Break The Cycle Therapy

Break The Cycle Therapy Therapy for girls and women struggling with anxiety, body image and low self-esteem. Helping you to build confidence from the inside out ✨️

It can feel really isolating to live with constant thoughts and feelings like this, especially when on the outside it mi...
22/04/2026

It can feel really isolating to live with constant thoughts and feelings like this, especially when on the outside it might look like you’re coping, holding things together, or “just overthinking a bit”…🧠

But internally, you're doing so much analysing, questioning, and feeling the pressure to be a certain kind of person, to look a certain way, to not get it wrong.

When you’re in this pattern of thinking, it’s easy to turn that back on yourself and wonder what’s wrong with you, or why things feel harder than they seem to for everyone else 😔
But these patterns don’t come from nowhere, they develop for reasons, and when you start to understand them, even just a little, something can begin to shift and soften towards yourself.

If you can relate to this and are interested in finding out how therapy can support you, feel free to drop me a message 📩✨

21/04/2026

It makes sense that you’d want to wait until you feel more confident, more secure in yourself, more “ready” before you do the things you actually want, especially if you’ve spent a long time feeling not quite good enough, second guessing yourself, or worrying how you’ll come across.

Whether thats around starting dating again, wearing certain clothes, taking that holiday or looking for a new job etc. Somewhere along the way, it can start to feel like confidence is the entry requirement for living your life, rather than something that grows ✨️because✨️ you’re living it.

That feeling of “I’ll do it when I feel better about myself” often keeps you stuck in the exact place that’s reinforcing the doubt in the first place, where you’re holding back and waiting for a version of you that feels more certain in herself, more polished, more acceptable.

But confidence isn’t something that suddenly arrives one day, no matter what you look like or have achieved, it’s something that builds in the doing, in the showing up while it still feels a bit uncomfortable.

So instead of waiting until you feel “good enough,” what would it look like to let yourself do things first and allow the feeling to catch up later? 🩷

Feel free to follow for more support with anxiety, self-worth, and building a more compassionate relationship with yourself ✨️

There’s something I hear so often in therapy, its usually something along the lines of "but my childhood was great" or "...
15/04/2026

There’s something I hear so often in therapy, its usually something along the lines of "but my childhood was great" or "nothing that bad has ever happened to me."

But what tends to sit underneath that is confusion, and sometimes even a bit of self-blame, like if you can’t point to something obvious, then maybe you shouldn’t be struggling in the first place😩

A lot of the work we end up doing together in therapy isn’t about finding something dramatic or labelling your past (or your parents) as “bad." It’s about gently noticing the moments where your needs weren’t fully met, where you didn’t feel heard, or where you learned to put yourself to one side to keep the peace or protect others.

Those experiences are often quieter and harder to notice, but they still shape how you deal with experiences and emotions now.

🩷Therapy can be a space where you don’t have to justify or prove why you feel the way you do. Instead, we just get curious about it together, at your pace, and start making sense of what’s there

If you relate to this and you’ve been feeling a bit stuck or confused about your own experiences, you’re always welcome to drop me a message or book a free consultation call via the link in my bio 📩✨

It can be such a common feeling, looking at other people’s lives and thinking they’re somehow further ahead or doing bet...
08/04/2026

It can be such a common feeling, looking at other people’s lives and thinking they’re somehow further ahead or doing better than you.

But so often, what you’re seeing is just a small, edited part of someone else’s experience, without the doubts, challenges or difficult moments that sit alongside it.

And when you’re comparing your full, lived experience to that, it’s almost inevitable that you’ll feel like you’re behind. It’s less about where you actually are in life, and more about the lens through which your viewing.

Small shifts, like questioning the comparison or softening how you speak to yourself, can start to change how heavy it feels day to day 🩷

Some of the beliefs you carry about yourself might feel like facts, like they’ve always been there and so they must be t...
01/04/2026

Some of the beliefs you carry about yourself might feel like facts, like they’ve always been there and so they must be true.

But often, beliefs we hold about ourselves were shaped over time, through what you experienced, what you heard, and how others responded to you. When something is repeated enough, either by others or ourselves, your mind learns to hold onto it and take is as fact.

Not because it’s true, but because it’s familiar.

So if you’ve been carrying thoughts like “I’m not good enough” or “there’s something wrong with me” it makes sense that they feel so real, like an unquestioned fact. But that doesn’t mean doesn’t mean they have to stay unquestioned.

🩷You’re allowed to pause and ask: “Is this actually true, or is this something I learned?”

❓If you feel comfortable sharing, what’s one belief about yourself you’ve started to question recently?

18/11/2025

If you’re struggling to feel comfortable in your body right now, you’re not alone 🩷 Motherhood changes everything, including how you see yourself and your body.

You deserve support that isn’t about shrinking your body, but about rebuilding your self-worth and feeling more at ease in your own skin 🥰

If this speaks to you, you’re welcome to book a free chat with me to see how I can support you, DM me or book through the link in my bio ✨️

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