Tag: Coping
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Triangulation: When Workload Becomes a Third Person in the Relationship
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There are times in relationships when the conflict between two people is not entirely about the relationship itself. A partner may appear distant, irritable, emotionally shut down or constantly distracted. Small conversations become tense. Minor frustrations escalate more quickly than they once did. One partner may begin pursuing reassurance while…
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When Work Becomes Easier Than Home
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There are times in relationships when work stops being just a place of employment and gradually becomes something more psychologically significant. For some people, work becomes the place where they feel most competent, most regulated and most certain of themselves. Decisions feel clearer. Expectations feel more predictable. Problems appear more…
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Why Police Officers Need Compulsory Clinical Supervision (and Why It Isn’t Therapy)
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Policing requires people to repeatedly step into situations most of society spends its life trying to avoid. Violence, grief, moral ambiguity, conflict, sudden loss, and the constant demand to make rapid decisions under pressure are not occasional features of the role; they are baked in. What wears officers down is…
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When Calm Feels Overwhelming:
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Why “Normal” Can Be the Hardest State to Tolerate and how to gently build the capacity to use your tools again. Many people seek counselling because life feels overwhelming, chaotic, or relentlessly stressful. What is less commonly spoken about is a far more confusing experience: becoming overwhelmed when life finally…
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Kink, BDSM, and Overwhelm: When Behaviour Helps — and When It Doesn’t
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I’ve been thinking about a conversation I had recently. Not because it was dramatic or confronting, but because it quietly made sense in an important way. I was talking with someone who openly engages in BDSM. This wasn’t therapy and it wasn’t a formal counselling conversation. It was simply a…