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Why Knowing Isn’t Enough To Change Anything
Simon Hitchcock explores why understanding a pattern is not the same as changing it, and what has to happen for insight to become something lived.
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Notes from The Ridge
Notes on the patterns that shape a life.
Writing from Simon Hitchcock on the patterns, pressures and adaptations that often sit beneath the surface.
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You’re Not Overthinking, You’re Underfeeling
Simon Hitchcock explores why overthinking can sometimes be less about too much thought and more about avoiding the feeling underneath it.
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You Cannot Heal In The Water That Made You Sick
Simon Hitchcock explores what happens when therapy and recovery take place alongside an environment that continues to reinforce the very patterns making someone unwell.
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The Lie About Rest And Burnout
Burnout rarely starts at the point of collapse. Simon Hitchcock explores the patterns underneath overwork, achievement and the inability to stop.
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You Can't Heal In The Environment That Hurt You
Someone spends fifteen years climbing. Senior role, big title, the kind of job that looks, from the outside, like the whole point of working hard in the first...
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Resting Is Not A Reward
Resting Is Not A Reward You lie down on a Sunday afternoon. Nothing urgent. Nowhere to be. And within about four minutes, the guilt arrives. Not sadness. Not...
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