<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><rss xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" xmlns:content="http://purl.org/rss/1.0/modules/content/" xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom" version="2.0"><channel><title><![CDATA[In-Reverie Therapy]]></title><description><![CDATA[In-Reverie Therapy]]></description><link>https://www.in-reverie-therapy.com/blog</link><generator>RSS for Node</generator><lastBuildDate>Mon, 07 Sep 2026 12:01:28 GMT</lastBuildDate><atom:link href="https://www.in-reverie-therapy.com/blog-feed.xml" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml"/><item><title><![CDATA[Akathisia: More Than Restlessness – An Underrecognised Mental Health Crisis]]></title><description><![CDATA[Akathisia is one of the most distressing medication-induced conditions encountered in mental health care, yet it remains widely under-recognised and frequently misunderstood. Derived from the Greek a-kathízein, meaning "to be unable to sit," akathisia is commonly described as a movement disorder characterised by an overwhelming sense of inner restlessness and an irresistible urge to move. However, this definition barely scratches the surface. For many people, akathisia is not simply an...]]></description><link>https://www.in-reverie-therapy.com/post/akathisia-more-than-restlessness-an-underrecognised-mental-health-crisis</link><guid isPermaLink="false">6a5024c45c421b8202181fc7</guid><pubDate>Thu, 09 Jul 2026 23:05:14 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://static.wixstatic.com/media/a9c344_653e5741149844e491cfce429c5d0328~mv2.jpg/v1/fit/w_1000,h_832,al_c,q_80/file.png" length="0" type="image/png"/><dc:creator>irenelandouris</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[A Year of Transition: Why So Many People Feel Like They're Standing Between Two Chapters]]></title><description><![CDATA[One thing I've noticed this year, both in the therapy room and in conversations with people around me, is that many seem to be in a season of transition. Not everyone is going through the same experience, but there does seem to be a common thread: people are questioning, changing, letting go, and wondering what comes next. For some, it's the end of a relationship. For others, it's a career change, becoming a parent, children leaving home, moving house, losing someone they love, recovering...]]></description><link>https://www.in-reverie-therapy.com/post/a-year-of-transition-why-so-many-people-feel-like-they-re-standing-between-two-chapters</link><guid isPermaLink="false">6a4ca4172a867dc91bfe2a43</guid><pubDate>Tue, 07 Jul 2026 07:03:04 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://static.wixstatic.com/media/a9c344_f712764bebc1469dae7f564399c42afd~mv2.jpg/v1/fit/w_1000,h_832,al_c,q_80/file.png" length="0" type="image/png"/><dc:creator>irenelandouris</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[Violence in Relationships Doesn't Always Start with Violence]]></title><description><![CDATA[When people hear the word violence, they often picture bruises, broken bones, or physical assault. But violence in relationships rarely begins there. It often starts with small behaviours that are dismissed as love, concern, or passion. Someone wants to know where you are all the time. They become upset when you spend time with friends or family. They check your phone, question your clothing, make you feel guilty for having your own opinions, or slowly chip away at your confidence. Over time,...]]></description><link>https://www.in-reverie-therapy.com/post/violence-in-relationships-doesn-t-always-start-with-violence</link><guid isPermaLink="false">6a4ca1cca75710ce41db1b8b</guid><pubDate>Tue, 07 Jul 2026 06:57:47 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://static.wixstatic.com/media/a9c344_af6f24a4f5c34c6dbe516ded8162f65a~mv2.jpg/v1/fit/w_1000,h_832,al_c,q_80/file.png" length="0" type="image/png"/><dc:creator>irenelandouris</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[Sitting With What’s Right in Front of You]]></title><description><![CDATA[I went for a walk today. Nothing special. Just moving my body and getting some fresh air. As I was walking down some steps, I stopped for a moment and looked ahead. The trees were full and green, the sun was coming through the leaves, and the sky was bright blue. It was simple, but it felt peaceful. And it made me think about how often we walk straight past moments like this. Most of the time our mind is somewhere else. We’re thinking about the next thing we have to do, something that...]]