30 Jan 2026
mental health
Health Mental health Star Psychology

The Star Psychology adventure is like therapy with a roadmap

The Star Psychology approach combines twenty-five years of therapeutic experience with the wealth of personality typing offered by traditions such as human design, gene keys and evolutionary astrology. Having studied these traditions for the past fifteen years. I have become expert at distilling those aspects that are the most helpful to my clients on their […]

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Up the waterspout again

Why New Year’s resolutions miss the point, but your inner compass doesn’t In the children’s nursery rhyme, Incy Wincy Spider repeatedly climbs up the waterspout, only to be flushed out again and again by the rain. Then, when the sun comes out and “dries up all the rain”, Incy Wincy Spider climbs up the spout […]

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A slow, steady climb back to the light – Dealing with sorrow at a time of feasting

This is the season of light, feasting, and enforced joy – and for many, it arrives right in the middle of grief. We all move through periods of light and dark in our lives. The light expands us; the dark tends to shrink us down. Nowhere do I feel this more strongly than here in […]

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Expat Support Health Mental health

Are you OK?

It will hardly have escaped your notice that we are living in changing times, indeed, rapidly changing times. Depending on your mindset, we are either going to hell in handbasket or we’re seeing the last dregs of a corrupt and elitist world, floating to the surface to enable something new to be born. I wanted […]

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Health Mental health

Confessions of a healthcare avoider

For the past months I have not been feeling well enough to put my fingers to the keyboard to share any thoughts about love, life, and learning. I’ve been sick. And when I am sick, I crawl into my basket, pull the blanket over my head and hope things will pass soon. I don’t go […]

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Winter cocooning at 60 degrees north

My Christmas school reports were always the worst. I was slow to start up again after the summer break, and by the end of October my synapses would fire more slowly while I gently dozed off as the nights drew in and the light faded from the horizon. Then I moved to Sweden in my […]

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What if things don’t happen for a reason?

The expression, ‘everything happens for a reason’ makes my toes curl. Especially when it is uttered with a helpless shrug of the shoulder and the underlying subtext of ‘moving on’. What if things don’t happen for a reason and there is no deeper meaning? Endless analyses and reflections will often present reasons why something has […]

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Adressing Cultural Shadows

‘Sharing the Dove’ is a Dutch initiative by four young people with Jewish and Muslim backgrounds. Their aim is to keep the dialogue open and transcend differences. They give workshops in schools and last week they brought together two rabbis, two imams, a Dutch priest and a Syrian Orthodox bishop for an open dialogue about […]

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Expat Support Health Mental health

No one tells the truth in therapy

Summary: psychology has helped us to see that everyone holds a personal, subjective version of the truth. While this is better than the authoritarian believe what I tell you paradigm, there are more steps to take. Otherwise, many will continue to confuse ‘my’ truth with ‘the’ truth, leading to self-victimisation and splitting. Two children get […]

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Befriending the green-eyed monster

A former colleague has just been awarded a really influential role in a government advisory committee. I am happy for her, but also feel that familiar pang of envy. It reminds me of how I felt about a close schoolfriend. She worked hard for high grades and in the weeks before our exams she would […]

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