Healing from complex PTSD – c-PTSD
Healing from complex PTSD is...complex. We often arrive at this point after years - even decades - of trying to cure, treat and manage a number of different issues separately,…
Releasing emotions stored in the body
You’ve gone through a lot - and now it’s time now it’s time for releasing emotions stored in the body - but how do you do that? First of all,…
How To Stop Intellectualising Emotions
So you've figured out you're intellectualising your emotions - and you want to know how to stop. Let's check we're on the same page here. You know you’re intellectualising your…
Overcoming procrastination
Got a big plan to pull off, but feeling all over the place? Feel like you're running round in circles? Or simply Can't Be Arsed? You need - and want…
A non-ideal day
I wrote out my ideal day. It had all the usual things in it that I wanted to get done on a daily basis. Sleeping, eating, working, family time, fun,…
Stop over-reacting!
How often have you been triggered into a total hissy fit by the words "Stop over-reacting!!" When we're over-reacting, we definitely don't want to be told about it. In fact,…
Why self-help books don’t always work
Long ago, I discovered self-help books that didn't work. Self-development processes that didn't stick. Self-improvement methods that didn't bring about lasting improvements. It's not that these books, processes and methods…
Are you sensitive or sensitised?
You've heard it too many times already. "Urgh, you're so sensitive" "Why do you have to take everything so seriously? So personally?" "What are you worried about that for?" Annoying,…
Why you don’t know what you’re feeling – and how to fix it
Highly sensitive, highly intelligent people can sometimes be fairly clueless about their emotional life. It seems contradictory - how can someone so sensitive and so switched on be so dim…
Geek stress
Sometimes, we feel bad. Scared, guilty, worried, anxious... All the feels in the general category of 'bad.' When you combine feeling bad with geekly propensities towards intensity, feeling-in-detail, and overactive…