It rarely starts with a big moment. 🤷🏼♀️ No dramatic fight. No obvious dealbreaker. No clear reason you can point to and say, “This is wrong.” 🤔 As a relationship coach and trauma-informed practitioner who has spent over 20 years working with women in unhealthy dynamics and perpetrators of family violence as a Parole Officer (and having lived it myself in many past relationships) I see this quiet questioning stage all the time. This means awareness is starting to…
Hey legend, As this year comes to a close, I want to offer you something different. 💫 Not a pep talk, not a push, not a “new year, new you” speech. Just a pause. Time to reflect. 🧐 There’s a lot of noise at this time of year telling you to reflect harder, decide faster and to know exactly what you want next. But here’s what I see, again and again, in my work with hundreds of clients…
As I write this, I’m mid-air flying to London for an emergency trip back to the UK. ✈️ Cam was there with me when I got some concerning news and he was so amazing, nothing but supportive. 🥰 It wasn’t even a thought that I had to ask for “permission” to book a flight home even though it means all our Christmas plans go out the window. I had a moment where I thought what this would have been…
There was a time in my younger years that I honestly believed that love would be enough to make a relationship work. #naive So when the red flags started appearing in my relationships, I ignored them because I honestly believed that love would overcome any issue. 🚩 I was wrong: love isn’t enough. 🥺 Especially when you’re in love with someone who isn’t right for you. Who can’t communicate and isn’t willing to work on themselves. Who doesn’t love…
“Have you ever considered bankruptcy?” 🧐 My stomach dropped when she suggested that to me. I was having a chat with My Budget, exploring options to get me out of the hole I’d gotten myself into. 🕳️ I was sitting in my newly built house, not being able to afford toilet roll. No landscaping, no blinds, and concrete floors after living there for three years. How did I let this happen? 🥺 I’d spent almost 8 years at…
When I moved to Australia in October 2010, I pretty quickly met a guy who I started a whirlwind relationship with and what ensued was an on/off relationship for the next eight years. 😳 There was SO much drama. All. The. Time. 🦙 The weeks leading up to his birthday? He’d sulk for most of it. 🙄 Christmas was the week after his birthday – and that was no better. I love Christmas in Australia – time at the…