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Tonya-May

Nervous System & Inner Child Breathwork Practitioner for pearents.

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03/02/2026

When we’re triggered, we’re not failing as adults. We’re accessing a younger part of the nervous system that learned how to survive a long time ago. In those moments, the brain is not choosing drama. It’s running an old program written during a time of stress or hurt. That’s why reactions can feel disproportionate or childlike. It’s not immaturity. It’s memory stored in the body.
The hopeful part is that these patterns are not permanent. The brain can relearn safety. With healing work that involves the nervous system, the charge around triggers fades. The past stops hijacking the present. You don’t erase your inner child. You update the environment they’re living in. Over time, the adult self remains steady, even when old cues appear. That is repair in action.

29/01/2026

Intergenerational trauma rarely looks dramatic.
It shows up quietly, repeatedly, and in ways most people normalise.
In my work, clients often say, “Nothing bad happened. My childhood was fine.”
Yet their body is constantly braced. Rest feels unsafe. They over-function in relationships. They feel responsible for other people’s emotions. When life slows down, anxiety rises.
When we trace it gently, a pattern emerges.
A parent who survived by staying quiet.
A grandparent who survived by pushing through.
A family system where emotional expression wasn’t safe or possible.
This isn’t a mindset problem.
It’s a nervous system that learned survival long before you had language.
Research in epigenetics and trauma, including the work of Rachel Yehuda, shows that stress responses can be shaped by previous generations and carried forward biologically, not just behaviourally. Trauma doesn’t only pass through stories. It passes through bodies.
That’s why it often shows up as chronic tension, emotional numbness, people-pleasing, guilt when resting, or feeling “lazy” when you stop.
Healing doesn’t require reliving the past.
It requires teaching the body that the danger has passed.
That’s where patterns finally begin to loosen.

25/01/2026

“Movement clears the static.
When the body feels safe, intuition speaks louder.”“Last night I offered three free card readings. Each one was received deeply and landed exactly where it needed to. That’s the difference when intuition is embodied, not forced. When the nervous system is settled, messages come through clearly. No pushing. No proving. Just presence. This is the space I work from.”

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22/01/2026

I’m starting this year differently.
Before deep work, there has to be trust. Felt trust.
I’m opening up a limited number of tarot readings as a way to connect, reflect, and let you experience how I work. This isn’t about prediction. It’s about insight, intuition, and what’s already moving beneath the surface for you.
I’m offering this to a small group, and in return I’m simply asking for honest feedback on my professional page. If it resonates, you’ll know. If it doesn’t, that matters too.
This is a trust bridge.
And from there, deeper work becomes possible.
Comment or message me if you feel the pull.

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18/01/2026

I didn’t plan this video.

I didn’t script it or polish it.

I was called to show up — because healing doesn’t wait for perfection.

When you hold space for others, when you do deep nervous system and inner-child work, there are moments where the message moves through you, not from you.

This is one of those moments.
Because women are walking around functioning, parenting, leading, loving — while their bodies are exhausted, their nervous systems overloaded, and their inner child still carrying what was never theirs to hold.

I do this work because I know what it feels like to survive quietly.

And I know what happens when the body finally feels safe enough to soften.
If this landed, trust that it found you for a reason.

If you want it shorter for reels, stronger, or more spiritual / grounded / science-led, say the word — I’ll tune it exactly to your voice.

15/01/2026

“I want to talk about something very real — and often very misunderstood.”
Some people hurt their own bodies.
Not because they want to die.
Not because they’re seeking attention.
And not because something is ‘wrong’ with them.
They do it because their nervous system is overwhelmed and doesn’t know how to regulate pain any other way.
From a nervous‑system perspective, this behaviour is about relief — not self‑destruction.
Mark Wolynn, in It Didn’t Start With You, explains that inherited trauma isn’t passed down as stories, but as unconscious emotional patterns that live in the body.
He writes that these patterns often show up as feelings of not belonging, not being wanted, or not having a right to exist.
When those feelings are inherited — not learned through direct abuse, but absorbed through generations — a person can grow up in a “normal” home and still carry a deep, wordless pain.
Sometimes that pain has nowhere to go.
So the body looks for a way to:
feel something instead of numbness
release pressure
regain a sense of control
This isn’t a conscious choice.
It’s a survival response.
Wolynn talks about how unresolved trauma in a grandmother — especially experiences of loss, despair, or feeling unnecessary — can echo forward.
Not as memories, but as a felt sense of “I don’t matter” living quietly in the nervous system.
That feeling doesn’t start with the person. But it shows up in their body.
And this is why willpower, logic, or “just stopping” doesn’t work.
Because the behaviour isn’t the problem. It’s the body’s attempt to cope.
This is also why I work with the nervous system and the inner child.
Inner child work isn’t about going backwards. It’s about meeting the part of the body that learned — very early — to survive pain alone.
When the nervous system experiences safety, presence, and support, the need for self‑harm behaviours can soften.
Not because someone was told to stop. But because their body no longer needs that outlet to survive.
That’s how healing actually happens.

