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When Success Feels Empty: Existential Meaninglessness in Careers
You've done it, everything looks right on paper. You've worked hard, studied, climbed and proven yourself. You've hit the milestones you once believed would bring security, pride or satisfaction. Maybe you're respected in your field or organisation, financially stable, or finally in the role you used to imagine yourself in. But why does it feel anti-climatic? Why does it feel like something is missing? Where do you go now? For many of us, we are fortunate enough to reach our
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Why Couples Keep Missing Each Other
Many couples come to therapy saying some version of "We keep having the same argument". or more painfully, "It feels like we're drifting apart and I don't know how to stop it." Often, what's happening underneath isn't a lack of love or commitment, it's a pattern, one that is the most common dynamic I see in practice, which is known in the field as the "pursuer-withdrawer dynamic". Think of it less as a problem caused by either partner, and more like a dance that a couple get
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Jan 256 min read
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Always Passing Through: Travel, Loneliness and the Search for Meaning
For many travellers and digital nomads, movement begins as freedom. A rejection of routine, familiarity, and the quiet suffocation of a life that felt too small. Travel promises us connection, purpose and a sense of being alive. Yet for many I speak to, in the airport terminals, excursion activities, coworking spaces and the language exchanges, the same themes of meaninglessness and loneliness come up each time linked to a persistent sense of being on the outside. Never quite
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Jan 165 min read
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The Search for Meaning: Why Purpose Matters
At some point in our lives, often at multiple stages as a teenager, turning 30, in our mid-40s and whilst entering retirement, we find ourselves asking questions that feel bigger than what's on the to-do list. We start to ask ourselves Why am I doing this? What is the point? What am I moving towards? These questions sit at the heart of the very human search for meaning and purpose. Whilst they can feel unsettling, it's important to remember that these are normal doubts that
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Jan 127 min read
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2026: The Year We Stopped Reinventing Ourselves (and started looking back) What happened to New Year, New Me?
From "New Year, New Me" to "I thought I'd be further along": Why 2026 feels more reflective than revolutionary. For years, the start of the calendar year came with a familiar cultural mantra: New Year, New Me! A phrase heavy with promise, urgency and often pressure. January became a symbolic rebirth, a chance to reinvent, optimise, and finally become the person we believed we should be. But this year in 2026, something feels different... The noise around New Year, New Me
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Jan 94 min read
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Digital Nomads, Loneliness and the Search for Meaning: An Existential Crisis in Motion
The digital nomad lifestyle is often portrayed as freedom in its purest form. Working from beaches, cafes, and co-working spaces around the world, unbound by offices or fixed routines. On the surface, it looks like a life rich in choice, adventure, and possibility. Yet, for many digital nomads, this lifestyle quietly gives rise to profound struggles with mental health, particularly loneliness, disconnection, and an unsettling sense of existential unease. Beneath the freedom,
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Jan 64 min read
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