Blog
Notes from the journal
Gentle reflections on emotional wellbeing, therapy, and the everyday work of feeling more like yourself.
Emotional wellbeing
When you tell everyone ‘I'm fine’ but feel differently inside
Sometimes a day goes by before you have even had a chance to ask yourself how you feel. Only when the evening grows quiet do you notice how much has been building up inside.
Anxiety & stress
When anxiety becomes part of everyday life
There are days when, from the outside, everything looks fine. You work, you see people, you look after your family, you get through the everyday tasks. Yet inside you feel a constant tension. Your thoughts keep circling around what might happen, it is hard to relax, and even in a quiet moment it feels as if something bad is about to happen.
Self-understanding
Self-worth: why is it sometimes so hard to believe you are enough?
Sometimes these thoughts sound in our heads so often that we stop noticing them. They become an inner voice that judges our appearance, our choices, our relationships, our achievements, and even our smallest mistakes.
Relationships
Why we stay in relationships where we aren't happy
From the outside it can look simple: if the relationship is bad, leave. For the person living inside it, things are almost always far more complicated.
Burnout
The quiet signs of burnout
Burnout looks different than most people imagine. It looks different from all other feelings, because in that moment we almost stop feeling them at all.
Parenting
Growing up together with our children
Before becoming a mother I thought parenting had clear rules. I've since learned that boundaries aren't about strictness, they're about love.