Grief - the uninvited guest Grief is one of the most universal human experiences, yet it is often one of the hardest emotions to sit with. Most of us are taught how to achieve, solve problems, push through challenges, and move on. Very few of us are taught how to grieve. When people hear the word grief, they often think of death. Yet grief shows up whenever something changes, ends, is lost, or fails to become what we hoped it would be. We grieve the death of a loved one. We g

There is a movement that begins very early in life. Before language. Before memory. Before we can explain anything with words.

We don’t often think of childhood in terms of the roles we took on. We remember moments. Feelings. The atmosphere in the home. Who felt easy to be around. Who didn’t. What we learnt to do… in order to belong. Most of this happened quietly. Without words. Without anyone explaining it. But it shaped us. Trying to help… in the only way we could For some of us, there was a sense, early on, that something wasn’t right. A parent who was struggling. Emotionally, relationally, or in

Parentification Parentification is a word many people have never heard, yet the experience is surprisingly common. It happens when a...