Kremi Smith

The best way to describe masking is when someone hides or changes how they naturally think, feel, or behave so they can fit in and be more easily accepted by others. It involves hiding, changing, or suppressing natural behaviours, reactions, and ways of communicating in order to meet social expectations. This might include forcing eye contact, carefully choosing words, hiding sensory discomfort, suppressing fidgeting, etc. For some people, masking becomes so familiar that they do it...

How to cope with regrets

I often hear that question from my clients, especially at the start of the work. People sometimes struggle to imagine how talking therapy...