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This summer has made the climate crisis feel painfully physical. In the UK, repeated heatwaves culminated in temperatures reaching 38.1°C at Kew Gardens on 13 August, the fifth hottest day recorded in the country. After weeks of unusual heat and prolonged dry weather, climate change can stop feeling distant or abstract. It is experienced through the body: in sleepless nights, fatigue, irritability, restlessness and the uneasy feeling that the seasons themselves are becoming u

We live in a world that often asks us to move quickly. We are encouraged to be productive, efficient, resilient and constantly improving. Even our emotional lives can begin to feel like another project to manage. If something hurts, we may feel pressure to identify the problem, understand it, fix it and move on as quickly as possible. This can make healing feel strangely urgent. We might think, “I have worked on this already, so why is it still affecting me?” or “I thought I

One of the quiet losses of modern life is how easily we can move through time without really noticing it. Days are marked by calendars, screens, deadlines and artificial light, rather than by the subtle transformations happening outside our windows. The first sharpness in the air at the beginning of autumn. The smell of damp soil after winter rain. The strange tenderness of the first buds in spring. The long, dissolving evenings of summer. To witness the seasons is to remembe

Many of us now live in a rhythm shaped by screens. We work, connect, shop, learn, and unwind through devices that reward speed, stimulation, and constant switching. Even when life is going well, this pace can leave the body behind. People often arrive in therapy describing shallow breathing, tight shoulders, jaw tension, disrupted sleep, a racing mind, emotional flatness, or a vague sense of disconnection. There can also be a quieter grief: feeling cut off from nature, from m