Annaliese Rix Psychosocial Services

Annaliese Rix Psychosocial Services Online support counselling & coaching for all social,relational and emotionally related difficulties

If your heart had a weather forecast today, what would it be? ☁️☀️Mine is partly cloudy with a chance of breakthroughs.C...
05/02/2026

If your heart had a weather forecast today, what would it be? ☁️☀️

Mine is partly cloudy with a chance of breakthroughs.

Checking in with your internal climate is a quiet first step toward tending to hope.

There is a weather within us that no map can predict.
Some days are fog-heavy.
Some are brittle with frost.

Hope isn’t forcing the sun to shine,
it’s learning to sit softly in the mist until it clears.

So pause for a moment…
“How is the sky inside you today? “☁️

We often carry the weight of our ghosts without even realizing our shoulders are tired.Today, we practice the hope of ‘n...
03/02/2026

We often carry the weight of our ghosts without even realizing our shoulders are tired.
Today, we practice the hope of ‘naming.’
When we give a name to the heavy things, the quiet anxiety, the unvoiced grief, the lingering ‘what-if’…they lose their power to hide in the shadows of our minds.
Hope isn’t about ignoring the weight; it’s about acknowledging it so we can finally set it down.
What is the name of the weight you are carrying today?
“Today, I’m naming ‘The Pressure to be Productive.’ I’m setting it down so I can actually listen to what my soul needs instead of what my calendar demands.
What is the name of the weight you are carrying today?

Since today is Sunday, 1 February, here is your very first prompt from our February calendar, a month devoted to hope.Be...
01/02/2026

Since today is Sunday, 1 February, here is your very first prompt from our February calendar, a month devoted to hope.

Beginning again can feel tender. A new month, a new focus, a new invitation… and sometimes we think we need to step into it already knowing the way.

But hope often begins in the smallest, softest places, when we give ourselves permission to be a beginner.

Letting yourself start where you are eases the pressure, quiets the inner critic, and creates space for real growth.

🌱 Today’s reflection:

What is one small area in my life where I can give myself permission to be a “beginner” today?

01/02/2026

Today, we draw a circle around the month of February and call it a sanctuary. 🕯️
Hope is often sold as a loud, bright thing, a finish line or a grand victory. But here, for the next 28 days, we are practicing a different kind of hope. The quiet kind. The kind that sits with us in the dark, that breathes through the tension, and that dares to believe in the ‘yet-to-be.’
This isn’t about ignoring the weight of the world; it’s about finding the strength to carry our lanterns through it.
Whether you are arriving here full of light or feeling a little hollow, there is a seat for you. We begin today by simply allowing ourselves to be human.
Are you joining the journey? Leave a ‘✨’ in the comments to light your lantern with us.

“To remain soft in a world that has tested you, that is your mastery.”I want to offer an important perspective:We are no...
28/01/2026

“To remain soft in a world that has tested you, that is your mastery.”

I want to offer an important perspective:

We are not broken. We are unfolding into wholeness, differently than before.
Healing isn’t about fixing what was lost. It’s about learning how to live forward, softly.

Life can wound us.
Loss can change us.
Trauma can leave marks.

But broken implies something beyond repair.
And that is not who we are.
We are not shattered objects.
We are living beings who are adaptive, breathing, evolving.

Sometimes we don’t break…
We bend.
We carry.
We learn.
We heal in layers.

Softness is not weakness.
It is courage.

To keep your heart open, to stay kind, to keep choosing gentleness,
not because life was easy,
but because you refused to let pain harden you…

That is growth.
That is resilience.
That is becoming.

Not broken.
Becoming.

🌿 What has helped you stay soft, or return to softness, after life felt heavy?

🤍
“Healing isn’t repairing what was broken, it’s learning how to live forward.”

🌞 A Gentle Uplift for the Week AheadThis week, I’m not carrying pressure.Not urgency.Not the weight of needing to “push ...
26/01/2026

🌞 A Gentle Uplift for the Week Ahead

This week, I’m not carrying pressure.
Not urgency.
Not the weight of needing to “push through.”

Instead, I’m choosing something softer:

✨ Small light.
✨ Quiet kindness.
✨ Gentle return.

