About

Alexandra Higgins is a writer and trainee counsellor based in Devon. She has a degree from Oxford University, where she studied psychology, physiology and philosophy. She is the author of Befriend Your Inner B*tch. Her writing is shaped by a long-standing interest in the inner life, attention, shame, self-worth and the cultural conditions that make it difficult to remain in honest relationship with ourselves, one another and the living world.

After more than three years living with post-traumatic vestibular migraine, many of the questions explored here are also lived questions: how to rest, how to remain oneself inside limitation, and how to bring our gifts into meaningful service.

For newer essays and shorter reflections, you can also find her on Medium.