14/11/2025
If you can’t take a 10-minute break without guilt? 👀
There’s a reason.
If you constantly scan the room to make sure everyone else is okay while ignoring your own needs?👀
There’s a reason.
If slowing down makes your body tense instead of soften?👀
There’s a reason.
Those reasons live in your BODY — not your to-do list, not your mindset, not your calendar.
Once you explore the origins of that guilt, that hyper-vigilance, that “keep going” programming…
you ❌stop doing mental gymnastics.
You ❌stop negotiating with yourself.
You ❌stop living in autopilot or headless-chicken mode.
Because trauma-informed body work gets to the ROOT.
It unhooks the guilt, the shame, the old survival patterns that push you into overdrive.
When you’re constantly distracting yourself, you’re doing everything you can to avoid feeling what’s underneath:
the hurt, the pressure, the fear of letting someone down.
But when you gently turn toward those emotions and process them through the body
that’s when freedom begins 🕊️
My clients describe it like:
✨ Feeling reborn, as if they’ve opened a spacious, glowing part of themselves
✨ Healing relationships because they can set body-led boundaries from a grounded place
✨ Feeling creativity return — painting, writing, expressing again
✨ Becoming more attuned, compassionate, and deeply connected to their body’s needs and desires
You can keep distracting yourself and hope burnout doesn’t catch you…
Or you can heal the emotions and beliefs that make rest feel dangerous in the first place — and finally return to yourself.
This is the work we do inside SELF-RETURN, my 1:1 journey back to inner safety, clarity, and ease.
🌞Msg me “1:1” for details
