JC Holistic Health

27/10/2025

🌿 Understanding Our Core Beliefs

From the moment we are born, our minds are like soft sponges, open, absorbent, and shaped by the words, actions and beliefs of those around us. In our most vulnerable years, what we’re told, by parents, teachers, or even friends, begins to form the foundation of how we see ourselves and the world.

Those messages, whether spoken with love, frustration or carelessness, can stay with us for the rest of our lives. You’re not good enough. You’re too sensitive. You’ll never achieve that, amongst many other statements. These words become part of our internal dialogue, quietly embedding themselves in our subconscious minds. They turn into our core beliefs, the invisible scripts that influence every decision, every relationship, and every level of self-worth.

But here’s the beautiful truth: once we become aware of those beliefs, we have the power to change them. We can begin to see that the things we were told weren’t facts, they were often reflections of other people’s pain, fear, resentment or misunderstanding. Through self-work, awareness and compassion, we can unlearn what was never ours to carry.

This has been deeply personal for me. My own upbringing, and the things I was told as a child, and well into adulthood, things that weren’t true, once shaped how I saw myself. But instead of breaking me, they became my greatest teacher. They inspired me to study, to question, to understand human behaviour on a deeper level. They made me determined to grow, to heal, and to prove not only to others, but to myself, that I am not the person I was made to believe I was.

Healing is not about blaming; it’s about understanding. It’s about realising that our beliefs are not fixed, they are learned, and therefore, they can be unlearned. And when we do, we discover a higher level of self-awareness, strength, and truth, the kind that allows us to finally live as who we really are, not who we were told to be. 💫

22/10/2025

The Importance of Speaking Your Truth 💬✨

One of the most powerful forms of healing is learning to speak your truth.

To express how you truly feel, without fear of being judged, shut down, or talked over.

So many of us have been conditioned to stay quiet, to keep the peace, to hold back what we really want to say. But when we silence ourselves, that energy doesn’t simply disappear, it stays within us. And over time, those unspoken words, those suppressed emotions, can turn into resentment, frustration, and even anger.

Our bodies are incredible messengers. When we hold everything in, the body often finds another way to express what the voice could not. It may show up as tension, pain, digestive issues, headaches, or general feelings of unease. Because emotional energy that isn’t released has to go somewhere, and more often than not, it settles into the body.

Speaking your truth isn’t about confrontation. It’s about honouring yourself.
It’s about allowing your emotions to have a voice, expressing your needs clearly, and creating healthy boundaries.

You deserve to be heard. You deserve to take up space.
And the more you practice expressing your truth, the lighter, freer, and more balanced you will feel, both emotionally and physically. 💛

20/10/2025

18/10/2025

🌿 Feeling Nervous About Coming to a Yoga Class? 🌿I often receive messages from people saying they’d love to come along to my Yoga Therapy class, but they feel too nervous, too anxious, or not flexible enough to join. Please let me reassure you, we don’t do headstands, we don’t do the splits, and there’s absolutely no pressure to achieve any kind of “perfect” pose. We don’t chant or use mudras (symbolic hand gestures) This isn’t traditional yoga, it’s yoga therapy, where we use the gentle tools of yoga to help you move better, breathe better, and feel better.The classes are small, very friendly, and very relaxed. It’s always a comfortable, welcoming space. Everyone who attends is kind, supportive, and understanding, and everybody is welcome to come along and simply try a class to see how it feels for you. We focus on learning how to breathe properly, how to align the body, and how to move in ways that support your overall wellbeing. Each class combines strength, balance, mobility and stretch to help create harmony and balance throughout the body, leaving you feeling both grounded and uplifted. With nearly 20 years experience as a holistic health practitioner, much of my work has involved helping people understand how to stretch and move their bodies safely and effectively. These yoga therapy classes are a natural extension of that, an opportunity to bring movement, mindfulness, and healing together in a gentle, supportive environment.✨ Yoga Therapy can help with: 🌿 Stress and anxiety management🌿 Chronic pain or injury recovery🌿 Improving mobility and balance🌿 Enhancing sleep quality🌿 Supporting mental wellbeing✨ Who is it for?These classes are suitable for all levels, including complete beginners, and especially those looking for a gentle, therapeutic approach to yoga.🌱 Invest in your wellbeing today. Cost £10.00 per class🧘‍♀️ All levels welcome🌿 Small, friendly group setting📍 St. Michael’s Church Hall, Easthampstead RG12 7ER 📆 Every Saturday 🕙 8:45-9:45am💻 Book your place @ bookwhen.com/jcholistichealth or come along and PAYG with cash if preferred. Bring a yoga mat, towel, blanket, water, and an open heart 💛For more info, contact Jane at: jane.collins@sky.comjcholistichealth.com FB & Instagram: JC Holistic Health🧘‍♀️ Come as you are, no experience, no expectations, just a willingness to explore how movement and breath can help you feel more at ease in your body and mind.

