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Tools for the Trail
A practical place with soul. Here you’ll find resources to support your therapy journey, whether you’re just beginning or already knee-deep. Journals, workbooks, and nervous system-friendly insights. Rooted in trauma-informed practice and Schema Therapy, this is therapy without the jargon. Think of it as a compass, not a rulebook, something to help you find your own way back.
Coming Back to Your Body: Finding Safety One Step at a Time
There are times when the body doesn’t feel like home. You might move through the day like a ghost in your own skin—present but...
Oct 92 min read
When Family Isn’t Safe: A Trail Tool for Navigating Family Wounds
Family is supposed to mean safety. Belonging. A place where you can exhale and be yourself. But for many people I sit with, that’s not...
Oct 72 min read
Low Mood Isn’t Laziness: A Trail Tool for Grey Days
Let’s be honest: when you’re in it, low mood can feel like a swamp. Heavy. Grey. Like moving through treacle while everyone else seems to...
Sep 182 min read
For the Ones Who Still Run
Support for nervous system flares, flight responses, and learning to stay We don’t always run with our legs. Sometimes we run by ghosting...
Aug 302 min read
Connection Is the Medicine: A Trail Tool for Coming Home to Others (and Yourself)
We’re wired for connection. To be mirrored. Held. Understood. To sit beside someone and feel, “I don’t have to explain myself—I’m already...
Aug 172 min read
Sleep Is a Soft Rebellion: A Trail Tool for Rest That Heals
We talk about sleep like it’s simple. Just go to bed earlier. Get your 8 hours. Cut the caffeine. But for many people—especially those...
Aug 132 min read
Feed What’s Real: A Trail Tool for Reclaiming Nourishment
We’ve been taught to talk about food in terms of control. Good food. Bad food. Clean eating. Cheat days. As if your body is a machine,...
Aug 92 min read
Move Like a River: A Trail Tool for Reclaiming Movement
There’s a kind of movement the world celebrates:10k steps. Gym routines. High-intensity everything.The kind that tracks, measures, and...
Aug 52 min read
The Four Pillars of Health: Coming Back to Yourself
There’s a quiet truth I’ve learned, both personally and professionally, that we can’t think or talk our way into healing. Especially not...
Jul 283 min read
Trauma Isn’t What Happened—It’s What Happened Inside You: A Trail Tool for Making Sense of Trauma
Trauma isn’t reserved for war zones or headlines. It happens in classrooms and kitchen tables. In relationships that erode you one...
Jul 192 min read
You Were Never Meant to Shrink to Fit: A Trail Tool for Low Self-Esteem
Somewhere along the line, you were told—explicitly or silently—that who you were wasn’t quite right. Maybe you were too loud. Too quiet....
Jul 112 min read
Is CBT Right for Me? What Therapy Should Actually Feel Like
If you’ve ever searched “therapy near me,” chances are Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT) was one of the first things to pop up. It’s...
Jun 293 min read
ADHD Isn’t Just a Focus Problem: A Trail Tool for Emotional Intensity
ADHD doesn’t always look like bouncing off the walls. Sometimes it looks like staring at a screen for two hours, unable to start the task...
Jun 192 min read
When the Lights Go Out: A Trail Tool for Low Mood and Depression
Some seasons of life don’t feel like seasons at all. They feel like fog. No edges. No landmarks. Just days that blur into each other,...
Jun 133 min read
When Family Isn’t Safe: A Trail Tool for Navigating Family Wounds
Some wounds don’t leave bruises. They show up in the pause before you speak. In the anxiety before a phone call. In the way your body...
Jun 23 min read
Is It Anxiety or Just Being Human? A Trail Tool for Overwhelm
Anxiety is loud. It spins in your chest. Buzzes in your hands. Loops thoughts like a record stuck on the wrong lyric. Sometimes it’s a...
May 293 min read
The Wilderness Within: Healing Through Solitude, Not Silence
Written by Sarah Hopton There’s something that happens when we allow ourselves to be alone—not lonely, not disconnected, but truly with...
May 112 min read
Anxiety or just being human? Reframing normal emotional responses
You feel your heart racing. A tightness in your chest. That familiar swirl of thoughts you can’t quite slow down. Is it anxiety again? Is...
May 85 min read
Why therapists need therapy: Sitting with the bus full of voices
Therapists often appear calm, boundaried, and reflective – the ones who hold the space for others. But behind that calmness is still a...
May 83 min read
ADHD, hormones and the cyclical nature of women’s brains
For years, ADHD has been understood primarily through a male lens - one that assumes a linear experience of symptoms, where focus,...
May 84 min read
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