Aegle Mind & Body

27/07/2023

For a long time I HATED that I was sensitive. I honestly thought it was the worst. I seemed to take things more personally than everyone else. I cried at everything. I lived inside my own head a lot of the time.

I wished and wished and wished I could be more like my siblings, more like my friends.

It took a long time to change my narrative around sensitivity. To stop seeing it as a hindrance that I had to overcome and instead view it as one of my greatest assets.

🤔 do you view your sensitivity?

👊 Is it time to rewrite the script?

I have two spaces opening up this August so if you’re feeling at all curious by what your life could look like once you embrace your sensitivity, gift yourself a discovery call with me today via the link in bio.

13/07/2023

A phrase my parents became all too accustomed to hearing during my teens was, "Why does life feel so much harder for me?" It's a phrase I’m sure my parents found melodramatic and which, upon reflection, a few days later, I did too. But, there did seem to be some truth to the statement.

If you find yourself often wondering why life feels harder for you than others, this is a must read post!

Life Coach Directory

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05/07/2023

For women who feel like their sensitivity is more of a burden than a superpower to embrace their unique qualities and learn to thrive.

05/07/2023

Are you easily overwhelmed? Do you freeze under pressure? Does negative feedback stay with you for days? Have you ever been told that you’re “too sensitive” or to “not take things so personally?”.

Then I have something for you.

In this workshop we will dive deep into the world of the Highly Sensitive Person. The person who thinks deeply, who feels intensely, who is easily moved to tears.

I am excited to be hosting a workshop on Tuesday 25th July which explores how you can learn to thrive in this world as a sensitive soul. (Don’t worry if you can’t join us live, a recording will be sent to anyone who registers!)

Life Coach Directory

For women who feel like their sensitivity is more of a burden than a superpower to embrace their unique qualities and learn to thrive.

21/06/2023

Are you easily startled? Do you often feel overwhelmed? Are your emotions intense? Might be that you're a Highly Sensitive Person. Take the quiz to find out more.

Life Coach Directory

Are you easily overwhelmed? Alexandra Taylor talks about the highly sensitive person

19/06/2023

A phrase that I have heard too many times to count throughout my life is “don’t take things so personally - stop being so emotional!”. I was amazed that people around me could just take this advice on board and run with it. I felt like I was somehow failing at therapy and incapable of change.

There was other well meaning advice, like “it’s not that big of a deal”, “you think too much”, “you make things more complicated than they need to be” that also just didn’t work for me. It always felt like people didn’t quite ‘get’ me. During my various therapy and coaching trainings, we were taught to support our clients through strategies that embodied these messages. And again for many of my clients it worked really well.

But there were plenty of women who felt like I did: They had tried their best and it hadn’t worked. They were doomed to struggle with this forever. Learning about the Highly Sensitive Person, was game changing in this respect. It wasn’t that I (and many of my clients) didn’t get it, or weren’t trying hard enough, or broken. It was simply that our nervous systems are more sensitive and work in a different way to non-HSP’s.

Being an HSP, I see you, I feel you, I understand you. I recognise that the advice that works for the majority doesn’t always work for us. I know the strategies that actually support sensitive people in thriving in this world.

So if you’re tired of trying advice that doesn’t work for you, that actually makes you feel worse about yourself, then you’re in the right place.

Give yourself the gift of truly meeting and understanding yourself for the first time in a long time this summer by booking in for a free discovery call today.

14/06/2023

I know we’ve all been there. A relationship that we hold onto because it feels comfortable, even though a part of us knows that it isn’t right for us. A job that we stay in because it feels familiar, even though we know we are plateauing. A routine that we stick to because it feels safe, even though it brings us no joy.

Why, when we know it's not benefiting us, do we do this?

The honest truth is, many of us prefer to choose a life of misery. Read on to find out more.

Don't forget to share with someone who needs to know this.

Life Coach Directory

Integrative coach Alexandra Taylor explores how stepping out of your comfort zone can create a life full of happiness.

13/06/2023

The topic of relaxation is one that it very important to me. I struggled with chronic health issues for which I saw doctors, specialists, dieticians, therapists, energy healers you name it, without much success.

