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Explore a wealth of articles on relational trauma, systemic burnout, and decolonizing well-being. Whether you're seeking practical guidance or transformative perspectives, you'll find resources to help you nurture connection, resilience, and collective healing.
AI-Ethical ‘Stance’ Statement
As a scholar and researcher, I am committed to ethics and transparency in my work. All academic-related writings are rigorously cited and will not appear on this site, while fully original pieces are shared on my Substack. On this blog, I use AI tools to support clarity, structure, and flow, helping translate my detailed, dense writing style into accessible posts for wider audiences. All ideas originate from my own research and writing, with AI serving as a supportive tool. As an Autistic researcher, this helps me to make complex topics more engaging. I also use midjourney to produce artwork for the site, along with use of open-source images.
I explore AI, post-humanism, and cyborg futures in my academic work, reflecting critically on its potential and ethical implications. This is my ‘stance’ today, the ground on which my feet are held. This could change tomorrow. Life is dynamic, and so is technological ‘innovation.’ If you wish, you are welcome to write me to share perspectives, or to ask for references and guidance.
An Ode to the AidMama(toto): How a Photo Became a Song, a Song a Ceremony, A Ceremony a Movement
This post began with a photo—an act of raw vulnerability, a moment of transformation. What followed was a ripple of connection: a poem became a song, a song became a ceremony, and now, that ceremony is becoming a movement—a collective reckoning with burnout, grief, resilience, and the unseen labour of those who mother, in every sense of the word.
Why Is It So Hard to Be a Parent These Days?
Parenting feels harder than ever because we’re expected to do it all alone in a world that demands perfection but no longer provides the village our ancestors relied on.
Author Jennifer Mullan: Why I Love Her Book “Decolonizing Therapy”
Jennifer Mullan’s Decolonizing Therapy challenges us to rethink mental health as more than personal recovery, offering a path to liberation through ancestral wisdom, collective care, and systemic accountability.
What is Aid Worker Burnout?
Aid worker burnout arises from the relentless pressures of humanitarian and development work, compounded by systemic barriers, chronic stress, and emotional toll, requiring a shift from individual resilience to systemic accountability and collective care
What is compassion fatigue?
Compassion fatigue is a form of emotional and physical exhaustion that arises from prolonged exposure to the suffering of others.
What is moral distress?
Moral distress arises when systemic barriers conflict with ethical values, reflecting a need for relational care and collective action to transform systems of harm.
How are compassion fatigue, moral distress and burnout related to each other? How do they impact people working in helping professions?
Compassion fatigue, moral distress, and burnout intersect in helping professions, compounding emotional and systemic challenges, and highlighting the urgent need for relational and systemic approaches to care and sustainability.