Marianna Jaross Late last year, I allowed my registration as a psychologist to lapse, and it wasn’t because I was jumping into something new and shiny. It was the quiet space required for me to think about my career, and to recalibrate my body and what I want moving forward. I reflected on the fact that I had tried to make this career work for me in a variety of ways over several years, and how clinical practice did not always seem like the right fit. My body was also giving

Marianna Jaross Have you ever sat in the space between the old and the new? When your old life doesn’t fit anymore, and you’ve realised what does not align with who you are or what you want now. Typically, when we have reached this space; we have often exhausted every possibility to ‘make things work,’ to make tweaks, adjustments or significant shifts. When these don’t work AND we have the data to back this up; we can sometimes have to figure out whether it’s a case of ‘try o

Marianna Jaross Being a therapist doesn’t make me immune to the challenges of life, or the mental blocks or habits that can hold us back. I am starting slow, and starting again late in the year. I don’t want to wait until the new year, a birthday, or a milestone to start building some new momentum in a more supportive direction. 1.) Morning routine. We can fall into the chaos of our lives, the siren call of our phones, or the mental loops that we fall into when we wake up. F