Life Begins Outside Your Comfort Zone
Over the years I have undoubtedly built a safe and predictable life for myself. It is easy, it is comfortable and it ensures I pass the time in a healthy manner. Now, the aforementioned ‘passing of time’ is not enough, in fact, it’s far from anything even close to...
5 Lessons I Learned Late In Life
I have been reflecting recently on how much my life has changed in the last year. How much better things are… how many years I’ve wasted coasting safely through life. I wrote an article last year on my Instagram page (@towhomitmayconcernnz) in which I acknowledged...
Brother, You Are On My Mind, Pt.1
Brother, you are on my mind. Over the past 12 years, working as a clinical psychologist, I have mostly worked with men. During that time my biggest challenge has been getting men to talk about their feelings. Why is it that men are so reluctant to talk about their...
Survive And Thrive This Festive Season
I read an article today that highlights the horrendous suicide rates in New Zealand. In 2016/2017 roughly 606 Kiwi's took their own lives. This makes me really sad. Sad for those who lost all sense of hope and heartbroken for those they left behind. The media won't...
Fall In Love With Yourself First
For most of my life, the idea of self-love has been absent to me. To truly look within and have compassion and care for myself has been an experience I have only read about. Looking back, it seems somewhat silly to me that I have at times given those who are...
Date Like You Mean It!
Perhaps you will find comfort in the fact that it’s not just you that feels and acts this way. Perhaps you will read this and think I (and those who travel through life as I do) will forever struggle with relationships. We are a generation of quickly engaged social...
An Open Letter To Anyone In Pain
Believe me, I know it doesn’t feel like it now, but as the saying goes, this too shall pass. I know the depths of the pain and darkness you find yourself residing in. I understand the confusion and noise that comes with analysing every detail of what has gone wrong,...
Why I Started Writing – To Whom It May Concern
To be honest, I've always tried to be an open book about what I feel and experience inside and out. I've always known that I'm better off sharing the burden of tough times as opposed to internalising my struggles and eventually letting them boil over. I've always...
It’s Time To Stop Settling
It often takes heartbreak to become stronger. It often takes a sense of great loss to realise what we deserve. It always takes falling for the wrong person to make us aware of who’s really right for us. Often, it’s not until long after the grief ends that we realise...
I Took A Week Off Social Media – Here’s What Happened
I remember as a child I could spend hours, even days, playing with my toys and creating adventures outside. I spent a lot of time with cousins and friends putting together Lego cities, race car tracks and doing all the normal stuff kids of my generation would do. I...
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