13/01/2026

Most people don’t realise this.
When your mum was inside your nana, the earliest version of you was already there.
Three generations sharing one environment.
So the life your nana was living mattered.
The stress she carried.
The way she had to cope.
The strength she needed just to get through.
Without anyone doing anything wrong, those survival patterns moved through your mum — and then into you.
That’s where generational trauma comes from.
Not from blame.
Not from bad parenting.
But from the body learning how to survive.
You might feel it now as always being “on,” doing too much or not enough, struggling to rest, or sensing that something isn’t quite right even when life looks fine.
These aren’t flaws.
They’re survival responses.
And what was learned for survival can be gently shifted through safety, regulation, and support.
Awareness isn’t the end of the story.
It’s the doorway through.

If this resonates, my work focuses on helping the body feel safe again — not by reliving the past, but by supporting the nervous system in the present.
I work with women who feel stuck in old patterns, always on edge, disconnected, or exhausted, and are ready to move out of survival mode and into more ease, clarity, and choice.
This work is slow, respectful, and body-led.
If you’re curious, you’re welcome to reach out or sit with this and see what your body says.

10/01/2026

What I do is help women come out of that constant holding it all together state. It’s not about fixing anything or adding more self-care to the to-do list.

It’s about helping the body feel safe again so the mind can finally slow down.

When the nervous system settles, everything feels lighter — more calm, more present, more connected.

06/01/2026

Self-care isn’t about bubble baths or ticking boxes.
It’s about listening to your body when it whispers before it has to scream.
It’s choosing rest without guilt, movement without pressure, and compassion over criticism.
Sometimes self-care looks like slowing down, saying no, or letting yourself be held.
Your nervous system deserves safety, not survival. 💛

31/12/2025

This is a threshold year. I can feel it.

This year has required presence, discipline, and depth. I’ve been working closely with many people — not in theory, but in real, embodied work — guiding nervous systems out of survival and back into coherence.

The results haven’t been loud, but they’ve been undeniable: clarity returning, capacity expanding, and people standing differently in their own lives.

I’ve lived this too.
There have been challenges, recalibrations, and moments that demanded integrity over comfort.

But what’s carried me through hasn’t been motivation — it’s been regulation. Neuroscience is clear: when the nervous system stabilises, the brain integrates.

Decision-making sharpens. Identity consolidates. This is how transformation becomes sustainable rather than performative.

We are closing a cycle now.
As we move toward 2026, we enter a new timeline (2026–2033) — one that many traditions recognise as a period of forward motion and truth.

The Year of the Horse symbolises momentum, leadership, and freedom — not chaos, but aligned movement. You don’t chase this energy. You embody it, and it responds.

This transition isn’t about becoming someone new.
It’s about stepping fully into who you already are.

I am walking into this next phase with more precision, discernment, and authority than ever before.

Not because everything is perfect — but because my nervous system knows how to hold complexity without collapse.
If you feel the same internal shift — less tolerance for misalignment, more capacity for truth, a steady pull toward purpose — trust it. This is what happens when the body, mind, and spirit come into agreement.

This isn’t a trend.
It’s a timeline shift.
And some of us are here to lead it. 🤍

20/12/2025

Why do you choose not to seek help… when it could change everything?

If you’re ignoring messages, avoiding conversations, or disappearing when things feel hard — this isn’t me judging you.
It’s me asking the honest question.
Because the truth is:
Your silence doesn’t just affect you.

It impacts your relationships, your work, your kids, your partner — your whole world.

And I get it.

Seeking help feels confronting. Slowing down feels unsafe.
Looking at your nervous system feels easier to avoid than face. But avoidance doesn’t make it go away — it turns it into a spiral.

You wouldn’t ignore a tooth infection.
You wouldn’t avoid a doctor if your body was breaking down.
So why do we treat our nervous system like it doesn’t matter?
A regulated nervous system changes how you respond, how you communicate, how safe people feel around you.

It brings more patience, more clarity, more connection. Health isn’t just physical — it’s emotional and nervous system health too.

You don’t need to stay in survival mode.
You don’t need to keep disappearing.
Your world becomes lighter when your body feels safe again.

And the people in your life benefit when you choose to heal.
This is your sign to stop coping… and start supporting your system.

17/12/2025

I see this a lot in my work.

Women who are functioning.
Holding families together.
Working, parenting, moving their bodies, doing the inner work.
Not burnt out… just quietly empty in one very specific place.

One of my clients (shared with permission) said something that stopped me in my tracks:
“I didn’t realise how little affection I’d been receiving until it started coming back.”

She wasn’t asking her partner to change.
She wasn’t forcing conversations or chasing reassurance.
She started working on her nervous system — on safety, self-connection, and releasing what she’d been holding in her body.

And something shifted.

Not overnight.
Not magically.

But her partner’s energy softened.
There was more touch.
More warmth.
More presence.

Here’s the part that matters:
When a woman stops living in quiet survival — when her body feels safer — the relational field changes.

This isn’t about fixing men.
Or blaming trauma.
Or bypassing reality.

It’s about understanding that relationships are energetic before they are verbal.

So many women think,
“I’m fine, so why do I still feel this ache?”

Because being okay isn’t the same as being met.

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