Vanda Venta, Gregories Road, Beaconsfield (2026)

24/04/2026

I have worked with some amazing people and had some incredible experiences…

I’ve been flown all over the world and worked with some of the most successful people from Olympic medalists, TED talkers, authors and celebrities…

And I’ve visited the elderly gentleman on benefits in the local housing estate and the single Mum stresses to the eyeballs.

It doesn’t matter who that person is…they are a person with pain at the front and centre of a life that is being affected regardless of how that life is being lived.

And I see them where they are in that moment.

They trust me to hold them where they are in that moment.

That’s my life…I get to do that…

And it is the best thing EVER 💕

So wherever you are, whatever you do…I can be there to help move you from pain to possibility.

Just get in touch!

20/04/2026

Nothing special…

Just actually listening…paying attention…watching for the subtle clues most people miss…

If he’s flying in and out of the country try 2-3 x a week and has a long haul flight the next day for example…

Then battering with deep tissue work is not going to be a move he would thank me for…

Being aware that the nervous system is already in fatigue means painful treatments will only trigger it more…

So we adjust, mobilise, encourage and think beyond just chasing pain points…

Simple, effective…

Much cheaper!

There’s always a place for manual therapy so long as the application is right and the communication clear!

15/04/2026

When a patient wanted to work with me…

I have got stick for this and no doubt I will continue to get stick it but…

Before I am a business owner

Before I am even a therapist

I am a human who knows pain and recognises those on the brink…

The value of someone’s life will always be worth more than my time.

So yes, I turned down someone willing to pay £3k to work with me because what they needed more than I will ever need money..

Was to be safe.

Sometimes my job can be so hard…to hold space, calm, compassion but also safeguard someone’s physical and mental wellbeing can be immensely challenging…

But to give someone time…to fall apart, to break, to be in all of that chaos and distress, is the most valuable thing I will ever offer and I will never not offer it, unconditionally…because I know what it is to be desperate.

Because the beauty of it, the bit that makes my life, my purpose…

Is them walking out smiling…saying they feel so different…knowing they have a safe place to go, a plan, strategies and the right measures in place…

The smile though…after the pain and tears and tension…

The most beautiful thing I’d seen in a long time!

I am tired…but so lucky I get to do this. Paid or not…what an honour!

Because once this storm passes, I can’t wait to work with them! But the time has to be right!

14/04/2026

Sometimes it can feel like you take one step forward and 10 steps back…

Life gives with one hand

And takes away with the other…

It can feel so frustrating and confusing, often it’s the part of the process in chronic pain terms, that we call an Extinction Burst…

Because it’s actually the point right before breakthrough…

The point at which the hard work, time, commitment and trust is about to pay off…

And the nervous system, desperate to cling on to the familiarity of pain and disregulation because it’s all it’s ever known…

Fights harder than ever to hold you…

It amplifies everything…

You feel everything so much more because it’s shouting so much louder to get you to stop the changes that it perceives as threatening…different.

But this, if you hold your head…

Is nearly always the moment where, once you find that place of reassurance and calm, you fire forward into a whole new pattern of being, a whole new experience of life where pain is no longer front and centre.

This is where, if you can trust the tension, you fire forward into a transformed life…

This is where the magic lies and this is where you learn how powerful, how amazing, how capable you truly are.

It’s my favourite part of seeing someone change their life and step into a new reality.

It is an honour to witness and it never fails to move me to tears because I just love humans and everything we are capable of doing.

So whatever life is throwing in front of you that feels like it’s dragging you backwards, trust that you will fire forward to a life that was always meant for you!

If you want to find out more about the AWESOME ways we achieve these incredible, life changing transformations…send me a DM…

12/04/2026

Had a really insightful conversation this morning…

Talking about gardens…

The perspective of my conversational partner was that his garden, gardening in general and the investment he makes into nature was the thing that he valued very highly.

It took a lot of his time and effort but it meant he had a beautiful space for his daughter to play and learn about nature and plants and insects.

He had a conversation with someone else who was paving over their entire garden and he couldn’t understand why someone would choose to do that…

My suggestion was that perhaps to this man, the time he saved not having to tend to the garden meant that he could allocate more time to his wife and children.

Turns out I was right…he wanted low maintenance to save time to spend with his kids. The other one wanted high maintenance to have a place for his kids.

Neither are right.

Neither are wrong.

They are just different…where they see and place value is different, but the intended outcome is the same…

People making choices to try and be happy.

Whether it’s a garden or a career change or upheaving an entire life, one man’s fear will be another man’s gain…

Both are choosing with an intention of happiness…that might be found in preservation or in adventure.

It might be felt deeply in comfort or it might be discovered in risk.

There is no one way to move through life, there is no rule on where your value should be placed…

Only the intention, the alignment and the peace it provides to the person who perceives it.

11/04/2026

Did you know…

That the parts of the brain that process emotional and physical pain actually overlap? The anterior cingulate cortex and insula light up during both experiences.

