Florence Thum - Psychotherapist

17/06/2026

Quiet can be built into ordinary life: no phone for the first 15 minutes of the morning, a walk without a podcast, sitting in the car for one minute before going inside, not replying immediately to every message.
The point is not to withdraw from life. It is to stop being pulled in every direction.

❓Where could you place one small realistic pause in your day?

17/06/2026

15/06/2026

Sometimes it is not about more rest but less input. Less scrolling. Less explaining. Less reacting. Less being available to everyone, all the time.
Modern life makes it easy to confuse connection with constant access, and responsibility with never switching off.

📝What is one boundary you could put around your attention this week?

14/06/2026

The power of

Heartbreak disrupts attachment, identity, and meaning. Poetry may help the mind give shape to what ordinary language cannot hold.

14/06/2026

This poem speaks to the kind of tiredness that comes from doing too much, or from being surrounded by too much noise - opinions, demands, decisions, expectations.

Not everyone has access to a literal wood or retreat.
But most of us can notice our attention, and perhaps step away for a while.

11/06/2026

What is still burning quietly in your heart?
A hope. A grief. A longing. A love.

But perhaps beginning again comes from noticing that the fire has not gone out.

09/06/2026

Some feelings creep up on us unannounced.
A memory. A longing. A loneliness.
A love we still carry.

Sometimes, reading - by what we are drawn to, a sentence that stays with us - gives shape to what has been gathering there, to let it be seen.

Perhaps this too is a kind of care - to sit beneath the night sky of our own inner life, and notice what is still shining.

07/06/2026

This poem gathers memory, love, loneliness, longing, and poetry into the image of stars settling in the heart.

I love the line - “because the fire of my heart hasn't burned out yet”.
Even with all we carry and what remains unresolved, something in us continues.

The Inner Chapter [link in profile] is a quiet space to sit with what gathers in the heart - through poems, prompts, books, and reflection.

04/06/2026

When do you feel most separated from yourself?

When you are trying to be good? Trying to be useful? Trying to keep the peace? Trying not to disappoint anyone?

Sometimes, the self we neglect is hidden because we have learned to look elsewhere.

02/06/2026

There is a part of us that keeps going:
- as we are busy performing competence.
- as we are speaking, explaining, managing, pleasing.
- as we forget to listen.

In reflective reading, a line can become a doorway back to that self.
This is what we do in The Inner Chapter [link in profile].