Writings & Musings
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Insight and inspiration on living unhurried lives, overcoming feminine burnout, reclaiming our radiance and self-sovereignty and embracing our brilliance.
A Softer Way to Begin the Year: Gentle Nervous System Support for More Peace and Less Pressure
There’s an energy to new beginnings that’s incredibly compelling - it’s fresh, vibrant and exciting.
So many of us start the year feeling the pressure to sprint right out of the gate.
Yet, we might still be digesting the past year, and our nervous system might still be trying to soften the survival energy that has kept us going, perhaps for months.
One key ingredient to embracing what is new and unfamiliar, which is often overlooked is this: having enough capacity and stability to move from comfort to stretch, from familiarity to newness, from what has been to what could be, from where we are to exciting new possibilities.
Nature teaches us that we cannot plant new seeds in arid soil.
For us, it means starting with tending to our body and nervous system, so the soil becomes enriched, fertile and supportive of growth.
Finding Anchors in Times of Transition and Uncertainty
We all navigate moments where it feels like our life is becoming ‘undone’.
Whether that’s relationships ending, burnout, grief, uncertainty, collective unease, or natural seasonal changes in a woman’s life such as transitions into motherhood or the menopause.
In those times, it can feel like the stability we have known is pulled from under our feet.
Like a plant that has been uprooted, we become untethered, hanging in the liminal space between what has been and what is yet to come.
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.
Slow Change is Sustainable Change - Why Somatic Approaches Work Differently
The world we live in is obsessed with quick fixes.
Productivity hacks and fast transformations are all the rage, and we are led to believe that real change happens in big moments: dramatic breakthroughs, radical shifts, quantum leaps.
But our body isn’t wired for these overnight changes.
Real, embodied transformation doesn’t happen in big bursts.
It happens in layers, over time, at a pace that our body and nervous system can hold.
This is why somatic approaches work differently. They are the antidote to our fast culture.
They show us that deep and sustainable change doesn’t mean pushing harder and faster, but moving at the pace of safety and integration, to allow the changes to gently ‘take root’ in our body.
