For all it’s shimmer and promise, the festive season can also bring a truckload of challenges for many people.If you’re not gleefully anticipating decorating the tree and trying to one-up Santa in the gift-giving stakes, then you might be feeling a little,...
Emotional Safety is Seductive: In 2012, a professional singer I know sent in a video audition to The Voice. She did it on a whim, but she was in her mid-twenties in an industry that has a very clear bias towards artists much younger, and deep down she hoped this would...
When Fear Takes Hold It was a Tuesday many years ago when Jane (not her real name) and I met. I was in full-time clinical practice and my schedule was booked solid for this particular day. In between clients, I slipped into the kitchen to make tea. I think it was...
This week, an ex-client of mine was featured as part of a documentary on national television. The documentary detailed some of his story, particularly that of his distinguished career as a police officer and the traumas he had faced throughout. My client, the...
One of our biggest music festivals here in Australia is called ‘Byron Bay Bluesfest’. And if you can imagine soothing, crooning blues music (the type that speaks to your soul and settles in your heart) backdropped by the lush rainforest-cupped beauty of the...