Life & Change

It doesn't always look like collapse. Emotional exhaustion rarely does. More often it looks like getting through the day: the meetings, the messages, being present for the people who need you, and then sitting down in the evening and feeling completely hollowed out. Not tired exactly, though you're that too. Something closer to empty. What makes it confusing is that nothing dramatic has happened. There is no single event to point to. Life is, by most measures, fine. Which ma

There is a particular kind of confusion that comes with getting what you wanted. Life changes can feel harder than we expected. You made the decision carefully. You thought it through, perhaps talked it over with people you trust, sat with it long enough to feel sure. Then you did it: left the job, moved to a new city, ended the relationship that wasn't working, had the baby, got married, finally retired. You chose this. Yet somewhere beneath the surface, something doesn't fe

Dear Reader, I spent over twenty years working in organisations. Senior roles, important work, genuinely good causes. But somewhere along the way I noticed something. The bigger the role, the further I seemed to get from the thing that had drawn me to it in the first place. The human interactions. The real conversations. The moments where someone feels genuinely seen and heard, and something shifts as a result. That's what brought me to counselling. Not a sudden revelation, b