It was through learning the value of rest that I started to feel my body finally heal. That I could begin to put into practice what the dieticians, therapists, healers had shared with me.

We wear busyness as a badge of honour. We think that self-care is selfish.

Yet without this important practice our bodies are left in a constant state of fight or flight. Processes to heal, rejuvenate, digest and put into sleep mode whilst our body pumps out adrenaline, cortisol etc.

I've written a post for Life Coach Directory which explores how rest is so much more than an evening on the sofa. And that if we aren't resting the entire body, we are doing ourselves a great disservice.

Take a read and share with anyone who needs to hear this! x

Alexandra Taylor explains the importance of relaxation and shares 6 ways we can feel restored.

12/06/2023

This is a question I get asked by many of my clients. And trust me, as an HSP I can understand why.
But rejecting your sensitivity is rejecting who you really are.

Wearing a mask to fit in is exhausting. Feeling like you are somehow broken or flawed is soul destroying.

Only once you start to embrace your sensitivity, can you truly start to heal and thrive in this world. And perhaps this means truly meeting yourself for the first time in a long time.

There’s stigma and narrative around being a sensitive person. That you’re weak, highly emotional, unstable - and perhaps there are times when you haven’t taken care of yourself that it manifests in that way.

But being sensitive has so many amazing benefits that I’d never wish to get rid of:

🎉 being highly attuned to other people’s emotions

🎉 a strong intuition

🎉 the ability to learn from past situations

🎉 enhanced experience of joy, awe, beauty, nature

🎉 conscientious

🎉 adept at spotting errors

🎉 keen concentration and deep focus

To stop being sensitive, would mean to lose all of the positive things it brings to your life as well.

08/06/2023

I’m a woman who feels it ALL.

An advert on TV can have me weeping. Graphic writings make me feel queazy. I can feel the disappointment someone else experiences ordering a bad meal.

I grew up believing that this was an undesirable trait, something that I would grow out of or otherwise need to learn to squash to fit in with the world.

But now I know that my sensitivity is a superpower. Yes I may feel more deeply but that means I also get to experience beauty, awe, joy, love, happiness more intensely too.

Understanding your sensitivity is an empowering step to thriving in an overwhelming world.

This page is for the women who feels it all to meet herself and better understand how she can safely show up in this world.

15/05/2023

A few weeks ago, I flew home for a few days before going to my friend's wedding in Spain, whom I hadn't seen since I moved. The trip had been planned for a year and I was beyond excited. After spending a few days with my parents, I set off to Gatwick airport, suitcase packed, passport in hand, a big smile on my face.

At the gate, boarding the flight, a gentlemen informed me that my passport wasn't valid, and I was denied boarding... 😭

Here's what this experience taught me Life Coach Directory

Integrative coach Alexandra Taylor shares a lesson she learned about control after missing her friend's wedding.

09/05/2023

Did you agree to long weekend plans that you didn't actually want to do? Or do you find yourself saying yes when really you mean no?

I've shared a new post with Life Coach Directory exploring the reasons so many of us find ourselves in these situations and a simple framework to overcome unhealthy people pleasing.

Have you agreed to weekend plans you don't want to do again? Alexandra Taylor explains how to say "no" next time

09/03/2023

If you always feel like there is something more for you to be getting on with, another task you should be doing... then read this. My latest post with The Life Coach Directory exploring the impact childhood beliefs can have on our adult selves.

Alexandra Taylor challenges the internalised message in your head.

17/02/2023

Let me start off by saying…

There's often this idea with therapy or coaching that in order to make the changes we want to see we have to overhaul our entire lives.

But what I've come to learn over the years of supporting women, is that what matters most is what we do little and often. It’s the small, daily changes that are often far more impactful and sustainable.

Learning to love and accept your messy self is not a quick fix process. It takes time. So instead of thinking that you have to do it all, right now, just pick one thing that you can do, one thing that you can sustain as a daily practice until it becomes a habit as ingrained as brushing your teeth.

Save this post and when the first small change has become a habit, move onto the next!

13/02/2023

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FICTION!

There's often this idea with therapy or coaching that in order to make the changes we want to see we have to overhaul our entire lives. But what I've come to learn over the years of supporting women, is that what matters most, is what we do little and often.

