The Essential Self

03/10/2025

‘OPENING’ - Womens Spring Creative Care Retreat

Step into a nourishing evening Retreat experience, supported by Breath, Womens care rituals, Nature Connection and guided Creative-Expressive Practice.

SPRING EXPANSION

Spring asks us to awaken from our sleep, to let light into the parts of us that have been seeding and processing through winter, to find support to ground our energy, to activate and walk toward what we truly want for ourselves, to OPEN.

With breath and inner senses, we listen more deeply, and ask ourselves… What has seeded in me ? What is OPENING? What do I want to FEEL, EXPRESS, EMBODY in this new cycle? What do I need to nourish and care for in me through this new growth?

ENJOY
- Guided Deeper Reflective Practice - Meditation
- Supported Nature Connection ( on Seaford Beach, weather permitting)
- Guided Creative - Expressive Collage - Create your Spring SELF Vision
- A Loving, Safe, Inclusive Relational Circle of Women
- Guided Women’s Care Ritual - includes Flowers & Essential oils. ( Spring- Grounding, Activation, Opening, Visibility)
- Whole food Snacks and herbal Tea

Friday October 31st 6-9:15pm
Only 7 spaces Available BOOK NOW!

Comment or DM ‘ OPENING ’ for more details or follow the link

essentialself.com.au/event-list

25/09/2025

Growth and Healing Isn’t Linear

As much as we are trying to move from one place to reach another, from an often difficult or stagnant place, to a new way of feeling and being, we don’t get there in a straight line.

We move back and forth, up and down, in and out, …making new connections along the way.

And eventually, whether fast or slow, we ARE new, in a new feeling, doing, being place.

No matter how much it feels like we’re meeting the same story again and again, remember that it’s never from the same point of awareness, you are always making new connections, ..keep moving, and keep extending love to your beautiful process.

🤎

Art - ‘Making Connections’ - Jodie Davies

10/08/2025

Most of us can relate to feeling OVERWHELMED, it’s the body and mind’s way of telling us we have a NEED, generally a nervous system or emotional care need; to create space to listen more deeply to what is TOO MUCH, and what needs your attention.

It may be that life circumstances need to shift, but before you go there, DEEP BREATHS, self presence, so you can begin to understand and acknowledge what you’re feeling and what you need.

So you can ALIGN with what’s really true about your experience and begin to make the shifts you need to change how you FEEL.

09/08/2025

A Simple Art Therapy Process

Sometimes creating space with intention to just explore and bring care to an issue or feelings, is as simple as breathing into you, choosing a colour or colours and making marks on the page.

Play, with shapes, lines, texture; notice what comes up in your feeling process and your body, let go of oucomes or how it looks and let you hands and colour express your feeling.

Let things open, be felt, processed.

Sit with your image and let your feelings mirror back to you. Perhaps your expression reminds you of something, Perhaps it has a name? Perhaps it doesn’t, maybe you’ll gain some insight, or release some tension from your body,

OR simply just FEEL better for creating space to be with YOU.

‘Looking for Joy, I know it’s here’ - Moi

31/07/2025

Our Essential SELF

Our real SELF behind the masks we wear, the beliefs we hold, the thoughts we have, the expectations and conditioning we carry, even some of the feelings we experience, …our genuine essence, our authentic being, our wild rooted instinct, our true expression, our deeper knowing, OUR Spark! ✨

Do you know her?

25/07/2025

Emotion-Focused, Creative-Expressive Collage, for your expression, connection, insight, support and care.

Can you find more presence through your breath?
How do you feel?
What do you want to explore?
What is your deeper Intention?
In connection with your feeling senses, choose images that evoke something in you.
What do you want to create, express, call in, bring support to?
What do you need?
How do you want to feel?

Essential Self Visioning - an immersive Art Therapy Experience, offered in both a 1:1 and Group capacity.. commewnt or DM ‘Create’ for more details or follow the link in bio

👉🏼If you have experienced this practice before, either with me or in other places/ways, please share your experience below in the comments. How has it supported you?

