Antonia Kersting - Holistic Therapist

Antonia Kersting - Holistic Therapist Supporting YOU to
🌀reconnect to your body
🌀heal trauma
🌀embody your potential

01/12/2025

If you ever wanted to improve your self-worth, this is for you.

So many of us grew up learning that our value came from what we could do for others — how helpful, responsible, attuned, or indispensable we could be.
But when your worth is tied to being needed, it lives outside of you.

It depends on how much you give, how well you perform, or how useful you are in someone else’s life.
That means your self-worth can rise and fall based on other people’s moods, needs, or approval, which is exhausting and unstable.

Real self-worth comes from reclaiming your value from those external roles and slowly bringing it back into your own hands. It is about wanting and choosing yourself so you can begin to pick relationships where this reflected back to you.

If this lands, share it with someone who might need this reminder. ✨

Here’s how to begin ⬇️1️⃣ Start with your physiology (the easiest entry point)Notice what is happening in your body fact...
30/11/2025

Here’s how to begin ⬇️

1️⃣ Start with your physiology (the easiest entry point)

Notice what is happening in your body factually:
• Where you are in your cycle: menstrual, follicular, ovulatory, luteal
• Length of your bleed and your full cycle
• Cervical mucous changes: dry, creamy, sticky, stretchy
• Sensations in your breasts: tenderness, fullness, sensitivity
• Body temperature shifts (even informally)
These are simple physical markers — no interpretation needed.
Just noticing what is reconnects you to your body without overwhelm.

2️⃣ Then track behaviour + energy

Once you feel comfortable observing the physical, widen the lens:
• How is your energy today — steady, flat, buzzing, soft?
• What feels good in movement — walking, rest, intensity?
• What foods are you naturally drawn to?
• How social do you feel? How tolerant? How inward/outward?
• Changes in libido or desire
This step helps you see your body not as a problem, but as a rhythm.

3️⃣ Move into your inner world

Now you’re ready to explore the emotional landscape:
• What feelings are closest to the surface in each phase?
• What’s your mindset like — focused, foggy, sensitive, driven, introspective?
• Any recurring thoughts at predictable times?
• What’s your capacity for stress, empathy, boundaries?
This creates a compassionate map of your inner seasons.

4️⃣ Finally, track sensations + needs (deepen embodiment)

As you build trust, you can begin tuning into real-time sensations:
• Tightness, warmth, heaviness, tingling, pressure
• The pace your body wants to move at
• What feels nourishing vs depleting
• What your body is actually asking for
This is where connection happens — where you stop fighting yourself and begin listening.

Cycle tracking is now about control, it’s about reunion. Phase by phase, you learn to hear your body whisper before it has to scream. Over time, it becomes second nature to attune to yourself, to feel yourself…and to truly listen.

27/11/2025

If your thoughts won’t stop looping… here’s something you need to know.

Maybe you’re rehashing a conversation, imagining what you could’ve said.
Maybe you keep replaying a moment, wishing for a different outcome.
Or you’re stuck feeling angry or hurt about how someone acted — or didn’t act.

First, I want you to know this:
There is nothing wrong with you.
Looping thoughts are normal.

What becomes troubling is when you get stuck inside them; fantasising, replaying real or imagined scenarios, reliving uncomfortable feelings, and not being able to stop.

But don’t worry — I’ve got you.

Here’s the part most people don’t know:

Looping thoughts aren’t just happening in your mind.
They’re happening in your body.

We’re taught that a thought problem must be solved with more thinking.
But if you could think your way out of a thought loop… it wouldn’t loop.

What’s actually happening is this:

Something or someone triggered a stress or emotional response in your body.
And for some reason — time, safety, overwhelm — you weren’t able to complete that response.

So it stays open.
Like a tab on your computer running in the background, draining your energy.

Your brain senses this unfinished activation and tries to make sense of it.
It builds a story that matches the sensation.

And because the sensation is looping in your body…
the story loops in your mind.

Here’s the real issue:
You can’t THINK your way out of a FELT response.
You have to let the sensation or emotion complete its cycle in your body.
When you do that, the tab finally closes and so does the thought loop.

