Advanced RTT, MPM Clinical Hypnotherapist & WIM HOF Method Lv2 Instructor

05/02/2026

BREATHWORK FOR YOUR SOUL | Step away from the noise and slow down in this carefully held half-day breathwork experience, designed to create coherence, deepen stillness and support inner connection.

DATE: Friday 28th February 2026

TIME: 10.00am – 2.30pm

VENUE: Private venue in Kemble, near Cirencester

YOUR FACILITATOR: Led by Cat Paterson advanced Wim Hof instructor and performance coach

This experience will guide you through:

Guided breathwork sequences combining slow, grounding practices with more energising techniques.
Restorative sound to support deep relaxation and nervous system settling.
A guided meditative journey into the still point — a place of deep inner listening.
Time for integration and quiet reflection within a supportive group space.
You’ll leave feeling grounded, clear and gently illuminated from within.

1 place left! Book by going to https://catjpaterson.com/shop/p/breathwork-for-the-soul

04/02/2026

I know something you’ve forgotten: the world is always speaking.
The rustle of leaves before the squirrel appears. The shift in your breathing when you’re anxious. The exact moment a stranger becomes safe, I can smell it.
You humans are so busy talking, you forget to listen. Not just to each other, but to everything. The room’s energy. Your own heartbeat. The silence that says more than words ever could.
Here’s what I do: I pause. I breathe. I notice everything.
The way your shoulders drop when you finally relax. How your voice changes when you’re really present. The difference between hearing and actually listening, I feel it in my bones.
When you’re tense, I don’t bark louder. I get quieter. I wait. I watch your breath until it slows. That’s when connection happens.
Try this: Next conversation, be more dog. Notice five things before you speak. Their tone. Their pace. The space between words. Your urge to interrupt. The moment they feel truly heard.
Deep listening isn’t passive, it’s the most generous thing you can do.
Tune into the world around you. Then tune into yourself. Then tune into them.
That’s where the good stuff happens.
Now, if you’ll excuse me, I have some very important cloud-watching to attend to.
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23/01/2026

For 50 years, Barbara woke every morning with a tight chest, knotted stomach, and dread. She felt "trapped in a body that never felt safe."
Chronic anxiety. Fibromyalgia. Depression. Arthritis. Daily pain.
30 years ago, she had to stop working entirely.

She'd tried everything. Medication. Therapy. Nothing touched the deep anxiety living in her nervous system.

Then she tried something different.
A nervous-system-first approach that finally gave her body permission to feel safe.
Breathwork. Deep relaxation. Hypnotherapy rewiring.
Plus a personalized 21-day recording.

Weeks later:
✨ 50 years of daily anxiety — GONE
✨ Energy instead of exhaustion
✨ Calm, joy, even bliss
✨ Creative expression flowing again
✨ Confidence to say yes to life

Barbara told me:
"I would not have believed I could feel this happy. All my anxiety has gone. I sing. I dance barefoot on the grass. I feel carefree — something I've longed for my entire life.
Never let anyone tell you miracles don't happen." 💛

It's never too late to feel free.
If you're living with anxiety that's shaped your life for years, DM me. Let's talk about what's possible for you.

20/01/2026

In a world that feels designed to unsettle us, constant noise, shifting goalposts, endless demands, it’s easy to feel untethered.
But there’s a place within you that the chaos can’t reach.
“When the chaos of the world beckons to shake you from the roots, there is a place within you, your still point. Once discovered, it can never be lost.”
Your still point isn’t about shutting everything out. It’s about knowing where you stand when everything else moves.
It’s the part of you that holds steady, not rigid, not unmoved, just anchored.
Find it. Return to it. Trust it.
What helps you return to your still point?

19/01/2026

REBEL AGAINST BLUE MONDAY☕️

Today’s called “the most depressing day of the year,” that label was created by a PR team to sell holidays, and then repeated as fact.

Here’s my rebellion: Don’t let marketing myths control your mental health.

January can feel heavy, the early darkness, tight budgets, lack of motivation and that’s real. We validate that feeling.

But your mental health isn’t tied to a calendar. It doesn’t suddenly start because of a Monday in January.

Instead of Blue Monday, declare Brew Monday.

Even now, at day’s end, boil the kettle, send that message: “Hey, how are you really?” These small acts of connection matter more than any made-up day.

Choose one thing tonight that lifts your spirits:
✨ Play music and dance
🍲 Cook a proper meal
📵 Switch off your phone
💌 Send a kind message
🧘‍♀️ Take six slow, deep inhales and extend the exhales (a nervous system reset)

If today feels more than “a bit blue,” and the feeling lingers, please reach out for professional support. You don’t have to carry it alone.

Be a warm Rebel. Connect. Talking to a friend over a cuppa can help heal.

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16/01/2026

The Science of the Small Win (January Edition)
Stuck in the January slump? 😩 It’s not just you.

The science is clear: Less daylight = less serotonin (your happy chemical) and more melatonin (your sleep chemical). Your brain is literally in hibernation mode. So, stop the self-blame! 🛑

Your brain craves the dramatic “New Year, New Me” fix, but your nervous system only rewires through EVIDENCE.

Here’s the secret from neuroscience: Dopamine.