></description><link>https://www.in-reverie-therapy.com/post/sitting-with-what-s-right-in-front-of-you</link><guid isPermaLink="false">69b3abfcd550596893c9d361</guid><pubDate>Fri, 13 Mar 2026 06:21:02 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://static.wixstatic.com/media/a9c344_31df2d6f889546ceb5c7158348024594~mv2.jpg/v1/fit/w_1000,h_1000,al_c,q_80/file.png" length="0" type="image/png"/><dc:creator>irenelandouris</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[When the Inner and Outer Worlds Don’t Match]]></title><description><![CDATA[I’ve been thinking a lot about the space between our inner and outer worlds — and how, to some degree, they will probably never fully match. Our inner world is alive in a way the external world can’t quite keep up with. It moves through image, feeling, memory, instinct. It holds complexity, contradiction, and truth all at once. The outer world, by contrast, asks for decisions, roles, timelines, and explanations. So yes — some level of mismatch is inevitable. But I don’t think the suffering...]]></description><link>https://www.in-reverie-therapy.com/post/when-the-inner-and-outer-worlds-don-t-match</link><guid isPermaLink="false">6941bdb4a5912a76c36af2d6</guid><pubDate>Tue, 16 Dec 2025 20:17:23 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://static.wixstatic.com/media/a9c344_ed6ed926f68742fe9e558d119d71970c~mv2.png/v1/fit/w_1000,h_1000,al_c,q_80/file.png" length="0" type="image/png"/><dc:creator>irenelandouris</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[Why Holidays Feel So Profound: A Therapist’s Reflection From Bali]]></title><description><![CDATA[There’s a reason holidays land so deeply in the body — especially when you’re somewhere like Bali, where the energy feels like it’s doing half the work for you. There’s a spiritual undercurrent here that meets you before you’ve even worked out what’s happening inside you. The place itself feels like it’s holding you — or maybe it’s just that you finally let yourself be held. The moment we leave home, something shifts. We let go. Not consciously — it’s almost instinctive. We drop the pressure,...]]></description><link>https://www.in-reverie-therapy.com/post/why-holidays-feel-so-profound-a-therapist-s-reflection-from-bali</link><guid isPermaLink="false">69191ad01130d4b333d06ff2</guid><pubDate>Sun, 16 Nov 2025 00:30:29 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://static.wixstatic.com/media/a9c344_4b2b895ca8e44446b3158e1d9148fdee~mv2.png/v1/fit/w_1000,h_1000,al_c,q_80/file.png" length="0" type="image/png"/><dc:creator>irenelandouris</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[Blame, Apathy, and the Descent Into Stillness]]></title><description><![CDATA[Lately, I’ve been thinking about blame. I was listening to the section on depression and apathy in David Hawkins’ Letting Go, and it stopped me in my tracks. He talks about how apathy isn’t just sadness — it’s when the system shuts down. The fight is gone. There’s no charge left, no spark. And underneath that, so often, there’s blame — subtle, simmering, sometimes almost invisible. You see it all the time in therapy. Someone sits across from you, heavy, flat, detached, but quietly blaming the...]]