I recently asked someone how would you describe couples therapy? Their response was “A couple who are at the end of their rope and relationship falling apart and need someone to fix it”. An honest response but the wrong answer. Although it’s an answer I’ve seen many have, which has prevented many from seeking and receiving the help they need to strengthen a relationship or as someone else put it “go to the gym for the mind” (if it wasn’t for confidentiality, I would totally c

If I were to ask you, who are you? What would your response be? Would you list external things, such as your job, or practical things you’re good at? Yet that wouldn’t really be answering the question. So who are you? What if I were to ask you now, “Do you love yourself?” What would your response be? I wonder if it might be something like, “Yeah, a bit, but I’ve got a lot to work on,” or “No, I don’t,” or maybe even just a shake of the head. I wanted to write this blog becaus

Firstly a big welcome to Pockets of Joy, a monthly blog where my hope is you leave feeling encouraged and experience a pocket of joy. For the first Pocket of Joy, it felt only fitting to write about a saying I often say: Choose Joy. A couple years ago I was sitting in a friend’s home at the kitchen island when they asked a very common question: “How’s your week been?”. What was a common question that I’ve often answered was in this moment a question that caught me off guard,