Over the last two decades, I’ve learned to pay attention to signs from my body and my life that I need attention and/or that I need to ask for or seek additional help and support from safe sour...
https://www.baggagereclaim.co.uk/from-emotional-shutdown-to-self-compassion-my-self-care-evolution/
Supporting a partner who’s struggling with their mental health without becoming anxious, depressed or low ourselves is possible, but it does take clear boundaries and self-care. We can care for...
https://www.baggagereclaim.co.uk/healthy-boundaries-in-supporting-a-partners-mental-health/
Often, when clients, readers and listeners share stories with me, there’s an element of emphasising that they’re okay with something. ‘I’m okay with being friends with .’; ‘I don’t...
Fear plays a crucial role in alerting us to situations where self-care is necessary. Notifying you of a possible threat, it blocks love when you don’t distinguish between real and imagined ...
https://www.baggagereclaim.co.uk/living-with-excessive-fear-blocks-love-care-trust-and-respect/
In this week’s episode of The Baggage Reclaim Sessions, I share a big decision I’ve made about Baggage Reclaim and the podcast. The post Podcast Ep. 277: Knowing When To Stop appeared fir...
https://www.baggagereclaim.co.uk/podcast-ep-277-knowing-when-to-stop/
Maggie decided to attend therapy after her relationship ended due to what she defined as her “codependent behaviour”. Within weeks of beginning her sessions, she reconciled with her emotional...
In this week’s episode of The Baggage Reclaim Sessions, I talk about how potentially scary news about a relative’s health ended up teaching me some powerful lessons about managing anxiety a...
There are times when we believe that we trusted our intuition and that it was wrong. From how we confuse it with fear, to how our interpretation and fear responses can lead us astray, to our unre...
https://www.baggagereclaim.co.uk/podcast-ep-253-was-your-intuition-wrong-though/
It’s that time of the year again when my inbox and DMs fill up with people stressing about how to deal with family obligations and expectations during the festive season. There are three things...
When Ami* got in touch with me, she’d been experiencing anxiety in her year-long relationship pretty much the entire time. At first, she put it down to new relationship jitters and not being us...
Growing up, texting and near-constant connection didn’t exist. If I called someone who wasn’t home, the phone rang out. Or I left a message on their voicemail or with whoever they lived with....
When we’ve had what we might term “bad past experiences” and we realise that we’re in the beginnings of a much healthier, loving relationship, it’s not uncommon to feel as if we need to...
When you’re super busy and have no time, it’s tempting to point to all the people and things that use up your bandwidth (time, energy, effort and emotions). These appear to be the culprit of ...
Acknowledging that you’re an introvert can be liberating (Ah, now it all makes sense!), but sometimes it triggers and anxiety and stress (Agh! How am I going to survive working in an open-plan ...
https://www.baggagereclaim.co.uk/9-survival-tips-for-anxious-and-stressed-out-introverts-at-work/
Thanks to being socialised to disassociate from our bodies, we assume that if we buy, be, do or have the ‘right’ things then we will feel OK. We expect that we ‘shouldn’t’ feel anxious....