Mindful Moments Therapies

17/11/2025

Have you ever had a gut feeling that something isn’t quite right with someone you know?

Maybe a neighbour, friend, or relative seems withdrawn, anxious, or just not themselves.

This National Safeguarding Adults Week (17 - 21 November), we’re reminding everyone: if something doesn’t feel right, it’s okay to speak up. Just sharing your concern could help protect someone at risk.

Safeguarding is everyone’s responsibility — and your voice could make a real difference.

Report a concern: https://www.hants.gov.uk/socialcareandhealth/adultsocialcare/safeguarding

19/10/2025

Self-Care Sunday

Sundays often offer that little window before the week begins, a time to pause and gently reset. I often remind my clients that self-care doesn’t have to be complicated. It can simply be giving yourself a moment to breathe, to notice how you feel, and to do one small thing that helps you feel grounded.

Perhaps that means starting the day slowly, stepping outside for some fresh air, or switching off for a while to enjoy a quiet cup of tea. Whatever feels right for you today, give yourself permission to rest and recharge.

A calm Sunday can set the tone for a steadier week ahead.

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18/10/2025

The Importance of Listening to the Self

This week has been a reminder of the importance of slowing down. After testing positive for Covid, my diary was full of commitments that I had to reschedule. The internal conflict that follows can be significant: the sense of guilt, the weight of responsibility, and the discomfort of letting others down. Yet when the body says no, the mind must listen.

It is not always easy to prioritise rest and recovery, especially when past experiences, trauma, or ingrained responses have conditioned us to keep going regardless. Many of us have learned to equate worth with productivity, and stepping back can feel uncomfortable or even wrong. But healing requires space, time and compassion.

When the body signals exhaustion, it is communicating a need for nourishment, stillness and care. By choosing to rest, we are not being weak or self-indulgent; we are honouring the natural rhythm of our wellbeing. Listening to the body is an act of self-respect and a vital part of maintaining balance.

Taking the time to withdraw, to rest, and to heal allows us to return with greater clarity, energy and presence. It is a practice of kindness towards the self, and a reminder that caring for others begins with caring for ourselves.

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13/10/2025

12/10/2025

Self care Sunday

As the week rolls around again, Sunday finds its self returning once more. A day that is all about you, the self and I. A day to care for your needs, wants and desires. A time to stop, to put into place tools to care for the self and to relax, restore and revitalise at the renewal of a new week.

Maybe it’s time with family or friends, or even time alone. Maybe it’s nourishing food, exercise or time listening to music or picking up that book you put down.

Maybe it’s a long soak in the bath with nourishing oils. Or maybe it’s putting down that long list of jobs that will wait until tomorrow. Maybe it’s time in the garden with your hands in the soil. Do whatever fits to your lifestyle and needs. But do something to care for the self today.

Give yourself permission to pause. Self-Care Sunday is your reset button.

www.mindfulmomentstherapies.co.uk

10/10/2025

10/10/2025

World Mental Health Day

Today is a gentle reminder to check in on yourself, not just your physical health but your mental wellbeing too.

Just as we might take our temperature or check our pulse, take a moment to notice your mental temperature.
Is it running a bit anxious?
Feeling low or shut down?
Or perhaps you are doing alright but could use a small tune-up?

Think of it as giving your mind a quick MOT.

Does your brain need a top-up of:
• Vitamin Nature: a walk outside, fresh air, sunlight
• Vitamin Stillness: some slow time, quiet time, rest
• Vitamin Connection: talking, laughing, spending time with people who make you feel safe and seen

Mental health is a huge part of who we are. It deserves the same care and attention as our families, homes and work.

On this World Mental Health Day, take a few minutes to check in with yourself. And if you feel you could use some extra support, remember that help is available through charities, organisations and therapists. You are never alone.

Take care of your mind; it is doing its best to take care of you.

09/10/2025

Noticing and Allowing in Therapy

In therapy, much of the work begins with noticing, slowing down enough to pay attention to what is truly happening beneath the surface. It can be tempting to stay in the head, to analyse, explain, or rationalise the experience. The mind is skilled at creating narratives that make sense of discomfort, often in an effort to move past it.

Yet real change tends to begin when we shift the focus from thinking about what we feel to actually feeling it. When we move out of the head and into the body, another kind of language emerges, one that doesn’t rely on words, logic, or neat explanations. It is the language of sensations, tension, warmth, tightness, breath, and stillness.

In this space, the task is not to fix or understand but to allow. To sit with what arises and let it be there without rushing to make it go away. This can feel uncomfortable at first, as if nothing is happening. But often, this quiet noticing is where the deepest shifts occur.

When we learn to stay with our bodily experience, to allow the trembling, the heaviness, the ache, we discover that the body already knows what it needs. The process becomes less about doing and more about allowing. Less about explaining and more about experiencing.

Noticing and allowing invites us to inhabit ourselves fully, to listen differently, and to trust that healing unfolds not through control, but through presence.

If you would like to know more, reach out here or through the website for face to face or online sessions.

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08/10/2025

Somatic Healing: Reconnecting with the Body for Lasting Change

Somatic healing is a body-based therapeutic approach that recognises how emotions, memories, and experiences are stored not only in the mind but also within the body. When energy or emotion becomes stagnant, it can manifest as tension, discomfort, or recurring emotional patterns. By working directly with the body, somatic practices help to release this stored energy, creating space for greater ease, awareness, and balance.

This approach can complement talking therapy and other therapeutic interventions by deepening the connection between mind and body. It can also be a powerful therapy in its own right, helping clients to connect with feelings and emotions that may have been lying dormant or underlying certain triggers and reactions.

Through gentle awareness, breathwork, movement, and grounding techniques, somatic interventions can support the nervous system to move towards regulation and resilience. In sessions, Phiona utilises somatic approaches to support clients in their healing journey, helping them reconnect with themselves and bring about meaningful change.

If you’d like to find out more about how somatic healing may support your nervous system and overall wellbeing, please get in touch to explore how this approach could help you.

www.mindfulmomentstherapies.co.uk