Freedom Within; Bodywork & Somatic Inquiry for Chronic Pain

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Freedom Within; Bodywork & Somatic Inquiry for Chronic Pain

Integrative Somatic Therapy for chronic pain, stress and trauma related symptoms.

10/10/2025

🌟 “Don’t dim your light because others are uncomfortable with your shine.”
For so many people living with chronic neuroplastic pain or other somatic symptoms, this isn’t just a nice quote - it’s a crucial part of healing.
Chronic pain often shows up in those of us who’ve spent years trying to be the people-pleaser, the perfectionist, the one who keeps the peace even at our own expense. We dim our true selves to avoid conflict or to keep others happy… but that constant self-suppression can keep our nervous system stuck in “danger mode.”
✨ Real recovery means learning to live as your authentic, unapologetic self — to speak your truth, set boundaries, and allow yourself to shine, even if it feels uncomfortable at first.

It’s okay to let go of the need to please everyone else.
It’s okay to make your own wellbeing the priority.
It’s okay to be you.

[Image credit: Positive Energy]

23/09/2025

I’ve only gone and done it!!

I’ve committed to a very special training course next year - NeuroAffective Touch.

I’ve wanted to do this course for years but it’s never felt like the right time … but I now feel ready (I know right lol) - its time to bring together all of my experience in bodywork and somatic psychology - I’m so excited!!

What is this magic I hear you ask?!

NeuroAffective Touch interweaves psychotherapy with therapeutic relational touch.

Our early experiences of touch lay the groundwork for our relationships all through our life. An attuned, caring touch is of huge importance to our brain’s emotional and cognitive development.

The dual (body-mind) focus of this relational somatic approach is at the forefront of advances in healing attachment wounds and developmental trauma.

Clients learn to allow their bodies to safely share the story of their struggles to love and be loved, and enable their minds to grow new neural pathways that open new possibilities for them as a whole person.

Watch this space ❤️💫

21/08/2025

🌊✨ Glimmers: The Small Things That Light Us Up ✨🌊

In trauma therapy, there can be a lot of talk about triggers - those cues that activate our stress response. But there’s a quieter, gentler concept that’s just as powerful: glimmers.

Glimmers are the subtle cues that signal safety to our nervous system. They’re tiny moments of connection, calm, or beauty that help us return to regulation … to ourselves.

For me, one of my favorite glimmers is the sound of seagulls. I always hear them during savasana at the end of my yoga practice. That moment, lying down, grounded on my mat, my teacher’s soothing voice guiding me, combined with the distant cry of seagulls overhead … it’s become an anchor, a sensory cue that tells my body:

You’re safe. You can soften. You’re here.

Glimmers can be anything: the smell of coffee, a warm or a cool breeze, the way the light hits the leaves on a tree.

They’re small moments, but they matter, and it matters to notice them, especially on the easier days, because the more we practice the easier it gets, to notice these things on the harder days.

✨ What are your glimmers? What sounds, sights, or sensations remind you that you’re okay?

16/08/2025

What a day 💗

Vibroacoustic massage with beautiful 💫
my garden 🌿
my hammock ☀️
in and out of snoozeville 😴

Now restored and recharged 💫
Grateful for such magic ✨

❤️

01/08/2025

Anyone else ready for a holiday?

The past few weeks I’ve been feeling a kind of tiredness that isn’t fixed by an early night or an extra coffee. It’s a deeper fatigue, one that lives in the muscles, in the breath, in the nervous system. The kind of tired that tells me: it’s time to take a break.

Sometimes the body speaks before the mind catches up. As someone who works with awareness of the body (somatics), I try to listen when these signals arrive - the weight in the shoulders, the shorter fuse, the foggy mind - they’re all telling me something: rest is not a luxury. It’s a need.

So I’m heading off to Newquay next week. Not just to “recharge” and return more productive (though hopefully that may happen), but also to honour the cycle of work and rest that every nervous system needs. To create space to slow down, to be and move as I wish, instead of as my to do list requires … to recalibrate.

If you’re reading this and noticing your own signs of fatigue - if your body is asking for something gentler - you have full permission. You’re not lazy. You’re not falling behind. You’re still good enough. Because you’re in a human body, and it’s okay - no, it’s necessary - to pause.

Here’s to more nervous systems that feel safe, more work that honours our rhythm, and more holidays that are truly restorative.

22/07/2025

“I have felt more inner peace in the last month than I have felt in the past 10 years” were Jake’s* words as we caught up this week.

The possibility of feeling inner peace is very moving, and is what many people hope for. It’s a big and bold ask but Jake’s experience is evidence it is a possibility.

In Jake’s words, “It’s beautiful, to know it is all in there, within me”.

Jake is not his real name but his words are real and shared with his permission 🫶🏻

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