Small, daily changes are often far more impactful and sustainable than making big, overwhelming changes that typically set us up for failure.

Which is why I work with my clients for a period of 12 weeks so that we can continue to nurture those daily practices with a level of accountability, and rewire unwanted patterns of a lifetime. For many people that's a big mindset shift and goes against the countless quick fixes we are sold again and again in society.

But the truth is, you can show up for 2, 3 or even 4 sessions, slap a plaster over the problem and temporarily feel better. But I'm not interested in that.

I don't just want you to *feel* better. I want you to *live* better.

I'm passionate about getting to the root, helping you to understand why you don't feel enough, why you keep bumping up against the same limitations and sharing the tools to help you unconditionally accept yourself.

Check out my latest blog where I share 10 daily practices to cultivate more self compassion, acceptance and love!

10/02/2023

Stop chasing what already exists inside of you.

You’ve spent far too long looking outside for something or someone to fill the void of not enough-ness. Swipe left for some journaling prompts to help you challenge your existing beliefs and to start loving and accepting yourself as you are right now.

If you struggle with these journal prompts, don’t worry you are definitely not alone.

Changing your mindset to believe that you are enough, that you are worthy, valuable, loveable just as you are, is not easy work. It requires taking a deep, honest look at yourself, even the parts you’ve hidden away or even rejected, and cultivating acceptance and compassion.

The first step is making that choice to befriend yourself. To see yourself through the eyes of the people who most love you.

If you resonate with this and would like some extra support as you do this work, I’m here for you. Book in for your complementary discovery call to understand we can work together so that you start unconditionally loving and accepting all parts of you.

Remember, you deserve to be happy. You deserve to be loved. You deserve to believe that you are enough.

06/02/2023

What do you believe makes you enough?

If you have a few moments, grab a notebook and spend some time reflecting more deeply on this. Ask yourself:
What does being enough mean to me?
What have I connected being enough with (ie finances / relationships)?
Where does that connection come from (i.e. an experience / inherited from family / society)?

(...or save this post so that you can come back to these prompts later)

Now, what was your answer? How did you fill the blank?

The fact that you have a good job or earn a decent salary? The number of followers you have on social media? Because you’re in a relationship?

It’s so easy to fall into this trap of thinking that when a certain thing happens (when you get the promotion, lose some weight etc), you’ll then be enough…

The truth is though, that there really is only one answer:

I am enough because… I am me.

A true, you are enough simply for being you.

You deserve to be happy. You deserve to be loved. You deserve to believe that you are enough. The first step is making that choice to befriend yourself. To see yourself through the eyes of the people who most love you.

You’ve spent far too long looking outside for something or someone to fill the void of not enough-ness. Now is the time to turn inwards and discover that what you’ve been searching for has been waiting within you all along!

Please take with you today that YOU ARE ENOUGH, JUST AS YOU ARE!

Share this with someone who needs this reminder 💕

03/02/2023

Not feeling very lovable atm?

First off, you’re not alone 🫶

I know it may not feel like it at this time of year, when there’s so much talk about self-love and self-care. But I promise you, so much of what my clients come to me about stems from a place of feeling unlovable.

Getting to a place of truly loving yourself is hard.

And in all this chat online about self-love and self-care, I often feel this gets lost, along with its true meaning.

Self-love is more than just repeating daily affirmations, having bubble baths and painting your nails.

Self-love is having the unshakable knowledge that you are enough.

For much of my teens and twenties, I struggled with feeling like I wasn't enough. I found ways to prove my worth through academic and sporting achievements. I entered toxic relationships because they validated me and made me feel good. And yet it was still never enough. I wasn't the smartest, the funniest, the thinnest, the most successful. I felt I was always lacking.

Now, I can see how I was placing myself on rocky grounds. I was basing my self-worth on external factors and constantly trying to fill this hole of ‘not enough-ness' with temporary quick fixes.

Learning to validate myself and become my best cheerleader was not a quick fix. Nor was it easy. But the journey was an interesting one, filled with self discovery and insight.

If you are reading this thinking, yeah but how!!!??? Check out my latest blog where I explore what being enough and unconditional acceptance looks like AND what you can do to start truly and deeply loving yourself.