Stories, Fables and Reflections for Your Inner World
Alongside my counselling work I write: fiction, fables, and reflections that explore the territory I care most about: grief and loss, complicated relationships, the parts of ourselves that got set aside, and the slow, worthwhile work of finding and being who we are.
I believe stories can reach places that direct conversation sometimes can’t. They work sideways, through image and metaphor, and they have a way of finding us at exactly the right moment.
You’re welcome here whether you’re a current or potential client, a fellow therapist, or simply someone who finds meaning in words.
Fear Turns To Gold
A therapeutic fable
This is the story of Nadine, a little girl who isn’t allowed to play very much, and the aunt who arrives one May with carnations, gifts, and a poem about a gold snake.
It’s a story about what happens when the things we were taught to fear turn out to be something else entirely, and about the small, brave acts of reaching towards what frightens us.
The Unseen Burden of Pebbles
A therapeutic fable.
Fran has been a therapist for twenty years. She has a self-care routine. She takes her morning walk. She does her breathwork.
And yet she is permanently exhausted.
This is a fable about the weight that accumulates in caring professions and for anyone who cares, and what happens when we finally put it down. It’s for anyone who has spent a long time holding things that were never entirely theirs to hold.
The Affinity of Oysters
Elody turned one corner and she could smell fresh coffee. Another and it was the peppery scent of street food. Turn again and it was the briny smell of fresh seafood. Borough Market on a Saturday.
The Woman With a Stone in her Throat
A Therapeutic Fable.
A woman has carried a stone in her throat for as long as she can remember. This is a fable about what happens when the weight finally becomes too great to ignore, and the unexpected beauty of what gets released when we find the courage to speak our truth.