Embody Loving You Holistic Therapies

14/05/2024

Today https://lbrucetherapies.com in I am looking at the genogram – a kind of family tree with feelings.

It's a tool I like to use in coaching work because it gives powerful visual representation to our lived experience & it can help us to explore & understand the ways in which our sense of self has been formed & informed by our upbringing & make sense of the ways that the ways we experienced relationships & emotional connections may be affecting the way we respond to our relationships & life challenges in the here & now.

If you would like to read more the please go to https://www.lbrucetherapies.com/post/genograms-a-family-tree-with-feelings.

Warm wordy hugs

Laura xx

Today I want to explore the concept of a genogram, a tool I use in my coaching support. The concept of a genogram may be unfamiliar but I like to call it a family tree with feelings.Now I love programmes like Who Do You Think You Are & the ways that they use a family tree to delve back into history....

03/05/2024

So .... only a week later that planned & thanks in part to a bizarre website crash & also to my decision to honour all I believe in & practice what I preach - stepping away from stress to take recuperative time out - this week I am looking at the ways that I blend narrative therapies into my holistic practice as a way of working with chronic health conditions. If you would like to read more please go to

https://www.lbrucetherapies.com/post/holistic-narratives-releasing-the-stories-within

Warm wordy hugs

Laura xx

19/04/2024

In this weeks post in https://lbrucetherapies.com I look at the ways that getting caught up in our story about ourselves can lead us to begin to live our story in our bodies, experiencing symptoms & side effects exhaust & overwhelm us, ultimately keeping us locked into our narrative, unable to break the bounds of our story to find space & begin to learn the lessons from our experiences that can allow us to move forwards.

If you want to read more see
https://www.lbrucetherapies.com/post/stories-lived-stories-told-living-our-story-in-our-bodies

Warm wordy hugs

Laura xx

I mentioned in my blog Don’t Marry Your Hypothesis on the 5th of April that narrative therapy spoke to some deep knowing that I had always felt but found hard to express.I loved the keys it offered me in understanding the ways that we begin to inhabit the stories we tell ourselves & the ways that ...

12/04/2024

In this week’s blog I look at the ways that we can get specific about the layers of detail behind the stories we are telling ourselves, opening up the weave of our narrative to give ourselves opportunities to explore those spaces of self-compassion & kindness that will allow us to embrace the depth & richness of our story.
If you would like to read more see

So, in last weeks post I looked at the ways that we get caught up in our hypothesis of who we are & the ways that this can lead us to develop very thin & restrictive stories about ourselves & our capacities to cope with the challenges life may bring us.Along with that powerful reminder that we shoul...

05/04/2024

Happy Friday everyone

In this weeks blogpost in https://lbrucetherapies.com I am discussing narrative therapy, one of the tools I use in my mindset work.

I love the ways that narrative therapy helps us challenge the dominant narrative we may have about ourselves so we can identify & flesh out “alternative” storylines that exist beyond the confines of what may have become a problem story that is keeping us confined & unable to reach our full potential.

If you would like to read more please see

https://www.lbrucetherapies.com/post/don-t-marry-your-hypothesis-flirt-grow-into-all-that-you-can-be

Warm wordy hugs

Laura xx

Systemic family therapist Barbara Lichner advises that when it comes to trying to resolve a problem, we should not marry our hypothesis, we should instead flirt with different ideas & try to make sense of the problem by understanding how it works & just what it is bringing to the table.I loved this....

29/03/2024

In this week’s blog I explore the ways that we learn to outsource approval & the ways this affects our self-esteem & our ability to step into our power & our full potential because the truth is, if we depend on the love, the judgement, the approval of others to be able to find & experience our own worth, we are always on an unstable base. This can never be a space of safety because what is given can be easily & quickly taken away.

If you want to read more go to https://lbrucetherapies.com

Warm wordy hugs

Laura xx

https://www.lbrucetherapies.com/post/she-really-loves-herself-letting-go-of-judgement-to-love-all-that-we-are

22/03/2024

In today’s blogpost I explore our self-talk – the ways we have learned to speak to ourselves & ask would we talk this way to someone we love?

