Chronic Pain & Medication

How do you manage your pain? Meditation, counselling, pacing, massage, physiotherapy, exercise… medication? We often seem to flinch at long term medication, reacting to it as a necessary evil. And it’s certainly true that popping a few pills to ‘take...

Self-critique or self-esteem; how do you grow?

I’ve long avoided ‘self-esteem’ as a concept. I’ve never identified with issues of low self-worth and, considering myself a seeker of truth, found it more natural to think in terms of self-critique instead. Self-critique, I argued, allows for...

Searching for Identity, and How to Find It

Why are we searching? An experience shared by a lot of Third Culture Kids is that of having multiple cultural identities. They are often described as chameleons, able to adopt behaviours (and sometimes even beliefs) at will to function in changing social environments....

New Year Goals – free printable!

How are you all doing? Made it through the festive season intact? I’ve not posted in a while precisely because this time of year can get a little crazy! I’m finally sitting down to write to you about New Year Goals… One of the things buzzwords for...