Rebuilding Trust After Betrayal

Counselling Journey By Christina Feyes·~6 min read·Whether a relationship can recover, and what it takes Betrayal does not just break a promise. It breaks the sense of safety the whole relationship stood on, and it can leave you questioning things you never thought to doubt. Whether the betrayal was an affair, a lie, or a […]

Spiritual Awakening or Mental Health Crisis? How to Tell

Counselling Journey By Christina Feyes·~6 min read·Why they can look alike, and how to tell Something profound is shifting in you, and you cannot tell whether you are waking up or falling apart. The ground feels different. People around you have started to seem far away, and the life that used to fit you no […]

Signs You Might Be an Empath

Counselling Journey By Christina Feyes·~6 min read·What it means to feel everything, including what is not yours You walk into a room and somehow already know how everyone in it is feeling. A friend says they are fine, but your body has already registered that something is wrong. You leave a busy place feeling wrung […]

High-Functioning Anxiety: Succeeding and Struggling at Once

Anxiety By Christina Feyes·~6 min read·Looking fine outside, frantic inside On paper you are doing brilliantly. You meet the deadlines, answer the emails, hold everything together and look calm and capable. Inside, you are running on adrenaline and a low hum of dread that rarely switches off. If that gap between how you appear and […]

Fight, Flight, Freeze, Fawn: Trauma Responses Explained

Trauma By Christina Feyes·~6 min read·The four survival responses, and why they are not choices You did not choose to freeze. You did not choose to please. In a split second, faster than any thought, your body decided how to keep you safe, and it did the best it could with what it had learned. […]

How to Support a Friend Who Is Grieving

Grief & Loss By Christina Feyes·~6 min read·What to do when you do not know what to say You want to be there for them, and you are terrified of saying the wrong thing. So you hover at the edge of the conversation, drafting and deleting messages, hoping the perfect words will arrive before the […]

Anniversary Grief: Why Certain Dates Hit Hard

Grief & Loss By Christina Feyes·~6 min read·Why dates reopen loss, and how to move through them You can be doing okay, getting on with ordinary life, and then a date on the calendar arrives and the grief is suddenly raw again, as if no time has passed at all. Anniversary grief is real and […]

Why Depression Makes Small Things Feel Impossible

Counselling Journey By Christina Feyes·~6 min read·It is not laziness, and you are not failing The dishes. A shower. A text back. Things that should be easy somehow feel like climbing a mountain, and at the bottom of that mountain you are already exhausted before you start. If depression has made small things feel impossible, […]

How to Support a Partner with Depression

Depression By Christina Feyes·~6 min read·What genuinely helps, and how to look after you too Watching someone you love disappear into depression is its own kind of helpless. You want to fix it, and you cannot, and that is exhausting and frightening all at once. This is a gentle, practical guide to genuinely supporting a […]

When One Partner Will Not Go to Counselling

Counselling Journey By Christina Feyes·~6 min read·Why it is common, and how starting alone still helps You are ready to get help for the relationship. They are not. And right now that feels like a dead end, as though nothing can move until your partner decides to come along. It is not a dead end. […]