New Paradigm WellBeing

08/08/2025

❤️ Feel It Friday

Let’s talk about the things we carry.

Every Friday, I’ll be sharing one emotional truth many of us hold - quietly, heavily and often alone.

You might just see yourself in it… and feel a little more seen.

Topics we’ll explore include:

• “I don’t feel seen.”
• “I’m tired of being the strong one.”
• “I should be over this.”
• “I don’t know how to rest.”
• “I’m scared I’m too much.”
• “I don’t know who I am anymore.”
• “Why can’t I just be happy?”

If there’s something on your heart, you can message me in confidence - I’ll post it anonymously.

Let’s start normalising the deeply human experiences we’ve been taught to hide.

No fixing.

No judgement.

Just feeling.

Because healing begins when we stop pretending we’re fine.

07/08/2025

Pandora’s Box Moments in Therapy

(…and why they’re secretly the beginning of your freedom)

You come to therapy or a healing session with one thing in mind - a bit of stress, a persistent mood, a recurring tension.

Then suddenly… the lid pops.

What spills out might surprise you: childhood shame, generational grief, old rage that never had a voice.

You find yourself crying over things you forgot, remembering moments you pushed aside, feeling waves of emotion you didn’t expect.

It can feel intense.

Disorienting.

Like, “Wait! I just wanted to feel a bit better, not crack open my entire history.”

But here’s the liberating truth: That box wasn’t locked to protect you - it was holding you back.

And now that the contents are out in the open, you’re no longer unconsciously carrying them.

No more tiptoeing around your own inner world. No more leaking stress in sideways ways - snapping at loved ones, holding your breath, or shutting down.

This is what freedom looks like, even if it’s messy at first.

Each time you name what was unspoken, feel what was buried, or release what was stuck - you reclaim a piece of yourself.

A little more clarity.

A little more capacity to breathe deeply. To laugh more easily.

To respond rather than react.

The emotional flood doesn’t last forever - but the lightness afterward is real.

Opening Pandora’s box is not the problem.

Keeping it sealed was.

06/08/2025

ADRENALINE: It’s not just a stress hormone. It’s a full-body broadcast.

When adrenaline floods the body - triggered by stress, fear, or even repressed emotion - it doesn’t just stay in the bloodstream.

It lands.

In your organs.

In your tissues.

In your emotional landscape.

☯️ The LIVER, linked to anger and frustration, kicks into detox mode - trying to process the chemical storm.

☯️ The KIDNEYS, tied to fear and shock, contract under pressure, trying to preserve energy.

☯️ The LUNGS, home to grief, may tighten or become shallow, leaving us breathless or overwhelmed.

☯️ The HEART, connected to joy and spirit, races - sometimes without reason - leaving us anxious or disconnected.

It’s not just “in your head.”

It’s in your body.

It’s in your energy.

It’s in your story.

Adrenaline is your body trying to protect you.

But over time, it can become the very thing that disconnects you from feeling safe.

The good news?

We can shift this.

Gently.

With awareness, tools like EFT, breathwork, somatic release and emotional alchemy.

It’s not about suppressing adrenaline.

It’s about helping the body complete the stress response - so it doesn’t stay stuck in survival.

05/08/2025

You can’t build a house on unstable foundations.

Working with and understanding our emotions should be at the heart of every health protocol.

Because if the foundation isn’t steady, everything built on top starts to wobble.

In our emotional lives, that might look like:

• Pushing through when your body is asking for rest.

• Saying yes when your heart is whispering no.

• Trying to fix the surface without ever tending to the root.

It’s not about doing more.

It’s about coming back to what’s essential.

It all starts within.

What’s going on inside shapes everything outside.

Real change begins on the inside.

Your inner world sets the tone for your outer life.

You can’t regulate your nervous system while standing on the shaky ground of survival.

You can’t access peace if your body doesn’t feel safe.

And you can’t thrive if you’re constantly managing chaos instead of clearing it.

We need to get back to basics.

And that starts with meeting what’s really going on inside.

What we’ve been holding onto.

What we’ve been carrying.

And then gently but powerfully letting it go.

This is more than ‘textbook’ emotional intelligence.

This is transformative work - and it’s at the heart of what I do.

DM me to find out how I can support you in doing this work.

04/08/2025

01/08/2025

🌿 Hello August - Let’s Reset Together 🌿

Anyone else feeling like the summer is flying by?!

August can bring a mix of energy - that halfway-through-the-year reflection, the back-to-school buzz and a quiet craving to ground yourself again.

If you’re feeling a bit frazzled, full, or flat, you’re not alone - and you don’t have to carry it alone either.

✨ That’s where my Reiki classes come in.

They’ve been filling up fast (thank you!!) and for good reason - because switching off isn’t a luxury, it’s a nervous system necessity.

Here’s what’s coming up this month in Johnstone:

💛 Group Reiki: 11th / 18th & 25th August (all SOLD OUT)
💛 NEW! Group Reiki: ‘Sunday Pause’ - 24th Aug 6:00 til 7:00pm (ONLY 2 spaces left!)

