Episodes

  • 171 - Seasonal Traditions - or Habits?

    171 - Seasonal Traditions - or Habits?
    Dec 23 2025
    This year I've been encountering a new awful question - not 'Where are you from?' but 'What are your Christmas traditions?' In this episode I get curious about what I find difficult about this question - how traditions can be hard when you've seen and experienced so many different versions of this season, and yet what cultivating habits around this season can do for us.

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    25 mins
  • 170 - TCKs and Maslow - Safety Needs

    170 - TCKs and Maslow - Safety Needs
    Dec 5 2025
    And here we have the second instalment of our Maslow series... Safety Needs! What does safety and risk actually mean in our TCK stories? And how do we see these play out in our current chapters?

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    20 mins
  • 169 - TCKs and Maslow - Physiological Needs

    169 - TCKs and Maslow - Physiological Needs
    Nov 28 2025
    This is an episode I've been pondering a while - how do TCKs perceive their own needs in terms of an internalised hierarchy? I explore where Maslow's ideas and my own observations around need-juggling and autonomy interact here - and specifically around our physiological needs.

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    22 mins
  • 168 - Incoherent

    168 - Incoherent
    Nov 21 2025
    Today's episode is pondering around how hard we work to create coherence, and my own experience this week of wanting to let incoherence be. TCKs often work so hard to prune and curate their stories, and I'm exploring here the relief I feel at not doing that today. Thanks for joining me!

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    18 mins
  • 167 - The Rules that Find Us Wanting

    167 - The Rules that Find Us Wanting
    Nov 14 2025
    What if we actually listed out our expectations of ourselves? What if we really allowed ourselves to acknowledge the many and competing ideas of how we 'should' be, the ones we have collected through our cultures and places - and sat with how utterly impossible they all are to satisfy? And then let go and grieve...

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    21 mins
  • 166 - Now I Can Be Scared

    166 - Now I Can Be Scared
    Nov 7 2025
    I felt fear this week - fear jumping over time stamps, into my now. How do we explain feelings that show up out of space and time, dislocated within our own story? How do we understand fear when we are safe?

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    21 mins
  • 165 - Art that Retrieves our Story

    165 - Art that Retrieves our Story
    Oct 17 2025

    This weekend I went to a print fair - and found a piece of art that triggered an unexpected TCK encounter. What is it about images that can press on those tender parts of our story so well?


    Check out the artist at www.beicreative.co.uk or on Instagram @_beicreative

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    21 mins
  • 164 - Loneliness and TCKs

    164 - Loneliness and TCKs
    Oct 10 2025
    I had some soft slow sadness hit this week - and it took me a while to identify it as loneliness. This episode explores where and why loneliness might be a familiar part of our TCK story.

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    23 mins