If you are part of the LGBTQIA+ community, you will know that not every space that calls itself welcoming actually feels that way. There is a difference between being tolerated and being genuinely accepted. Between a space that will not be hostile to you, and one where all of who you are is simply taken as given. That is what this post is about: what it means to find support where your identity is not a problem to be managed.

Mental Health Awareness Week 2026 focuses on Action, but meaningful action is not always loud or visible. Sometimes it looks like rest, reaching out, setting boundaries, asking for help, or allowing yourself to slow down. This article explores mental health, grief, neurodivergence, connection, and the small actions that can create a little more capacity and support wellbeing, even when life feels heavy.

Death is the one experience that will reach every single one of us. We will all lose people we love. Most of us will face our own mortality. And yet, as a culture, we have become skilled at talking around it rather than about it. This week is Dying Matters Awareness Week, run by Hospice UK, with the theme ‘Let’s Talk About Death and Dying.’ For many people, conversations about death are among the hardest to start. Feelings get bottled up, needs go unspoken, and the conversati

You know that feeling when everyone else seems to have received an instruction manual for life that somehow never made it to you? When you’re constantly translating between how you naturally think and how the world expects you to be? Maybe you’ve always noticed patterns others miss, struggled with certain social situations, or felt overwhelmed by sensory experiences that others seem to shrug off. Perhaps you’ve even wondered whether you simply aren’t trying hard enough. For m

If you've recently experienced a loss, you might be wondering if what you're feeling is "normal." Maybe you're angry when you think you should be sad. Maybe you feel nothing at all when everyone expects you to be crying. Or maybe you're exhausted in a way that sleep doesn't fix, and you can't understand why choosing what to have for breakfast feels impossible. Here's what I want you to know: grief is messier, more complicated, and more individual than most people realize.