Tag Archives: addiction

2024: What three words?

Posted on January 2, 2024 by Katherine Baldwin

Welcome to 2024! As we enter unchartered territory and prepare to traverse new terrain, I’d like to suggest that we create a map or a guide to help us to navigate through the year in a way that honours our … Continue reading →

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How to build a brighter future

Posted on December 15, 2023 by Katherine Baldwin

We build a brighter present and future by breaking free from our past. By breaking the chains that bind us. By making choices and taking actions that are different to the ones that previously led us, or our parents or … Continue reading →

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Finding the courage to thrive

Posted on December 12, 2023 by Katherine Baldwin

Are you thriving or barely surviving, just getting by? Do you use ‘survival tools’ or unhealthy coping mechanisms to numb your feelings, escape your emotional pain or cope with the challenges of life? As you’ll know if you’ve followed me … Continue reading →

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I belong to myself

Posted on November 17, 2023 by Katherine Baldwin

When some of our fundamental needs go unmet in our childhoods, we emerge into adulthood with a hunger or a craving for those needs to be met. We then seek out ways to get those needs met, often harming ourselves … Continue reading →

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Is This Childless Grief or Childhood Grief?

Posted on September 13, 2023 by Katherine Baldwin

Grief. It’s multi-layered. Layer upon layer, stacked on top of each other, infused with memories that date back years, like ancient minerals threaded through rocks. When we grieve for something in the here and now, this grief often triggers a … Continue reading →

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Breaking free from the past

Posted on July 28, 2023 by Katherine Baldwin

If you are ready to break free from the legacy of your past and step forwards into freedom, this blog will inspire you to go for it. Continue reading →

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Facing fears and moving forwards

Posted on July 4, 2023 by Katherine Baldwin

Do you drive with one foot on the accelerator and one foot on the brake? I imagine the answer is ‘No’ because if you did, you wouldn’t get anywhere. Yet that’s how many of us run our lives, run our … Continue reading →

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Overcoming overeating

Posted on April 19, 2023 by Katherine Baldwin

If you overeat on your feelings, you are not alone. I spent several decades overeating on my feelings and although I have been on a remarkable healing journey over the last 20 years – finding freedom from food and body … Continue reading →

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Why is self-love such a struggle?

Posted on January 31, 2023 by Katherine Baldwin

This blog is going to be brief because I’m trying to practise self-love and that means not spending too long sat in a chair staring at a bright screen, but I imagine it’ll end up longer than I intended because … Continue reading →

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Coping with Christmas when life hasn’t gone to plan

Posted on December 16, 2022 by Katherine Baldwin

If you’re feeling busy and stressed right now, that’s because the run-up to Christmas, for many of us, is a busy and stressful time. It might also be because feeling busy and stressed and doing too much are convenient ways … Continue reading →

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