Relational Change Blogs

The Heat Between Us

Summer 2026

Living and travelling across the UK and Europe over the past month, I found myself planning each day around the...

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Death of the Face

April 2026

News of war fills our screens and our lives.

If you have the misfortune to live, or know anyone...

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International Women’s Day

March 2026

What does it mean to you and to the women around you?
Maybe it is a moment to pause and remember...

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Unrequited Self-Love

January 2026

Unrequited Self-Love
‘ A white yogi tells me I can breathe
through the apocalypse in my bloodstream
and I do 6,000 downward...

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Relationality Begins in the Body

November 2025

As we wrap ourselves in layers of warmth for the coming winter, let us not forget our bodies.
In a world...

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Lingering in the In-Between

October 2025

There are days when everything feels a bit much — when nothing quite satisfies, or feels enough. The rational self...

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In Search of Meaning

Summer 2025

Rousseau, the French philosopher, once wrote apologetically to a friend that had he had more time, he would have written...

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In Support of the Re-Emergence of the “Safe Emergency”

May 2025

I have been pondering the place of “safety” in psychotherapy and coaching for some time.  Through one lens, the need...

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Rituals of Belonging

April 2025

There is something quietly sacred about rituals. Not in a grand, ceremonial way, but in their softness—in the way they...

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Looking Out

March 2025

Spring decisively arrives like a deep breath and a sigh of relief.  Our burdens heavy from winter begin to lift...

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A Return to Hard Power: A Call for Caution

February 2025

There are times in history when old instincts resurface like ghosts, as if we had never truly left them behind....

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Christmas Presence: A gift to our ROG Community

December 2024

Christmas Presence: from Marie-Anne and Sally to the ROG community!

Way back, in the dim and distant past of a warm...

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Between Endings and Beginnings

December 2024

Many people these days seem more in touch with endings than with hopeful beginnings. Perhaps it's the sense of the...

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People Like Us: Poverty, Social Class and Trauma

November 2024

The implications of class and poverty for clinicians, coaches and organisations are many. Access to resources, the impact of class...

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Carried by the Whole

September 2024

There are moments in life when we feel burdened by a sense of isolation, as though every responsibility falls squarely...

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From Polarities to Dialectics

August 2024

This summer has been a symphony of emotions, each note resonating with the highs of Olympic triumphs, only to plunge...

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Softening Against the Machine: The Well Grounded Therapist

June 2024

‘I treat myself like a machine, which means I also treat my clients like machines. If I don’t take nourishing...

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The Relational Change Experiment

May 2024

Relational Change embarked on its journey 11 years ago with the words “It will be an experiment” and it is safe...

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