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The Revolution Begins Within: Relationship with Self and Others
Relational healing begins within. This reflection uses Andor (Gilroy, 2022–present) to explore rupture, repair, and nervous system truth, and how knowing yourself first helps you show up in relationships with more steadiness, honesty, and care.
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When the Hidden Version of You Starts to Cost More Than It Protects: A Note on Coming Into Yourself
Some hiding kept you safe. At some point, the cost of the hiding starts to outweigh what it was protecting. A Vancouver-based therapist's note to trans and queer readers on coming into yourself.
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Writing Between Sessions: Journaling Can Support the Work Your Body Is Doing
Writing can be a quiet companion to therapy when it is done from a body that stays with itself. A Vancouver-based therapist on journaling between sessions, for clients.
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When Self-Care Feels Out of Reach: Self-Compassion for Trans Adults Who Are Tired
You are not failing at self-care. The world is hard, and that is not your fault. A Vancouver-based therapist on self-compassion for trans people who are carrying a lot.
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Burnout, Boundaries, and Being Human: A Practice of Care from the Inside Out
Burnout rarely arrives as collapse. It shows up in blurred boundaries, over giving, and quiet depletion. A relational reflection on staying human in caregiving roles, and building care that can actually sustain you.
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The Body as an Archive: Notes from a Settler Therapist's Practice
On what the body carries from ancestry and culture, and how Dr. Roger Kuhn's Somacultural Liberation has shaped one settler therapist's practice. A first-person reflection on inheritance, humility, and the limits of extracting technique from its roots.
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When Explaining Non-Binary Gets Tiring: On Visibility, Rest, and What Helps
Being non-binary and exhausted is a real, shared experience. The weight of constant translation, education, and being read by others has a name. Some thoughts on the tiredness, and what might help.