Holistic Transformative Therapy

04/09/2025

✈️ Overworking? → That’s flight.
🔥 Quick temper? → That’s fight.
❄️ Procrastination? → That’s freeze.
💞 Can’t say no? → That’s fawn.
🌑 Feeling hopeless? → That’s flop.

✨ These aren’t flaws. They’re trauma responses. And they can be healed.

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📖 Want to dive deeper? Read my article on animal defence responses and how they shape our patterns.

https://www.holistictransformativetherapy.com/post/the-five-animal-defences-how-your-nervous-system-shapes-your-coping-patterns

📝 And download your free Inner Child Healing Journal to start your healing journey today.

22/08/2025

What is reparenting and why does it matter so much?

Reparenting is the process of learning to give yourself, as an adult, the things you didn’t receive enough of as a child - love, safety, guidance, acceptance.

Our inner children - the younger versions of ourselves - never go away. They live inside us as memories, feelings and patterns.

When those inner children carry unhealed wounds, they show up in the present as self-doubt, anger we can’t control, people-pleasing, perfectionism or a constant sense of “not being enough.”

Reparenting doesn’t mean going back in time.

It means becoming the parent you always needed.

It’s about learning to:
🌱 Speak to yourself with compassion instead of criticism
🌱 Set boundaries that make you feel safe
🌱 Meet your needs with kindness rather than ignoring them

When we practise reparenting, we stop abandoning ourselves and start building a healthier, more secure relationship with who we are today. That changes everything - our confidence, our relationships, our wellbeing!

✨ If this resonates, you can begin in two ways:
• Download my free Inner Child Healing Journal
https://www.holistictransformativetherapy.com/free-healing-journal
• Or book a therapy session with me to explore this work more deeply and personally

You don’t need to turn back time to heal. You only need to begin. 🤍

Dorota

This journal kit is designed to gently guide you to reconnect with your inner child, heal inner wounds and feel whole again. These prompts and affirmations will help you in healing, self-compassion and rediscovery.

10/08/2025

You know the patterns.
You can name the feelings.
You understand exactly what happened to you…

…so why does it still feel like nothing’s shifting?

This is the moment so many of my clients reach before they come to me - when their healing has been mostly cognitive.

🧠 The mind understands.
💛 But the body and the deeper parts of you? They don’t yet feel safe.

And that’s not because you’ve failed. It’s because you’ve spent decades ignoring, suppressing or abandoning yourself. Your nervous system and your inner parts learnt survival, not connection.

The real transformation begins when you learn to connect emotionally with these parts:

✨ Lonely
✨ Overwhelmed
✨ Shamed
✨ Despairing
✨ Fearful
✨ Hopeless

And no - you don’t need to “fix” them.
You just need to be with them.
Even your presence is healing. 🌿

💌 I’ve created a free Inner Child Healing Journal with prompts + a guided audio so you can begin this work safely.

Click the link in my bio to download it today and take the first step from awareness to embodiment.

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09/08/2025

🤍 Simple joys in life

Lately, I’ve been soaking in the little things that make life feel full:

🍓 An obsession with strawberries and all kinds of berries.
🌞 Greeting the morning sun and feeling its warmth on my skin.
🐭 Playing with my rat babies - each with their own quirks and personalities and watching trust grow between us.
💛 Time with my son, which always fills my heart.

I also had to devote hours and
🗺 Hours of holiday planning, booking and buying (and realising that preparing for holidays is almost a job in itself… almost 😉).

And I only have one child - I don’t know how big families do it! 😳

On a deeper note, I haven’t forgotten that I promised to share more about working with our internal family systems -especially the parts that show up often, the environments that shaped them and the first steps to heal.

I’ve received a few of your “part names” already -feel free to share the ones that resonate with you too.

Working with these parts is truly transformative - it’s where lasting self-connection and freedom begin.

✨ Check out my article on Parts Work if you haven’t already. It’s a great starting point for understanding this life-changing process.

https://www.holistictransformativetherapy.com/blog/categories/parts-work

03/08/2025

What really happens in a hypnotherapy session?

The biggest myth about hypnotherapy is that you lose control. In reality, you're in a deeply relaxed but aware state and you stay in charge the whole time.

Every session begins with a conversation. You share what’s going on in your life, your emotions, patterns, triggers and goals. I ask gentle questions to understand your inner world and what needs support or healing.

Then, we help your nervous system feel safe. Using breath, imagery and voice, I guide you into a calm, focused, inward state. This is often described as deeply relaxing but it’s more than that.

Hypnotherapy works by guiding you into an altered state of consciousness- a natural, focused state where your attention turns inward. It often overlaps with relaxation, but it’s not quite the same thing. You’re not asleep or zoned out.

You’re aware, but inwardly connected, a bit like the feeling just before you drift off to sleep or when you’re completely absorbed in a book or a memory. This is when your subconscious becomes more accessible, and real, lasting healing work can take place.

You’re still in control. You can move, speak, and you’ll remember everything afterwards.

From there, I use powerful suggestions based on the goals you've chosen, and visualisations that evoke emotional responses. Through repetition, we help your subconscious absorb new beliefs, inner resources, and ways of being.

