Pain and Recovery
Taking off your (emotional) clothes is hard
Self-protection gets in the way of your connection with others—to find intimacy you must risk vulnerability. How do you manage the trade-off?
Pain and Recovery
Human nature
Sometimes I get tired of me.
A friend recently asked if I ever feel life is futile. My first thought: "You mean that permanent feeling on my mental horizon?" Here's how I live with it.
Human nature
Light against darkness, hope against hope
What do you do when it feels like all hope is lost? You can hope on, anyway.
Pain and Recovery
Dealing with pain? Try distraction.
What’s the difference between repression and suppression, between denial and distraction? Join me to explore how we deal with emotional pain.
Christianity
Let us lament
The world has always felt broken, if you’ve been paying attention, but this year feels particularly so. And in the midst of it all, I’ve come to find a deeper appreciation of lament. Join me.
Pain and Recovery
The past is very present
We think of time as an obstacle, as something in our way. What if it instead as THE way—as the thing that gets us where we want to be?
Christianity
Two kinds of strength
What do we mean when we say people are “strong”? What are we really saying?
Pain and Recovery
Avengers: Endgame: time heists, trauma and therapy
The MCU finale as a metaphor for trauma and therapy
Empathy
It’s hard to recognise my own emotional problems
The value of emotional insight It might seem weird: how, you might wonder, does a person not know they have emotional problems? Especially someone like me, who’s trained in mental healthcare. There’s several ways to answer that question, but for now let’s just say it’s sort
Pain and Recovery
How I recentre after an emotional flat tyre
And what my new glasses have to do with it I get rather frequent emotional flat tyres. That’s how I like to describe those times (more frequent than I’d like) when my mood drops and I feel rather slower than usual, and find myself struggling with less savoury
Mental illness
The Story-View Manifesto: It's time to own your story
You're a storyteller. You may not feel like it or think about it, but that's because it's so ingrained into who you are, into your very DNA, that you don't have to be conscious of it. Like your eyes, you see things
Pain and Recovery
The RISE Manifesto: a call to think differently about health problems
What if there's a better way to think about health problems than simply chasing cures? I believe there is: I call it the RISE Way. The RISE Way: because there's more to brief illnesses and persistent conditions than just time. This is a manifesto about health