13 years ago I was… 🇬🇧 living in freezing cold London dreaming of living in Australia 🌧️ clinically depressed 🤯 stuck as a carer for an abusive psychotic partner 💰 broke 😩 in despair 😔 couldn’t see a way out at times 🤯 living in survival mode each day 🥺 disconnected from a lot of friends, family and most of all myself These days I’m… 🇦🇺 living in sunny Australia 😌 mentally healthy 🥰 with…
I often have conversations with people who speak a lot about what they perceive as their anxiety and depression 🥹 What I’ve noticed is that sometimes we pathologise feelings that are a normal response to an abnormal situation. “You are not a mess. You are a feeling person in a messy world.” ~ Glennon Doyle Melton We throw around terms like anxiety and depression very loosely in this modern world, often when it’s not actually…
Last week I was chatting with a friend who is on a break from her boyfriend. She was having a hard time dealing with it and was wanting to heal her pain, so I explained a process to her that I’ve found really helpful in the past. It’s called ho’oponopono and it’s a Hawaiian mantra for reparation, healing and forgiveness. The process is really simple ~ you bring to mind a certain situation or memory…
Recently I’ve been doing energy treatments focusing specifically on my clients goal of breaking their daily drinking habit. Note ~ I’m not talking about the level of being an alcoholic. These are clients who buy a 6 pack on the way home after a day of labouring and find it stops them getting anything done after work as they spend their evenings drinking it all watching Netflix 🍻 Or others who always have a bottle…
Every now and again I get a message that goes something like this: “I want coaching/Reiki/to learn Reiki/to change my life, but I don’t have any money.” This immediately tells me something really important about that person. They aren’t truly committed to making the changes they say they want in their life 🤷🏼♀️ I know straight away this person is hoping to get something for nothing, and I also know I could give them…
I spent a good chunk of my life between my mid twenties to my late thirties in unhealthy codependent relationships. A codependent relationship is a love addiction where we seek to prove our worth by helping people with broken wings💔 We’re drawn to addicts and under-functioners who’ll depend on us emotionally, financially or in some other way. We also have a tendency to attract very narcissistic and abusive people who have a lot of shit…