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28/10/2024

A little announcement here - brief pause in treatment availability.

It's been a little while since I shared here. Apologies for my absence and my deepest thanks to all my friends and clients who have continued to support me both personally and professionally ❤️

I have still been working alongside some wonderful clients, children and adults, with a mixture of Hypnotherapy, EFT and Reflexology/Aromatherapy. It's been such an honour and privilege as always. Thank you ❤️

I am taking some time shortly to receive some necessary treatment, during which I will not be able to treat clients for a little while, but wish everyone to know that I am in good hands and I am being very well cared for. I intend to be back here in my therapy space, treating again as soon as I can, most likely in the new year. During this time, my work emails/messages and socials will be answered with less frequency than usual, though I will do my best to respond when and where possible.

I look forward to seeing some of you here again soon, and thank you all once again for your continued support ❤️

Take care and sending much love, Chantal ###x

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27/09/2024

Whenever I find myself in a dark place, I feel that perhaps I have been planted there to grow 🌿 to find the strength I didn't know I had, to muster up all my might and to push on upwards into the light ✨️ to bloom 🌸

We are all magic 🌟 in all our phases 🌟 wherever we find ourselves 🌟 just the way we are 🌟

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01/09/2024

Adult and child retreat day - summer reset 2024 🌿

It was such an honour and a joy to have joined together again with my beautiful friend and art therapist Tania and some amazing little people and their mums and dads ❤️ Tania always puts everything and more into her days and created the most beautiful and colourful setting for us all to play for the day 🫶🏼

It was my first time introducing in a group setting which was very exciting for me! All the children did so brilliantly and really engaged with answering questions and learning some tools to help regulate their bodies when they feel big emotions. Extra special thanks to some of the adults too for opening up about some of the big emotions they can also feel too, which was really great for the children to hear and to know there is nothing wrong with feeling these, but that we can learn how to listen in to our bodies, help ourselves to regulate the physical sensations and bring our logical minds back to a place where we are more able to seek solutions ❤️

Tania led a beautiful forage in nature for treasures to press into clay pinch pots - which will be glazed and fired for the children and will become home for their brain house charachter cards they created ❤️ the kids made some lovely creations of all different shapes with pretty designs, along with mums and dads who got stuck in too ❤️

We followed with an aromatherapy blending class, learning about essential oils and their uses and making a rollerball for pulse points, each choosing from a handful of oils specially chosen for the day. They were all brilliant and made some really beautiful blends ❤️

Finished with a reflexology tutorial for adults to learn how to give this lovely relaxing treatment to their children. All the children chilled out on beanbags and the adults did a brilliant job learning the routine to enable them to do this at home too ❤️

My deepest thanks to Tania for inviting me to join her once again, and to all the amazing children and their adults who came to share in this very special day ❤️

If anyone is interested in joining us next summer we'd love to see you there ❤️ please message either myself or Tania to let us know and we'll keep you posted 🌿

I hope everyone has had a lovely summer and wish all the children lots of luck going back to school next week. Sending much love and looking forward to seeing some of you here at The Little Room of Calm soon, C ###x

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02/08/2024

Hello 👋

It's been a little while since I posted here, so I just wanted to come and say "hi," and I hope everyone is enjoying the summer so far? 🤍 The weather here on the south coast has been so beautiful! Feeling very grateful for some lovely sunshine ☀️ I'd love to hear what everyone has been up to, how have you been?

I have taken a little time out with my family and friends which has been so lovely 🙏 I've been back at the LROC this week and really enjoyed seeing some of you here again, thank you to all who have visited me 🤍

This week, we've been working with EFT and Hypnotherapy on preparing for secondary school, inner child work, healthy expression of anger and phobia of flying alongside relaxing reflexology/aromatherapy treatments. I am beginning any new Hypnotherapy/NLP/EFT programmes in September for anyone who may be interested in exploring how these therapies may be of benefit in their journey. Please do drop me a line to have a free informal chat if you're interested in working with me here 🤍

I have a few treatment slots left available towards later summer hols for Reflexology/Aromatherapy. If anyone would like to book in some relaxation, I'd love to treat you here 🤍

Lovely Tania and I have one space left on our adult/child end of summer reset workshop on 31st August 10-2.30pm, in preparation for returning to school in September. If anyone would like to come and join us, we'd really love to welcome you 🤍 please PM either of us to book the last space 🙏

Sending much love to everyone and wishing you all a beautiful August ahead ☀️ looking forward to seeing some of you here again soon!

