19/12/2025
Moving through Uncertainty
If you’re feeling unsettled lately, it may not be personal.
Our nervous systems are taking in far more than we were ever designed to hold.
Constant headlines. Images of violence. Collective fear and urgency — absorbed often without us realising.
Add festive expectations, family dynamics, and end-of-year fatigue, and many sensitive, empathetic people slip into survival mode — especially the people-pleasers.
Your body responds before your mind can make sense of it.
Tension. Overwhelm. Numbness. The urge to shutdown, and pull away.
Here's some tried and gentle ways to come back to yourself:
• Limit how much visual news your body consumes
• Take one slow breath and lengthen the exhale
• Feel your feet, your seat, something solid beneath you
• Ask your body what feels steady right now
• Give yourself permission to step away — from conversations, screens, expectations
You are not meant to carry the weight of the world alone, but I know we can feel that way at times.
The thing is regulation by moving our body, noticing our breath, grounding or just walking in nature, are not avoidance — it’s how we stay connected to our humanness.
Human enough to feel, to rest, to soften, to respond rather than react. Human enough to care for ourselves while still caring about the world.
Coming back to your body is the key to moving through these times of uncertainty with more sovereignty and grace.
Turning that key daily, helps you remember who you are.
Love
Helen ❤️