Want to learn to close the loop? Let me know in the comments 🙌🏼

When you catch yourself trying to fix, guide, or “love someone into changing,” that’s not chemistry, it’s a childhood co...
26/11/2025

When you catch yourself trying to fix, guide, or “love someone into changing,” that’s not chemistry, it’s a childhood coping strategy resurfacing.

But the good news? Once you see the pattern, you can begin to choose differently.

Here’s what you can do about it:
Pause.
Breathe.
Notice the urge to rescue, to fix.
Gently hold and soothe the part of you that feels unmet and unsafe.
Shift the focus from the other person onto yourself: What do YOU need to do right now to feel safe and regulated?

You deserve to be met, as you are, without having to rescue anyone to earn love.
If this hits true for you, share it with someone who needs the reminder. 🤍

25/11/2025

What’s the opposite of depression? It’s not the forced cheerfulness of “joy.”

It’s the ability to move energy and fully participate in your life through expression.

Our modern world focuses on cognitive and structured approaches and therapies like CBT, strength training, yoga, and jogging all have proven, important places in mental health treatment- and for good reason. They are invaluable tools for building structure and resilience as well as supporting our body and mind.

But we forget something crucial: our bodies are designed to process stress through expression, not just movement.

For millennia, human cultures have relied on communal and intuitive movement as a form of well-being and emotional self-regulation. We didn’t need clinical names for it; we just knew how to shake off a hard day.

Dancing—especially the unstructured, non-linear, intuitive kind—allows us to bypass the thinking mind and go directly to the nervous system.

This isn’t just theory. A 2024 a meta-analysis of 218 different studies found that dancing outperformed nearly every other form of exercise (including walking, jogging, and strength training) and standard treatment protocols like SSRIs and CBT in reducing symptoms of depression.

Why? Because movement acts as a form of somatic therapy. It allows you to express the emotions your mind is stuck ruminating on, discharging residual stress and trauma held in your body. It pulls you out of your head and grounds you fully in the present.

The invitation here isn’t to replace your therapy or gym routine, but to supplement it with something more primal and powerful.

Find 5 minutes today to put on a song and just move. No structure, no judgment, just expression.

What is your go-to dance tune? Share your playlist inspo in the comments👇

24/11/2025

If you have learned to process your emotions by immediately asking “Why?”, you might be intellectualising your feelings rather than actually feeling them. 😬

For so many of us, analysing our emotions feels safer than experiencing them. If we can explain the sadness, we feel like we can control it. If we can find the root cause of the anxiety, we think we can solve it like a math problem.

But understanding the origin of a feeling doesn’t make it leave your body.

Let this be your invitation to stop intellectualising and start sensing.

Instead of asking “Why is this happening?”, try asking:
1️⃣ What sensation is physically present right now? (Tightness, heat, heaviness?)
2️⃣ Where is it living in my body? (Chest, throat, stomach?)
Shift from the Story (the why) to the Sensation (the what).
3️⃣ How would it like to be expressed right now? (A movement, a sound, a sigh, a cry?)

That is how you actually start to feel it and let it pass.

Save this for the next time you catch yourself overthinking a feeling. 📌

21/11/2025

Everyone wants a village… but being a villager is a different story 😅

So many of us crave community — people who’ll show up, care, and support us when life gets messy.
But in a world where we’re all juggling so much, and where our generation is unlearning overgiving, it can feel really hard to offer that same support back.

Often we want someone else to go first.
We’d rather wait until we feel rested, resourced, or “ready” before we lean in for others.
But community doesn’t work like that. It isn’t a one-to-one exchange.

Healthy village life is reciprocal, it ebbs and flows.
Sometimes you’re the one who needs more.
Sometimes you’re the one who can give more.
And neither role makes you a burden or a martyr, it simply makes you human.

Showing up doesn’t mean abandoning your boundaries or draining yourself dry.
It just means offering what you can, when you can, with intention and care.

Because the real magic is this: when we give, we also receive.
Connection. Meaning. Belonging.
The very things we hope a village will give us.