16/07/2025

11/07/2025

Becoming emotionally aware and developing the capacities and practices to engage with and process our feeling experience, is essential for our growth and healing.

Our feelings are an intrinsic part of our self regulation system, they are felt in our body and experienced at a cellular level, they impact our immune and nervous systems profoundly, particularly when suppressed, and will find a pathway for expression whether we give them one or not. Tension, pain, Anxiety and even Depression symptoms are commonly linked to unfelt, unresolved emotional experience.

Many of us have been taught to fear our FEELings, and denied the tools or awareness to understand their powerful role in our Care and Thriving. The good news is. it’s never too late to grow and develop NEW ways of being, new ways of caring for ourselves, profound healing and riches await those who are willing to Feel more deeply and heal FULLY.

Emotional literacy is a fundamental intention within every offering at the Essential Self, and Coming SOON are more ways to learn and develop foundational emotional somatic awareness, stay tuned!

03/07/2025

Woman- Centered Support and Care

Offering powerfully transformative Woman-centred Psychotherapy and Wellness experiences, that prioritise women’s deepest needs, desires and expression, with a deep understanding of the unique challenges and conditioning that impact women’s growth and healing. Cultivating ESSENTIAL personal care capacities that make a fundamental difference in women’s lives.

An Integrated Approach

Integrative Psychotherapy that draws from a range of proven Approaches to suit the Individual, Including Humanistic, Emotion-Focused, Mindfulness, Trauma-Informed, Creative-Expressive and Cognitive Approaches, to create unique holistic growth and care experiences for the diverse Australian woman.

Connect Via DM, Email or Phone with any questions you have, let’s have a supportive chat about your needs and what you’re moving through, an opportunity to explore if Im the right person to support your growth and healing process.

Jodie 🤎

02/07/2025

NATURE as Care and Medicine

Spending more time in connection with Nature, has to be one of the most powerful and productive self-care tools we have access to, and honestly most of us here in OZ are spoilt for choice when it comes to opportunities to ground, breathe and reconnect with the natural world; even if thats just a patch of grass, a favourite tree, or simply getting our hands into the dirt.
Many studies tell us time in present connection with natural environments, particularly spent in close proximity to water has an often immediate nourishing impact on our nervous system and creates lots of happy chemicals in the brain. It’s proven that regular intentional time in relationship with nature can have a profound positive effect on our wellbeing. As cyclical beings Women can gain much insight about our self care from the mirror of natures seasonal wisdom.
It’s not rocket science, we all know how we feel when we let ourselves breathe into the earth, yet for many if us it’s a challenge to put the devices away, and to engage with the elements our bodies and minds recognise innately, that which we powerfully respond to.
Where is your favourite earthy self-care space?

How often do you spend time there?

What does it give you?

If you don’t get enough access to natural spaces, can you share what’s getting between you and natures care?

24/06/2025

Counselling and Psychotherapy

A Trauma Informed relational space for your Expression, Care, Growth and Healing, with access to proven therapies that can change how FEEL, LOVE, RELATE, CREATE and LIVE.

Taking the 1st step into more support for you is always the hardest. This winter I’m rewarding new clients for their willingness, with a complimentary 25% off your 1st Counselling and Psychotherapy session, also extending this to returning clients!

Telehealth sessions are available to anyone in Australia, or In-Person sessions in Seaford Victoria.

EXPLORE The Essential Self Starter Session and more information about ES Psychotherapy via essentialself.com.au

OR Reach out for chat! Via DM, Email or phone

21/06/2025

Winter Solstice Wisdom

The shortest day, the longest night,
Every day from here light expands ✨

- Energy moves underground
- Deeper Feeling Processing
- Body Wisdom - Care - Healing - Rest
- Roots/Seeds/Ideas nourished by the fertile ground

What feelings are you holding/moving through more deeply?
Can you sense/feel it in your body?
Can you name it and place it in your story?
What do you need to care for you through this feeling healing-growth process?
From where can you gather energy?
How can you REST more?
What is seeding in your ground to be birthed in the springtime?