16/10/2025

16/10/2025

🌈 Understanding Our Energy Centres. The Chakras 🌿

Within each of us are seven main energy centres known as chakras, a Sanskrit word meaning wheel or disk. These spinning wheels of energy are located along the spine, from the base to the crown of the head. Each chakra corresponds to specific organs, emotions, and aspects of our physical, emotional, and spiritual wellbeing. When our chakras are balanced and energy flows freely, we feel grounded, connected, and at peace. When they become blocked or imbalanced, we can experience emotional or physical disharmony.

Let’s explore each one:

🔴 Root Chakra – Muladhara

Colour: Red
Location: Base of the spine, pelvic floor, and legs
Represents: Stability, safety, and grounding
When balanced: You feel secure, stable, and connected to the earth.
When out of balance: You may feel anxious, fearful, disconnected, or experience issues with your legs, feet, or lower back.
How to balance: Ground yourself in nature, practice mindfulness, or do slow, grounding yoga postures like Mountain Pose or Child’s Pose.

🧡 Sacral Chakra – Svadhisthana

Colour: Orange
Location: Lower abdomen, just below the navel
Represents: Creativity, pleasure, emotions, and relationships
When balanced: You feel inspired, open to joy, and connected to your emotions in a healthy way.
When out of balance: You may experience guilt, creative blocks, low libido, or emotional instability.
How to balance: Dance, connect with water, or enjoy creative activities that bring you joy.

💛 Solar Plexus Chakra – Manipura

Colour: Yellow
Location: Upper abdomen, around the stomach area
Represents: Confidence, self-worth, and personal power
When balanced: You feel confident, decisive, and in control of your life.
When out of balance: You may feel powerless, insecure, or struggle with digestion or fatigue.
How to balance: Practice breathwork, core-strengthening yoga, or repeat affirmations like “I am strong and capable.”

💚 Heart Chakra – Anahata

Colour: Green (sometimes pink)
Location: Centre of the chest
Represents: Love, compassion, and emotional balance
When balanced: You feel open, loving, and at peace with yourself and others.
When out of balance: You may feel lonely, resentful, or struggle with self-love and forgiveness.
How to balance: Practice gratitude, heart-opening yoga poses, or spend time with loved ones and in nature.

💙 Throat Chakra – Vishuddha

Colour: Blue
Location: Throat and neck
Represents: Communication, truth, and self-expression
When balanced: You express yourself clearly, honestly, and with kindness.
When out of balance: You may struggle to speak your truth, feel unheard, or experience throat tension or thyroid issues.
How to balance: Sing, chant, journal, or practice speaking with authenticity.

💜 Third Eye Chakra – Ajna

Colour: Indigo
Location: Between the eyebrows
Represents: Intuition, insight, and inner wisdom
When balanced: You trust your intuition and see life with clarity and understanding.
When out of balance: You may feel confused, anxious, or disconnected from your inner guidance.
How to balance: Meditate, visualize light between your brows, or spend time in quiet reflection.

🤍 Crown Chakra – Sahasrara

Colour: Violet or White
Location: Top of the head
Represents: Spiritual connection, higher consciousness, and enlightenment
When balanced: You feel connected to something greater than yourself, a sense of peace and unity.
When out of balance: You may feel lost, disconnected, or spiritually closed off.
How to balance: Practice meditation, prayer, gratitude, or simply spend time in stillness.

When all of our chakras are flowing freely, our mind, body, and spirit work in harmony, allowing us to live with greater awareness, peace, and vitality. 💫

15/10/2025

🌿 The Reversed Roles: When Children Become the Caretakers

It’s not a child’s responsibility to take care of their parents, emotionally, mentally, or physically. A parent’s role is to nurture, love, guide, and protect their child, creating a safe and secure space where the child can grow into their own sense of self.

When this natural order is reversed, when a child grows up feeling responsible for a parent’s emotions, wellbeing, or happiness, it can be deeply damaging. This is often called parentification, and it’s one of the most silent yet powerful emotional wounds a child can carry into adulthood.

This is especially common in homes where parents are emotionally unavailable, or where there is addiction, neglect or alcoholism. In these situations, the child often steps in to fill the emotional gap, becoming the peacekeeper, the helper, or even the parent figure, just to maintain some kind of balance or safety within the home.

