Mimi Bloom Therapy

25/07/2026

Feeling stuck in a relationship that’s falling apart? My latest blog walks you through how to find clarity and decide whether to stay or leave — practical steps, reflective questions, and compassionate guidance.
Read more: https://wix.to/UqoxAPX

Should we break up or stay together? When your relationship feels uncertain or close to breaking point, it can be hard to know what to do next. This article explores how to find clarity before making a decision.

22/07/2026

How true this is! Letting go of situations andnpeople that cause drama in your life, or place unreasonable demands and overstep boundaries can feel terrifying. The space it leaves can feel sad and deeply isolating. But if we are sacrificing ourselves to keep the peace or abandoning ourselves, when we stop doing this, we give ourselves space and peace to figure out our own needs. Who am I when I no longer prioritise the needs of others over my own? ✨

09/05/2026

Mother’s Day can hold many different meanings.

For some, it’s a day of love, gratitude, and connection while for others, it can feel tender, complicated, or heavy.

This year feels especially poignant for our family as we mark our first Mother’s Day without my mother-in-law, who is very deeply missed 🤍

I’m mindful that for many, this day can bring up grief, loss, or the reality of difficult or estranged relationships.

However this day lands for you, whether it feels joyful, painful, or somewhere in between, I send you love and light from my heart to yours ✨💕

07/05/2026

The internet is full of the stories of so many who practice manifestation… and see real results ✨

An amazing job...a dream partner...opportunities for themselves that didn’t seem possible before.

Whether you believe in universal energy or not, neuroscience sheds some light on on what’s actually happening in the brain and body to help create these incredible results.

The thing is, when you focus on a goal repeatedly; when you visualise it, feel how it feels right now in the present moment, as if you have already achieved it, and return to this practice again and again, you are quite literally changing your brain.

This is what we call neuroplasticity - the ability of your brain to rewire itself around what you give attention to. Neurons that fire together, wire together ✨✨

So suddenly:
✨You notice opportunities you would have missed before
✨You feel more motivated and confident
✨You take action in ways that align with that vision

On a neurological level, your attention shifted, your beliefs softened or expanded, your emotions followed and you experienced states of feeling gratitude, excitement and joy....and then your behaviour follows.

And that alone can completely change your outcomes.

Some people experience this as alignment with something bigger—
energy, intuition, the quantum field. And we may not fully understand that part yet. But we do know this:

✨ What you focus on shapes what you see
✨ What you see influences what you do
✨ What you do shapes your reality

So whether you view manifestation as science, spirituality… or both, it still begins with where you place your attention.

I'd love to hear from any of you that have manifested something amazing for yourself. Please comment below 👇✨🙏

06/05/2026

How well do you feel known by your partner??

At the beginning of a relationship, connection often feels easy because we’re insatiably curious about each other. We ask questions and want to know everything about each other.

But over time, life gets busy…and without realising it, we can stop updating that understanding.

It’s not that love disappears, but rather that the sense of knowing each other starts to fade.

This is what the Gottman Method calls building “Love Maps”�—an ongoing awareness of your partner’s inner world, that includes their thoughts, stresses, experiences… who they are right now, not just who they were.

Because connection isn’t just about communication—�it’s about staying curious about each other over time.

Do you feel known by your partner right now? 🤍

03/05/2026

One of the hardest things in relationships is this:

What you see on the surface is never what’s actually going on.

The argument about the dishes…
The silence after a difficult conversation…
The frustration that seems to come out of nowhere…

These moments often aren’t really about what they appear to be, because underneath all the anger and hurt is something much more vulnerable.

Hurt that hasn’t been understood.
A longing to feel close again.
A fear of not being important, or not being chosen.

But instead of being expressed in that way, it often comes out as defensiveness, withdrawal, criticism, or shutting down.

And over time, couples can find themselves stuck in a pattern where the more one reaches, the more the other pulls away…a repeating pattern that over time becomes more and more ingrained. And both end up feeling alone.

And the problem is, solving the surface problem doesn't actually shift this underlying and habituated dance. The only way to create real change and prevent this from continuing is taking the time to understand what is happening underneath it -
both in yourself, and in your partner.

It's only from this place that the hurt and frustration soften, and the healing begins 🤍

01/05/2026

Do you ever wonder why your relationship feels so hard, even though you still really love each other?

And although communication issues are often a huge part of this, there are other layers to the relationship that matter too.

In the Gottman Sound Relationship House, a relationship is likened to a house, and like any building made of different structural layers, when certain aspects weaken, the house can feel weakened or even at breaking point.��Over the next few posts, I’ll be breaking this model down into layers and describing each of them, to give you a really thorough understanding of why this is so foundational to the Gottman method and successful couples therapy.

Comment below if you’d like to read more about the Sound Relationship House model and would like me to DM you a link to my latest blog post on the topic 👇✨

29/04/2026

“You can spend a lifetime being curious about the inner world of your partner…”

This idea is an integral one in the work I do with couples, and in the Gottman Method, this is called Love Maps — the foundation of a strong and lasting relationship.

It’s about really knowing your partner:
• their inner world, not just their daily routine
• their fears, stresses, dreams, and hopes
• who they are now, as they continue to grow and change

And just as importantly…being willing to let yourself be known, too.

So many couples don’t drift apart because they don’t love each other; they lose connection because they stop being curious. Over time real life and busyness takes over, and the intimacy that is there at the beginning when we are fascinated with our love and want to know anything and everything about them ebbs away.

So when couples come to me for help, part of the work we do is to slowly build it back up again, through small, ongoing acts of interest, openness, and care.

When was the last time you felt truly curious about your partner’s inner world?

26/04/2026

Morning beach reset 🌊🐡🐬🪸🐟☀️

24/04/2026

A gentle reminder that you don’t have to earn your rest.

Slowing down isn’t falling behind—
it’s coming back to yourself ✨🩷✨🩷

This weekend I’m planning on finishing an embroidery project designed by the gorgeous and talented

What are your slow plans for this weekend? Share with me below! 🥰👇🙏🩷





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