Valerie Lundgren's Mindful Wellness

03/12/2025

The way you speak to yourself is the way you are speaking to your inner child.

Every word lands somewhere deep. Many of those voices were formed in childhood—but you don’t have to keep believing them.

Awareness gives you a choice.

Gentleness rewrites the story.

If you’re ready to stop repeating old stories and start speaking to yourself with compassion, this is your invitation.

My 3-month Inner Work & Nervous System Healing container is open.

Together, we gently untangle the patterns that no longer serve you and build the safety your inner child has always needed.

DM me ‘HEAL’ to learn more.

02/12/2025

Your body doesn’t react from your age.
It reacts from your inner child.

When you feel overwhelmed, frozen, desperate to please, or afraid to speak up—
that’s your nervous system protecting a younger version of you.

You didn’t choose these patterns.
Your body learned them to survive.

Healing isn’t about reliving the past.
It’s about teaching your nervous system what safety feels like now.

💬 Comment “INNER CHILD” and I’ll share a gentle practice you can start tonight. 🤍

02/12/2025

01/12/2025

Menopause isn’t just a hormone shift.
It’s a soul initiation. 🔥✨

What looks like anxiety, rage, grief, exhaustion, brain fog, and “everything falling apart”…
is often the same thing mystics have described for centuries as spiritual awakening.

Both happen when:
• Your old identity can no longer survive
• Your nervous system is being re-wired
• Your tolerance for misalignment disappears
• Your subconscious wounds demand to be healed
• Your body says: we’re done living small

You’re not breaking down.
You’re breaking open.

And yes—biologically, estrogen and progesterone shifts do destabilize mood, sleep, memory, and stress response.
But spiritually? That destabilization is what cracks the shell of who you’ve been.

Midlife isn’t a crisis.
It’s an upgrade that feels like demolition first.

If you’re in this season:
You’re not crazy.
You’re not alone.
And you’re not meant to “push through” it.

You’re meant to reset the nervous system, rewire the subconscious, and return to your truth.

Drop a 🔥 if this season is waking you up instead of breaking you down.

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01/12/2025

December is not a month for rushing.
It’s a month for remembering.

The cold, the darkness, the quiet—these aren’t inconveniences to escape. They are invitations.

Invitation to slow the body.
To soften the nervous system.
To turn inward instead of outward.

Nature is resting right now. Trees aren’t forcing growth. The earth isn’t performing. Everything is conserving energy, integrating, repairing. And yet we often pressure ourselves to do the opposite—to stay busy, to keep producing, to override what our bodies are quietly asking for.

When we push to stay busy, we don’t just exhaust ourselves—
we abandon the parts of us that are asking to be felt.

Stillness is uncomfortable because silence lets the truth rise.
The grief.
The fatigue.
The unmet needs.
The places that never got to rest.

But this is also where healing begins.

December is the perfect season for nervous system regulation—
for safety over speed,
for presence over performance,
for listening instead of distracting.

When you allow yourself to sit in the stillness, you don’t fall apart.
You finally hear what’s been trying to heal.

And you don’t have to do that alone. 🤍

If December is calling you inward, let it also be the season you choose support.

My 3-month nervous system regulation coaching program is on extended sale this week —designed to help you come out of survival mode and into steady, grounded peace.

Send me “HEAL” and I’ll send you the info.

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29/11/2025

Small Business Saturday 🤍

For over 25 years, I’ve poured my heart into being an entrepreneur and small business owner. This isn’t a side hobby — this is my life, my purpose, and how I provide for my family.

Every dollar that comes into my home:
✨ Puts food on our table
✨ Helps pay the bills
✨ Allows me to continue doing the soul-deep healing work I was called to do
✨ And supports your journey back to confidence, peace, and emotional freedom

When you choose to shop small, you choose real impact. You choose families. You choose dreams. You choose healing.

From the bottom of my heart — thank you for your support. It truly means everything. 🤍

💥 Black Friday sales continue all weekend!
🎁 BONUS today only:
Receive a FREE Tarot Reading OR a Holiday Candle with your purchase.

Your healing matters. And today is the perfect day to say yes to yourself.

And if you have HSA to use up, you may be able to use it with coaching /reiki

❤️Message me to learn more

27/11/2025

This year has been a monumental one for me. I released my book—sharing my life story with the world. I completed my training as a somatic anxiety coach. And I continued to go deeper into my own healing through mystery school and shadow work.

The learnings from this year have brought me into greater awareness, deeper connection, and a more embodied understanding of this work. Being able to offer you my services from this place—more grounded, more attuned, more whole—truly fills my heart.

I am profoundly grateful that I get to walk alongside you on your healing journey. Your trust means everything to me.

And I don’t take lightly that your support quite literally allows me to put food on my table. That level of exchange, trust, and reciprocity humbles me more than I can express.

Today, I simply want to say thank you.

I hope your day is filled with pie, laughter, rest, and deep exhale moments.
Much love and gratitude to each of you. 💛

26/11/2025

All right my loves

What have you let go of this year? Did you shed a bunch of s**t but still feel heavy.
Or maybe lost, like now what the f**k am I supposed to do?

How do I rise?

What does this next chapter look like to you?

Empowered

Confident

Peace

Joy

Love of self

Clear

Connected

Calm

If you checked yes to all above, and still have no idea how to get there… let’s chat.

I have sooo many amazing specials for Black Friday. One of which is my signature 3 month Nervous system Healing program- Embodied
With a savings of $666!
I will never offer this again

Message me “Black Friday” for more details and healing options for 2026

23/11/2025

Hattie’s Sunday Wisdom 🐾

So… Hattie got caught this week eating her own 💩.

