Living

Climate distress often arrives in the body before it arrives in words. A psychotherapist's notes on climate grief, solastalgia, and what somatic therapy can hold when the body is already registering what the mind is still trying to manage.

What trees do for each other underground, what they offer with each breath we share, and what their long, quiet steadiness can teach a tired body. Notes from a Vancouver psychotherapist on the company of trees.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

The quiet voice that asks "am I trans enough?" is familiar to many trans adults. It rarely responds to affirmations. What does help, and where it comes from. A post about trans self-esteem that refuses the usual self-help framing.

There is often a part of transition almost nobody talks about, because it sits in a strange place next to all the joy. The grief. Notes on ambiguous loss, on euphoria and grief living together, and on leaning toward joy as an act of persistence.

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.

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.