MindfulWell Collective

MindfulWell Collective Mental Health • Therapy • Coaching
✨ Honouring the messiness of the human journey
🫠Helping you heal from trauma
Adults +teens + youth | 📍NZ

Ever pull away just as someone gets close even when they mean well? That reflex isn’t rejection. It’s protection. When ...
01/06/2025

Ever pull away just as someone gets close even when they mean well? That reflex isn’t rejection. It’s protection.
When early relationships were inconsistent, conditional, or unsafe, the brain adapted by treating vulnerability as a threat. Over time, your nervous system learns: closeness can hurt. This survival strategy becomes automatic your brain’s way of keeping you safe by anticipating loss or betrayal, even in genuinely caring relationships.
Neuroplasticity means your brain can rewire. With safe, consistent relationships and inner work, those old defences can soften. Connection can begin to feel safer little by little.

ShadowCognition: What feels like fear of intimacy is often a fear of the pain that once came with it.

FREE CLASS 🚨😥 Feeling burnt out, on edge, or like your body just won’t switch off?You’re not broken your nervous system ...
24/05/2025

FREE CLASS 🚨

😥 Feeling burnt out, on edge, or like your body just won’t switch off?
You’re not broken your nervous system is asking for support.

Join us for Regulate & Restore, a free trauma-informed class designed to help you understand your stress response, reconnect with your body, and begin the process of real, nervous system regulation.

🌀 Learn what’s really going on beneath stress, anxiety, and exhaustion
🌸 Discover gentle tools to calm your system (without forcing yourself to “relax”)
💭 Ground in body-led awareness using our signature ShadowCognition™ framework

This is not about hustle or hacks it’s about softening survival mode and creating space for your body to feel safe again.

📍Free to attend. Open to all women anywhere. LIMITED SPACES
22nd June 10:00am NZT
DM us “RESTORE” or tap the link in bio to save your spot.

This isn’t just a feeling, chronic stress has real, measurable impacts on women’s mental, emotional, and physical health...
24/05/2025

This isn’t just a feeling, chronic stress has real, measurable impacts on women’s mental, emotional, and physical health:

🔸 Disrupted sleep
🔸 Hormonal imbalances (especially cortisol and estrogen)
🔸 Increased risk of anxiety, depression, and burnout
🔸 Gut-brain axis dysregulation
🔸 Autoimmune and inflammatory responses

🧠 Why it matters!!
Women’s nervous systems are deeply impacted by ongoing stress, especially during key hormonal transitions (e.g. postpartum, perimenopause). When stress becomes chronic, it affects everything from mood to memory, immune health, digestion, and emotional resilience.

We approach stress through a trauma-informed, nervous system lens because healing isn’t about pushing through. It’s about understanding what your body is holding onto.

Worldwide, women are nearly twice as likely as men to experience anxiety and depression.
– World Health Organization (WHO, 2023)

Cleveland Clinic Women’s Health & Stress Report (2022) Confirms the rise in stress-related hormone disruption and the compounding effect on women’s mental and physical wellbeing.

🚩When life is go-go-go, your nervous system turns on survival mode and cortisol takes the lead.But the problem?Cortisol ...
24/05/2025

🚩When life is go-go-go, your nervous system turns on survival mode and cortisol takes the lead.

But the problem?
Cortisol is designed for short bursts.
Not 24/7.
And when it’s always “on,” your body starts waving red flags. 🚩

🧠 Signs Cortisol Is Taking Over Your System:
You wake up feeling anxious or on edge

✔️Afternoon energy crash hits hard

✔️Wired at night, can’t fall asleep

✔️Craving salty or sugary snacks constantly

✔️Mood swings or irritability (especially pre-period)

✔️Skin flares, gut issues, or hormonal breakouts

✔️Trouble concentrating or remembering things

✔️Feeling emotionally “reactive” or disconnected

🌿 What Your Body Might Be Asking For:
Slowness, not more stimulation

✔️Protein and whole foods, not quick caffeine fixes

✔️Nervous system regulation (breathwork, grounding, rest)

✔️Magnesium and minerals to support recovery

✔️Gentle movement, not high-intensity training

💬 Coaching Insight:

You’re likely burnt out, depleted, or dysregulated and your cortisol is sounding the alarm.

