Author: Chris Hutchins-Joss
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Grief and Chronic Illness: The Long Work of Living With a Changed Life
Chronic illness brings a grief no one sends a card for: the loss of the self you were. Here is why that loss is real, and how your values can help you live alongside it.
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Your first EMDR session: what actually happens
Nervous about starting EMDR? A step-by-step walkthrough of the first sessions: the groundwork, the processing, and how you stay in control of the pace.
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EMDR for Medical Trauma: When Your Body Remembers What You’d Like to Forget
Medical trauma is real, and often builds up over time. How EMDR helps frightening medical memories settle, what a session involves, and who it suits.
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EMDR vs. trauma-focused CBT for medical trauma: how to choose
EMDR and trauma-focused CBT are both recommended for medical trauma. Here is how each works, what they share, and how to choose the one that fits you.
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EMDR for birth trauma: when the NHS experience itself becomes the injury
A difficult birth can leave a lasting mark. How EMDR for birth trauma helps loosen the grip of a traumatic birth, why standard advice falls short, and how to take a first step when you are ready.
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Feeling Like a Stranger in Your Own Life: Identity and Chronic Illness
Chronic illness can make you feel like a stranger in your own life. Guest therapist Sarah Cosway on grief, identity, and rediscovering what makes you you.
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What progress looks like in therapy for chronic illness
Progress in therapy for chronic illness rarely arrives as a moment. It looks like the same life feeling different, with the condition still in it. A therapist on what to look for.
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Therapy for chronic illness: when recovery isn’t the goal
The work isn’t about making the condition smaller. It’s about helping you stop fighting your body, so the energy that was going into that fight becomes available for the life you want to live.
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When the struggle itself is the problem: willingness and chronic illness
The fight against a long-term condition can cost more than the symptoms do. Willingness offers a different place to put that energy, so you have more left for the life you want.
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Living by your values when chronic illness limits your body
Chronic illness can take your goals, but not your values. The difference between a goal and a value, why losing goals hurts, and how to keep living by what matters when your body has changed.