Not her proudest moment.
Not mine either.
But here’s the thing—she didn’t spiral into shame, overthink it, replay it for 10 years, or decide she’s a “bad dog.”

She simply paused, took the feedback, wagged her tail… and moved forward.

Humans? We tend to do the opposite.

We make a choice we’re not proud of—stay too long, ignore a red flag, lash out under stress, self-abandon, numb out, overgive—and then punish ourselves.

But what if the point of the mistake wasn’t the mistake itself…
but the information it offered?

Growth rarely looks graceful.
Sometimes healing includes moments we wish we could delete.
And yet, those moments reveal what needs nurturing, repairing, or re-patterning.

So instead of:
❌ “I can’t believe I did that.”
Try:
✅ “What was my nervous system needing in that moment?”
✅ “How can I support myself differently next time?”
✅ “Can I hold compassion for the version of me who didn’t know better?”

Self-forgiveness isn’t letting yourself off the hook—
it’s choosing to learn rather than self-punish.

If Hattie’s okay with her messy moment… maybe we can be too.

Here’s to loving ourselves through the cringe, the chaos, and the plot twists.
Healing is a process—sometimes a muddy, poopy one. 😉

22/11/2025

The Swamp of Sadness

We’ve all been there—
or maybe you’re there now.

Stuck in the heavy, murky stillness…
the place where every step feels like sinking.

Like Atreyu and Artax in The NeverEnding Story, the Swamp of Sadness doesn’t require a villain—
despair itself is enough to pull us under.

When we’re in that space, our world narrows.
We don’t see a path out.
We lose momentum, perspective, hope.
And it feels easier to stop fighting.

I was talking with a client about this yesterday—how Artax didn’t die because he was weak, but because the despair went unnamed, unexpressed, unmoved. The body can only hold so much before it gives way to collapse.

So how do we not become Artax?

Not by forcing positivity.
Not by shaming ourselves for feeling heavy.
Not by pretending we’re fine.

We honor the despair—witness it, name it, feel it without abandoning ourselves.

And then… we gently move.

Because emotions are not thoughts—they’re biological impulses stored in the body. When we move with intention—walking, shaking, stretching, breathing—the body loosens its grip. The stagnant becomes fluid. What felt permanent begins to shift.

Movement doesn’t erase sadness.
It creates space around it.

Space where hope, joy, curiosity, and love can coexist with the grief—not instead of it.

Those emotions aren’t missing.
They’re simply inaccessible when we’re frozen.
They’re waiting beneath the surface, patient and intact.

The work isn’t to climb out of the swamp overnight.
It’s to remember that your body knows the way out—slowly, instinctively, one conscious breath, one gentle movement, one compassionate choice at a time.

Finding those emotions again may feel hard.
But trust your body.
Trust your ancient, instinctual self.

You were never meant to drown here.
You were meant to walk through—muddy, softened, wiser—
and return to the world with evidence that despair is survivable.

20/11/2025

Tell me you’re in your luteal phase without telling me you’re in your luteal phase… I’m there right now.
(TMI, boys ✌️) I’m in my luteal phase… about six days from bleeding… or two… or twelve. Perimenopause has no rules.

And in this phase? I feel stuck.
I have ideas. I’m creative. I know what I should be doing…
but I sit there frozen.

And it’s not laziness or a mindset problem — it’s physiology.

In the late luteal phase, especially in perimenopause, estrogen and progesterone drop hard.
Creativity dips. Confidence dips. Focus dips.
Neurotransmitters shift. The nervous system gets more sensitive.

You’re not broken — you’re just cycling.

I was talking about this with a client last night.
That week where everything feels too hard, too loud, too overwhelming?
Yep. Luteal phase.

I almost closed my business last week — not because I’m not capable,
but because that hormonal landscape convinces you that you’re failing…
when really, you’re just in a biologically slower phase.

We have to honor the hormones we don’t have… as much as the ones we do.

And it starts with understanding your cycle:

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MENSTRUAL (Bleed)
Low hormones. Low energy. Intuition high.
Best for rest, reflection, clarity.

FOLLICULAR
Estrogen rising. Energy rising. Brain sharp.
Best for starting projects, creativity, planning.

OVULATION
Peak hormones. Confidence + communication high.
Best for visibility, launches, filming, networking.

LUTEAL
Progesterone rises then drops. Energy slows.
Best for finishing tasks, grounding, rest, gentle productivity.

Late luteal can bring:
self-doubt, overwhelm, irritability, freeze response, “burn it all down” energy.
It makes perfect scientific sense.

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Here’s the truth:
You’ll get more done in the first two weeks of your cycle.
The last two aren’t less productive — they’re different.

Your body is cyclical.
Your energy is cyclical.
Your creativity is cyclical.

You’re not lazy.
You’re not stuck.
You’re cycling.

And honoring that is one of the most powerful things you can do for your nervous system — and your life.

16/11/2025

🐾Hattie Sunday Wisdom🐾

Sometimes the best views in life require a little stretch, a funny angle, and a “don’t mind me, I’m just trying to see everything” kind of energy.

In this picture, Hattie is giving us a whole sermon without saying a word:

✨ Stay curious.
Even if you have to lean a little awkwardly to get a better look at the world.

✨ Don’t be afraid to take up space.
Your longing to explore, observe, and understand is part of your magic.

✨ Support matters.
Just like Hattie leaning on her buddy, it’s okay to rest on the people (and pups) who love you.

✨ Beauty is found in the small moments.
A quiet morning, a window full of golden light, and the simple joy of watching the world go by.

Share this with someone who needs the gentle reminder to stretch toward what they want — even if it looks a little messy or unconventional.

Hattie says: “You’re doing great, keep going.” 🐾💛