When my rabbit lost their bonded partner, the house changed before I understood why. The food bowls were still in their usual place, the hay rack was full, and…
The “crazy ex” is one of pop culture’s most durable shortcuts. She is jealous, intrusive, unstable and impossible to dismiss, yet her behaviour is often played…
For years, I treated boundaries as a kind of emotional trespass. Saying no felt rude, asking for space felt dramatic, and changing my mind seemed like…
For a long time, I thought activism required a spotless record, perfect language and an endless supply of emotional energy. I imagined the ideal activist as…
Sexual assault can disrupt the way a person understands their body, desire, identity and relationships. Questions about sexuality may become tangled with fear:…
Anxiety is often described as overthinking, fussiness, or an inability to relax. Those words miss the physical reality of it: the racing pulse, tight chest,…
Healing rarely arrives as one clean breakthrough. It tends to move in circles: a familiar fear returns, a boundary finally holds, an old story loses some of…
For years, I treated therapy as something reserved for people in an unmistakable crisis. I imagined that you needed a diagnosis, a dramatic event, or a life…
I have spent years learning that being bisexual can make a person visible and invisible at the same time. The label is recognised, yet the person using it is…
For years, coffee was the thing I reached for before I had properly arrived in the day. I could make a flat white while thinking about emails, replaying…