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15/10/2026

Along with needing more help, there is often a wish for someone to notice that you are tired too, and to think of you before you have to ask.

When one person has spent a long time remembering, organising, anticipating and keeping things moving, the exhaustion can become more than physical. There can be grief in feeling that care so often has to be requested or explained before it reaches you.

This can show up in relationships, family life, caregiving and periods of high-functioning burnout, especially when responsibility has accumulated over time. It comes up often in my online counselling work with adults across Australia, though it is rarely named.

Underneath the tiredness, there can also be a wish to be thought of without having to earn it. 🤍

01/10/2026

Can you grieve a relationship that still matters to you?

Relational grief can emerge when a relationship has been meaningful, yet something important within it has remained difficult to reach. This can happen in friendships, intimate relationships, sibling relationships and families, where affection, loyalty and shared history may continue alongside disappointment or a changing sense of what the relationship can realistically offer.

Over time, we may begin to recognise how much hope has also been part of the relationship: hope for greater reciprocity, emotional availability, acknowledgement, repair, or a different way of relating to one another.

In my new blog, Grieving the Relationship You Never Had, I attempt to explore what can happen as that hope changes, how cultural and family context can shape our understanding of a relationship, and why grief does not necessarily tell us what the relationship should become next.

Read the full article on the website and from Instagram via the link in Highlights - New Blog

24/09/2026

A lot of adult life can become organised around what needs 'doing.'

Messages, appointments, work, family responsibilities, decisions and the small things that keep getting carried into the next day can take up more space than we realise.

Over time, the day can become shaped around responding, organising and keeping things moving. The parts of life that do not need anything from us can end up receiving whatever attention is left.

I took this photo at Mount Tamborine. There was nothing I needed to sort out in that moment and I took time to look around and take in where I was.

It made me think about how stress, overwhelm and difficulty switching off can build through ordinary days, without there being one dramatic event behind them.

That is often part of what interests me in counselling room, too. The patterns and as a result our way of life that become so familiar that we stop noticing how much of our life they are taking up.

17/09/2026

Sometimes there isn't one clear reason for feeling restless, flat, more irritable than usual, or carrying a tiredness that sleep doesn't quite touch.

Work, relationships, family responsibilities, money, decisions, uncertainty. Several smaller pressures can be present at the same time.

When there hasn't been one significant event, it can be easy to dismiss what we are feeling: nothing has really happened, so why do I feel like this?

But the absence of one big event does not mean there is nothing to pay attention to.

Sometimes there is a lot being carried at once.

That is often where I begin in therapeutic work: noticing what has been accumulating that is unseen, and yet how it may be affecting your daily life.

10/09/2026

Why do I still miss someone when I know I do not want the relationship back?

This can be one of the more confusing parts of relationship loss.

You may know why the relationship could not continue. You may feel clear that returning would not be right for you. And still, something in you misses the person, the familiarity, the version of life you once shared, or the future you had imagined.

That does not always mean you have made the wrong decision.

A relationship can have mattered deeply and still needed to change. You can care about someone and still need distance. You can remember what was meaningful and remain clear about what was painful, unavailable, or no longer workable.

Sometimes what is being grieved is not only the person. It may also be what changed between you, what could not be repaired, or what you had continued hoping might one day be different.

You can miss someone and still know you do not want the relationship back.
Those two experiences can exist together.

I explore this more in my latest New Leaf reflection on grief without a death and losses that can be difficult to recognise or name.

When Loss Is Hard to Name: How Grief Can Show Up in Your Life

Read via the link in bio.


06/09/2026

I sat down with my coffee today and ended up making a tiny Blu-Tack mouse on the lid.

It made me realise how rarely we let our hands just fiddle, play, or make something without trying to be productive.

Hope your weekend has a bit of unscripted time in it.




03/09/2026

Grief can be felt without a death, although we may not recognise it as feeling grieved at first...

A relationship may still exist, but not in the way you once hoped. You may know that leaving was the right decision and still miss what you imagined life might have been. A future can change quietly. Belonging can shift after migration. Fertility experiences can carry losses that very few people around you ever see.

These experiences do not all mean the same thing, and every difficult feeling is not grief.

Sometimes, though, it can be helpful to ask whether something meaningful has been lost, changed, or never became possible in the way you had hoped.

There are recognised concepts for some of these experiences, including disenfranchised grief and ambiguous loss.

I find the language useful when it helps us understand an experience more clearly, rather than giving us another label to carry.

My latest reflection explores this more fully, including why grief can coexist with love, relief, boundaries and uncertainty, and where body awareness may gradually become part of therapeutic work.

When Loss Is Hard to Name: How Grief Can Show Up in Your Life

Read via NEW BLOG in Highlights

27/08/2026

It's the same flower. What changes is how close my phone camera gets to it.

From a distance, there may not seem to be much to notice. But, up close, there is considerably more there.

Grief can be like that too.

Some losses are visible and recognised. Others are much harder to name from the outside:
♡ a relationship that ended without real closure,
♡ a hoped-for future that did not happen,
♡ a version of yourself that changed somewhere along the way, or
♡ a loss that had no funeral and little acknowledgement.

Some of this is described as disenfranchised grief - grief that may not be fully recognised, understood or supported by others. Ambiguous loss can also be part of this landscape, particularly when there is no clear ending or when someone or something feels both present and absent in different ways.

And with so much being carried at the moment, personally, relationally and collectively, at times what looks manageable from a distance may feel very different when we come closer.

It's not always that only a dramatic event has capacity to affect you deeply. Sometimes noticing what has been quietly sitting underneath is enough of a place to begin acknowledging the unattended persistent grief.

20/08/2026

We are taught to measure our progress by how visible, productive, or happy we appear to others.

But when you are carrying impacts of long-term relational trauma or unseen grief, the most critical work is taking place where no one else can see.

Feeling stuck or slowed down isn't a failure to move forward. It’s your system turning inward to build the depth and ground you actually need to carry yourself.

Forcing a fast pace rarely helps. In certain circumstances, for the time being, the work is to slow the pace and let the work beneath the surface take its own time.

At New Leaf with Nisha, I offer a somatic space with a kind pace to help you honour that internal timing, supporting your body to safely integrate what it’s been carrying, and gradually move towards growth, within yourself and in your connection to the world.

I took these photographs at Roma Street Parkland and later found myself reading about what had been here before.A railwa...
13/08/2026

I took these photographs at Roma Street Parkland and later found myself reading about what had been here before.

A railway goods yard, freight,excavated land. And, a place built for an entirely different purpose.

The parkland on it’s own wasn't the whole story! What's interesting is the time it took to create the parkland took time to create and the conditions had to change too.

I return to this often in my own life and in my therapeutic work.

We can ask a great deal of ourselves while giving very little attention to what we have been adapting to such as: family systems, relationships, loss, cultural expectations, prolonged responsibility, uncertainty, or periods of life where there simply wasn't much room for our own experience.

That doesn't mean every response needs to be explained by the past. It means context matters.

Nature seems to understand this without argument. Light matters.
Soil matters.
Water matters.
Seasons matter.
And, the care & nurturing matters.

What is possible cannot be separated entirely from the conditions in which life is trying to happen.🤍

Perhaps that is worth remembering in a world that can ask us to keep functioning even when we are tired.

In my work, I am interested in what someone wants to change, along with a quest to deeply understand and feel what their mind and body have learned to respond to and what conditions might support something different now.



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