Love Chantal 🤍 ###x

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16/07/2024

A few images from a 2.5hr treatment today with a very special friend ❤️

A warm welcome with herbal tea and chat about life currently 🤍

Aromatherapy foot soak with rose petals 🤍

Blending a bespoke aromatherapy oil to be infused into the therapy space, made into an oil for Reflexology treatment and a rollerball for pulse points to take away 🤍

Full Reflexology treatment working on releasing any stored tension across all acupressure points in the feet, connected to the whole system 🤍

Finished with a chakra balancing treatment using crystals, sound healing, energy healing, blended essential oils and palo Santo and white sage smudge 🤍

I love to give this treatment so much and to be able to spend some deep and connected time dedicated to my clients 🙏 Thank you to all who book with me here, I really appreciate you all ❤️

I am now taking bookings on selected dates during the summer. If anyone would like to book in some tlc, I'd be very honoured to treat you here ❤️

With much love, Chantal ###x

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09/07/2024

The warrior 🤺 (with a Taylor Swift affirmation ❤️) to identify and work through a trigger.

An awesome new brainhouse character that one of my youngest visitors created recently ⭐️ She loves Taylor Swift and so gave her inner warrior an affirmation "shake it off" which I love so much and connects with her ❤️

She had an experience which was quite big and scary for her and had left her feeling quite anxious as a result. She has been doing some really great work at home along with mum and dad, to use her awareness and tools to help reduce panic symptoms to avoid further triggered episodes.

She has done so well and has now spent quite a lot of time not feeling panic in moments that she previously might have which is amazing and a really good sign that she's on track to creating a new neural pathway for safety again.

However, her nervous system is still sensitive to the feeling of nerves within the body, which is a somatic trigger for her. In this session, we normalised this and talked about what triggers are. We discussed how her body would understandably remember associated memories and similar feelings in her body, that she also felt at the times she had that big experience. We identified this nervous feeling as a trigger and discussed that her body will seek to protect her if it remembers, but that sometimes, an activated nervous system response isn't needed. We talked about how important and helpful our nervous systems are, but that sometimes we have to help them learn what isn't necessary now, that we may have once needed. Knowing this trigger now can help her in those moments to recognise whether it is a response that belongs here now and if not, to have faith and keep practicing her regulating tools and not bring meaning for the activated response into her present, to break the cycle.

Her warrior is here to call upon whenever she recognises her triggers. She will close her eyes, imagine herself putting her war paint on and shouting "shake it off!" And use her tools to help regulate ❤️

So proud of this little warrior! 💪⭐️

07/07/2024

Our journey 💙

Feeling a big wave of emotion this morning looking at this pic of G and I soaked through and smiling 💙 I'm so unbelievably proud of this little boy. He's so kind and so brave even though he has faced huge challenges over the past couple of years especially. He's taught me so much about myself and shone light on my own tough past experiences as I've looked at the world through his eyes 💙

He works through some big sensory challenges every day, has started to understand how to regulate emotions more, been able to focus more and has come on so much, been able to vocalise feelings more so we can find solutions together and most importantly, he shows such gentleness and empathy in his life 💙 he makes me cry sometimes with the bigness of his heart 💙

As a mum, there have been times I have felt so lost as to whether I'm doing it right and what the best thing is 💙 there have been lots of tears, but also such immense joy and love 💙 letting go of trying to fit into boxes and allowing him to show me the best way for him has truly been everything.

Thank you for showing me it's beautiful to be free and to live outside the box my love 💙 you heal little parts of me every day I spend with you. I love you so so much, always, just the way you are 💙

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05/07/2024

So proud of you! 🤍

A Hypnotherapy/EFT combined treatment plan for social anxiety and skin rashes secondary to triggered stress response.

I'm so thankful to receive this lovely feedback from an amazing woman I've been so fortunate to work alongside over the past few months. The work we do in session is a place of validation, of curiosity, a space holding and a guide, but this isn't a patch on all the work done inbetween. The faith in the process, the journalling and diving deep, the putting in to practice and the repetition of these every day. She has done this with everything she could, and the results are all down to her 🤍 It's been such an honour and a joy to work together and I couldn't be prouder of her! ⭐️

She came to the LROC with the hope of feeling an increased sense of self esteem, to quieten anxious thoughts, to feel a sense of belonging in her social circle and to eliminate the skin rashes she was experiencing at work when meeting new clients.

When we talked about her life and where these patterns of thought and behaviour originated, we found it traced back to teenage years. This journey was one of working with her younger part, to recognise how she had to show up to feel accepted, loved and enough in her peer group back then. And to recognise what belongs here now, in her present 🤍

We used a mixture of EFT, NLP, Hypnotherapy and daily journalling and practice throughout the process over 7 bi-weekly sessions. 🤍

I'm so proud of her for attending lots of social events and weddings recently and for being able to meet new clients now, free from stress induced rashes 🙏 and I'm so grateful to have walked alongside her for a short while in her beautiful journey ✨️ wishing her so much peace, strength and love in her road ahead 🤍

If you are interested in exploring EFT/Hypnotherapy and would like to discuss how this may be able to support you in your life, I'd love to hear from you. Please contact me for a free informal chat to discuss further 🤍

Much love, C ###

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04/07/2024

A little needed forest medicine today 🌿 sunshine and a sea of beautiful ferns on the trails 💚 feeling grateful for these moments 💚

