Life Transitions
Change can bring a mix of freedom, fear, doubt, and grief. Whether it’s a planned life transition like moving, career shifts, or unexpected loss, these moments offer important opportunities to pause, reflect, and realign your life. Understanding emotional responses to change helps build resilience and guides you toward personal growth and meaningful new beginnings.
Articles posted in the Counselling Theme: Life Transitions
Grief, Loss & Bereavement
Coping with grief takes time. Whether you’re grieving a death, a breakup, or a major life change, support can help you find steadier ground — and honour what’s been lost.
Life Transitions
Some transitions shake us more than others — a breakup, a birth, a move. Naming what’s real can steady your breath and return you to centre.
Online Counselling for Humanitarian Workers and Journalists
Having myself lived and worked in conflict zones across Africa, I offer distance counselling grounded in experience — backed by international accreditation.
What is the Difference between Counselling and Therapy?
What’s the difference between counselling and therapy? Therapy often aims to cure a mental health problem. Counselling focuses on meaning, care, and life context — not just symptoms. It’s more relational, more reflective, and more human.
The Magic of Counselling
Healing can’t be forced. But when the right conditions meet real commitment, something sacred unfolds: self-led growth, soul-deep change, and a renewed sense of possibility.
What Happens During Counselling?
Considering counselling can feel daunting. What will happen? What’s expected of you? Here's what to expect — practically, calmly, and without pressure.
Spring: Sparkles of Sounds, Smells, Sights
Spring doesn't just awaken the world outside. It stirs something within — energy, clarity, a quiet joy. The light shifts, and something in us starts to bloom again too.
Soul Psychology vs Heroic Psychology
Thomas Moore’s Care of the Soul reshaped how I understand healing: not as fixing, but as tending. Soul psychology invites us to embrace human frailty, depth, and connection — not perfection or performance.
Of Barks, Textures & Transience
Weathered textures — bark, rust, cracked stone — remind us that nothing stays. Heraclitus called it panta rei: everything flows. Accepting impermanence doesn’t mean giving up. It means seeing beauty in what’s passing.
The Eagle’s Nest – A Portal To Maturing
Childhood emotional wounds often echo well into adulthood. A father–son bond shaped by silence, shame, and longing begins to shift through grief, truth-telling, and a hard-won return to emotional authenticity.