Belief & Healing

26/12/2024

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11/12/2024

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18/08/2024

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16/05/2024

Embracing Discomfort: Why doing the things that feel uncomfortable and facing fears is part of the journey to finding freedom from Anxiety

Do you often find yourself avoiding situations or activities that make you feel uncomfortable? It’s a common instinct, especially for those struggling with anxiety. However, embracing discomfort is often a core part of breaking free from anxiety and building resilience.

1. Growth Often Happens Outside Our Comfort Zone
Just like muscles we need resistance to grow stronger, our emotional resilience develops when we face challenges. Choosing to practice being comfortable with being uncomfortable exposes us to new experiences and perspectives and opens opportunities to learn

2. Breaking the Cycle of Avoidance
Avoidance is a common coping mechanism for anxiety, but it only reinforces fear and anxiety keeping us stuck in the long run. By confronting uncomfortable situations, we can break the cycle of avoidance and gain confidence in your ability to cope with uncertainty.

3. Building Confidence and Self-Efficacy
Each time we tackle something that feels uncomfortable, weprove to ourselves that we are capable of handling difficult situations. This builds confidence and self-efficacy, empowering us more to face future challenges with resilience and determination and self trust!

4. Rewiring Your Brain
Repeatedly exposing ourselves to discomfort can actually rewire our brain’s response to stress and anxiety. Over time, our brain learns to interpret these situations as less threatening, reducing anxiety levels and increasing our tolerance for uncertainty.

5. Living a Fulfilling Life
Ultimately, living a fulfilling life means being able to pursue our goals and passions despite the discomfort they may bring. By embracing discomfort and fears, we open ourselves up to more possibilities and experiences that can enrich our life and contribute to out overall wellbeing.

Conclusion in the comments 👇

29/02/2024

Check this new addition out! Colour changing little number 🤣
I am getting more and more excited about seeing clients again in person, hopefully by the end of April 🤞🤞🤞the wellness room is nearly ready!!

Just waiting on a few more jobs to complete to make people feel welcome and comfortable before I can take in person bookings again.

I will post more in the coming weeks on how and what I am now offering but essentially this great space will be for massage clients, face to face coaching or hypnotherapy. 🙌🫶🎉🥳💗

Watch this space and please do drop me a message to know more or book early for April.

28/01/2024

Make room to nourish your soul….

I am currently designing a new daily journal and planner…and

I am so excited about being able to birth this next version of it, as really thought carefully about what makes a beautiful and practical journal to use every day and make this a easy and nurturing self care practice.

Why…?
because knowing the power of journaling I also want this and if others do too, then that’s just a bonus.

One of the things I loved searching for and including in the last one was quotes like this.
I believe Words hold so much power and potential to help us grow and heal if we really acknowledge them.

I realised recently I myself had lost my way with making the regular space to nourish my soul…and forgot how and what really makes me feel alive.

By just reading regularly poetry and starting to design this new journal I have unearthed or recovered some part of me, like stoking a 🔥 fire and breathing in new life.

So I share the quote as a small reminder to anyone else who needs to remember to care enough to make room to do the things that nourish your soul and bring you joy, back into your life.

28/01/2024

Hearing to heal

They say people start to heal when they are heard,
But the truth seems deeper then that to me…

People heal when they start to listen,
when they hear their truest self…

When they silence out the other noise and chatter, the distractions that first drowned them out…

When they stop asking and begin to acknowledge their right,
and that they too are worthy of holding space…

So It is a gift to listen to someone,
to REALLY hear them, and not just what they say…

And the greatest gift to self,
is to also do the same.

Written by Jacqui Kidd-Nash

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Description: Beach, Woman, Horizon image. Free for use.

31/12/2023

I wanted to take a chance to thank the women who have worked with me this year and been courageous enough to focus on themselves to heal, grow and build resilience…you have each taught me something and my time with all of you has been such a privilege.

This year has certainly reminded me what is ultimately important and have much to do in 2024 to re-align to what truly matters and look forward to sharing more on this with you, Including my own challenges and what I have learnt along the way.
I will finally be opening up a new wellness room again 🙌✨

Until then, may you enter the new year 2024, with a sense of trust and commitment to yourself.
May you let go of regrets, self criticism and grow unshakable belief that like a river not even stone will hold you back,
you will glide, move and wear through in time even the hardest of rocks, persistently, with power, ease and Flow, because that is simply how you were made, your birth right and the pure capability you hold within you.

Here is to 2024…and everything it will bring.

02/11/2023

Looking forward to this event next week 🙏🏽

Please join me for a Self-Compassion for Helping Professionals: Caring for Others without Losing Yourself on November 8th, from 1:15 PM - 4:30 PM EST.

This workshop, in partnership with Mission Empowerment, will present theory and research on the key role that self-compassion plays in helping professionals. A variety of practices will be taught that can help individuals maintain equilibrium in difficult caregiving situations.

Link here to learn more and to register - https://www.missionempowerment.ca/self-compassion-2023.html

19/09/2023

Thank you to the lovely friend who shared this rose 🌹 ☕️ with me today… such a kind gesture 💗 your right they are lovely.

😋 tasty and uplifting ✨

We all need reminding to do this don’t we!
How have you done this lately?

For me it’s been really focusing on slowing down, paying attention to the ways in which I am not being present or purposeful with the choices I am making about my health and time. This has such a ripple effect…

The last few weeks have reminded me how important honouring your own time is…ultimately this is all we have. This moment here and now.

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11/07/2023

I listened to something recently that explored how wellbeing meaning and practice varied across cultural approaches…

It highlighting how our western approach was generally to ignore or exclude our experiences of pain and suffering and how our wellbeing industry makes everything look perfect, rose tinted, and unobtainable or exploits the idea of “rapid transformation” feeding an unrealistic and unhealthy relationship with quick fixes…. My opinion these often don’t actually deliver what we really need anyway, perhaps because isn’t what wellbeing really is.

This got me thinking more about the modalities that I know and trust, that have show me the importance of being with our experiences, good, bad and ugly and learning how they can both provide healing as well as growth to learn how best to be well in every moment…no matter what life throws our way. To both hold joy and pain, light and dark…to fully live in the moment, making room for all of it in balance.

I believe now that wellbeing is far less about being good at being healthy, saying or doing the right thing…practicing yoga or meditation daily…or any other practice, no matter how good these are (but not to underestimate their importance).

it’s more about having the courage everyday to ask yourself “what do I need in this moment…to show up for myself”
even when it’s easier to push down or avoid the things that are hard or hurt, just because that’s easier…

It is the the courage to be open hearted and keep seeking, keep learning, keep releasing, keep growing, keep loving, keep healing, because well-being is an action…for many people often in the midst of discomfort and even pain.

It is the relationship with our truest self…the world around us and finding a way to be…with all of it.

So true well-being is not pain free…

I would love to know more about the ups and downs of your welling journey, let me know in the comments or message. 💗