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🧠 Therapy for the mental load carriers ☀️
🌻 Finding your voice and creating balance 🧡

26/03/2026

How connected are you feeling with the people in your lives?

It's really tough if you're feeling disconnected and it can feel tricky to know what you can do about it.

Each month I share small, thoughtful ways to work towards a greater sense of connection. Most of which don't actually require anybody else to do anything as our relationship with ourselves is where it all begins. If you'd like to join, you can click the link in my bio or comment/DM the word LIST and I'll send you the link 🧡

25/03/2026

"I feel sorry for my single friends because they must be really lonely."

Hmm...

Being single doesn't equal loneliness and being in a relationship doesn't equal feeling connected. The presence or absence of loneliness is not determined by the number of people you have around you, it's about how meaningful those connections are.

Meaningful connections take work and I think this is where people in relationships get themselves a bit stuck, especially if they've been together for a long time. It's just kind of a 'given' that the other person will be there.

But you may resonate with what I see a lot of in the therapy room. People in relationships living very separate lives and rarely reconnecting in a way that matters. They may sit at the table together for dinner. They may watch TV next to one another. They may go for walks, go on holiday, see friends together. But they don't feeeeeeel together.

So I guess the first thing to maybe think about is what does togetherness feel/look like for you?

19/03/2026

The amount of times I snap out of the 'doom-scroll' and say "what am I doing!?" and hide my phone somewhere... to then find it's magically appeared in my hand again not long after.

It's a conversation I have a lot with my friends and it seems like something a lot of us struggle with. For me, it's not realistic to just get a nokia 3310 - I need social media for my job, I need the app for my daughter's nursery, I neeeeeed Google Maps!

So I'm working on other ways to use my phone more mindfully and not get sucked in. Do you have any tips that work for you?! I'd love to hear.

18/03/2026

The phrase "two things can be true at the same time" has never meant more to me than since becoming a mum.

I love being intertwined with my daughter AND I am also actively getting to know who I am away from her too.

It's important for me to know who I am. It's also important for my daughter to know who I am. I hope it shows her that it's important for her to know who she is too.

17/03/2026

Here's the truth... You will be waiting for the right time, forever.

Relationships becoming distant and disconnected because people keep things to themselves.

They don't want to burden others, cause conflict or sit with discomfort that comes with being vulnerable.

But that's the stuff that makes you human. That's the stuff that creates, builds and sustains connection.

Avoiding that with the intention of doing what's 'best' for the relationship IS the barrier.

It's hard to hear, especially because being open and vulnerable is so tough. It's not easy. On paper it may look straight forward but it really isn't. It takes time, offer yourself space, compassion and patience 🧡

12/03/2026

Is it kind to deny people the opportunity to really get to know us?

I can't remember where I first heard this question but it really shifted how I viewed my narrative of "staying quiet to keep the peace". Because who is it peaceful for? Certainly not for me.

It may appear to keep the peace for others but we're withholding our reality, our humanness and therefore our selves. And if you're wanting to do your best by people, surely denying them that isn't fair?

Something to think about...

11/03/2026

(Now obviously this picture of me pulling my daughter [the lady of leisure] up a slope is being used to represent the weight of relationships. But I just want it to be known that she's heavy and I was sweating... I did not feel strong and I did not feel capable 😂.)

Feeling more balanced in your relationships isn't necessarily about you not being able to do it all. You're clearly capable, you've been doing it for so long!

But is it enjoyable? Does it leave you feeling warm, loved and content? Mmm i'm not so sure.

A lot of the people I work with have had trouble expressing themselves because in the short-term, it is easier to just pull the sledge up yourself. It means you don't need to have the tricky conversations and you don't need to face some uncomfortable truths.

But in the long-term... wouldn't it be great if someone shared the load with you too? Or from time to time, took it off your hands completely?

05/03/2026

Guilt is a very common emotion that my clients and I explore in the therapy room.

It can be understandable to believe that guilt appears as I result of us doing something wrong - you're guilty!

But guilt shows up for many reasons. It can tell us a lot about ourselves, what expectations we are holding of ourselves and the systems that we function within.

Guilt is very powerful as it can keep us stuck. It's an alarm that we want to shut off quickly. But it doing so we don't listen or learn what it has to say.

Therapy offers the space to pause and hear it.

04/03/2026

You're probably aware of the power of writing when it comes to making sense of your experiences. Whether that's journaling, writing a diary, poetry... the written word can allow for clarity and emotional expression and processing.

Email therapy allows for space and slowness. It allows you time to clarify your thoughts for yourself, share it with words that feel true and pause while you read and consider a therapeutic response.

I really enjoy working with clients over email. I think it offers me the same space for in-depth consideration as it does for my clients. It's not a lesser form of therapy, it's just a different form. For some having that face-to-face, real-time interaction is key but for others (and maybe for you?) email therapy is the space they need.

If you'd like to know more about how it works, I've written two blogs on email therapy. One is more about the therapeutic process it offers, the others is more about the practical side of having therapy over email. Comment EMAIL and I'll send them both to you 🧡.

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St Neots
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http://www.laurawoodtherapy.co.uk/

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