></description><link>https://www.in-reverie-therapy.com/post/blame-apathy-and-the-descent-into-stillness</link><guid isPermaLink="false">69069d142eb885fef54d5fb4</guid><pubDate>Sat, 01 Nov 2025 23:56:19 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://static.wixstatic.com/media/a9c344_425b4bd5c14240909b1d19960030e556~mv2.png/v1/fit/w_1000,h_1000,al_c,q_80/file.png" length="0" type="image/png"/><dc:creator>irenelandouris</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[When the Couch Replaced the Pew: How Therapy Became the New Church]]></title><description><![CDATA[Somewhere between the sacred and the clinical, humanity found a new kind of ritual. We still seek meaning. We still long to be seen. We’ve simply changed where we go to find it. Once, we turned to temples, mosques, and churches for solace. Now, many of us turn to therapy rooms. Not as a rejection of faith — but as an evolution of how we hold the human experience. The Meeting Place Religion and psychology aren’t opposites. They’re two languages trying to describe the same mystery — the inner...]]></description><link>https://www.in-reverie-therapy.com/post/when-the-couch-replaced-the-pew-how-therapy-became-the-new-church</link><guid isPermaLink="false">68faa5e3c3fd1b9e87b28ad1</guid><pubDate>Thu, 23 Oct 2025 22:04:36 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://static.wixstatic.com/media/a9c344_2824954ba8724d499dfcb387255dfd12~mv2.png/v1/fit/w_1000,h_1000,al_c,q_80/file.png" length="0" type="image/png"/><dc:creator>irenelandouris</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[How to Let Go When Talking Isn’t Working]]></title><description><![CDATA[We live in a culture that wants everything explained — why we feel what we feel, how to fix it, how to make it stop. But the body doesn’t speak in logic; it speaks in sensation, pressure, vibration, and release. And sometimes, the only way through an emotion isn’t to analyse it — it’s to move it. There are times when talking about what we feel just isn’t enough. The mind can loop, analyse, dissect — but the body still hums with the charge of it. Anxiety. Anger. Grief. Shame. The weight that...]]></description><link>https://www.in-reverie-therapy.com/post/how-to-let-go-when-talking-isn-t-working</link><guid isPermaLink="false">68f84817155806106bcb249e</guid><pubDate>Wed, 22 Oct 2025 02:57:56 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://static.wixstatic.com/media/a9c344_f6105355de1040c2b332157643156673~mv2.png/v1/fit/w_1000,h_1000,al_c,q_80/file.png" length="0" type="image/png"/><dc:creator>irenelandouris</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Descent and the Waiting]]></title><description><![CDATA[There comes a time when life stops cooperating with our plans. What was once steady begins to unravel — work, love, direction — and the ground itself seems to shift. You try to hold on, but the tighter the grip, the faster it all slips away. Suddenly, you’re there — suspended in the pause between what was and what will be. The old Greeks had a story for this place. Persephone, the daughter of Demeter, was gathering flowers when the earth split open and Hades pulled her into the underworld....]]></description><link>https://www.in-reverie-therapy.com/post/the-descent-and-the-waiting</link><guid isPermaLink="false">68f2d66c155806106bc7668b</guid><pubDate>Fri, 17 Oct 2025 23:53:01 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://static.wixstatic.com/media/a9c344_69d5efd8a5884749b8c4a9561aed5547~mv2.png/v1/fit/w_1000,h_1000,al_c,q_80/file.png" length="0" type="image/png"/><dc:creator>irenelandouris</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[Is It Time to Stop Pathologising Ourselves?]]></title><description><![CDATA[Lately I’ve noticed something. People walk into therapy already carrying labels. They introduce themselves not just with their name or...]]></description><link>https://www.in-reverie-therapy.com/post/is-it-time-to-stop-pathologising-ourselves</link><guid isPermaLink="false">68ca959da23bb94322356e9e</guid><pubDate>Wed, 17 Sep 2025 11:05:06 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://static.wixstatic.com/media/a9c344_f6e51e1143634192846ef7dbae75f0cd~mv2.png/v1/fit/w_1000,h_1000,al_c,q_80/file.png" length="0" type="image/png"/><dc:creator>irenelandouris</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Quiet Power of Reflection]]></title><description><![CDATA[There’s something underrated about silence. We live in a world that celebrates noise, busyness, and constant movement — yet it’s in the...]]