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 […]
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. […]
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 […]
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 […]
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, […]
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 […]
Marriage By Christina Feyes·~6 min read·Why closeness fades, and how it quietly returns You still love each other. You are just not sure when you last felt truly close. The days fill up, the conversations turn practical, and somewhere along the way the warmth quietened down without either of you choosing it. Rebuilding intimacy after […]
Sensitivity & the Inner Life By Christina Feyes · ~8 min read · A complete, gentle guide If you have always felt things more deeply than the people around you, been told you are “too sensitive”, and found loud, busy, harsh environments genuinely draining, there may be a simple and surprisingly hopeful explanation. You might […]
Counselling Journey By Christina Feyes·~6 min read·The signs, and the myth of being bad enough Most people wait far longer than they need to. They talk themselves out of it because things are not that bad, because other people seem to have it worse, or because they are still managing to get through the week. […]