Healing doesn’t always look like big breakthroughs.
Often, it looks like the simplest moments:

A cup of tea in silence.
Sunlight on the wall.
One deep breath.
One boundary that protects your peace.

Quiet is not emptiness, it is restoration.

May this be a week where you don’t have to rush toward productivity,
but instead allow space for what nourishes you:

🍃 Stepping outside for a moment without your phone
🌿 Noticing one living thing each day
🎨 Creating, not to impress, but to reconnect
🎶 Letting beauty land gently in the body

Nature doesn’t hurry.
And neither do you have to.

A simple question to carry each morning:

✨ What would feel kind today?
✨ What would feel spacious?
✨ What would feel quietly beautiful?

You are allowed to move through your days with softness.

This week, let it be enough to simply…

tend to the light, one small moment at a time.

🌱

Today might have looked empty from the outside.But inside, a lot may have been happening.If your energy feels gone,be ge...
22/01/2026

Today might have looked empty from the outside.
But inside, a lot may have been happening.

If your energy feels gone,
be gentle with yourself.

Rest is not a failure.
It’s care. 🤍

We begin where we are,and build from what is already holding us.
19/01/2026

We begin where we are,
and build from what is already holding us.

“Minds are like parachutes: they function only when they are open.”— Leo BuscagliaOpenness is often misunderstood.It doe...
16/01/2026

“Minds are like parachutes: they function only when they are open.”
— Leo Buscaglia

Openness is often misunderstood.

It doesn’t mean being positive.
It doesn’t mean feeling hopeful.
It doesn’t mean having answers.

Sometimes, an open mind is simply the willingness to pause,
to notice a thought without attacking yourself for having it.

Some seasons of life require us to close down to survive.
That’s not failure, it’s protection.

Inspiration doesn’t ask us to force growth.
It invites us to become curious about how we’re living,
how we’re interpreting our story,
and whether there’s even a fraction of space for something new to be seen.

An open mind might sound like:
• “I don’t know yet.”
• “This isn’t the whole story.”
• “I can stay with this moment without fixing it.”

January isn’t about reinventing yourself.
It’s about noticing where awareness can soften the edges of certainty.

Even the smallest opening is enough.

Balance & Inspiration ~ The “Gentle Breath”Balance isn’t a destination we reach and stay at. It’s a conversation we have...
14/01/2026

Balance & Inspiration ~ The “Gentle Breath”

Balance isn’t a destination we reach and stay at. It’s a conversation we have with ourselves, moment by moment.

By mid-morning, most of us are already in “carry” mode: managing, planning, and pushing. But balance doesn’t ask you to do more. It asks you to pause long enough to hear what you actually need.

“Balance is not better time management, but better BOUNDARY management.”
— Betsy Jacobson

Today’s recalibration:
• Soft shoulders.
• A conscious breath.
• Choosing presence over pressure.

Inspiration doesn’t always come from a “big win.”
Often, it lives in the quiet alignment between your effort and your rest.

Mid-morning reminder: You are allowed to adjust your pace. You are allowed to choose what sustains you. 🌿

What is one thing you’re giving yourself permission to let go of this morning?
(If you did a conscious breath just now, you’re welcome to leave a ✨

Inspiration is not found in holding on, it is born in letting go.Most people wither not because life is too demanding,bu...
12/01/2026

Inspiration is not found in holding on,
it is born in letting go.

Most people wither not because life is too demanding,
but because they keep carrying yesterday into today.

To “die each day” is not about loss,
it is about conscious release.

It is the quiet willingness to lay down:
• old narratives
• lingering resentments
• inherited fears
• moments that have already passed

So that the mind may become fresh again.

This kind of inner dying is not an ending,
it is a continual renewal.
A moment-by-moment clearing of space
where love can land more gently,
where truth can be felt rather than defended,
where life is met as it is, not as it was.

Inspired living is not mechanical.
It is not bound to yesterday’s weight.

It is a daily choosing:
to soften,
to release,
to meet this moment unburdened.

Today, may you allow yourself to begin again,
lighter, clearer, and more alive than before.

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Monday 09:00 - 19:00
Tuesday 09:00 - 19:00
Wednesday 09:00 - 19:00
Thursday 09:00 - 19:00
Friday 09:00 - 17:00

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