Natasha Pilgrim - Holistic Counselling & Acupuncture

14/01/2026

Beautiful sunrise walk to Byron lighthouse ⛵️ bay lighthouse

20/12/2025

Christmas looks different through little eyes — louder laughter, bigger wonder, and magic everywhere.
Grateful for these reminders to slow down and believe again 🎄 🎄☃️🎄

24/11/2025

THE MIND CREATES OUR REALITY..
Not in a “think happy thoughts and life magically changes” kind of way…
but in the quiet, subtle ways we interpret everything around us.

Two people can walk through the same moment and have completely different experiences — all because of what their inner world is holding: beliefs, past experiences, nervous system state, fears, hopes, and the stories they’ve carried for years.

When we start to notice the patterns — the automatic thoughts, the assumptions, the core beliefs whispering in the background — something shifts.

Awareness opens the door.
Choice walks you through it.
And slowly, your inner world begins to shape a different outer one.

Your mind isn’t the enemy.
It’s the lens.
And the beautiful thing?
Lenses can be softened, tended to, and changed.

19/10/2025

🌿12 Years of Growth, Love & Partnership ✨

Today marks 12 years of marriage — 12 years of choosing each other, over and over, through all the twists and turns life brings. Our marriage has not only been about love; but also showing up, holding boundaries, working through our childhood wounds, and being willing to grow together.

It’s about being open to couples counselling when needed, having honest conversations, and choosing the path of growth — even when it’s been uncomfortable. I’m deeply grateful for your courage to grow, and for my own willingness to grow alongside you my beloved.

Keeping our marriage alive, ignited with fire and passion, takes commitment, effort, and heart every single day. And it’s worth it.

Here’s to 12 years of partnership, of learning, of love, and of choosing each other — always. 💛

13/10/2025

Time away at Hyams Beach — reconnecting with nature and my family.

These moments remind me how essential co-regulation and rest are for our nervous systems.

When we give ourselves space to slow down and connect, we return more grounded — to ourselves, to each other, and to the work we do.

29/09/2025

🌱✨ Spring is the season of renewal ✨🌱

In traditional wisdom, spring is connected with the Wood element — the energy of growth, vision, and forward movement. Just like plants pushing through the soil toward the light, our bodies and minds often feel a natural pull to expand, create, and begin again.

When Wood energy is in balance, we feel clear, flexible, and motivated. When it’s blocked, we may notice frustration, irritability, or feeling stuck — like a tree whose roots are constrained.

In spring, our bodies often need:
🌿 Gentle movement to keep energy flowing
🌿 Fresh, green foods to support renewal
🌿 Restorative practices to balance growth with grounding
🌿 Space to dream, plan, and envision new possibilities

Therapeutic work in this season can help us soften old patterns and open to fresh directions. Spring invites us to align with our natural rhythm of new beginnings.

✨ What is your body and spirit longing to grow toward this season? 🌸

26/09/2025

15/09/2025

✨ Triggers aren’t here to punish you — they’re here to guide you. When we pause and listen, they reveal the parts of us still waiting for care and healing. 💛

08/09/2025

Sometimes our body speaks before our mind has words.
That racing heart, the knot in your stomach, the urge to run or shut down — it’s not weakness, it’s your nervous system doing what it learned long ago to keep you safe.

The healing starts when we gently teach the body a new story: that here, now, it is safe to rest. 💛

What helps your body feel safe?

01/08/2025

Heart warming experience to finally see my Dad again in England and connect with all the beautiful family! Pure joy! We also got to stop off on the way back home at Indonesia Bintan Island Club Med- awesome family time!
🌴 ❤️

28/04/2025

As a counsellor and a highly sensitive person, I often find myself caught in the whirlwind of life’s demands balancing family and work life. The constant stimuli, the relentless pace—it can easily tip us into a state of overwhelm, activating that all-too-familiar fight or flight response. Recognizing this, I knew it was time to intentionally slow down.

This past week, my family and I had the opportunity to visit Turon Gates—a serene 6,000-acre property near the Blue Mountains, just a 2.5-hour drive from Sydney. With very little mobile reception, simple living and log fire it was the perfect setting to unplug and practise slowing down.

Slowing down invites us to surrender control and trust in the universe’s plan, letting go of the need for speed and chaos. In this stillness and quieting our mind’s chatter we can begin to notice those gentle nudges of inner wisdom, quietly guiding us.

Thank you, Turon gates for creating a container of peace for my family to share many light filled moments, laughter and joy.

09/04/2025

🌿✨ What is Brainspotting? ✨🌿
Have you ever felt like talk therapy alone doesn’t quite reach the root of your pain or patterns? Brainspotting is a powerful, body-based therapy that works directly with the brain and nervous system to process trauma, emotional blocks, and deeply held stress.

Discovered by Dr. David Grand, Brainspotting helps us access unprocessed trauma in the subcortical brain — the part responsible for emotion, memory, and survival responses. By finding “brainspots” in the visual field that connect to unresolved experiences, we can begin to release and heal at a deep, embodied level.

🌿 Brainspotting can help with:
✧ Trauma (including developmental, relational, or shock trauma)
✧ Anxiety + panic
✧ Depression
✧ Chronic stress and overwhelm
✧ Grief + loss
✧ Creative blocks or performance issues
✧ Somatic symptoms related to emotional pain

This is a gentle, non-invasive method that allows your system to guide the healing — you don’t need to retell your story in order for transformation to happen.

🧘‍♀️ I offer Brainspotting as part of my counselling practice, currently working online with clients.

Curious to know more?🔗 Learn more via the link in my bio or to book a session.