So next time someone in your world needs support, pause and ask:
Am I contributing to the village I keep saying I want?

18/11/2025

Praxis Vol. 2 🌀

What an incredible week. I have just returned from the second residential for Shamanic Womancraft Practitioner Training with

It was a week filled with learning, deep self reflection and oh so much joyous sisterhood.

While I am absolutely adoring this new modality I am learning, I am also struck again and again by the fact that what heals the most is having healed experiences.

Being held, seen and heard in our sharing without anyone trying to fix us. Simply being held in a safe space is enough.

For me, this community of incredible women has been so instrumental in my own healing and how I in turn show up in life.

In my work I try to offer that healing back to others. And while I could write several posts about the insights I have had both personally and professionally (and I might), I really wanted this one to be an ode to the women who walk this path beside me. Without you, I would not be who I am 🙌🏼

Whether we have been journeying together for years or we have only just met- I am irrevocably grateful for you. You are all divine and I cannot wait to see you all share you light and gifts with the world.

Blessed be ✨

05/11/2025

You can’t think your way out of a pattern — you have to feel it.

You might believe that if you can just understand something deeply enough, you’ll finally change it.
If you talk about it, journal about it, gain more insight, the pattern will finally disappear.

Sound familiar?

But awareness alone doesn’t create change.
You can’t think your way out of something your body learned through feeling.
Most of our patterns live lower than the mind — in the body, in the nervous system, in the places that learned to protect, defend, avoid or shut down long before you could explain why.

It’s not a top-down process, it’s bottom-up.

Your body feels before your mind makes sense of it.
The sensations, impulses, tightening, or pulling away, they happen first. The story we create to make sense of it comes later.

So healing begins when you stop trying to figure it out and start to feel it through.

When you can notice what’s happening inside you with curiosity rather than control.

When you learn to soothe your body so your mind can follow.

Because sometimes the most powerful thing you can do isn’t to pick your pattern apart more and overthink it — it’s to actually start feeling it. 🤍

04/11/2025

Something everyone on their healing journey needs to hear:

You are not broken.

So many people come to healing work believing something inside them needs to be fixed, that they’re too much, not enough, or somehow “wrong.”

But when we chase healing from that place, what’s really driving us is shame.
And shame never brings us home to ourselves — it only teaches us to keep running.

The truth is: there was never anything wrong with you to begin with.
Yes, there may be pain to tend to, patterns to soften, or stories to rewrite but none of that changes your inherent worth.

Healing isn’t about becoming someone new.
It’s about remembering who you’ve always been, beneath the conditioning and the coping.

So if you’ve been pushing yourself to earn peace, love, or belonging… take a breath.
You don’t have to prove your worthiness.
You were born with it.

Let your healing be an act of love, not a project of self-improvement.
Because you deserve to feel good — not someday when you’ve “done enough work,” but right now, simply because you exist.

#ʜᴇᴀʟɪɴɢᴊᴏᴜʀɴᴇʏ

31/10/2025

We are nature. When we forget that, we lose our selves.

Seasonal festivals once helped us live in rhythm with the land and each other, honouring the cycle of growth, harvest, decay, rest, and renewal as sacred parts of life.

In our modern world we have lost that. But we are starting remember and reclaim.

It’s okay to enjoy the mainstream celebrations and dominant culture. But it’s also important to notice what’s actually happening in the environment around you and to find your own way to honour that.

Bring back reverence for what IS.
Reconnect with nature and her rhythms.
Reconnect with your own cycles and seasons.
Reconnect your self and each other.

And thank you to my teacher and for the cyclical wisdom and reverence they have taught me 🙏🏼

30/10/2025

Tomorrow might be Halloween in the northern hemisphere… but here in the southern hemisphere, it’s Beltane.

While Samhain (Halloween) honours death, endings and the ancestors, Beltane celebrates life, fertility, and the peak of spring’s creative energy.

It’s a reminder to stay connected to the land beneath our feet — to the seasons we’re actually in — and honour the rhythm of life unfolding around us rather than simply celebrating something for the sake of it.

🔥 In the south, it’s time to celebrate life in full bloom.

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