Read the full article on Substack: https://open.substack.com/pub/lucywishart/p/the-work-you-cant-see-is-still-work?r=71cs29&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=true Some days don’t look like progress. No finished documents. No big meetings. No visible momentum. Just slowing down. Lying still. Letting things settle. From the outside, it can feel like nothing is happening. From the inside, structure is forming. We’ve been taught to recognise work only when it’s

Read the full article on Medium here: https://medium.com/@lucywishart1/you-have-the-right-to-speak-even-if-the-system-misreads-you-af8ac7352624 They don’t have to like what you say. They don’t have to agree. They might not even understand it. But you still have the right to speak. Article 10 of the Human Rights Act protects your freedom of expression — and that right doesn’t disappear when you enter the mental health system. Yet many of us know what it feels like when our voi

They called it care. We were told to be grateful. But our bodies remember something else. We remember being watched. We remember being labelled for asking questions. We remember being subdued, not supported. What passes for mental health care is often containment with a therapeutic accent — calm voices, locked doors, and a thousand micro-erasures of dignity. Article 3 of the Human Rights Act protects against inhuman and degrading treatment. But in many services, the degradati

How a manager who’s never met me responded to coercive abuse by flagging “potential deterioration” A few days ago, I submitted a safeguarding concern. It was about coercion. About control. About the subtle erosion of safety dressed up as care. I wrote clearly. Calmly. With integrity. And in response? A manager I’ve never met didn’t ask if I was safe. Didn’t acknowledge the seriousness of what I’d disclosed. Instead, she wrote an internal note to a colleague, flagging: “Potent

What I do with people who are done performing — and ready to lead from somewhere real You don’t need fixing. You need the truth. And often, the truth is this: The job doesn’t fit anymore. The mask is too tight. The system that once gave you purpose is now draining your soul. You’re high-functioning, responsible, maybe even respected. You tick the boxes. You show up. But something’s not right anymore — and you know it. read the full article on Medium https://medium.com/@lucywi

I’m not here to fix you. I’m not here to give you tools, reframe your thoughts, or tell you what your childhood means. That’s not what I offer. What I offer is a clean field. A real meeting. A moment of actual presence in a world addicted to performance. Most people don’t even realise they’re performing — until they sit with someone who isn’t. That’s what happens in session with me. You start feeling yourself again. Not your brand. Not your coping strategy. Not your diagnosis