by PJ
Intrusive Kindness explores how care disrupts, repairs, and reshapes us. Through immersive storytelling and reflective conversations, PJ dives into human connection, self‑compassion, healing, and the emotional labour of practice. Stories of rupture, repair, and the unexpected ways kindness changes a life. New episodes every two weeks. DISCLAIMER: All reflections are personal and not representative of any organisation or individual.
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1/18/2026
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July 6, 2026
<p>In this episode, PJ steps back into his first UK job a youth program built from pizza‑fuelled consultations, brave young voices, and a community that learned to speak for itself. But behind the scenes, a slow‑burn visa expiry, an unexpected love story, and the emotional fault line between personal and professional life begin to crack open.</p><p>This is the story of a program that kept going after he had to leave, the award it won without him, and the second legacy he built inside statutory practice: a Forster carer network born in an oversized room and shaped by the voices of carers who rarely get heard.</p><p>Across the Fault Line explores the quiet collisions between the work we do and the lives we live the moments where humanity shakes the ground beneath our feet, and the legacy that remains long after we’ve moved on.</p><p>A story about youth voice, love, visas, burnout, carers, and the emotional labour of helping professions.</p><p>A story about what stays behind.</p>
June 22, 2026
<p>In this episode, I revisit a domestic and family violence case from early in my career a case that revealed how easily social workers can follow a familiar pattern, only to realise too late that it doesn’t fit the family in front of us.</p><p>What looked like progress on the surface engagement, rapport, referrals was masking a deeper pattern of coercive control I didn’t yet have the lens to recognise. The subtle cues were there, long before I was ready to see them. A conversation at the UK border about Baby P, the dynamics inside the home, the avoidance, the silence all of it was pointing to something I didn’t yet understand.</p><p>This episode explores how using the “right” tools in the wrong sequence can place more risk on a family than safety, and how critical incidents can reshape our practice in ways we don’t fully grasp until years later. It’s a reflection on missed signs, early‑career assumptions, and the importance of recognising patterns in behaviour, in families, and in ourselves.</p><p>If this story resonates, follow the podcast for more reflective practice episodes, and join me on Instagram for weekly reflections and behind‑the‑scenes moments from Intrusive Kindness.</p>
June 8, 2026
<p>In this episode, PJ takes you inside his first UK social work role a program dropped into an organisation without instructions, scaffolding or structure. What began as “building a service” quickly became a lesson in how systems shape us, how we default to what we know, and why the myth of closure is one of the most powerful illusions in our profession. From learning a new landscape to discovering the quiet truth that families’ stories continue long after our involvement ends, this episode explores the messy, human side of practice that rarely gets talked about.</p>
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Intrusive Kindness explores how care disrupts, repairs, and reshapes us. Through immersive storytelling and reflective conversations, PJ dives into human connection, self‑compassion, healing, and the emotional labour of practice. Stories of rupture, repair, and the unexpected ways kindness changes a life.
New episodes every two weeks.
DISCLAIMER: All reflections are personal and not representative of any organisation or individual.
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