Tracy Ann Wood

25/11/2025

24/11/2025

Signs you are out of your window of tolerance and some gentle ways to come back into your window.

23/11/2025

Sometimes the hardest part isn’t feeling your feelings…it’s knowing how to slow down enough to hear them.

These gentle journalling prompts are here to help you soften, pause, and reconnect with the part of you that’s been trying to get your attention.

You don’t need to “have it all figured out.” You just need a quiet moment, a pen, and a little willingness to meet yourself with honesty and compassion.

Your inner world has so much to say. These prompts simply open the door.

💛 Let me know which one speaks to you today.
💛 And if journalling is new to you, start with just two minutes.

You’re doing beautifully.

23/11/2025

Most of us were taught that feelings were bad… and that expressing them made us weak… or dramatic… or ‘too much.’

W𝗵𝗮𝘁 𝗶𝗳 𝘁𝗵𝗮𝘁 𝘄𝗮𝘀𝗻’𝘁 𝘁𝗿𝘂𝗲?

What if your feelings were actually the language of your soul, desparately trying to get your attention, helping you reconnect with who you really are?

They’re messages.
They’re guidance.
They’re the parts of you that know exactly what’s out of alignment and what you need to get back in alignment.

The problem isn’t that you 'feel too much'. The problem is that nobody ever taught you how to understand what you feel. Imagine what would shift if you stopped running from your emotions and started listening to them instead?

Follow along if you’re ready to change the way you relate to your feelings, this is the emotional education we all should have been given.

22/11/2025

22/11/2025

Being hard on yourself won’t help you grow, but kindness will. The moment you soften the inner critic, something inside you relaxes, and the path forward becomes clearer. What’s one kind thing you can say to yourself today?

21/11/2025

Real strength isn’t the straight face.
It’s not the pushing on.
It’s not the “I’m fine.”

Real strength is emotional presence. Feeling your feelings without running away.
If you’ve been surviving for years but feel empty inside, please know you’re not alone. Support exists, and you don’t have to thaw out by yourself. 💛

21/11/2025

You can’t block your pain and keep full access to your joy.
You can’t suppress your fear and still feel deeply connected.
Emotional numbing tones down the whole system, not just the difficult bits.
If life feels flat or “meh,” your nervous system might simply be tired of surviving. 💛

20/11/2025

If “being strong” has slowly turned into “I don’t feel anything anymore,” it might be a sign your system has been in survival mode for far too long. Emotional numbing isn’t a flaw, it’s something your body learned to do to survive and keep going.

When you’re ready, that frozen part of you can gently begin to soften again. 💛

20/11/2025

A lot of women I work with learned that the safest thing they could do was stop feeling. Don’t cry. Don’t react. Don’t show anything. Keep it together. Keep going. Keep coping.

And in fairness… it worked for a while. You held down a job. You showed up for others. You plastered on the smile. People probably tell you you’re reliable. Capable. Strong.

𝗕𝘂𝘁 𝗵𝗲𝗿𝗲’𝘀 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝘁𝗵𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗻𝗼 𝗼𝗻𝗲 𝘁𝗲𝗮𝗰𝗵𝗲𝘀 𝘂𝘀:

Your emotional system isn’t selective. You can’t shut down pain and still keep full access to joy. You can’t switch off fear and still feel deeply connected. It’s all the same wiring. When you numb one part, the whole system quietens down.

It’s a bit like turning off the cooling system in a reactor because you’re afraid of a leak. It feels safer, but inside things start overheating. On the outside you look calm. On the inside you feel… nothing. Or too much. Or a strange mix of both.

What you’ve been doing isn’t “being strong.” It’s something your nervous system learned in order to survive, like a kind of emotional shutdown. A very human, very understandable response to pain or trauma. But over time, it stops being protective and starts becoming a cage.

✨Life becomes a list of tasks.
✨You function, but you don’t feel fully alive.
✨Your armour becomes a shell.

Real strength looks different. It’s the ability to feel your feelings without being swept away. To stay connected to yourself and let your emotions move through you instead of shutting down to stay safe.

And if you’ve been coping like this for years; keeping the straight face, holding everything together, but quietly feeling empty or disconnected; please know this isn’t a personal failure. It’s a sign your system is tired of surviving and ready for something gentler.

𝗧𝗵𝗶𝘀 𝗶𝘀 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝘄𝗼𝗿𝗸 𝗜 𝗱𝗼 𝗲𝘃𝗲𝗿𝘆 𝗱𝗮𝘆: helping women thaw their feelings safely, slowly, and with support… so they can start to feel again without it becoming overwhelming.

If this feels familiar, you don’t have to figure it out alone. You can reach out anytime, and we can talk about what a softer way forward might look like for you.

19/11/2025

Most people hear the phrase “shadow side” and think it means the dark, messy, broken bits of themselves. But that’s not what it really is.

Your shadow side is simply the parts of you that you've learned to hide. It’s made up of the feelings, needs, behaviours, and beliefs you have pushed down because you thought they weren’t acceptable… or lovable.

The quiet parts.
The scared parts.
The parts that were told to be “𝗴𝗼𝗼𝗱,” “𝗲𝗮𝘀𝘆,” or “𝗻𝗼𝘁 𝘁𝗼𝗼 𝗺𝘂𝗰𝗵.”
The parts that keep whispering, “Please don’t forget me.”

You’re not broken for having a shadow, every human has one. And the moment you start meeting those hidden parts with compassion instead of judgement, things will start to shift inside.

Start to notice your judgement and try saying this instead:
💛 I see you.
💛 I understand why you exist.
💛 You did your best to protect me.

✨ 𝗥𝗲𝗳𝗹𝗲𝗰𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻:
Which part of your shadow side feels most unloved, and what does it need to hear from you right now?