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A woman in a cream cardigan and tan top reflected in a round mirror, appraising herself, illustrating the inner critic at work in the moment of getting dressed.

4 days ago0Comments

How the Inner Critic Tells You to Dress

conference name badge for the Appearance Matters 11 Conference resting on a green notebook with a black pen, in warm natural light on a wooden surface, illustrating a personal reflection on the conference.

5 days ago0Comments

The Invisible Burden of a Visible Burden

A view through a window with soft curtain detail, illustrating the suspended state of burnout recovery

June 11, 20260Comments

Burnout Recovery – Why It Takes Longer Than You Think

A figure in an oversized neutral sweatshirt, partially hidden, illustrating clothes as disguise

June 9, 20260Comments

Clothes as Disguise

Woman seen from behind sitting at a desk working on a laptop, surrounded by large tropical plants in warm neutral tones, composed and unreachable

May 28, 20260Comments

What’s Behind Your Capable, Composed and Reliable Armour?

Woman writing in a journal at a desk in warm natural light, real and unposed

May 27, 20260Comments

What is Journalling and How to Make it Right for You

$Fragmented female face seen through teal geometric circles on a cream background, illustrating the fractured identity of shapeshifting behaviour$

May 22, 20260Comments

Shapeshifting – When the Person You’ve Become Isn’t Really You

Personal photograph of Fawning by Dr Ingrid Clayton on a wooden desk beside a plant in warm spring light.

May 20, 20260Comments

Fawning: Why the Need to Please Makes Us Lose Ourselves and How to Find Our Way Back

Hand reaching in to arrange imperfect white ceramic vessels in warm natural light, illustrating the fawning pattern of orchestrating and controlling

May 14, 20260Comments

Why Trying to Orchestrate Events and Other People is Keeping You Trapped

Woman standing alone in a misty lake from behind, surrounded by fog and dark trees, figure small within a vast atmospheric landscape

May 12, 20260Comments

Never Feeling Like You’ve Fulfilled Your Potential

Woman lying in foetal position on a warm wooden floor, overhead angle, depicting quiet exhaustion and withdrawal

May 7, 20260Comments

Fawning and Burnout – When Being Accommodating Backfires at Work

Collage of warm and monochrome portrait fragments - faces, hands and flowers - illustrating the hidden nature of the fawn response

May 5, 20260Comments

What is Fawning?