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Insight and inspiration on living unhurried lives, overcoming feminine burnout, reclaiming our radiance and self-sovereignty and embracing our brilliance.
3 Ways Somatic Coaching Is Different From Traditional Coaching Approaches
Somatic approaches are increasingly talked about, yet they can feel obscure or hard to distinguish from more traditional or cognitive ways of coaching.
In this blog post, we look at how somatic coaching might differ from more traditional approaches, and explore 3 ways in which somatic coaching can help facilitate deep transformation.
The Power of Alignment: Living and Leading with Coherence
Most of the women I support are more intelligent, creative, resourceful and brave than they often know. They have built businesses, raised families, held space for others, and navigated challenges with incredible resilience.
Many find me when they arrive at a point in their life where they feel a sense of weariness that goes beyond physical tiredness. Perhaps it could best be described as 'experiential' weariness.
They are exhausted from trying to fit into external frameworks that often don’t reflect what matters most to them, and leave them with a sense that something significant is missing.
They are tired of overriding the ever growing discomfort of living a life that might look good on paper, but might not feel fulfilling on the inside.
They are experiencing misalignment - a growing dissonance between their inner and outer worlds.
And something within them is pulling them towards more alignment (although they wouldn’t articulate it in this way).
What they are seeking - often without knowing - is a place where their values, body, nervous system, beliefs, and behaviours are in harmonious relationship with one another instead of each pulling in a different direction.
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.
