Circles

A circle for whatever you’re facing

Share your story and we place you automatically, in as many circles as fit. Or look around first.

Family & caregiving

Adoption and foster care

For adoptees, birth parents, adoptive and foster families.

A loved one's addiction

For families and partners of people with addiction.

Autism and neurodivergent family life

For autistic people and families raising neurodivergent kids.

Caregiver burnout

For anyone worn down by caring for someone else.

Caring for an aging parent

For adult children caring for parents.

Co-parenting after separation

For sharing children across two homes.

Empty nest

For parents whose children have left home.

Family estrangement

For people estranged from parents, children or siblings.

New parenthood

For the overwhelming, beautiful first years.

Parenting a child with a disability

For parents of children with disabilities or complex needs.

Parenting a struggling teen

For parents worried about a teenager.

Single parenting

For raising children on your own.

Health

Adjusting to a disability

For people adapting to a new or changing disability.

Caring for someone with cancer

For partners, parents, children and friends holding someone through cancer.

Caring for someone with dementia

For those watching a loved one change, and caring through every stage.

Chronic illness

For long-term conditions that change how you work, love and plan.

Chronic pain

For people whose pain does not go away, and the life that has to fit around it.

Diabetes

Type 1, type 2 and gestational: the daily maths, the worry and the wins.

Difficult or high-risk pregnancy

For pregnancies with complications, bed rest or a scary diagnosis.

Facing a terminal illness

For people near the end of life and those keeping vigil.

Heart conditions

After a heart attack, surgery or a diagnosis that changed your rhythm.

Infertility and IVF

For the hope, injections, waiting and grief of trying to conceive.

Living with cancer

For anyone facing a cancer diagnosis, treatment, scans and the waiting in between.

Living with HIV

For people living with HIV and those newly diagnosed.

Long COVID

For people still unwell months or years after COVID.

MS, Parkinson's, ALS and neurological conditions

For progressive neurological conditions and the people living with them.

Organ transplant

For people waiting for, receiving or donating an organ.

Parenting a seriously ill child

For parents in hospitals, waiting rooms and long nights with a sick child.

Rare disease

For people and families facing conditions few doctors have seen.

Stroke recovery

For survivors relearning daily life and the families beside them.

Home & housing

Eviction and housing insecurity

For people facing eviction, unsafe housing or nowhere to go.

Homelessness

For people without a stable place to sleep, and those who have been there.

Not enough food

For families stretching every meal.

Identity

Faith crisis and leaving religion

For doubt, deconstruction or leaving a faith community.

LGBTQ+ and coming out

For coming out, questioning, transitioning and finding your people.

Legal

A legal battle

For lawsuits, custody fights and court cases.

A loved one in prison

For families of incarcerated people.

Life after prison

For people rebuilding after incarceration.

Life changes

Disaster survivors

For people who lived through fires, floods, hurricanes and earthquakes.

Going through something hard

For anything that does not fit a label. Whatever it is, you do not have to carry it alone.

Growing older alone

For older people facing isolation, health worries or loss of independence.

Immigrating and starting over abroad

For newcomers building a life in a new country.

Refugees and displacement

For people forced from home by war, persecution or disaster.

Retirement transition

For the identity shift after a working life ends.

Student pressure and exams

For students under pressure, failing or lost.

Veterans and military life

For veterans, service members and military families.

Young adults finding their way

For young adults struggling to find work, direction or independence.

Loss & grief

Anticipatory grief

For grieving someone who is still here.

Losing a pet

For the grief of losing an animal who was family.

Losing someone to suicide

For survivors of suicide loss: the questions, the guilt and the love.

Loss of a brother or sister

For siblings left behind.

Loss of a child

For parents who lost a son or daughter. There is no word for it; there are people who understand.

Loss of a friend

For grief people do not always recognise.

Loss of a parent

For anyone grieving a mother or father, at any age.

Loss of a spouse or partner

For widows, widowers and anyone who lost their person.

Miscarriage and pregnancy loss

For anyone who lost a pregnancy or a baby, at any stage.

Mind & mental health

ADHD

For adults and parents navigating ADHD, diagnosis and daily life.

Alcohol recovery

For people cutting back, quitting or staying sober, one day at a time.

Anxiety and panic

For racing thoughts, panic attacks and the constant what-ifs.

Bipolar disorder

For the highs, the lows and the steady middle you are building.

Body image and self-worth

For the voice that says you are not enough.

Depression

For days that are heavy, grey or impossibly long.

Drug addiction recovery

For recovery from opioids, stimulants and other drugs.

Eating disorders

For recovery from anorexia, bulimia, binge eating and disordered eating.

Living with suicidal thoughts

For people who have thought about not being here. You are not alone in this, and help is right here.

Loneliness

For anyone who feels unseen, far from others or alone in a crowd.

OCD

For intrusive thoughts and compulsions that will not let go.

Postpartum depression and anxiety

For new parents who feel nothing like the pictures said they would.

Trauma and PTSD

For people carrying what happened, and learning to live beside it.

Money

Debt and money stress

For people buried under bills, loans or credit cards.

Gambling problems

For people and families affected by gambling.

Medical bills

For people facing bills they cannot pay for care they needed.

Scam and fraud victims

For people who lost money or trust to a scam.

Relationships

Breakups and heartbreak

For hearts that are mending.

Divorce and separation

For the end of a marriage and the start of whatever comes next.

Infidelity and betrayal

For the shock of betrayal and deciding what happens next.

Safety

Bullying (young people)

For young people being bullied, online or in person.

Childhood abuse survivors

For adults healing from abuse or neglect in childhood.

Domestic abuse

For people experiencing or leaving abuse at home. Your safety comes first.

Sexual assault survivors

For survivors of rape and sexual assault, at any time in life.

Victims of crime

For people recovering after a robbery, attack or break-in.

Work

Burnout

For exhaustion that sleep does not fix.

Business struggles and failure

For founders and owners whose business is in trouble or closed.

Career change and purpose

For people starting over in work or looking for meaning.

Job loss

For layoffs, firings and the hard search for what is next.

Workplace bullying and harassment

For people being bullied, harassed or discriminated against at work.