Retirement often begins with long‑imagined adventures: the trips you postponed, the places you promised yourself you’d see. But once the suitcases are unpacked, life after work can feel confronting and empty. It’s the season where the question emerges: What do I want my days to look like now? In a recent conversation on Mel Robbins’ […]
New job? Day one and day 100 of your new position are linked. Read on to find out more…
Are you really busy, but there’s so much to do that you don’t have time to stop? If that’s you, read on…. There’s a common belief that some people are simply built to carry more — more responsibility, more emotion, more tasks, more of everyone else’s needs. We call them “high‑capacity people,” and often they’re […]
Emotional literacy is one of those foundational skills that shapes how men show up in their relationships, workplaces, and inner lives. Yet many men arrive in counselling feeling unsure about what they’re feeling, how to name it, or how to express it without conflict or shutdown. This isn’t a personal failing. Emotional literacy is taught, […]
A night at the theatre can surprise you. Sometimes it entertains, sometimes it unsettles, and every now and then it offers a performance of such depth and mastery that you walk away changed. Watching Noni Hazlehurst perform The Lark was one of those moments. A single woman on stage, in her early seventies, holding an […]
After the initial swirl of emotions that can follow a late ADHD diagnosis, many women find themselves wondering what comes next. Now that there’s language for what they’ve been navigating for years — sometimes decades — the question becomes: How do I understand this part of myself, and what do I do with this information? […]
Not all grief looks like bereavement. Sometimes loss arrives quietly, without explanation, without a clear ending, and without the rituals that help us make sense of change. This experience has a name: ambiguous grief. Ambiguous grief occurs when something or someone important to us is absent, changed, or out of reach — but not entirely […]
