Pathways to Peace with Gabrielle
Reflections from a relational therapist on healing, balance, and growth.
Are you feeling overwhelmed by stress or anxiety, wondering if you’ll ever find peace of mind? You’re not alone. Pathways to Peace is a space for reflection on the mind, emotions, and the process of healing. Here I share practical insights, therapeutic reflections and ways of understanding yourself and your inner world more kindly. My hope is that what you read here offers insight, grounding and perhaps a first step on own your pathway to peace.
Understanding Attachment in Relationships
We’re built for connection, and the way we learned to connect started very early. Attachment theory offers a framework for understanding how our earliest relationships shape the way we love. But the good news? These patterns aren’t fixed
Self-Compassion Practice: Meeting Yourself with Care (Part 2)
Self-compassion isn’t something to wait for—it’s a practice we can start now. Discover a gentle, practical way to meet yourself with care, even in moments of struggle.
Inner Child Overwhelm: How to Reclaim Your Adult Self
Feeling overwhelmed can be a sign that your inner child is in control. The inner child responds with emotions from past experiences, often without realising things have changed. Recognising this can help you reconnect with your adult self and find balance
How the Inner Critic Shows Up in Relationships
If you’ve been following this series so far, you’ll know that the inner critic is not just a harsh voice inside your head; it is a protective part shaped by early relationships and emotional experiences. And of course your inner critic doesn’t stay neatly inside your …
Part 2: Mindfulness: Coming Back to the Body – Feeling Instead of Thinking
Our minds are masterful storytellers, spinning narratives that can quickly carry us away from the present moment. While thoughts are powerful, they can become turbulent when driven by unnoticed emotions lurking beneath the surface. In this exploration, we’ll discover ho…
How to Listen to Your Inner Critic with Compassion
In Part 2 of the Inner Critic Series, we explore a surprising truth: your inner critic isn’t your enemy. That voice, which can feel relentless at times, often comes from a protective part of you shaped by childhood experiences – trying, in its own clumsy way, to kee…
Mindfulness: Training the Mind — From Reactivity to Choice
So much of our suffering comes not from what happens, but from how we fight against it. Mindfulness offers a way to pause, breathe, and meet each moment as it is. In this post, we explore how simple awareness can help us train the mind and create space for choice.
Calming the Nervous System
Many of us live with nervous systems that have learned to stay on alert — or to shut down when things feel too much. Breathwork offers a simple, compassionate way to begin soothing the body and finding safety again. This post explores how your breath can support heali…
Self-Compassion
Many of us begin personal growth or therapy with a familiar mindset: “Something’s wrong with me, and I need to fix it.”
It’s an understandable impulse — pain often motivates change. But lasting transformation rarely begins with fixing. It begins with acceptan…
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