Me with my first dog, little dog with big personality, who passed away at 14 years of age. This is a question I hear often in the therapy room. When someone loses a pet, and their world comes crumbling down, sometimes worse than they had imagined, they start to wonder - is this normal? Am I overdoing it? To which, my short answer to them is always - no. There is no "right way" to grieve. In this post, I want to explain why losing an animal companion can hit so hard, what that

By Chitra Thakore, Trauma and Attachment-informed Counsellor, Founder of Liminal Mind Counselling, Singapore Key takeaways Overthinking is often a nervous system response rather than a personality flaw. The mind tries to create safety by predicting what might go wrong. It often begins in childhood, especially when care was inconsistent (anxious attachment) or when a child took on adult responsibilities (parentification). Eldest daughters are especially likely to be parentifi

You've left the job but haven't started the next one. The relationship ended, but you haven't figured out who you are without it. The diagnosis came back unclear. The move is decided but hasn't happened. You're waiting on the results, the offer, the decision, the sign. You are, in the truest sense of the word, in between. Psychologists and anthropologists have a name for this territory: liminal space (which is where the name for my practice comes from!) from the Latin limen,