Essays
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What My Body Knew Before I Did
Read more: What My Body Knew Before I DidThree breakdowns and a service dog who saw each one coming before I did — what nervous-system dysregulation actually feels like from the inside…
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How Arsenal Helped Me Remember Myself
Read more: How Arsenal Helped Me Remember MyselfA personal reflection on trauma, memory and identity, and how Arsenal, football and belonging helped me reconnect with a part of myself I thought I had…
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The Real Causes of Human Suffering
Read more: The Real Causes of Human SufferingAn exploration of how capitalism, productivity culture and failing institutions contribute to burnout, neurodivergence-related distress and human…
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A Space To Pray
Read more: A Space To PrayThe importance of having a consecrated space to undertake sādhana is something to consider — something tangible that connects you to God.
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All This Over a Trip to the Fucking Shops
Read more: All This Over a Trip to the Fucking ShopsA personal account of neurodivergence, trauma and the hidden labour behind an ordinary shopping trip—and what it takes to move through overwhelm.
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My BPD Diagnosis Was Used Against Me When I Reported Rape
Read more: My BPD Diagnosis Was Used Against Me When I Reported RapeA personal account of how a BPD diagnosis was weaponised after reporting rape, exposing the intersection of trauma, disability, misogyny and institutional failure.
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Lessons From 21 Years of Love and Loss
Read more: Lessons From 21 Years of Love and LossI was with my husband for 21 years. We experienced everything—from incredible passion, deep love, and higher consciousness to betrayal, jealousy, and loss.
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Anger Is Trying to Tell You Something
Read more: Anger Is Trying to Tell You SomethingAnger and complaining are the two feelings polite company asks you to apologise for. Here’s the case that they’re actually signals worth listening to…
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Stop Ringing Me, Richard
Read more: Stop Ringing Me, RichardA four-year-old’s breakup script, a chakra whose name literally means “unstruck,” and a line from a guru who says love isn’t even a feeling…
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Stay Curious, Stay in Wonder
Read more: Stay Curious, Stay in WonderWhat a dog who has never once accused me of anything taught me about surviving a British winter, resisting an economy built on making you feel like you’re…
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What a Psychiatric Service Dog Actually Does
Read more: What a Psychiatric Service Dog Actually DoesWhat a psychiatric service dog is legally, what the research actually supports, and the specific, trained tasks that make the difference between managing…
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The Cost of Yes
Read more: The Cost of YesWhy saying no can feel impossible, what fawning actually is, and how a psychiatric service dog taught me to practise the boundaries I couldn’t hold on my…
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Deny, Delay, Discourage
Read more: Deny, Delay, DiscourageHow PIP assessments, a profit-driven contractor system and the rhetoric of welfare reform combine to fail disabled people…
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The Nerve Nobody Talks About
Read more: The Nerve Nobody Talks AboutWhat the vagus nerve actually does, and simple ways to stimulate it when your body won’t settle.
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Healing Is a Daily Practice
Read more: Healing Is a Daily PracticeModern life encourages us to override our bodies. Healing asks us to listen to them.
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Starting New
Read more: Starting NewExplore the longing for rebirth and transformation through yoga, consciousness, releasing old identities and the continuous possibility of beginning again.