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The world stopped caring and called it progress
The world stopped caring and called it progress

A client sat across from me last week and told me she didn't understand why she was so tired.

She listed it out. The supplements. The therapy. The early nights. The boundaries she'd worked hard to set. The morning routine. The journalling.

Then she said, "Why doesn't any of it work?"

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Why It's Hard to Receive Care – And How to Change That
Why It's Hard to Receive Care – And How to Change That
When You Have All the Tools But Still Can't Heal
When You Have All the Tools But Still Can't Heal

Hi, I’m Claire.

I support people riding the complex waves of trauma, chronic pain, illness and neurodivergence to feel more alive and connected.

For over 18 years, I've been working as a Registered Music Therapist in the realms of trauma, mental health, chronic pain and attachment.

It was my own unravelling a decade ago that grew me up as a therapist. Multiple traumas and crises converging at once until I became completely immobilised. 

More knowledge didn’t help me. What did was knowing that I wasn't broken – the culture was. 

This took me deeper into somatics and embodiment, and into critically examining the cultural soup we're swimming in – because we can't separate our health from the culture we live in.

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Why It's Hard to Receive Care – And How to Change That

There’s a heavy grief that sits at the bottom of many hearts.

Buried deep beneath hands that can’t quite reach for care because they’re not quite sure they deserve it.

Or if they’ll even receive it.
Or worse. They’ll be rejected or wronged.

Because history has told them time and time again the same story.

That care isn’t available.

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