The “Perfect Girlfriend”: When Being Easy to Love Means Losing Yourself
Striving to be the perfect girlfriend is ensuring your partner knows you love them right?
It is actually a protective identity, whereby you learned how to preserve connection by being agreeable, helpful, and undemanding. However, being perfect is exhausting and you are slowly losing yourself in trying to please someone else.
Come and explore why this pattern shows up, the experiences and beliefs beneath the pattern. We learn to recognise your needs, understand your responses, and build the capacity to stay connected to yourself whilst loving someone else.
Identity Work - Who Am I Beneath Who I Learned to Be?
You know who you have learned to be... but suddenly you've started wondering:
Do I actually like this? Why am I so angry? Why do I need more space? What do I actually think? Who am I underneath all of this?
It’s about becoming curious about the space between: Who I learned I should be - What I actually experience -
What am I curious to discover?
When ADHD Hides Behind the Mask of Bipolar: The Misdiagnosis Many Women Face
End of year burnout in Austitic Child.
End of year burnout in Autistic Children
ADHD - and the deep, aching feeling of unworthiness
What Is a Holistic Approach to Counselling? Why Is It Different?
The Cost of Shape-Shifting: Understanding Masking and Identity Work in Neurodivergent Lives
Morning routines for good mental health
It all begins with an idea.
How to Take An Effective Mental Health Day
It all begins with an idea.