Imagine we’re all born with an empty suitcase. 🧳
Over the course of your life, every unresolved issue or trauma turns into a potato that goes in the suitcase.
Depending on how big the trauma was the potato might be a small or large one, or a big fucking pumpkin. 🎃
Eventually, your suitcase is full… so you start lugging another one around, filling that up with more potatoes of all shapes and sizes. 🥔
Maybe that one gets full too, so you start accumulating more bags – hiking bags, rucksacks, handbags.
Imagine walking around all day dragging all those bags with you of all your unresolved trauma?
You feel bogged down, tired all the time, unmotivated, get triggered and irritable easily, and start to wonder what happened to that part of you that actually used to enjoy life.
Your body starts protesting at how much you have to carry around with you all the time, and you start getting little niggly complaints, later followed by bigger health issues.
Your body is trying to give you a message… are you listening? 🤔
ENTER: MID-LIFE CRISIS
At some point, it’s not life that’s heavy… it’s everything you’ve refused to put down. 🤷🏼♀️
I believe a “mid-life” crisis can happen at any age.
From what I’ve experienced across my 20+ year career working with clients with traumatic histories, alongside any other person who experiences the usual ups and downs of life, I believe the “mid-life” crisis starts kicking in when we’re over lugging around the heaviness of our past and when we realise we aren’t living the life we thought we’d be living by now.
A big part of the work I do with my clients is to help them start unpacking their suitcases through coaching tools and energy work. 🙌🏻
Bit by bit, we get to work on examining the potatoes in the bags and working through what is yet to be resolved.
Each time you process a past hurt, forgive and release the trauma and actually heal it, imagine you’re no longer carrying that potato around with you.
As you continue to do the work on yourself, the load gets lighter, because you’re carrying around less potatoes.
I do this in a number of different ways in sessions – it’s very tailored to the individual and what the trauma is that we’re working on – and some are done as “home play” in between sessions so clients can get a lot of this work done on their own once they’ve been taught the tools. 🛠️
If this hit a little too close to home… good. That’s your sign to do something about it.
You feel stuck because you’re carrying a lifetime of unprocessed shit around like it’s your full-time job.
And no amount of “positive thinking” fixes that.
You need tools, support and to actually start unpacking the fucking suitcase. 🧳
Start with my free Snap Out of a Funk EFT Cheat Sheet – it’ll help you process what you’re feeling instead of suppressing it.
You can download it in the link in my bio – or comment/reply EFT and I’ll send it to you. 📧
And if you’re ready to stop dragging emotional baggage through your life, book a free call with me and let’s figure out what’s actually keeping you stuck – and how to shift it.
Comment/reply CALL and I’ll send you the link.
Catcha up the flip side, where we’ve lightened the load,
