About us
Panic attacks felt like the right place to start. What began as an idea for a practical guide kept growing because the more I tried to explain, the more there was to unpack. What is actually happening in your body and mind? Why can panic feel so convincing? What patterns might sit behind it, and what can you realistically try when it happens again?
Eventually, that became Counterattack Your Panic Attack, a 236-page digital guide and workbook filled with explanations, exercises and reflection. I wanted it to be something you could actually work with, not something you read once, close and never think about again. The guide is built around understanding your own patterns, trying different exercises and keeping what genuinely helps you.
It was never meant to give you one perfect method. You can pause, go back, skip something, try a technique and decide it simply isn’t for you. Some tools may click immediately, while others may do absolutely nothing for you. The point is having more information and more options to work with, rather than forcing yourself through every technique.
So why is it called Healing Mental Health?
There’s an obvious contradiction in that name, and I don’t want to pretend there isn’t. I say very clearly that I can’t heal you, while the word healing is right there in the name. Both things can be true. Healing Mental Health was never meant to mean that I can heal your mental health for you. I don’t believe a book, a workbook or someone on the internet can promise that, because mental health is far too personal and complicated to package into one guaranteed outcome.
To me, healing is everything that can happen around that process. Understanding what is happening to you, recognising patterns, trying different tools, asking for help, setting boundaries and slowly discovering what actually works for you. It also means giving yourself permission to leave behind what doesn’t. And healing doesn’t always look dramatic. Sometimes it’s recognising a panic attack a little earlier than before, finally understanding why something affects you the way it does or simply getting through a difficult day with one more option than you had yesterday.
So no, Healing Mental Health can’t heal you. What I can do is create tools, information and resources that give you somewhere to start while you figure out what healing might look like for you. That’s what the name means to me.
Mental health advice can sound strangely certain sometimes. Do this. Stop doing that. Breathe like this. Build this routine. But people are not that predictable, and what changes everything for one person might do absolutely nothing for someone else.
That is why I never wanted HMH to give you another set of rules to follow perfectly. You might love grounding exercises and hate breathing techniques. Something may make sense immediately, while something else only becomes useful months later. You can try something, decide it is not for you and move on without treating that as failure. The guide itself is built around noticing your own patterns, experimenting with different tools and keeping the things that genuinely help.
I want Healing Mental Health to leave room for that. The resources should help you understand more, give you different options to explore and still let you decide what deserves a place in your own life. Professional care has its own place too. HMH is not therapy, diagnosis or a replacement for qualified support. It is simply another place to learn, reflect and find tools you may want to take with you.
There doesn’t need to be one right path for something to be useful.
Mental health does not exist in neat little boxes. Sometimes the thing keeping you up at night is anxiety. Sometimes it is insomnia, a relationship you cannot seem to let go of, a family member who constantly crosses your boundaries or the slow realisation that someone you trusted has been manipulating you. And sometimes several of those things are tangled together.
Healing Mental Health started with panic attacks because that was the first subject I chose to explore deeply, not because panic was ever meant to define the brand. The bigger idea has always been to create practical, honest resources for the things people struggle with behind closed doors, especially when they are trying to understand what is happening, what they are feeling or what they can realistically do next.
That means HMH can grow in many directions. Future resources may explore sleep and insomnia, unhealthy or narcissistic relationships, manipulative family dynamics, boundaries, self-worth, anxiety, letting go and other parts of mental health and everyday life. Some subjects may need a full guide. Others might become worksheets, shorter resources or something completely different.
I also want HMH to grow beyond things you simply download and read. Over time, there can be space for shared experiences, conversation and resources shaped by the things people are actually dealing with. The subject may change. The purpose stays the same: helping you understand more and giving you something useful to work with.
If you made it this far, there’s a good chance you’re going through something you don’t really know how to talk about, or maybe something you feel like you have to carry on your own. Either way, I’m proud of you for taking the initiative to look for something that might help.
I won’t tell you it’s going to be easy. It took me a long time too. But along the way, I found things that helped me feel better, feel happier and appreciate the little things again. And one of the biggest things I learned is that you don’t have to be completely fine to be okay.
You don’t have to heal in a day, a week, a month or even five years. There is no deadline for becoming the version of yourself you want to be. I can’t promise that HMH will heal you, and I would never want to. What I hope we can do is give you things to try, help you understand yourself a little better and be somewhere you can come back to while you find your own way forward.
And somewhere along that way, I hope you find pieces of yourself again too. Your smile. Your confidence. Your self-worth. The little things that make life feel like yours. Because you deserve the chance to feel happy, whatever that ends up looking like for you.
Thank you for giving HMH, and me, a chance. And if you ever need to reach out, I’m only a DM away.
Get well on your own time.
I’ll be waiting ♡