29/03/2026
Happy Sunday beautiful people. Hope you are having a glorious and restful day. I am taking a free moment to work on the editing of my book - Setting Boundaries With Love. Specifically written for all you over-giving, overwhelmed empaths who know you need better boundaries - but have trouble creating them in every-day life. Give our current potentially emotionally-overwhelming world situation - I thought this section was particularly pertinent to protecting yourself from the constant bombardment of fear-messaging that is available to us in both the news and social media right now.
The truth is that for most of us, our personal situation, right here has not actually changed too much from what it was a month ago. If you go outside, the sky is still blue, the grass is still green and life is pretty much physically the same. What has changed is our 'perception' of the world. The hyped external noise, pressure and fear-messaging is in overdrive. And unfortunately, when we expose ourselves to this - even if our conscious brain thinks something is true or not - our ancient survival instincts interpret the information as danger and a threat to our safety and longevity.
Here is an excerpt from the Chapter 10. Hope you enjoy and find the information useful:
Everyday Practices That Shape Your Energy
Even before we call them “energy practices,” certain habits have a direct effect on your nervous system, your focus, and your sense of inner agency. These are small, simple, but profoundly effective ways to feel clearer, steadier, and more resourced in daily life.
Social Media Hygiene
Notice how scrolling, liking, and sharing affects your energy. Some content leaves you feeling uplifted, curious, or inspired; other content can spike anxiety, comparison, or agitation. By paying attention, you can begin to choose what enters your field instead of letting it land at random. This doesn’t have to mean cutting everything out — it’s about noticing patterns and taking gentle ownership.
Social media isn’t inherently harmful, but unchecked, it can feed overwhelm, comparison, and emotional fatigue. Try:
• Spending a day noticing which accounts leave you feeling drained versus inspired.
• Unfollowing, muting, or limiting the time you engage with content that spikes anxiety or self-judgment.
• Creating mini “tech pauses” between scrolling sessions to check in with your breath and body.
Curated Input
Your nervous system is listening, even when your mind isn’t. The voices, news, and ideas you absorb shape your emotional and mental landscape. Choose what you take in. Many forms of paid media, including TV and radio news, are designed to provoke emotional reactions - to make you feel fear, urgency, outrage, or distraction. Awareness of this can help you maintain clarity and calm. Where possible, consider alternate sources of news or content that are more balanced, grounded, and less emotionally charged. Notice how these choices affect your body, your energy, and your sense of internal agency.
Small, intentional choices make a difference:
• Select a few trusted sources for news, guidance, or inspiration instead of letting information hit you all at once.
• Create a “conscious intake” habit: read or listen to content with awareness — notice your body’s reactions and feelings.
• Consider having a “closing ritual” after consuming media: a few breaths, a stretch, a mental reset — letting your nervous system settle.
Batching Inspiration
Instead of absorbing uplifting or creative content in fragments throughout the day, save it for specific times when you can fully receive it. Keeping a small notebook handy, or a note page on your phone, allows you to capture articles, topics and deeper reading you can come back to when you have time to digest them further. This allows your nervous system to integrate the inspiration and guidance rather than constantly shifting focus.
A few intentional moments of engagement will leave you feeling nourished, rather than scattered and allow for deeper integration of new learnings and ideas.
• Set aside 15–30 minutes to engage with podcasts, videos, articles, or creative content you love, rather than checking sporadically throughout the day.
• Use these “inspiration blocks” to refill your inner reservoir, making it easier to stay grounded and focused outside of these moments.
Internal Referencing
The most subtle - and most transformative - practice is learning to check in with your own body and intuition before defaulting to outside authority or collective moods. This strengthens your inner agency and creates a reference point from which you can begin to choose what lifts you up and what pulls you down.
Before defaulting to outside authority, collective moods, or popular opinion, pause and check in with your own body and intuition. How does this information land in your chest, your stomach, your mind? What feels aligned and what triggers tension? Pause before agreeing to commitments, sharing opinions, or responding emotionally. Ask: “What feels right for me right now?”
• Notice the body’s signals: tension, lightness, heaviness, ease or agitation can guide your decisions more accurately than logic alone.
• Keep a small journal of moments where following your inner guidance changed an outcome - these reminders build trust in yourself and provide food for deeper reflection.
Even small, consistent attention to these practices creates scaffolding for everything deeper that follows. Together, they re-train your nervous system to feel safe, clear, and resourced - preparing you to explore more expansive energetic and somatic tools without being drained or overwhelmed.
Take a moment now to notice where in your day these practices already appear, even in small ways. Maybe it’s the way you scroll (or don’t scroll) through social media, the way you pause before sharing news or ideas, or the moments when you check in with your own body before deciding what to believe or act on. These are your footholds — the tiny, tangible ways your nervous system is already learning to feel safe, clear, and resourced. As we move into exercises and micro-boundaries, you can build from these starting points, strengthening your inner agency and creating a daily environment where clarity, calm, and choice become natural companions.
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And remember, that when life feels overwhelming: Stop whatever you are doing, step outside, find some grass, kick your shoes off, look at the sky, connect to the earth and take some long slow deep breaths. and reconnect to the beauty of the reality you actually live in.
Namaste Susie.
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Just letting you know I'm back at work from Tuesday and still have some sessions available this coming Tuesday and Wednesday and also the following week if you need a nervous system reset 💞😘🙏🌿🌼🌞✨