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03/07/2024

Spiralling Thoughts 🤍

Many thanks to lovely Anita for inviting me to join in this recent summer issue. Free to subscribe at www.rootandbranchmagazine.co.uk. It's been really great to write again and to join you and all the wonderful holistic practitioners and businesses sharing their work 🤍

This exercise has helped me very much in my own life when I have recognised recurring thought spirals, and is one I share here with my clients to identify where our minds can spiral into thought patterns that take so much energy and that can sometimes lead to feelings of frustration/hopelessness. The act of recognising these familiar spirals and saying to our mind 'dead end' is not to say these things are not there, and not, perhaps, upsetting. But to be able to recognise where our energy may be going, and give us a moment to pause and instead of spiralling into the thought, help identify what we may have influence over in that situation and choose whether we wish to consciously do that instead 🤍

Is there something practical we can do?
Have we done our best in this situation?
Does this belong here now, or is it a triggered response?
If it is triggered, what may our body need to complete the stress cycle and help bring ourselves back to regulation without attaching meaning to our present?
Do we need to talk it out/feel heard and seen?
Do we need to offer ourselves some kindness/self care?
Do we feel activated in our bodies....can we focus on helping our bodies back to regulation with movement/breath?
Would we benefit from a boundary around our time/energy/ sutuation/ people/ places?
Do we just need to shift focus to something that brings us a little moment of joy/lightness?

In this way, it can begin to help us feel more empowered in situations that we can't control. To recognise if/where we may be able to do anything to help and also to remind ourselves that if we are doing those things, that we are doing our best and that's all any of us can hope to do. To help in those moments to release the mind gently from turning it over and over repeatedly/berating ourselves. To help us accept what may feel really hard to, in the knowing we can not do more than we are 🤍

Sending much love to everyone and I hope you find helpful too if you feel you ever need 🤍 ###x

01/07/2024

June 💛

A few little moments of ❤️ from this month....

Hedgerow forage for a foot soak and The LROC looking pretty in the sunshine
My beautiful friend Tash and I after a sea dip
Current read - re-reading Women who run with wolves ❤️ so beautiful.
My new pin badge and sandals
Lovely trail run with my lovely bud Hanna
Really beautiful breakfast catch up with my oldest bestie and our babies at Southbourne beach - tried to have a beach bbq, cleaned it and then it didn't work...so got baps from the hut instead
Sunny fathers day forest walk
First harvest from our cherry tree
My lovely client David and I - 4 years treating for neuropathy this year, and now he is a dear friend
Felicity and George saved up and bought fish. After 3 weeks of tricky times trying to get the tank water right, this was the big moment!

Welcoming in July and sending much love to everyone ☀️
I am slowing down here in a couple of weeks to spend time with my family but will still be offering some treatment slots. I am now taking bookings for treatments throughout the summer. If anyone would like to book an appointment with me here, I would be very happy to welcome you at The LROC. Wishing you a beautiful month ahead ###x

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26/06/2024

Noticing the glimmers in the space inbetween 🤍

I am so passionate about this deep and beautiful journey back to alignment in the present 🤍 and noticing the glimmers along the way that can help us have faith in this sacred space inbetween subconscious patterns of coping rooted in past experiences and conscious, aligned actions in the here and now 🤍

The glimmers ✨️

Noticing the awareness and pause that we may not have done before 🤍

Knowing our triggers and understanding why 🤍

Understanding that we were doing our best with what we had and knew at the time 🤍

Giving love and thanks to those parts that hold outdated patterns of protection for what they did that served us once, but choosing to follow a different path that belongs here now. The road less travelled, but with faith and love, one that can become more familiar and aligned, the more we discover 🤍

And understanding that being triggered may happen at times, but between stimulus and response is where evidence our healing can be found 🤍

In that space in between and how we speak to ourselves, how we love the parts of ourselves that are trying to protect us, we can find a freedom and release, as many times as we need 🤍

That being triggered is not a sign we are not healing and growing, that the awareness we are being triggered and what we consciously choose to do now is a glimmer of our healing 🤍 even if it means releasing again and again and again with faith and love, as we strengthen the new neural pathways for safety in the present 🤍

I'm so grateful to all who share their journeys with me 🤍 it is an honour to walk beside you 🙏

Sending much love, strength and peace to all today and celebrating all our glimmers ✨️

C ###x

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My name is Chantal and I trained at Southampton University as a batchelor of Nursing with Honours. I am also a qualified Reflexologist with a passion for holistic care.

I have worked in the care industry for 20 years with a range of clients including children with Asperger's and Autism, adults with Learning Disabilities, older people with psychiatric conditions and dementia, patients who have suffered a stroke, Rheumatology, Heart and Lung Transplant patients and currently work with patients who have gastrointestinal and respiratory conditions in an NHS setting.

I have a great interest in treating the person as a ‘whole’, taking into account the mind, body and soul and believe this multi-faceted approach can ensure that people are able to experience the best quality of life possible.

I do not diagnose, however I am medically trained and therefore understand how the many interdependent systems of the body work and how an imbalance can affect the mechanics. This has helped me greatly in my ability to treat my clients with Reflexology.