This was my own experience growing up. From a very young age, I felt responsible for the wellbeing of those around me. I became the “carer,” the one who held things together, who tried to make everything okay, long before I ever truly understood what that meant. I carried this burden long into my adult life, and even subconsciously will sometimes revert back to this today. (feeling the need to fix) But I recognise the pattern and can stop the cycle.

When a child grows up this way, they often:
• Struggle to set healthy boundaries, feeling guilty for putting themselves first.
• Become overly responsible in relationships, taking on emotional burdens that don’t belong to them.
• Feel anxious or fearful of disconnection, believing they must “earn” love by caring for others.
• Neglect their own needs, having learned that their worth is tied to being needed.

Children who grow up with emotionally unavailable or addicted parents often become adults who are the caregivers, the fixers, the ones who keep families and relationships running, but inside, they may feel exhausted, unseen, or emotionally drained.

Through my years of studying psychology and human behaviour, and my own journey through therapy, I was able to begin healing these inner wounds, to understand where they came from and how deeply they had shaped me. I wouldn’t say those wounds completely disappear, but I have learned how to recognise them, nurture them, and no longer let them define who I am.

A healthy dynamic begins when parents are the secure base, the ones who say “I’ve got you”, not the other way around. When a child is allowed to simply be a child, free from emotional responsibility, they grow into an adult who knows how to love without losing themselves, to care without carrying the weight of others.

If you recognise this pattern within yourself, please know you are not alone. Healing begins with awareness, and with understanding that it is not selfish to take care of yourself. It’s healthy, it’s necessary, and it’s something every child, and every adult, deserves. 💛

13/10/2025

🌿 A Little Note About Booking Appointments 🌿

As many of you know, my diary fills up very quickly, and I’m so grateful for all of your continued support. 💚

Just a gentle reminder that unless appointments are pre-booked in advance, it’s highly unlikely I’ll be able to offer follow-on sessions or new appointments straight away. At the moment, I’m usually fully booked around three weeks ahead, so planning ahead really helps to secure your preferred time and day.

If you’d like to reserve your next session, please do so as early as possible to avoid disappointment, I always want to make sure you get the care and time you deserve.

✨ Thank you so much for your understanding and for keeping my schedule flowing so beautifully.

11/10/2025

✨ A Thought from the Heart ✨

I personally hate the fact that so many young people feel it’s necessary to freeze their faces in order to create a sense of eternal youth. Somewhere along the way, society has convinced us that ageing is something to fear, that smooth skin equals beauty, and that eternal youth somehow measures our worth.

But those lines… they tell our story. They show our laughter, our tears, our joy, our struggles, the full tapestry of our lives. Our faces are meant to move, to express, to feel. They’re a reflection of the moments we’ve lived and the emotions we’ve experienced, not something to be numbed or hidden.

Our lines, our time in the sun, our stories, they should be celebrated, not erased.

True beauty comes from confidence, kindness, authenticity, and self-acceptance. No needle, cream, or filter can replace the light that shines from someone who is genuinely comfortable in their own skin.

Ageing is not a loss, it’s a privilege, that many don’t get to see.🌿✨

10/10/2025

You know the saying “Movement is Medicine” Well it actually is!

🌿 Our Bodies Were Made to Move

Our bodies were naturally designed for movement. Every joint, every muscle, every tendon was created to support mobility, flexibility, and strength. Long before modern life made everything so convenient, movement was simply part of our survival, a way of life.

We stretched to reach fruit from the trees.
We bent and twisted to gather, dig, and climb.
We walked miles and ran freely across the land to hunt for food or find shelter.

Movement wasn’t something we had to schedule in… it just happened, naturally, every single day.

But over time, life has become convenient, and in some ways, too convenient, and detrimental to our health.
We can sit to work, order food with a few taps, drive instead of walk, and reach everything we need within arm’s length. While all these conveniences have simplified daily living, they’ve also led us to move far less than our bodies were meant to.

This lack of movement can have a huge impact, not just physically, but mentally and emotionally too. When we stay still for long periods, our energy becomes stagnant, our posture changes, muscles weaken, and even our mood can dip. Our bodies crave movement because movement keeps everything flowing, blood, lymph, breath, and energy.

When we stretch, move, and open the body, we awaken something ancient within us, the natural instinct to be alive, to feel the body, and to connect deeply to ourselves.

So next time you stretch, walk, dance or roll out your mat, remember, you are honouring what your body was beautifully designed for.
Movement is not just exercise. It’s how we were made to live. 🌿