These are safe, soul-soothing sessions where you can flop down, breathe and receive.

Not sure what Reiki feels like?

Come along and find out!

People often leave saying: “I didn’t know how much I needed that.”

Let August be the month you stop pushing through and start plugging back into yourself.

Not really a class person?

The diary is open for 1:1 Reiki or EFT Sessions at my home healing space in Johnstone.

EFT is £35 for 1 hour
Reiki is £30 for 1 hour.

DM to book or ask questions - I’m here 🌿

Let’s co-regulate and reconnect.

Donna x

31/07/2025

It’s been nearly a decade since my messy divorce…From my job.

And wow… the last few years have poked and prodded me out of my comfort zone in ways I never could have imagined.

Here’s something you might not know about me - I’m actually an incredibly private person.

For the first 35 years of my life, I was a people pleaser.

Doing what I thought I should.

But as I cleared layer after layer of old ‘stuff’ with EFT, I stopped worrying so much about what people thought of me.

Don’t get me wrong, I’m still a work in progress (aren’t we all?), but these days, I’m so far out of my comfort zone, it actually makes me laugh.

And you know what? I have nothing to lose by putting myself out there.

Because if sharing my journey shines a light for you to know it’s okay to shine yours too - then it’s worth it.

The truth is, when I worked with the EFT, I stopped living by old patterns, rewired my mindset and truly believed I was in control of creating my own life…and everything changed.

That’s why I do this work.

To show you what’s possible.

Because all you need to do is believe.

And if you don’t quite believe that yet?

Come and work with me.

I’ll show you exactly how I did it - so you can do it too.

30/07/2025

Up in the big smoke yesterday morning to facilitate an Emotional Wellbeing session as part of a Care Team’s Development Day - and what a pleasure it was!

We explored stress, the nervous system and the emotional load that comes with working in high-impact, heart-led roles.

Through body-based practices like breathwork, grounding and EFT (tapping), the team had a chance to reflect, release, and reconnect - with themselves and each other.

A gentle but powerful reset for those who give so much every day.

Sometimes team building isn’t about games or strategy - it’s about making space to breathe, to feel and to be human.

Get in touch if this sounds like something your team would benefit from!

28/07/2025

Let’s be honest - working on ourselves can be uncomfortable.

It can bring up all kinds of uneasy feelings.

Old wounds.

Tightness in the chest.

That sinking sensation in the stomach.

Emotions we thought we’d buried… rising to the surface.

And often - we’d rather not feel any of it.

I remember going to counselling and often dreading the appointment.

Not because I didn’t want to grow.

But because I couldn’t face talking about the same thing, over and over again, without ever feeling any better.

It felt like circling the pain - naming it, analysing it, explaining it - but never actually moving it.

I wanted relief.

I wanted release.

I wanted something to change - inside my body, not just in my head.

That’s why the work I do now is different.

It doesn’t just talk about the pain.

It helps you feel it - and free it.

We use gentle, body-based practices like EFT (tapping), nervous system regulation and energy healing to bring the body into safety first - because healing doesn’t happen when you’re in survival mode.

You don’t have to relive it to release it.

You don’t have to stay stuck in the story.

You just have to be willing to meet yourself with honesty, compassion and presence - and to work with the body, not against it.

Healing might not always feel comfortable, but it can feel safe.

And it can lead to peace.

And that’s where the real transformation begins.

24/07/2025

From ‘Meh’ to Magic - My First Encounter with Reiki and energy working.

I first discovered Reiki 13 years ago.

And I’ll be honest… my first experience was a bit meh.

I went to see a young woman who was both a Reiki Master and a nurse.

But most of the session involved her wandering around the house looking for her missing cat.

To be fair, my timing wasn’t ideal.

But 2012 marked the beginning of a huge shift in my life.

I had zero knowledge of energy work, healing, spirituality - or even the idea that there was a ‘bigger picture’ to life.

I considered myself a very “normal” person. 😄 (whatever that means!)

Then, a few months later, I met a woman who offered both Reiki and EFT.

That meeting changed the course of my life.

I’d never experienced a sense of peace like that before.

She gently challenged some of my long-held beliefs and I left that appointment knowing I wanted more.

At the time, I was working in a very stressful department.

I had no idea how to regulate or calm my system.

But I looked at this woman - so grounded, so calm, so content - and I just knew something needed to change.

She became a beautiful mentor to me.

And now, years later, my life is almost unrecognisable.

The job I once clung to for validation and identity?

Gone.

And in its place - freedom.

Fulfilment.

A new sense of who I truly am.

I now guide others to peel back the layers of old beliefs and stories.

And it all starts with healing.

With understanding that our bodies are not just machines to push through the day.

They hold our essence - our truth, our sensitivity, our spirit.

The more we listen, the more we soften…and the more joyful and connected life becomes.

I know that anyone who comes into a session, class, or workshop with me is drawn by something deeper - something that resonates within them, even if they can’t quite name it yet.

We come into each other’s lives for a reason.

And I’m so grateful to be in this position, to share what I’ve learned, to help light the way for others.

Even if we can’t always see the shifts at the time - they’re happening.

Donna x