It’s a post that resonates for me this week because as weeks go its been a rollercoaster of drama & when faced with life’s ups & downs its all too easy to slip into our harshest voice.
Many times this week I’ve had to check myself & a great technique I use to check myself in my harsh voice is to acknowledge the mean words – externalise them, write them down & ask yourself – is this true? If someone I love was going through this situation, what would I say to them? Would I really talk this way? Then take all you have written & let it go – tear it up, burn it or soak it in water – it no longer belongs within you.

If you want to read more go to https://www.lbrucetherapies.com/post/self-talk-would-you-talk-this-way-to-someone-you-love

Warm wordy hugs

Laura xx

https://www.lbrucetherapies.com/post/self-talk-would-you-talk-this-way-to-someone-you-love

Our self-talk is so important to our emotional wellbeing. This is a post that resonates for me this week because as weeks go it’s been a rollercoaster of drama & when faced with life’s ups & downs it’s all too easy to slip into our harshest voice. Have you noticed that when we forget something...

15/03/2024

In todays blogpost in https://lbrucetherapies.com I explore the topic of timelines, a popular coaching tool that I love to use as a way of exploring the path of our history & stories as a route towards making sense of our present.

I love the ways that timelines encourage us to get curious about our stuff - visible & invisible 0 the stuff that makes us tick in the here & now.

If you want to read more about timelines go to https://www.lbrucetherapies.com/post/timelines-exploring-the-stories-within

Warm wordy hugs

Laura xx

Today I want to speak about Timelines. The Timeline is a popular tool in coaching & I love to use it as a way of exploring the path of our history & opening up to our stories as a route towards making sense of our present. I love the way timelines encourage us to get curious about the stuff – visi...

08/03/2024

Happy International Women's Day.

If you would like to read about the work I do to support women with children with disabilities & additional needs who are all too often excluded from the benefits system then read this weeks blogpost
https://www.lbrucetherapies.com/post/women-life-freedom

Warm wordy hugs

Laura xx

With this year’s International Women’s Day’s focus on inclusion, I want to highlight the ways that supporting women who are excluded from the benefits system is at the core of all I do – my work is heart-led & very much grounded in connection & support.I’ve always been hugely uncomfortable...

01/03/2024

As a new month begins & we enter into the optimism of meteorological Spring, in this weeks blogpost in https://lbrucetherapies.com I explore the ways that I use Emotional Freedom Technique or Tapping to explore, understand & release the impact of the negative stories we may hold about ourselves so that we can create space for different more powerful & uplifting stories supporting our capacity to create healing change on a physical, emotional & spiritual level.

If you would like to learn more go to https://www.lbrucetherapies.com/post/let-go-of-stuck-stories-with-emotional-freedom-technique

Warm wordy hugs

Laura xx

https://www.lbrucetherapies.com/post/let-go-of-stuck-stories-with-emotional-freedom-technique

This week I want to speak about Emotional Freedom Technique or Tapping, one of my favourite techniques for bringing balance to mind, body & soul. This technique involves tapping on the meridian points of our body to create energetic shifts that allow us to let go of held discomfort & distress. It ca...

23/02/2024

I’m closing this month of reflections on love language by reaching into the core of love language – how we love ourselves.

When we learn to become fluent in loving ourselves, we embark on a journey into self-understanding. It can be hard-wrought but it is always profoundly healing & each & every day it is a journey that bears more fruit as you grow in confidence learning how to holding yourself lovingly through life’s ups & downs in ways that once upon a time might have seemed was a dream. Learning to love yourself for yourself, the woman you are with all your quirks foibles & yes what you may perceive as flaws is always the key. Let your languages of self-love lead the way.

If you want to read more on love language see today’s post in https://www.lbrucetherapies.com/post/become-fluent-in-the-language-self-love-to-illuminate-your-journey-into-self-connection

So many wordy hugs

Laura xx

I’m going to close this month of reflections on love language by reaching into the core of love language – how we love ourselves. Because the truth is its very hard to love or be loved by someone else when you are coming from a place where you simply don’t love yourself. Too often you will be ...

16/02/2024

In last week's blog post I looked at Gary Chapman’s theory around love languages & the ways that understanding our love language gives us opportunities to understand & enhance the nature of our communication with loved ones.

This week I'm going a little deeper & consider what lies beneath our personal love languages & what happens if we have not been able to develop a secure relationship with & understanding of our authentic love languages?

If you'd like to learn more have a look at this weeks blogpost

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