Seeds of Change psychotherapeutic Counselling.

07/02/2026

Sometimes it’s easier to talk when it feels a little less scary.
If you’ve been holding things in on your own, this is your gentle reminder that support is here 🌱
You don’t have to figure it all out alone.

Seeds of Change Psychotherapeutic Counselling Thetford.

28/01/2026

When Everyday Triggers Are Actually Echoes of Childhood

Have you ever wondered, “Why do I react so strongly to something so small?”
A colleague’s feedback, a raised voice in the next room, a delayed reply from someone you care about — suddenly your heart is racing, your chest feels tight, and your mind jumps straight to defend, apologise, withdraw, or disappear.

Many people label this as being “too sensitive.”
In trauma-informed work, we understand something very different.

Often, these reactions aren’t about what’s happening now — they’re about what happened then.

When we grow up in environments where criticism felt constant, emotions were ignored, conflict felt unsafe, or love felt conditional, our nervous system adapts to survive. It learns to stay alert, to scan for danger, to react quickly to protect us. Those strategies once kept us safe. The problem is, they don’t automatically switch off in adulthood.

So when feedback feels like rejection…
When silence feels like abandonment…
When raised voices feel like danger…
Your body isn’t being dramatic — it’s remembering.

Triggers aren’t signs of weakness. They are signals.
They show us where old wounds still live, where our nervous system learned certain stories: “I’m not enough,” “I’ll be left,” “I need to keep the peace,” “It’s safer to stay quiet.”

Healing isn’t about telling yourself to “calm down” or “get over it.”
It’s about slowing things down, building awareness, and gently teaching your nervous system that this moment is different. That you are safer now. That you have choice. That your needs and boundaries matter.

With support, these echoes don’t have to control your adult life.
They can become invitations — to self-compassion, understanding, and deeper healing.

You’re not broken.
You’re responding exactly as you once learned to survive. 🌱

If this resonates, you’re not alone — and you don’t have to work through it on your own.

28/01/2026

🌱 Seeds of Change check-in

How are you doing in what seems like the longest month of the year?

Thriving, surviving, or somewhere in between — all are welcome here 🤍

🌿 Growth doesn’t always look like blooming.

Sometimes it looks like getting through the day, resting when you need to, or asking for support.
That still counts.

🌾 Before anything grows above the surface, roots are forming below.

What you’re doing right now — even if it feels quiet or unseen — matters.

🌸 You don’t have to rush this season.

Change happens in its own time.
Be gentle with yourself.

🍃 If this month feels heavy, you don’t have to carry it alone.

Support, space, and understanding are part of growth.

23/01/2026

If you’re feeling overwhelmed, anxious, or stuck in overthinking, this is often a helpful place to begin.
At Seeds of Change, I support you to focus on what you can influence — and find compassion for everything else.

22/01/2026

You made it through the darkest weeks of the year.
Less light can mean heavier emotions, lower energy, and a louder inner critic — and none of that means you’re doing life “wrong.”

This is your gentle reminder that resilience doesn’t always look like strength. Sometimes it looks like rest, asking for support, and taking things one step at a time.

The light is returning — slowly, quietly, just like healing often does. 🌱

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18/01/2026

Sometimes life looks the same whether things work out or they don’t — the same mornings, the same responsibilities, the same world carrying on. But what changes is you.

If it works out, you grow in confidence, relief, and gratitude.
If it doesn’t, you grow in resilience, clarity, and self-trust.

Either way, you are not standing still. You are learning what you can survive, what you value, and how deeply you can keep going. Life doesn’t pause to reward or punish us — it keeps moving, and so do we. And that means every outcome still carries you forward, shaping you into someone stronger, wiser, and more grounded than before.

You don’t lose when it doesn’t work out. You become. 🌱

15/01/2026

14/01/2026

🌿 Counselling Spaces Available – Face to Face 🌿

I currently have a few face-to-face counselling spaces available at the Charles Burrell Centre, offering a calm, confidential, and supportive space to explore whatever you may be carrying.

I offer a free, no-obligation phone consultation, giving you the opportunity to talk through your needs and see if counselling with me feels like the right fit.

📞 07368 383412
🌱 Seeds of Change Psychotherapeutic Counselling

Kim Edwards
BA (Hons) Integrative Counselling & Psychotherapy
MBACP 403663

If you’re considering counselling, you don’t have to do it alone — reach out and take the first gentle step. 💚

01/01/2026

Happy new year!! Let’s hope for a happy and healthy 2026 for all 🎉🎉

23/12/2025

🎄 Merry Christmas from Seeds of Change 🎄

As the year gently comes to a close, I want to say a huge thank you to all my wonderful clients for your openness, courage, and dedication this year. Your hard work has truly been the heartbeat of Seeds of Change.

✨ Seeds of Change will be closed from 12pm on 24th December and will reopen on 2nd January 2026.

Wishing you a Christmas filled with warmth, rest, and moments of calm, and a New Year full of fresh beginnings and gentle growth. I can’t wait to see you all again in 2026.

08/12/2025

Trusting your nervous system means learning to believe the signals of safety, intuition, and regulation in your body again—especially if you’ve lived with anxiety, trauma, or emotional uncertainty.

Here’s a clear, gentle way to understand and build that trust:

🍃Understand what your nervous system is doing
Your nervous system’s job is protection, not logic. When it’s been overwhelmed in the past, it may overreact now. This doesn’t mean you’re broken—it means your body learned to survive.

🍂Learn the difference between intuition and anxiety
• Intuition feels calm, steady, and grounded.
• Anxiety feels urgent, loud, and catastrophic.
Trust grows when you pause and ask, “Is this protective fear or present-moment truth?”

🍁Regulate first, then decide
You can’t trust a dysregulated system. Use slow breathing, grounding, movement, or warmth before making decisions. Calm brings clarity.

🍃Keep small promises to your body
Eat regularly, rest when tired, move gently, hydrate. Every time you respond to a physical need, your body learns: I am safe with you.

🍂Track evidence of safety
Your brain remembers danger easily but forgets safety fast. At the end of each day, note one moment your body felt okay. This retrains your system to recognize calm.

🍁Repair instead of judge
When you get triggered, respond with compassion instead of criticism:
“I’m safe right now. My body is remembering, not predicting.”

🍃Trust grows through consistency, not force
You don’t “think” your way into nervous system trust—you experience it through repeated moments of regulation, safety, and self-attunement.