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Insight and inspiration on living unhurried lives, overcoming feminine burnout, reclaiming our radiance and self-sovereignty and embracing our brilliance.
How to Embody the Life and Future We Desire to Create
We are always embodying something.
It might be the forward urgency of our hectic schedule, the relaxed openness in our heart in moments of joy, or the way our body’s shoulders tighten when we feel stressed.
So much of what we embody isn’t chosen consciously.
It’s shaped by our history, our family, and the culture we live in.
Often, the patterns we have practised are what allowed us to get through, to cope, to keep going in challenging moments. They are deeply intelligent responses that have helped us to navigate life. Responses that we have unconsciously honed and perfected through repetition.
Restoring Inner Stability, Rhythm & Belonging : How Reconnecting With Nature Heals & Grounds Us
In my work with women, one of the themes that arises most often is a yearning to let go of always being the holder, a desire to soften the instinct to push forward and strive, a longing to exhale and let ourselves be held.
Under the strong facade and the ‘holding it all together’, there is a part of us who deeply wants to put it all down and feel held.
We long to rest in the deep knowing that we don’t have to do it all alone.
Finding Inner Rest in an Unrested World: How to Reclaim Stillness When Everything Feels Too Much
There is no denying that we live in a world that often feels deeply unrested.
The pace of our lives is relentless, the state of the world may feel overwhelming, and our attention seems pulled in a myriad of directions from the moment we wake up until we fall asleep at night.
The world beats to the rhythm of urgency.
So it’s likely that we all experience moments where it feels like we are living on fast-forward, feeling overstimulated, thinly stretched, and out of sync with our own pace and rhythms.
One of the themes that arises most often in my conversations with women is a deep and almost vital yearning for a sense of ‘inner rest’: a way to exhale, catch our breath and integrate moments of stillness and peace in our lives. An ability to anchor in a sense of stillness within, regardless of the storms constantly playing out in the outer world.
In this blog post, I explore the body’s natural tidal waves of action and rest and why they get interrupted, why cultivating inner rest is vital for us in an unrested world, different flavours of rest, and how we can integrate them in our life to resource ourselves in an unrested world.
Somatic Practices to Support You When You Feel Drained, Flat, or Numb
Many of us experience moments in our lives when we feel drained, flat, or numb—disconnected from our bodies, our emotions, and maybe our sense of purpose.
This can feel heavy and unsettling, leaving us unsure of how to find our way back to a sense of presence and vitality.
During these times, somatic practices can be a lifeline. They can offer simple but profound ways to restore our energy, bring us back into our body, and help us feel present again.
In this blog post, we’ll explore what it means to feel somatically disconnected, and simple, nurturing practices to help you begin to reconnect with your body and restore your energy.
Resting into Wholeness: Yoga Nidra as a Journey Home to Who We Are Beyond The Exhaustion and Stress
So many of us live fast-paced, rushed and demanding lives.
Lives that our human nervous system hasn’t yet adapted to living, which means that we tend to spend a lot of time in sympathetic activation: what is known as the fight or flight response.
Even though actual threats to our survival might be relatively rare in our everyday lives, our nervous system frequently perceives threats or cues of unsafety: a car cutting us off in traffic, an email from our boss popping into our inbox, a difficult conversation with our partner, a challenging presentation we have to deliver to the board, ….
