Beyond Survival

Beyond Survival

Beyond Survival: What We Need to Truly Eliminate Violence Against Women, Domestic Abuse and Sexual Violence in Wales  As a survivor of domestic abuse and sexual violence, I welcomed the opportunity to reflect on the current VAWDASV strategy and consider what is needed...
Grief – The Unwelcome Teacher

Grief – The Unwelcome Teacher

Simba: An Unwelcome Teacher Some teachers arrive gently.  Others crash through the door of your life uninvited, dismantling everything you thought you knew about love, attachment, control, and surrender. For me, that teacher was Simba. Nothing could have prepared me...
At The Edge of Goodbye

At The Edge of Goodbye

There are moments in life that don’t feel like chapters so much as crossings – places where you are no longer who you were, but not yet who you’re becoming.  I find myself standing in one of those quiet crossings now. My cat – only five, still so full of...
Being ‘Nice’ Wasn’t Kind

Being ‘Nice’ Wasn’t Kind

I haven’t written a blog for a while.  Partly because life has been full, and partly because I’ve been immersed in an Authentic Relating course – which, as it turns out, is not just about relating to others.  It’s about learning to be more honest with yourself....
Beginning The Year Differently

Beginning The Year Differently

This Christmas humbled me in ways I didn’t anticipate. There were relational ruptures — moments where old wounds spoke louder than present-moment truth. Places where unconscious shadow moved through relationship before it could be named. Where transference and...
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