Author: Zeha Tembo I was a stubborn teenager, fact. I remain what I prefer to describe as a strong-willed adult with firm opinions, take that as you may. Whenever I shrugged my shoulders (which was often) – my way as a young person of saying, ‘how hard can it...
Author: Jasminder Bahia Decolonizing our Selves is a wild journey packed with honesty, unlearning, and the gutsy move of owning our ancestral truths. It’s like a wildfire, facing our past demons, embracing the messy, beautiful parts of ourselves, and tearing...
Author: Dionne St. Hill “If you are silent about your pain, they’ll kill you and say you enjoyed it.” Zora Neale Hurston They struggled to find the perfect word. In that moment, no vocabulary felt expansive enough… no expression deemed accurate—as they searched for a...
soul intrusions is social context everything? Dionne St. Hill unpacks the impact of society on our lived and learnt experiences. ‘You may believe that your pain is a separate pain from the world’s pain. When you unlearn (or reframe) this, your deepest healing may...
listening through a decolonised ear philosophical reflections from Dionne St. Hill, on the power and the liberation of African and Asian Centred therapeutic practice. The recent total solar eclipse offered us an opportunity to remember parts of ourselves we may...
Author: Ayesha Giselle Dornelly Image by Joshua Abner In our journey through life, we often cling to familiar identities and patterns, afraid to let go of who we know ourselves to be. However, it is only by releasing these attachments that we can make space for the...
Author: Starnta Johal Despite being a British born Punjabi woman, whilst training to be a counsellor it never crossed my mind that I would want to work with people of South Asian heritage. I was focussing on the specialisms I was interested in, S&DV, bereavement,...
Author: Judy Nkechukwu The Purge. The Purge. You know, the movie? We are living it.Anxiety, Stress and Fear is really here!The Joy of the Oppressed.Soul exhaustion, compassion fatigue, frozen – simply yearning to feel!The 3 – 2 -1 Countdown; whilst...
Author: Lorraine Collins When we feel lonely, it can often come with a sense of shame. It’s as if our loneliness were a personal weakness, and we’re embarrassed of our need for connection, belonging and being understood. Loneliness is often amplified rather than...
Breaking Barriers: Thriving As a Working Parent With Long-Term, Chronic Illness Meet Catriona and Esther, friends who came together over illness. Here they share their story and day-to-day tips with us. Catriona and I met in 2018, whist we worked for a paediatric...
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