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8 Things I Learned From Watching The OCD Doc

Happy week! If you are reading this, you are alive and breathing. Woohoo! Congratulations to the Open Closed Doors organisation who is bringing the robust OCD treatment, The Bergen 4-Day protocol, to New Zealand. (They are currently collecting client and clinician expressions of interest here.) The new documentary, Exposure,

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in a hard month, this helped

Kia ora koutou (hello all!), Wowza, my family has had a hard few months. As we settle our health and our hearts, I wanted to share a few things that helped me this season. Things That Helped During A Hard Few Months Books These books served as a sanctuary and/

Pride, books, and a fortnight of blueberry muffins

Kia ora and dear Friends, Happy pride month darlings! Here's to love and legally protected rights for all to love whomever they do. Fun & free-ish things * Re-falling in love with the magnificent work of therapist & artist Lindsay Braman: * please peruse her site to see

i should never make mistakes

Kia ora Friends, I'm refining my "START HERE AND KEEP GOING" talk and reflecting on the lessons from my personal life (supported by science) that loosened my tight grip on perfectionism. [Shameless plug, early bird pricing ends this weekend for the 19 June Wellington training. Get

my favourite rock

Kia ora Friends, Oh my loves. I wasn't sure what I wanted to say today. There are many flooded houses here. My daughter's days left at home sift through our fingers with the urgency of a star racing toward explosion. I count again and again, looking

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field notes on the good stuff

Kia ora community, Oh darlings. What a few weeks its been. I did a podcast interview and I'm planning a Wellington training for June (online one coming in November). I'm in the olive oil of life, Kenny Chesney's good stuff, not simply the things

the people will save us

Good morning friends, I'm back from two weeks of work travel. First, I was at a staff retreat for a non-profit I just joined, Te Kiwi Maia, who supports current and former first responders and New Zealand Defence Force personnel struggling with stress and burnout. Then I

What I Got Wrong & Help Please

Kia ora e hoa! Lots more below but briefly I have openings and would love your advice for a talk I'm drafting. xx Kerry Dear Helpers, It is common for us to feel grief and sadness when we work with the best of intentions then see so little

Between overcontrol and helplessness

Dear Helper, In overwhelm, we can swing between racing to overcontrol everything and believing that we control nothing. Between these extremes lies a simpler truth. There is a small space we can impact directly but much more that will always be unknowable. Undoubtedly, our actions will graze others’ futures, but

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Dr Kerry Makin-Byrd - Clinical Psychologist

Dr Kerry Makin-Byrd is a clinical psychologist, author, and host of the Field Notes podcast, offering science-based tools, writing, and workshops on burnout, trauma, and compassionate change.

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