1 May 2026
mental health
Health Mental health

The hidden architecture of the self

How our inner selves are shaped, divided, and rediscovered Little Amy rests quietly in her mother’s womb, rocking to the gentle rhythm of a heartbeat. A dawning awareness surrounds her, she is sensation, presence, a soft unfolding. Held safely, she experiences a quiet joy, waiting for life to begin. In this stillness she becomes aware […]

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It’s probably not about you

Triggered or targeted; who is it who is really reacting? The latest self-help phenomenon is a book called Let Them. Several clients and friends have asked me how “letting them” could possibly help with setting healthy boundaries or standing up for yourself. When I looked more closely, I realised the idea is far more nuanced […]

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Inner sovereignty and equilibrium

The need to maintain balance when the world is convulsing There is a particular kind of anxiety that arises when the world you thought was moving forward appears to be sliding backwards. It shows up as unease, outrage, numbness, or a restless urge to do something, anything, to regain a sense of control. Watching rising inequality […]

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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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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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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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