Words, wit, and wonder. Mostly about why people end up depleted, miscategorised, or quietly performing wellness they don’t feel.
I’m a counselling psychologist and writer. I’m sixty-six, Australian, and I live in Đà Lạt — a small city in the Vietnamese highlands where the temperature behaves itself and the coffee is taken seriously.
I write about neurodivergence, cognitive fatigue, the post-COVID nervous system, and the gap between what culture tells us wellbeing should look like and what it actually feels like to be a human in a body that has opinions of its own. I came to my own AuDHD diagnosis at sixty-six, after several decades of being treated for the wrong thing. That experience informs most of what I publish now, though it’s not the only thing I write about.
If you’re looking for the writing, it lives in three places. The longer essays are at mindblownpsychology.com. The midweek and weekend pieces are at The Quiet Half on Substack — free, twice a week, with a paid tier that includes the full book library. The books themselves are below.
If you’re looking for me — to ask a question, talk about something, or work together — the contact page is the place.
If you want the longer version of who I am and how I got here, the about page has it.
The books
Forty-something at last count, across psychology, neurodivergence, memoir, and a nine-book fiction series set in the streets and coffee shops of Đà Lạt.
Browse the full library on Amazon →
Paid subscribers to The Quiet Half get the entire library included at US$90 a year, which works out to roughly two dollars a book if you only read half of them.
If you’d rather just read something
The most recent essays at mindblownpsychology.com tend to be the best place to start. Or sign up to The Quiet Half and let the writing come to you twice a week.