Author: Sebastian

  • Calling Our Parents: The Love, Guilt and Dread of Adult Children

    Calling Our Parents: The Love, Guilt and Dread of Adult Children

    If you’re an adult child calling an aging parent, you know this moment: Something shifts in your chest before you even pick up. It’s not dread exactly — it’s love laced with obligation, tenderness wrapped around exhaustion, and a quiet, guilty question you’d never say out loud: Do I have the bandwidth for this today?

  • Saddling up the Fire Horse: Chinese Zodiac Predictions for Work-Life harmony

    Saddling up the Fire Horse: Chinese Zodiac Predictions for Work-Life harmony

    As we extend our trot into the dynamic energy of the 2026 Year of the Fire Horse, each of the twelve Chinese zodiac signs faces unique opportunities and challenges—especially during the transformative months of March through June. This article offers a sign-by-sign breakdown of key springtime work-life challenges, quotes from respected Chinese astrology sources, and…

  • Exploring Your Inner Landscape: Understanding Parts Unknown

    Exploring Your Inner Landscape: Understanding Parts Unknown

    Let’s cross into your inner atlas and travel the landscapes of your mind. Lay over at well known places, then explore the unknown with the same fearless curiosity Anthony Bourdain brought to distant tables. Understanding the Parts within My clients can often chart some familiar territory: The Helpful Planner who keeps going ahead, The Inner…

  • Sebastian’s Embodivent  Calendar 2025

    Sebastian’s Embodivent Calendar 2025

    Join us over the coming 24 days to embody Self-Leadership. These IFS-informed tasks are small gifts for you each day to: look kindly into the PAST; PAUSE to arrive fully in the present or set a mindful tone FORWARD Some days may spark nostalgia, others may invite stillness and others may open space for fresh intentions.

  • Stepping out of the capsule

    Stepping out of the capsule

    In working with myself and men from diverse backgrounds, I experience a troubling pattern: we often encapsulate ourselves into rigid beliefs and habits that feel safe but breed isolation. Cut off from connection and emotional awareness – as if orbiting life in a space capsule – well-being inevitably deteriorates. The way out? We can turn…

  • Sebastian’s Advent Calendar

    Sebastian’s Advent Calendar

    2025 As the season turns, I’ve put together a virtual advent calendar, and I would love for you to join in. Register here to receive 24 mindful gifts of kindness coming December! IT’S FREE AND FUN This year’s motto will be “Mindful experience first, negativity later!” Hoping this aligns with your intention Sebastian’s Email Advent…

  • Mid-autumn Murders: How did the spark in your marriage die?

    Mid-autumn Murders: How did the spark in your marriage die?

    Mid-autumn murders: Who killed the spark in your marriage? Forensics found indications of a group act. Two main suspects could be identified. A once spellbinding love story, now endangered by superficiality. Living worlds apart.

  • AI in Therapy

    AI in Therapy

    In the ever-evolving landscape of mental health care, artificial intelligence (AI) is no longer a distant concept—it’s here, and it’s quietly transforming how we deliver and experience therapy.

  • Stretching Body and Mind for well-being

    Stretching Body and Mind for well-being

    Now that you are aware of Men’s Mental Health Month, are going to do something with it? I know from my own experience, that the distance between awareness and actual change can feel as wide as Victoria Harbour before land reclamation.

  • Men and Divorce

    Men and Divorce

    A family lawyer and a counselling psychologist launch a men’s group specifically addressing the challenges of divorce.