When grief has no clear shape: Much love, your brother
Grief does not always arrive with clarity or resolution. Sometimes it lingers across years, reshaping itself through memory, family dynamics and the passage of time. Here, counsellor and psychotherapist Duncan E. Stafford explores a personal story of family loss, sibling grief, imagined lives, continuing bonds and the quiet ways love endures across a lifetime.
Why people with ADHD procrastinate — and what actually helps
Procrastination isn’t laziness; it’s often a neurological struggle with motivation, memory, time and emotion. This short, practical guide by psychotherapist and counsellor Duncan E. Stafford helps unpack the hidden mechanisms of ADHD procrastination and shares how therapy and coaching might help navigate each one.
ADHD? ME?
A poem about the moment, in adult life, when someone discovers they have ADHD. Witty and powerful, poet Jackie Fernandez captures in a little over 200 words the shock and discombobulation she experienced when she discovered she was no longer neurotypical. (Please be aware, this poem contains expletives.)
The inheritance of love: On the quiet transmission of therapeutic presence
Psychotherapist and counsellor Duncan E. Stafford suggests his professions readily discuss technique, theory and evidence, but less often loving, attentive presence. Tracing its echo across generations, he argues this quality is passed from therapist to therapist through relationship, shaping practice more deeply than theory alone.