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05/12/2025

Some people get stuck in overthinking thought loops for hours whilst others don’t. The difference isn’t strength of willpower, it’s what their brain has learned to do with uncertainty.

Uncertainty isn’t the brain’s favourite state. When your central nervous system doesn’t feel safe, not knowing feels threatening. It tries to resolve the unknown by going through every possibility again and again.

It’s not that something is wrong, it’s the brain’s default safety behaviour. When it can’t predict, it loops through thoughts to create a sense of control.

It tries to fix by thinking harder. That’s how worry and rumination start. It’s the brains way of trying to protect you. The more this happens, the more your brain learns that overthinking keeps you safe. A pattern is established and even tiny uncertainties can create hours of worry.

Working together, we can change all that. You weren’t born this way, it’s something your brain learnt how to do, a while back when you felt unsafe . Part of you still feels that way and so the pattern continues. When you feel safe again in the present, that pattern has no need to continue . So it stops. Sounds simple and it really is. It learns to do things in a better way.

Imagine what that would do for you . Give me a call and let’s chat about how I can help .

02/12/2025

With Christmas fast approaching, there can feel a pressure to be ‘merry’, to smile, to say how much you love Christmas, to pretend you always have the perfect Disney Christmas.

Yet grief, sadness, anxiety, low mood do not take the Christmas period off. They do not soften their edges because the calendar says it’s time to be happy.

Instead, these feelings can be heightened because the world around you appears to be celebrating when perhaps you do not feel like that.

For some people it may be the first Christmas without a loved one, for some, Christmas brings back painful memories, others are estranged from family and friends maybe because of their choosing and more often as a result of someone else’s choices. For some, Christmas amplifies feelings of loneliness. Perhaps they are on their own or they may have a houseful of people and feel lonelier than ever.

If this is you, be gentle with yourself. There is no right way to navigate this time, only your way, one breath, one hour, one day at a time. Breathe through it and with each exhale imagine releasing a little of that emotional weight and with each inhale imagine peace.

Be compassionate to yourself. It’s ok to feel as you do. It’s ok to cry. Treat yourself with kindness. Know you are not alone. Many find it hard. Do what you need most whether that’s resting, healing or just getting through. And in choosing what’s right for you, you can begin to reclaim a sense of safety, light, comfort and hope.

29/11/2025

What a lovely end to the week.

So proud of everyone I work with. The bravest thing is to ask for help and look what happens once you do! Often when people get in touch they feel broken. They’re not. Experiences through life and sometimes other people have made them feel that way. Working together, we get you back to the you, you were before that, the you that’s really you, the true you. As the review says, it’s life changing.

Imagine that! What would that do for you?

It starts with that first step which is to get in touch and let’s chat about how I can help.

27/11/2025

The connection between emotions and the physical body is huge! It never ceases to amaze me how when our association with the past, (negative experiences and feelings) is changed, how this has such a profound effect on the physical body.

Unexpressed emotions have to go somewhere and often they get ‘stuck’ in the physical body. We can often held stress in the shoulders and jaw and restless nights are more frequent than we would prefer. Grief can show up as heaviness in the chest and fatigue. Fear and anxiety can show up as digestive issues such as IBS. Anger can cause constipation and headaches. When we have been unable to say something and not have a voice, this can manifest as throat issues, coughing and a voice you can barely hear. Childhood trauma can be at the root of fibromyalgia…the list is endless.

The central nervous system translates all these suppressed emotions into physical signals. It’s doing its best to remind you that ignoring or burying emotions doesn’t remove them, it just reroutes them until you are forced to take notice.

The good thing is, when we acknowledge, process and deal with these emotions, the physical symptoms diminish or go. The body and mind return to balance. I see it everyday in my work. Give me a call and let’s chat about how I can help.

25/11/2025

Fear narrows your focus. It goes inwards. All you see is danger and you get stuck in a loop of ever increasing negative thoughts, memories and predictions and catastrophes.

But when you shift attention outward, the mind enters the present moment where the threat doesn’t exist. When you widen sensory awareness, the mind switches from danger mode and survival to regulation and calm.

This is what to do:
Stand with both feet flat on the ground.
Drop the shoulders
Look at 3 objects around you. Look slowly noticing colour, texture, size. Really observe.

Vision and that awareness tells the mind : no threat, you’re safe . The central nervous system starts to reset because it’s receiving a signal of safety.

Give it a go and notice how quickly it works .

Even better, work with me to prevent this happening in the first place but in the meantime, it’s a quick ‘go to’ to help.

18/11/2025

Wow! No words needed from me. Apart from to apologise the dodgy cropping on the second photo. Thrilled for this person and so grateful she took the time to leave such kind words.

15/11/2025

I love collecting stories from my travels .

In Peru, there’s a story about llamas. Historically and even now they are used as pack animals to transport goods around the mountains. A llama can carry 26kg . If they are loaded up with any more weight, they simply lay down and refuse to move until the weight is back down to 26kg or less.

Many people I work with have or are carrying so much. And like that llama, one more thing has occurred that has tipped them over. The proverbial straw so to speak but in this case a llama rather than a camel. It’s understandable they don’t feel the greatest . There’s only so much we can carry before we collapse, before we need help .

Experiences and feelings mount up until it all becomes too much. You feel so weighed down by life. There’s no room for enjoyment. Life becomes hard work.

Let’s lighten that load. Help you find joy again. And peace. Give me a call and let’s chat about how I can help .

11/11/2025

Remembrance Day. We remember the courage and sacrifice of those who served and who still serve .

At the going down of the sun and in the morning, we will remember them.

This is a member of my family who fought and was killed in the First World War. I often think of the horrors he must have seen, of the fear of going ‘over the top’ and of mustard gas, being injured, the noise of the barrage which could have killed and maimed at any minute. I cannot even begin to imagine what it would have been like.

We had his letters, heavily censored of course, which showed even when away from the front line, he displayed signs of what was then known as shell shock, which we now know as PTSD. I remember him when I work with people with PTSD diagnosis and feel so sorry for those soldiers who had no help and were often dismissed by the powers that be as having ‘a lack of moral fibre’. Those that survived often never recovered.

Albert was killed in 1917. As a family we visited his grave in France, the first of his family to do so.

He gave his tomorrow for our today .

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08/11/2025

Sunshine after a grey Friday!

Science has proven that being out in nature helps lower stress, anxiety , soothes the central nervous system, helps on so many levels and in so many ways.

The colours are beautiful right now. Take a moment to go outside, your garden, a park, the countryside . Pause for a moment .

Notice what you see.
Notice what you hear.
Notice what you smell.
Notice the calm .

05/11/2025

I’m safe right here, right now. This one phrase can calm the central nervous system quickly.

Repeat it several times a day and notice what happens.

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30/10/2025

Your mind can talk you into panic mode with just two little words:

What if?

What if it all goes wrong ?
What if I feel scared ?

Then your heart starts racing, you’re thinking of all the worst case scenarios that could happen. You’re in panic mode. You feel unsafe.

‘What if’ activates the mind’s internal alarm system to look for danger and threats rather than solutions.

But what if you could flip that switch ? Help your nervous system to feel safe. With two words… even if .

Even if it goes wrong, I’ll learn something from it.
Even if I feel scared, I’ll be ok.

You’re only changing one word but your mind hears it as safety rather than danger . It breaks the catastrophic thinking loop.

Simple yet effective . Give it go and notice the difference it makes.

28/10/2025

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