Ruby Psychological Services

06/12/2025

"Your biggest limiting beliefs aren't in your mind. They're stored in your body as nervous system patterns.

That fear of being seen? It's a protective response your body learned years ago.

The procrastination on big opportunities? Your nervous system flagging them as dangerous."

~ Kimia Nora, Brain-Based Healing

This is why we need to feel SAFE in our BODY first. THEN we go to the mind and re-pattern our beliefs. It has to be bottom-up so that we convey a sense of safety from the body up to the brain, as fear felt in the flesh just keeps the belief going as it has done for so long. It's only when we feel safe in our animal-self that we can then develop new attitudes towards, long, deeply embedded patterns, release the fear and step into the things we wish to live.

A felt-sense of safety first; always.

Angela Dunning
The Horse's Truth
www.thehorsestruth.co.uk

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06/12/2025

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04/12/2025

03/12/2025

Grace for who I was. Space for who I am.

01/12/2025

Advent of Words to live by… ✨

Every day in December I will be posting an advent-calendar-style message you need to hear.

I love a good advent calendar and these days we have chocolate advent calendars, cosmetics coffee, you name it.

I will be bringing you little parcels of comfort, hope, or just a perspective shift to move you out of overwhelmed and back into calm and peaceful.
Or at the very least, grateful: Because the state of gratitude is a powerful thing.

I will also be suggesting a journalling prompt you can carry out to help yourself or a small act of kindness to add to the ripple effect that keeps the whole world facing the light.

(This may seem like a task (and you have more than enough of those) but this will return the energy to you ten-fold in power 🤩.)

It is not easy, this life, even when it is wonderful. We need one another. And we need reminders of the fact that we are not alone, never, ever alone.

This community is a kind one.

What a thing.

Today… give yourself a treat of some kind - be that space from guilt and criticism in your thoughts or an hour of you-time doing whatever fuels your soul.

You are worthy.

(All of the words on my advent windows will be from ‘Joy Chose You’ or my journal ‘Words To Live By’)

Donna

27/11/2025

Part funded equine assisted psychotherapy for young people with the amazing Pony Partnerships CIC: Equine Therapy Derbyshire……

23/11/2025

Who needs to stop people pleasing?

Me; not taking it when people rip off my work😅❤️‍🔥

22/11/2025

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20/11/2025

"If you light a lantern for another, it will also brighten your own way."

~ Nichiren Daishonin

Art: 'The Hope' by Laura Makabresku.

17/11/2025

What’s your self care preference this week?

Pick one to get you through the week ♥️