Every tiny win, a deep breath, a glass of water, a 5-minute walk triggers a small dopamine release. This is your brain’s reward system tagging that action as valuable. It’s the engine of neuroplasticity!

Forget the overhaul. Focus on the micro-win:

✨ One long exhale.
✨ One unclenched jaw.
✨ One moment of quiet pride.

When you pause to celebrate that tiny victory (even just an internal fist-pump 👊), you reinforce the positive loop. What gets tagged with feeling, gets repeated.

Little by little becomes a lot. It’s how you build resilience, one dopamine hit at a time.

What small win are you claiming today? Drop a comment below! 👇

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15/01/2026

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14/01/2026

I was supposed to be a rock star and DJ. 🎧
Instead, life made me a nervous system student.

Years ago I became severely ill and ended up in intensive care in Africa. I survived, but the aftermath left me unwell for 14 years (six mostly bedbound).

My body wasn’t “being difficult.”
It was in survival.

“Push through” didn’t work.
“Think positive” didn’t work.
Because my nervous system wasn’t responding to logic. It was responding to safety.

So I learned regulation from the inside out. Slowly, steadily, non-linearly… I got my independence back.

That’s why I do this work now.
Not polished. Not performative. Real.

If you’re living with anxiety, chronic illness, or you feel stuck in fight/flight… you’re not broken. Your system is trying to protect you.
Comment “SAFE” or DM me and I’ll tell you a simple practice to start today. 🤍
Want support? I’m here. 🤍

07/01/2026

This morning my car window was wearing feathers.
Not feathers.
Frost.
What I love about ice is how quickly it exposes perception.
Call it an aggressor and the body tightens.
Call it a teacher and something inside you softens enough to learn.
These “feathers” are frost dendrites - ice crystals branching in fern-like patterns. When the glass is cold enough, water in the air can turn straight into ice, and the crystals grow along tiny, invisible rules: temperature, humidity, airflow, even microscopic scratches on the surface.
A nuisance becomes artwork.
A problem becomes pattern.
And maybe that’s the practice today:
What are you labeling as unpleasant that might also be shaping you?
A small reframe I use in cold (and in life):
This isn’t happening to me. It’s happening for me.
Not as a bypass, but as a choice.
A way to meet the moment with breath instead of battle.
What do you see in this image?

06/01/2026

As I walked this evening, I reflected: The Witching Hour isn’t dark. It’s a doorway.

That liminal moment when cold sunlight pours like honey across frost, everything crystallises into quiet-bright perfection… and then the world pivots on an invisible axis.

Watch the animals then.

Not curling inward. Not settling into dusk.

But suddenly electric, foxes threading through blue shadows, birds erupting in one last chorus. Like nature remembers itself right at the threshold, right at the seam between what was and what will be.

Your body knows this threshold, too.
Between inhale and exhale… there’s a pause.

That pause is the hinge where the door swings both ways.

The still point where snowflakes hang suspended before they choose to fall.

The space where your nervous system remembers it can soften.

Try this with me: BOX BREATH

Inhale 4Hold 4 (the doorway). Exhale 4Hold 4 (the threshold). Repeat for 1–3 minutes.

Those holds? They’re tiny sanctuaries. Snow-globe pauses. Moments where the frantic grip of fight-or-flight loosens like fingers uncurling… and equilibrium finds its way back home.

Yesterday, a client used this to carve space inside their anxiety. They said it felt like “stepping sideways out of the stampede.”

And it reminded me:
Sometimes we don’t need a new life.
We need a new gap in the old one.
A sliver of silence where the light shifts.
A breath-wide pause where everything can turn.

Save this for your next turning point. 🤍

Photo by Danny Chen

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05/01/2026

Our brain hates plateaus. It’s literally designed to.

You’ve been doing the work.
Showing up. Breathing through discomfort. Making better choices.

Then… nothing. A flat line that whispers: “Maybe this isn’t working.”

Here’s what’s actually happening:

Your nervous system is consolidating.

Neuroscientists call it “latent learning”—the unglamorous phase where your brain is rewiring itself without bothering to send you a memo.

Synapses are strengthening. Neural pathways are becoming highways. Your prefrontal cortex is literally thickening.

But there’s no dopamine hit. No visible proof.

Just winter.

The plateau IS the progress.

Studies show that learning occurs in bursts separated by plateaus—periods during which performance stays flat while the brain integrates new patterns.

The silence isn’t stagnation. It’s neuroplasticity doing its slowest, deepest work.

Then one day: snowdrops.

Proof that life was moving underground all along.

If you’re in a winter phase:

✨ Keep the faith → Track what’s true, not what’s loud. Better sleep? Less reactivity? Faster recovery? Your amygdala is quieting down even if your achievement log isn’t lighting up.

✨ Keep going without burning out → Stay consistent, lighten the load. Your brain builds neural efficiency through repetition, not intensity. The habit matters more than the heroics.

✨ Run an “evidence week” → 7 days, three daily wins: something you did well, a moment you regulated, a choice you’re proud of. You’re creating the neural evidence that change is real.

Because the truth is: a plateau is often where the change becomes identity.

Quiet. Unseen. Encoded in your neurons.

And then… snowdrops. 🌱

If you’re in the winter season of your growth, what’s one tiny sign of progress you’re discounting today? 👇
photo by Csaba Talaber ❤️
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