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Understanding Neurodiversity: Clinical, Social and Identity Perspectives
Understanding Neurodiversity: Clinical, Social and Identity Perspectives Neurodiversity is the idea that human minds vary naturally in how they attend, learn, communicate, regulate emotion, process sensory information and relate to others. In its broadest sense, every human population is neurodiverse. Neurodivergent usually describes a person whose cognitive or developmental style differs significantly from dominant expectations;…
Why We Feel Lonely — Even When We’re Not Alone
Why meaningful connection with others may begin with a clearer connection to the Self Australians have more ways to communicate than ever before. Messages travel instantly, meetings happen across screens and friends remain visible through social media. Yet frequent contact does not necessarily create the experience of being known. A major Australian study published in…
When You’re Too Good for Your Job: Understanding “Rust-Out”
Most conversations about workplace wellbeing centre on burnout — the exhaustion that comes from doing too much. But a quieter, less-discussed condition sits at the opposite end of the spectrum. It’s called rust-out, and it emerges not from overload, but from underload: a chronic lack of meaningful challenge that leaves capable people feeling flat, frustrated,…
Inspiration, Motivation & the Meaning We Make of Life
How small moments of hope, connection and wonder can support resilience and purpose. There are days when life asks a great deal of us. We may be carrying grief, managing anxiety, adapting to change, living with pain, recovering from disappointment, or simply trying to meet the ordinary demands of work, family and responsibility. In those…
When Two Truths Collide – Evaluating Relationship Satisfaction Without Losing Yourself or Your Partner
The Quiet Math Every Relationship Runs Every long-term relationship is, whether people admit it or not, running a kind of quiet arithmetic. Small moments of warmth, humour, and appreciation accumulate on one side of the ledger; criticism, contempt, and disappointment accumulate on the other. Psychologist John Gottman’s decades of observational research on married couples found…
The Wise Woman’s Call to Adventure: Shedding, Consolidation, & Life by Design
Reframing Midlife as an Invitation, Not a Crisis Rather than a breakdown, the middle years for women can be understood as a threshold moment — a call to adventure toward the Wise Woman archetype, in which an outgrown identity is deliberately shed so a more deliberately designed life can emerge. This reframing shifts the emphasis…
The Hidden Cost of Financial Hardship: What the Research Tells Us About Mental Health
For many Australians, money worries are not just an occasional stressor — they are a daily, gnawing presence that shapes mood, relationships, and self-worth. As a psychology practice supporting clients across the country, FeelGood Psychology regularly sees firsthand how financial pressure intersects with anxiety, depression, and relationship strain. What does the peer-reviewed evidence say about…
Ending the Therapeutic Relationship
What the Research Tells Us About Saying Goodbye Well Ending therapy is rarely just an administrative event — it’s a clinical moment in its own right. Yet for many Australian clients and clinicians working under a Mental Health Treatment Plan (MHTP), that ending arrives on a schedule set not by readiness, but by Medicare rules.…
Dominance Hierarchies
Ancient Wiring, Modern Consequences Every social species that lives in groups develops some form of dominance hierarchy — a structured system that determines who gets access to resources, mates, and influence. Humans are no exception. Long before we had job titles, salaries, or LinkedIn follower counts, our ancestors were organising themselves into ranked groups to…
Growth or Subordination:
How Hierarchy Shapes the Brain and Why It Matters for Meaning Not all hierarchies are created equal, and the type we find ourselves in may shape our brain chemistry, our sense of purpose, and — for many men in particular — whether life feels meaningful or hollow. Jordan Peterson popularised the idea that our position…
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