></description><link>https://www.in-reverie-therapy.com/post/the-quiet-power-of-reflection</link><guid isPermaLink="false">68ca91daa23bb94322356c5d</guid><pubDate>Wed, 17 Sep 2025 10:49:14 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://static.wixstatic.com/media/a9c344_1946a484cded4d1d9303074f60a7dd64~mv2.png/v1/fit/w_1000,h_1000,al_c,q_80/file.png" length="0" type="image/png"/><dc:creator>irenelandouris</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Myth of the Right Choice]]></title><description><![CDATA[I’ve noticed something — both in my own life and in the therapy room: we agonise over decisions because somewhere deep down, we’ve bought...]]></description><link>https://www.in-reverie-therapy.com/post/the-myth-of-the-right-choice</link><guid isPermaLink="false">68c7fa253909945e9b12b1f1</guid><pubDate>Mon, 15 Sep 2025 11:39:05 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://static.wixstatic.com/media/a9c344_1420fac3bb664274bd11e10f633d0c86~mv2.png/v1/fit/w_1000,h_1000,al_c,q_80/file.png" length="0" type="image/png"/><dc:creator>irenelandouris</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Anger We Turn Inward]]></title><description><![CDATA[I’ve been thinking a lot about the difference between anger and what I’d call internalized anger. When most people think of anger, they...]]></description><link>https://www.in-reverie-therapy.com/post/the-anger-we-turn-inward</link><guid isPermaLink="false">68b8c7839c892374b0b1870a</guid><pubDate>Wed, 03 Sep 2025 22:57:38 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://static.wixstatic.com/media/nsplsh_fcfd1f0580704e44b9c254792a0bcb28~mv2.jpg/v1/fit/w_1000,h_1000,al_c,q_80/file.png" length="0" type="image/png"/><dc:creator>irenelandouris</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[Energy Audit: Are You Running on Empty or Lit Up From the Inside?]]></title><description><![CDATA[Have you ever noticed how you can spend an hour in two completely different ways — one leaves you feeling alive, the other leaves you...]]></description><link>https://www.in-reverie-therapy.com/post/energy-audit-are-you-running-on-empty-or-lit-up-from-the-inside</link><guid isPermaLink="false">68acee3642d52051831aeea7</guid><pubDate>Mon, 25 Aug 2025 23:15:40 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://static.wixstatic.com/media/nsplsh_58c4b61ee1ad4a2881f1e3cc893f002b~mv2.jpg/v1/fit/w_1000,h_1000,al_c,q_80/file.png" length="0" type="image/png"/><dc:creator>irenelandouris</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Psyche and the Spirit: Where Jung Meets Yoga]]></title><description><![CDATA[What happens when modern depth psychology sits down with ancient yogic wisdom? On the surface, they look like entirely different worlds —...]]></description><link>https://www.in-reverie-therapy.com/post/the-psyche-and-the-spirit-where-jung-meets-yoga</link><guid isPermaLink="false">68acea3142d52051831ae44f</guid><pubDate>Mon, 25 Aug 2025 22:59:00 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://static.wixstatic.com/media/11062b_15080a8d405444dca1edf10cfe2d3a55~mv2.jpg/v1/fit/w_1000,h_1000,al_c,q_80/file.png" length="0" type="image/png"/><dc:creator>irenelandouris</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Parts of Ourselves We Can't Bear to Look At]]></title><description><![CDATA[There are times when someone stirs something in us — irritation, judgment, even anger — and it feels so strong we’re sure it must be...]]></description><link>https://www.in-reverie-therapy.com/post/the-parts-of-ourselves-we-can-t-bear-to-look-at</link><guid isPermaLink="false">68a03f2327fe4ddaa236b0d7</guid><pubDate>Sat, 16 Aug 2025 08:22:51 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://static.wixstatic.com/media/a9c344_7bb954b0d308421ba23ab836a4cc87b9~mv2.png/v1/fit/w_1000,h_1000,al_c,q_80/file.png" length="0" type="image/png"/><dc:creator>irenelandouris</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[Standing in the Eye of Your Storm]]></title><description><![CDATA[When distress hits, it rarely knocks politely. More often, it sweeps in like a cyclone—fast, chaotic, and completely disorienting. 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