Author name: alastair-dodwell

Poems

The Journey

At the close of our recent team meeting, we shared The Journey by Mary Oliver – a poem that speaks to the quiet courage of listening inward, and walking toward your own life. We offer it here as a reflection on strength, self-trust, and the tender process of becoming. You might like to sit with it, or share it with someone finding their way.

Family

Burning Yearning 

Sometimes what aches inside us is not brokenness, but a yearning for something not yet known. In this reflection, we explore the hunger beneath the hunger, and what it might mean to turn toward it with care.

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Eating Disorders Recovery

Imagine

What if healing wasn’t about fixing yourself, but about remembering who you are? This piece invites you into the quiet space of imagination where new beginnings can stir gently, without pressure or demand.

Anxiety

Adapting Anxiety

Anxiety is often more than fear. It’s a pattern woven through past, body, and breath. This reflection gently explores the ways we adapt around anxiety, and what might become possible when we meet it with curiosity.

Family

Embodied

To be embodied is not simply to inhabit the body, but to feel, to listen, to return. This quiet piece invites you to explore what it means to come home to the self through gentle presence.

Eating

Getting Better

Healing isn’t always linear or visible. This piece speaks to the slow, deep work of getting better, and the courage it takes to keep going, even when the path feels uncertain or unseen.

Insightfulness
Eating

Insightfulness

What does it really mean to have insight? This short reflection explores how insight is not a lightning bolt, but a quiet turning inward often messy, sometimes painful, always a kind of coming closer to the self.

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Eating

Duty and Being True to Yourself

Duty can be a beautiful thing until it begins to silence the self. This reflection explores what it means to live from truth, not just obligation, and how therapy can help us listen to the quiet voice of inner alignment.

Binge Eating

Binge eating and perfectionism

For many, binge eating doesn’t come from a lack of control but from too much striving. This piece explores how perfectionism and shame shape our relationship with food, and how compassion might begin to loosen that grip.

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