Anxiety busting with Emily

14/11/2025

Today I attended the mind body and spirit festival and I can honestly say it was glorious! I've been going for 8 years. A chilled, calm, creative environment with heaps of taster sessions. We did Kundalini yoga, gong baths, tried raw cacao and met some gorgeous people.

An amazing day, can recommend 🙏💓

12/11/2025

My Anxiety Coaching approach embraces a body up⬆️ and mind down⬇️ approach, exactly for this reason.👇

We also explore the science behind why.👌

31/10/2025

I love wellbeing 🙏
I believe in every tool💗
I am super passionate about helping unique individuals understand themselves and find a right blend of tools or approaches to serve them and their wellbeing, to feel at their best.🔨🛠

Here's the thing:👇

To do this type of work it's so vital to turn this work inward.💗

To, I guess,... 'walk the talk' 🚶‍♂️🗣

Not always been the best I'll admit at doing this.🤦‍♀️

This week I've taken two days off to recentre, connect and flood my nervous system with safe regulating messages 〰️

Kundalini yoga🧘‍♀️, journalling,✍️time with family, laughing😀, sharing with good friends and walking through leaves 🍂and a generally less rushed existence🙏

Creative ideas and clarity have rushed back in too. (bonus)😊

25/10/2025

26/08/2025

Those moments when the answer finds you, intuition is guiding and a connection with self flows....🙏

This is the wise mind space: the balance between the rational mind, (prefrontal cortex)and the emotional mind (amygdala).⚖️

This gentle overlap of two minds allows space for inner wisdom, that can't be accessed by pure thinking, suddenly has space to surface.💡

Its in this space that perspective can be gained, thoughts are seen from afar and loose their grip, authenticity thrives.❤️

Wise mind: A sweetspot. 👌

02/08/2025

Saying goodbye👋 to a part of yourself ......

a changing family dynamic
a relationship that never was
a role within a team
a friendship group
a weekly ritual
an activity you can no longer do
a health diagnosis, changing a sense of self

are all forms of grief, often not considered.🙏 Even a positive change can feel sad as the old way of being falls away.🤔

Sometimes guilt, shame, depression, anger or sadness might surface.😔😥🤬😔

Learning to gently adapt, work with a new reality and move forward; growing a new life around the grief deserves:

Self Compassion
Space
The understanding that moving between loss orientation and a new life orientation is normal
Time
safe connection with others

Grief has many contexts, acknowledging the adjustment to loss can aide wellbeing during the transition. ❤️

04/07/2025

So......

Biologically crying (especially emotional crying) is a uniquely human behaviour. Here’s what it does:

✔️Stress relief:Emotional crying can reduce stress hormones like cortisol.

✔️Soothing effect: Crying activates the parasympathetic nervous system, which helps calm you down afterward.

✔️Pain relief: Emotional tears contain endorphins and oxytocin, which can temporarily ease both physical and emotional pain.

Psychologically and socially crying also serves a purpose:

✔️Emotional expression: It helps you process intense feelings — sadness, frustration, relief, even overwhelming joy.

✔️Brain waves changes: Crying is like a reset button for your nervous system — it changes your brain’s electrical patterns to help you move from high tension to a calmer state by changing the type of brain waves to alpha state.

✔️Communication: It signals to others that you’re in distress, which can prompt comfort and support.

✔️Connection: Seeing someone cry often evokes empathy in others, strengthening social bonds.

So, crying isn’t “pointless.” It’s part of how humans cope, heal, and connect.

14/06/2025

Staying too long operating in the red 'battery of you' zone🟥:

✅️reduces resilience
✅️causes sleep problems
✅️confuses hormone balances
✅️lowers immunity
✅️makes every task feel harder
✅️slows cognitive performance
✅️causes nervous system dysregulation
✅️Sends your message unsafe messages as you are continuing without stopping when rest is needed
✅️creates the conditions for lower mental health and.............................................................. it's frankly just a✅️ miserable existence. (believe me I know)

Reframing micromoments of pause,⏸️ rest and not 'doing' as value adding,➕️ proactively creating a sustainable self, is beyond needed in today's world. (In my opinion).

Human beings were NOT designed to be on all the time. ❌️

Let's consider a little pause at AMBER🟨🙌

30/05/2025

Exhausterwhelmulated.🤯🤯

It's a thing .....love that there's a (sort of) word for it.👌

This can stem from so many different sources and combinations of factors.......

(a beyond busy society, lots of forms of stimulus multiplied by technology inputs, neurodiversity, hormone imbalances, stress, anxiety, life milestones).😌

It doesn't really matter how and why.
What matters is what happens when we NOTICE exhausterwhelmulation.👁

The negative bias ❌️protective voice will want to shout:🗣

❌️this is your fault
❌️you should handle this
❌️get a grip
❌️other people cope
❌️just keep going

It's trying to do a job of protection, in a confused "one view only" limited way.

See it, notice it thank it, let it be a cue, a route to self compassion, 💜this voice sees a wider view☺️:

✅️its totally understandable to feel like this our brain evolution hass not caught up with rapid external development and are continually triggered by perceived bombardment as threat, so let's ask:

✅️what do you need in this moment ?
✅️ let's come back to just this moment only
✅️you're not alone, so many other brains are also experiencing exhausterwhelmulation!

Relief, understanding, grounding....calm and a reduction of exhausterwhelmulation 🙏

25/04/2025

❌️It's never about not feeling any stress in response to life.

❌️It's never about always being calm or relaxed.

☑️It's always about building awareness of movement out of a functional range of responding to stress.

☑️It's always about knowing how to return to a gentle stabilised oscillating baseline.〰️〰️〰️ small tools, used cumulatively.

☝️Without this, stress compounds,🌪 nervous systems get stuck in dysregulated states, emotions stay heightened; mental and physical health is impaired. 😩

Learning to flex with life, by tuning in to self to balance putting back in what is taken out; this is regulation, this is the aim.⚖️🙏