How much of your day do you spend stressing about things you have little to zero control over? How much is that actually helping you in a positive way? Ask yourself: does stressing + worrying about anything actually help me through it? Or does it just run your body + mind down? rumina Can you find ways to surrender to the process instead? Try out some of these things to calm your nervous system if…
I’m reading a book at the moment which has been on my to-read list for SO long; The Body Keeps the Score by Bessell Van Der Kolk. At the moment I’m reading a section about safety and reciprocity, about how being able to feel safe with other people is “probably the single most important aspect of mental health; safe connections are fundamental to meaningful and satisfying lives”. Numerous studies have found that social support is the…
When you’re going through stresses in life, how do you tend to approach it? Do you deal with stress by using negative coping strategies like drinking, smoking, taking drugs, gambling, shopping or mindlessly scrolling through your FB feed/TV guide? Do you face problems head on, knowing that they’re really just challenges to be overcome and that with each challenge comes a gift of learning? Do you prefer to be like water around rocks? 🪨 💦 …
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…
One of my favourite healing techniques I’ve learned in the last year are removing energetic stress webs. Stress webs are the result of overactive communication between the adrenals, hypothalamus and pituitary gland, causing “stress webs” to shoot out from the adrenals and wrapping around various areas of the body, keeping the body locked down in a pattern of stress. One recent example is a client who contacted me saying she wanted to break her habit…
One of my favourite healing techniques I’ve learned in the last year are removing energetic stress webs. Stress webs are the result of overactive communication between the adrenals, hypothalamus and pituitary gland, causing “stress webs” to shoot out from the adrenals and wrapping around various areas of the body, keeping the body locked down in a pattern of stress. One recent example is a client who contacted me saying she wanted to break her habit of reaching…