblivious to was how completely disembodied I was.  I remember my beautiful...

If you have experienced infidelity in your intimate relationship - I am sorry you have found yourself here trying to make sense of how...

Parenting is hard some days … in fact if I am honest there are elements of parenting that are hard most days.  Don’t get me wrong I...

This Sunday just gone was Mother’s Day.  A day that comes with growing recognition that there is a complexity beyond the surface level...

A review of Isabelle Oderberg's landmark book "Hard to Bear: Investigating the Science and Silence of Miscarriage"

This weekend just gone had a number of significant and related awareness days.  Saturday was TFMR (Termination for Medical Reasons)...

When terrifying things like the horrendous events at Bondi Junction this Saturday happen, it can be hard enough to make space for our own...

Early in my career in paediatric palliative care I had the privilege of attending the International Summer Institute at the Dougy Centre...

Generally in the Western world we aren’t great at talking about or making space for people’s grief.  We seem to have a collective...

I first came to the concept of Holding Space when a friend suggested I would resonate with the work of Canadian author and facilitator...

Some of the people I admire most in the mental health field are those who have the courage and vulnerability to share that they came to...