Counselling Journey By Christina Feyes·~6 min read·For teens, and the parents who love them Watching your teenager struggle and not being able to reach them is one of the most helpless feelings there is. The door closes, the answers shrink to one word, and you are left guessing how bad it really is. This is […]
Body & Trauma By Christina Feyes·~6 min read·The body keeps the score Sometimes you can understand exactly why you feel the way you do, talk it through, and still find the anxiety, the tension or the dread sitting stubbornly in your body. Insight alone does not shift it. That is because some things are held […]
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 […]
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. […]
Anxiety By Christina Feyes·~6 min read·Why the mind races at night, and what helps The house is quiet, everyone else is asleep, and your mind picks this exact moment to run through everything. Tomorrow’s list, an awkward conversation from three weeks ago, money, your health, a worry you did not even know you had until […]
Anxiety By Christina Feyes·~6 min read·How to tell them apart, and when to reach out Am I just stressed, or is this anxiety? It is one of the most common questions I hear, and a genuinely useful one to answer. The two words get used as if they mean the same thing, yet the difference […]
Counselling Journey By Christina Feyes · ~8 min read · A gentle look at anxiety counselling and the nervous system Anxiety often looks calm from the outside. You answer the email. You make dinner. You smile at the person asking how you are. Inside, your body is scanning for what could go wrong next. Your […]