That’s why rejection, grief, loss don’t just hurt metaphorically, they can be deeply felt physically…

The tension in the chest

Churning in the stomach

The racing heart

The wave of overwhelm that drops your whole world from underneath you…

The wound is still real, the threat not imagined but felt deeply and tangibly and biologically within the nervous system

Because to your brain and nervous system, pain is still pain…the wound is either the cut of the skin, a broken bone or the stab of rejection, the shattering of grief or loss…

So we still need to stop, establish our baseline safety and then tend to the wound…

Help ourselves heal…

So when you feel sadness, loss, overwhelm, rejection, fear, anger, frustration or confusion…or god forbid all of them consuming you in one giant wave of life and its challenges…

Ask yourself whether you’d suppress the feeling, ignore it and carry on if that was a broken bone?

So why do it with a broken heart?

Because what will happen is that the pain you feel emotionally that doesn’t get tended to

Will show up later physically in a way that you won’t easily piece together…

Do this now

Then you won’t need people like me in the future!

07/04/2026

You don’t need more ‘potential’ or ‘time’ or ‘signs’ or ‘chances’

You need:

Decisive moves built on structure, repetition and proof through action…

Every action being made with deliberate intention and with all your attention…

Because this is how your brain changes, how your identity changes, how your life changes…

This is where freedom lies

So when you’re in the middle of it…when you’re going through your stuff…that ‘something’ that’s happening in life or the flare you can’t see past…

Be intentional

Give attention

And move into the thing that scares you knowing why and who it’s for.

Because your happiness should be your greatest intention and your life worthy of all your attention.

05/04/2026

When you’ve crashed and burned

When things have literally smashed to pieces and your body has broken

And you feel like the bottom has fallen out of your world…

Before you start crawling back up to your knees…

Take a breath…feel rock bottom and trust that whatever you do next, there is a foundation strong enough to hold the life you choose to build next.

Sometimes you have to draw back in order to fire forward

You have to fall in order to rise

You have to break to be more beautiful

Just keep reminding yourself of what you’ve been capable of so far!

03/04/2026

It is a privilege for me to be trusted by people to hold space for the darkest parts of themselves and today I have been reminded of that in the most wonderful of ways…

I will never be complacent or take for granted how hard it is for people in pain to feel safe enough to truly reveal how much of life that pain has taken from them.

In the words of David Jones: “it is both a blessing and a curse to feel everything so deeply” and it’s my job to help remind people of the safety in this incredible capacity for the vast spectrum of human emotion that we get to experience…

That even with pain, possibility still exists…and the beauty of leaning into how deeply and fully we can be capable of feeling is in fact the very essence of what it is to be alive.

My god life can hurt…

My god…life can be utterly beautiful.

02/04/2026

We all make mistakes…

Even when we should know better

So here’s my tale of woe from this week where I did not and have not listened to my body…

And then been surprised when it has gone 💥🌋

I’m now on steroids to treat a severe allergic reaction and from the pharmacist to the GP to the A&E doctor the message has been the same..

The body has a tolerance for stress whether it be physical or emotional…there is a finite point at which it can’t keep the basic systems functioning optimally whilst also being under external load…and it will let you know when it needs a break.

I have been aware of the odd thing not feeling ‘quite right’ for a few weeks…heaviness, fatigue, struggling to focus, but because I had a day at the spa, had an easier day at work, took a day off from the gym but walked instead, I just assumed I was managing the load well.

But the stress of the last few months plus the stress of training and the stress of a few other things playing on my mind has meant that I’ve kept using petrol from the tank that was rapidly running out.

Which meant it didn’t take much for my CNS to essentially breakdown.

I needed a severe allergic reaction and fainting in public for me to realise that I fu**ed up and get myself to hospital and take 2 days off work on an already short week.

This is not ideal…

But…another day of looking like s**t, another day of not being able to serve my clients, another day of just plugging on…means I am now actively going against any advice I would give to anyone I work with…

So for now, read my story and just check in with yourself…when was the last time you listened to what your body told you? When did you last check in on how you felt emotionally?

What can you do now to give yourself what you need?

The end…

01/04/2026

It’s been a hot minute since I last posted…

Some of you are aware, most of you won’t be, of the gr***de I launched into my life a few months ago that has essentially burnt what I knew and had down to the ground.

However…amongst the chaos of change and the discomfort of what feels so unfamiliar lies the absolute certainty and safety of who I have chosen to be…the measure of the woman I am and the faith I have to do what I said I would.

Because ultimately I, like everyone else, have to make choices about the life I want and deserve to live and define who and how I want to be as I move my way through that life.

So I constantly ask myself…even in the throes of pain…

How is this happening for me? What can I trust about the experience I’m having?

Because I choose not to have anything or anyone happen to me anymore…I am not and I’ll not be a victim of passivity.

I do know…that without the experiences I had with my pain, my leak, my surgery and my recovery…my strength would be a fraction of where it is now.

And I am proud of who I’ve been as all of this has unfolded.

The last 5 years…

I thank you ☺️

❤️

07/01/2026

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