Ethical Living by Olivia Bilocca

The familiar always feels safer than the unknown, even when the familiar is the thing hurting us.

It's how the nervous system works. It chooses recognisable over good, every time, until we teach it otherwise.

✨Noticing the pattern is where it starts.

Olivia Bilocca | Licensed Therapist

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Yesterday I delivered The Humans in HR: Beneath the Role, a 4-hour small group workshop for HR professionals in Malta.

HR has changed beyond recognition in thirty years. The emotional load, the organisational complexity, the expectation to hold everyone else together while the business moves at pace, this is not the personnel department of the 1990s.

But in some organisations, it is still treated as though it is.

Yesterday was about looking clearly at the gap between what the role actually demands and how it is still perceived, resourced, and supported.

What stayed with me was this. The HR professionals in a room, willing to look honestly at a gap that doesn't get named often enough: between what the role has actually become and how it is still perceived, resourced, and supported in many organisations. People who carry significant emotional and strategic weight, often without structures that recognise it or colleagues who fully understand it. That conversation is overdue in most organisations.

If you work in HR: how well does your organisation actually understand what your role has become?

Olivia Bilocca | Licensed Therapist

When there is no way out, the way in often begins.

Jung believed that real inner growth rarely happens when life is comfortable. It happens when we're completely stuck , when no choice feels right, when our usual ways of coping stop working, and when the ego finally runs out of answers.

That moment of feeling utterly lost isn't a sign that something has gone wrong. From a Jungian perspective, it's often a prerequisite for something deeper to emerge.
When the conscious mind doesn't have the solution, and we resist the urge to force one, something else becomes possible. Jung called it the Self. Not the self we perform for the world, but the deeper, wiser centre that quietly directs our growth. The part of us that knows, even when we don't.

Like a seed that already knows how to become a tree.
So if you're in a season of feeling stuck ]not collapsing, but not pretending either] you may not be falling apart. You may be making space.

"When no choice feels right, it means the conscious mind doesn't have the answer yet." — Marie-Louise von Franz, drawing on the work of C.G. Jung

Tell people. While they're here. While it matters.

Olivia Bilocca | Licensed Therapist
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HR professionals are brilliant at holding space for everyone else.
But who holds space for you?

You navigate redundancies, difficult conversations, leadership pressure, and the emotional weight of decisions that affect people's lives. And most of the time, you do it without anyone asking how you're doing.
This workshop is for you.

The Humans in HR: Beneath the Role is a practical 4-hour small group workshop designed for HR professionals who are ready to explore what's happening beneath the role: the emotional load, the complexity, and what it costs you to carry it.

Not a lecture or a tick-box training. A real conversation, in a small group of people who share this experience.

📅 9th June 2026 | 09:00 – 13:00
📍 Ruby Ninu, St Julians
💶 EUR 140 + VAT
👥 Max 12 participants

To book or find out more: Link in Bio
Spaces are limited, if this speaks to you, reach out.

Ever ended a relationship, promised yourself it would be different next time, and then found yourself in the exact same dynamic?

You're not broken. You're working from a blueprint you didn't choose.

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Your needs are not too much. You've just been in spaces that were too small.
Olivia Bilocca | Licensed Therapist
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Being alone and feeling lonely are not the same thing.
But if stillness makes you anxious, if you reach for your phone the moment things go quiet, that's worth sitting with.

Solitude is a skill. And for some of us, it's one we never got to practise safely.

Swipe to explore the difference. 👉🏼

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