Tracy Ann Wood

30/04/2026

Lovely to hear such positive outcomes when clients take the time to give me feedback. Shared anonymously with consent.

29/04/2026

Overthinking often shows up as a way to suppress emotions. If you find yourself stuck in your head, going around and around, you might be trying to analyse instead of feel. Follow me on here if you want to know more.

𝗦𝗮𝘃𝗲 𝘁𝗵𝗶𝘀 𝗽𝗼𝘀𝘁 𝗳𝗼𝗿 𝗮 𝗿𝗲𝗺𝗶𝗻𝗱𝗲𝗿 and 𝗳𝗼𝗹𝗹𝗼𝘄 𝗺𝗲 𝗼𝗻 𝗵𝗲𝗿𝗲 for more insights into managing your emotions.

28/04/2026

What if the reason we overthink everything is so we don’t have to feel our real feelings?

What would you change?

28/04/2026

No one taught you this about emotions.

Growing up, most of us learned to push feelings away, ignore them, or feel ashamed for having them in the first place. But here's what I have learned as a therapist, your emotions are not the enemy. They are messengers trying to tell you something important so we need to learn to feel them.

However, when you've experienced trauma, emotions can feel like they're taking over. Your heart races, your mind spirals, and suddenly you're '𝘣𝘢𝘤𝘬 𝘵𝘩𝘦𝘳𝘦' instead of here in the present moment.

Learning to work with your emotions, rather than against them, is one of the most powerful skills you can develop. But you need some simple grounding practices first, so that you can feel safe enough to feel them.

This 5-4-3-2-1 grounding exercise is a good place to start.
Here's the link: 👉https://tinyurl.com/r5kj4j3n

27/04/2026

When your thoughts keep looping and you can't seem to find your way out, it's usually because those thoughts haven't been given a chance to become feelings. I know that might sound backwards. Aren't we supposed to think our way through things?

Here's what I see time and again in my therapy room: our minds can analyse, overthink, and problem-solve all day long, yet we still feel stuck. That's because thoughts alone don't always complete the cycle. Your body holds emotions that need to be felt, not just thought about.

When we live in our heads, we're essentially hovering above the very thing that needs our attention. Change happens when you give yourself permission to feel, not just think.

I've created a 𝗳𝗿𝗲𝗲 𝗣𝗗𝗙 𝗴𝘂𝗶𝗱𝗲 𝘁𝗼 𝗷𝗼𝘂𝗿𝗻𝗮𝗹𝗹𝗶𝗻𝗴 that will help you start moving those thoughts into feelings. It's gentle, practical, and designed specifically for when you feel stuck in that mental loop.

𝗬𝗼𝘂 𝗰𝗮𝗻 𝗱𝗼𝘄𝗻𝗹𝗼𝗮𝗱 𝗶𝘁 𝗵𝗲𝗿𝗲 👉 https://tinyurl.com/3vs3netw

26/04/2026

Ever wondered how to sit with your feelings. Here’s a short practice. If you want more short exercises, join my 5 day mini course via the link in my bio.

26/04/2026

26/04/2026

The work is not in the thinking. The work is in the feeling.

We've all been taught to "think our way through" everything, analyse, rationalise, problem-solve. But healing doesn't always happen in our heads. In my experience, the breakthrough comes when we finally allow ourselves to feel what we've been avoiding. When we stop overthinking and start being present with the emotions we've buried. That's where real change happens.

If you're tired of living in your head and ready to reconnect with what your body and heart have been trying to tell you, you're in the right place.

𝗙𝗼𝗹𝗹𝗼𝘄 𝗺𝗲 𝗼𝗻 𝗵𝗲𝗿𝗲 𝗳𝗼𝗿 𝗶𝗻𝘀𝗶𝗴𝗵𝘁𝘀 𝗼𝗻 𝗿𝗲𝗱𝘂𝗰𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗼𝘃𝗲𝗿𝘁𝗵𝗶𝗻𝗸𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝗹𝗲𝗮𝗿𝗻𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝘁𝗼 𝗳𝗲𝗲𝗹. Let's do this work together. 💙

25/04/2026

This is one of the most important shifts in healing, and it's something we don't talk about enough. As children, we needed someone else (ideally an adult) to help us calm down when we were upset. They soothed us, held us, helped our nervous system feel safe. This is known as co-regulation and we needed it from someone else first, so that we can learn how to do it for ourselves.

But if that co-regulation wasn't consistent, or if you experienced trauma, your nervous system might still be looking for outside reassurance, which means you can feel lost when you're alone with big emotions.

Self-regulation is not about never needing others. It's about having your own toolkit, and trusting your own capacity to access your calm. The beautiful thing is that self-regulation can be learned, even as an adult.

I have created some handouts with 3 breathing exercises for calm. They might seem simple, but they are highly effective, especially if you practice them every day. Grab them here 👉 https://tinyurl.com/2t5mjfdb 💙

24/04/2026

What if I told you that overthinking isn't actually your problem?

It might be uncomfortable to hear, but as a therapist, I see this every day: Overthinking is often just a very busy, very loud way of avoiding your emotions. 🧠💨

We stay in the "story" because the "feeling" underneath feels too big, too messy, or too "much." We’ve been taught to suppress our feelings to survive, but they don't disappear—they just get stored in the nervous system.

Watch this video to find out more about overthinking and learn a simple (not easy) short practice to help you move out of your head and back into your calm.

24/04/2026

If you’re analysing everything at 3am…...Overthinking isn’t problem-solving. It’s emotional avoidance. The work is not in the thinking, it's in the feeling.

My free journalling guide will help you start moving those thoughts into feelings.

𝗬𝗼𝘂 𝗰𝗮𝗻 𝗱𝗼𝘄𝗻𝗹𝗼𝗮𝗱 𝗶𝘁 𝗵𝗲𝗿𝗲 👉 https://tinyurl.com/3vs3netw

23/04/2026

Here's what I mean: anxiety is not the message itself, it's the messenger from your nervous system saying, "Hey, something needs attention here."

When you focus on making the anxiety go away, you miss what it's trying to tell us. Think of it like a smoke alarm. You wouldn't just remove the batteries and call it sorted, would you? You'd want to find out what's causing the smoke. With anxiety, what's usually causing the smoke are the difficult feelings we have been trying not to feel.

The feelings wheel is a simple tool that will help you identify and name the feelings that are lurking beneath the anxiety. Download it here 👉 https://tinyurl.com/37fr2xkv