Blog
Practical reflections on common emotional and mental wellbeing difficulties, including anxiety, overthinking, confidence, and related patterns.
Feeling Stuck Even When Trying to Move Forward
Why it can feel like you are putting in so much effort, but nothing seems to shift
Why Overthinking Turns Toward "What If" Scenarios
Overthinking often shifts away from present events and becomes absorbed in possibilities about what might happen next. Here, I explore why thinking can become drawn toward ‘what-if’ scenarios and how imagined futures can gradually take centre stage.
Why Overthinking Is So Hard to Stop
If overthinking can feel repetitive and exhausting, why is it often so difficult to stop? This article explores some of the psychological processes that keep the thinking loop going.
When Thinking Becomes Overthinking
Overthinking rarely begins with the intension to overthink.
Why Anxiety Feels So Convincing — And How It Starts to Loosen
Anxiety can feel intensely real and urgent, even when part of you knows you are safe. This article explores why that happens, how anxiety is maintained, and how meaningful change begins through small, practical shifts over time.
Understanding the Safety Behaviours That Keep Anxiety Going
Understand how common safety behaviours can keep anxiety active, and why recognising these patterns is often the first step towards lasting change.
Functioning on the Outside, Anxious on the Inside
Anxiety doesn’t always look dramatic. Learn how quiet anxiety shows up in capable people, why it gets missed, and how these patterns can be understood and changed.
Why Switching Off at Night Is Harder Than It Should Be
A calm, practical look at why your mind can feel busiest at night — and how to respond in ways that support deeper, more restorative rest.
Why Do Capable People Feel Mentally Exhausted Even When They Are Coping?
Mental exhaustion is common in capable, busy people — and often misunderstood. This article gently explores what’s behind it, and why it makes sense.
Making Sense of Hypnotherapy
The term is familiar, yet the actual process is often unclear. Let’s take a closer look at what’s really involved, in simple and practical terms.