Comparison can create a log jam in your relationship with yourself. Whether it’s scrolling social media, noticing someone’s success, or echoing childhood patterns of being measured against others, comparison shifts your focus outward and makes self-kindness nearly impossible. When you’re constantly measuring yourself against others, your self-worth becomes relative rather than intrinsic. This post explores…
Learning to understand the important role your body plays in mental wellbeing is one of the most valuable things you can do for yourself. Yet many people are disconnected from their bodies, stuck in anxious minds, overriding tiredness, or ignoring physical signals. Your body is constantly trying to help you, sending messages through sensations, emotions,…
Yesterday was Valentine’s Day – a day celebrating romantic love. Today, I’m inviting you to take yourself on a date. Because the most important relationship you’ll ever have is the one with yourself. Inspired by Julia Cameron’s ‘artist’s date,’ this is an invitation to treat yourself with the care and attention you deserve.
‘Should’ is one of the most damaging words in our vocabulary when it comes to self-friendship. The psychoanalyst Karen Horney called it “the tyranny of the shoulds”, keeping us split between our true and idealised selves. Shoulds disconnect us from the present, reinforce shame, kill self-compassion, and keep us stuck in relentless self-criticism. This post…
The words we use when we speak to ourselves aren’t simply passing thoughts – they shape how we feel, underpin our self-worth, and ultimately influence how we live our lives. Negative self-talk creates neural pathways that become our default routes. But neuroplasticity works both ways: you can create new, kinder pathways. It starts with noticing…
Perfectionists are often not good friends to themselves. From relentlessly high standards to being their own worst critic, perfectionism can sabotage the most important relationship you’ll ever have -the one with yourself. Here are five ways perfectionism works against you.
I’ve become a firm believer that the most important relationship you can have is the one with yourself. But so often, this relationship is a battleground rather than something we nurture and invest in. Most of us would never speak to others the way we do to ourselves—saving all the positive for others and all…
What would a good friend say to you right now? It’s a question we know well, yet so many of us struggle to answer it. Exploring why we treat ourselves so differently from how we’d treat a friend.
The January days are blurring together in rain and greyness. What if the antidote isn’t doing more, but noticing more? Small moments that become little anchors, making each day feel distinct rather than identical.
You were doing well, then stress hit and suddenly you’re back to old patterns – withdrawing, avoiding, feeling stuck. Here’s why this isn’t failure, and what these patterns are really trying to tell you
Have you ever found yourself unable to speak during a difficult conversation, your mind going completely blank? Or felt stuck and unable to move forward, despite desperately wanting to? This is your freeze response – often misunderstood as laziness or lack of motivation, but actually a profound survival mechanism. In this post, I explore what…
When eating issues aren’t taken seriously by doctors or family, it can lead to shame and self-doubt. This reflective post explores why eating difficulties are often misunderstood and why your experience still matters, even if others don’t recognise it yet.


