With a force more powerful than thunder, they come. With terror inducing, nightmarish strength, they emerge. Unpredictable, unwanted, and definitely unasked for, there is nothing worse than their arrival, and…

Is a common reaction when stress is present. It has us second guessing ourselves and becoming uptight about life in general. It also has the questionable honour of emerging as…

Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) is a disorder that can develop in people who have experienced a shocking, scary, or dangerous event. Symptoms can include; nightmares, flashbacks, anxiety and fear. Complex…

Although it's widely known as a process of disconnecting from one's thoughts and feelings I think Dissociation is way bigger than that. Depending on how your life has been it may…

Now there’s a word! When I think of how much I needed this in the first sixteen years of my life; it blows my mind. I am not alone, hypervigilence like…

I was talking to a friend the other day about how difficult it is to deal with people who tend to ‘Go Low’ in their behaviour.​By that I mean not

Whether we know it or not, we have boundaries with every single person we interact with. We decide who we let into our inner circle, outer circle or not at

This youtube video is invaluable in explaining why adult survivors of child sexual abuse struggle to speak out. A very informative and powerful watch. Children who are sexually abused are told…

Three years ago I began the journey of writing this book 'On Angels Wings - My flight from trauma to grace', and now it is done. Its here people, therefore…

Timing is interesting because we don't always understand why something is happening the way it is at the time it is. Usually we are impatiently expecting a situation to occur…

While watching a show on Netflix where a woman appeared to be gliding across a tight wire high up off the ground, I realised two things: I don’t like heights

Perception is interesting because whatever we perceive something to be becomes our reality. Not necessarily other people’s, just ours. We seem able to look at the exact same situation and…

I was reading Eckhart Tolle’s A New Earth the other day, and one line in particular stood out; ‘Treat the situation you are in as if you had chosen it…..

Sometimes we have no idea of the impact we have. Sometimes we can tell straight away, we’ve just got it wrong, and other times we have no idea. We don’t

The problem with things ending is that they don’t check in with us first. If they had bothered, they would find we’re not interested right now, thanks anyway. We like…

I think kindness is underestimated, it has a power beyond what we could possibly imagine and an impact that spreads far and wide.​Many people practice it without giving it a…

Like most of us starting the new year, I decided that setting a vision would be helpful and set me on the path for a new improved version of myself. In…

Is seen as having strength in the face of hardship, being able to withstand the challenges that come our way with fortitude and determination. Sometimes this happens easily, sometimes not

We all have it, we just don’t realise it. Power presents itself in many forms every day. We have the power to say no to someone, we have the power

I’m not sure I like tolerance very much, probably because I overdo it. A bit of a default position of mine that leaves me feeling taken advantage of and then