Often, we connect with your inner child, a part of you that holds pain or longing, your future self or your higher self. These inner journeys are designed to support emotional healing, release stored tension, process stuck emotions and restore your sense of safety and wholeness.

You may find yourself resting deeply, receiving what was missing or reconnecting with your own inner wisdom. 🤎

This is where deep, cellular healing happens.

And finally, we return gently to the present. You come back grounded and clear. Most people feel lighter, more centred and deeply connected to themselves.

So what really happens in hypnotherapy?
You come home to yourself.
It’s not about control - it’s about freedom.

💛 Ready to explore this work?
DM me “READY” or click the link in bio to book a free consultation.

🧠 Want to begin gently?
Download the free Inner Child Healing Journal - it includes prompts, affirmations and a guided meditation to connect with your inner child.

🔗 https://www.holistictransformativetherapy.com/free-healing-journal

02/08/2025

When was the last time you truly stopped?
Not just paused between tasks.
Not collapsed at the end of the day.
But really… paused.

To feel your breath.
To hear your thoughts.
To remember what it’s like to be with yourself.

For so many of us, especially women who are holding everything together, rest feels unnatural.

Slowness feels unsafe.

But the truth is: your nervous system isn’t asking you to do more. It’s quietly begging you to soften.

To pour tea without rushing.
To take a long, slow bath without multitasking.
To look at the sky and remember that you’re allowed to just be.

✨ This is the work.
Healing isn’t always about breakthroughs or another strategy.

💛 I created a free Inner Child Healing Journal to help you begin that reconnection.
It includes gentle prompts, affirmations and a short guided visualisation.

📥 Download it here: https://www.holistictransformativetherapy.com/free-healing-journal
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26/07/2025

Parts Work is one of the most powerful tools I use with clients.

It helps you understand your internal world, soothe your inner children and create actual, lasting change.

You stop asking “What’s wrong with me?”
And start asking… “What does this part need?”

✨ Download my Inner Child Healing Kit to begin this journey — link in bio. 📓

25/07/2025

What it really means to feel ‘too much’

Have you ever been called too sensitive?
Too emotional? Too intense?

That may be a part of you still carrying old pain.

The one who had to feel everything, just to stay safe.
She wasn’t being dramatic...she was scanning for danger.

You’re not too much. You’re attuned.🤎

And your sensitivity is worthy of care, not shame.

Parts Work allows you to meet that part with gentleness.

✨ Read the full blog to understand more.
https://www.holistictransformativetherapy.com/post/the-hidden-parts-within-us-why-parts-work-changes-lives

Download the Inner Child Healing Journal to begin connecting with her today.

https://www.holistictransformativetherapy.com/free-healing-journal?fbclid=PAQ0xDSwLwxqZleHRuA2FlbQIxMAABp0ECZ4Se_7fMQv98LmbFJqpQl3Xlqxzy8hkhp5d4e_2WHWXfTydDbBNddvMs_aem_FIJBkB2rnPx_x-4Sg2f2sg

Dorota
Psychotherapist and Hypnotherapist
Founder of Holistic Transformative Therapy

Have you ever found yourself reacting in ways that feel completely out of proportion? Saying yes when you mean no, shutting down emotionally, lashing out or feeling deep shame for things that happened long ago?It might be confusing and you might think something is wrong with you.But you might just b...

19/07/2025

Parts work teaches us this:

Not every reaction is you.

Sometimes, it’s a part of you… a younger, wounded version stepping in to protect you the only way it knows how.

That part might shut down when things get too intense.
Or control everything to feel safe.
Or people-please until there's nothing left of you.

It’s not trying to ruin your life.
It’s trying to save you -
from a danger that’s no longer there…
from a pain that hasn’t been met…
from a moment in the past that still lives in your body.

When a part gets activated,
you don’t respond to your partner, or child or friend as they are now -you respond to them as if they were your dad, or your mum, or that teacher or that ex…

Parts don’t know time.
Until we turn toward them with compassion,
they’ll keep pulling us backwards -
even when we’re desperate to move forward.

Healing is learning to notice:
“Ah. That’s not me. That’s a part.”
…and then choosing to lead from your calm, conscious Self.

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12/07/2025

We all compare ourselves to others, it’s completely natural.
And truthfully, comparison in itself isn’t the enemy.

Research even shows that, in some cases, it can motivate us to grow and see what's possible!

But here’s where it gets tricky…
When we tie our worth to those comparisons.
When we start minimising our own beauty, success or strength because someone else seems to have more of something - more confidence, more youth, more qualifications…

We begin to lose sight of who we truly are.

The moment we feel good about one thing, the mind finds something else we “lack” and the cycle continues.

So here’s what I tell my clients and what I want to gently remind you of too:

✨ Your light is yours.
✨ Your story, your timing, your beauty - all completely unique.

Let others shine. But honour your own glow.
Embrace who you are becoming.
And love yourself not in spite of others, but because you are enough, exactly as you are!

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07/07/2025

💭 Which line in the post resonated with you most?

Let me know in the comments or save this for when you need the reminder again.