At MindfulWell, we teach women how to downshift the nervous system, work with their hormones, and rebuild from burnout.

📍 Want support coming out of cortisol overdrive?
Drop a 🔄 below or DM us “CORTISOL” for tools, guidance & nervous system-safe strategies.

NeuroLeadership Lab: For Women in Business!Where nervous system intelligence meets conscious, embodied leadership.You’ve...
19/05/2025

NeuroLeadership Lab: For Women in Business!

Where nervous system intelligence meets conscious, embodied leadership.

You’ve read the leadership books.
You’ve done the mindset work.
So why do you still freeze in meetings, overthink every email, or feel like you’re “too much” and “not enough”—sometimes in the same moment?

Because the nervous system leads before the brain does.

And many women in business are still leading from over-adapted states not from grounded confidence.

This intensive workshop is for women who want more than strategy.
They want self-trust, clarity, and embodied leadership that starts within.

🔍 In This Lab, You’ll Learn:
✔️ The neurobiology of leadership: Why you default to over-giving, over-explaining, or over-performing under pressure
✔️ ShadowCognition in leadership: How early experiences shaped your beliefs about visibility, worth, and authority
✔️ The “good girl” nervous system: Understanding fawn/freeze responses masked as professionalism
✔️ How to embody PACE-aligned leadership that builds trust, co-regulation, and sustainable impact The PACE model in action building workplaces rooted in Playfulness, Acceptance, Curiosity, and Empathy

💡 What Makes This Different:
This isn’t about “fake it ‘til you make it.”
This is nervous system literacy for business so you can stop performing leadership, and start feeling it.

When you understand how your body remembers past dynamics (and how those patterns get projected onto your team, clients, and vision) you start to lead with more confidence, compassion, and congruence.

🌿 “This work helps you understand yourself and your staff on a biological level so you can build a business that feels safer, clearer, and more human.”

Because regulated women build regulated systems.
And a grounded leader creates more than profits they create psychological safety and lasting impact.

















🚩you’ve probably heard it:“Just say it until you believe it.”“Choose to feel safe.”“Rewire your brain in 5 seconds.” The...
16/05/2025

🚩you’ve probably heard it:
“Just say it until you believe it.”
“Choose to feel safe.”
“Rewire your brain in 5 seconds.” The list goes on…

But here’s the truth:
🧠 Your nervous system doesn’t respond to slogans.
It responds to safety, consistency, and co-regulation.

Telling someone to “just think differently” when their body is stuck in survival isn’t just ineffective
It’s damaging.
Because when it doesn’t work, they think they’re the problem.

ShadowCognition offers a different lens:
Your body isn’t broken it’s protective.
It remembers patterns, not words.
It’s not that you’re resistant to healing — it’s that your system is wired for survival, not self-talk.

🖤 Insight without embodiment can become another form of self-gaslighting.
Real healing requires felt safety, not forced positivity.

Let’s stop blaming people for what their nervous systems were wired to do.

You take a day off phone off, slippers on but instead of calm, guilt creeps in. Why does rest feel so heavy?Because deep...
15/05/2025

You take a day off phone off, slippers on but instead of calm, guilt creeps in. Why does rest feel so heavy?

Because deep inside, your body remembers a different story: that worth is tied to doing, and stillness was once unsafe.

From a biological perspective, chronic stress rewires your brain’s limbic system and keeps your sympathetic nervous system in a state of heightened alert making true rest feel like danger.

ShadowCognition shows us these aren’t just habits — they’re survival patterns formed long ago, replaying in your nervous system.

Understanding this helps you gently retrain your body and mind that rest is safe — and necessary for healing and balance.

What’s one way you can give yourself permission to rest today?

✨ The ShadowCognition Theory™ ✨A 10-week guided journey into the unconscious designed to transform inner patterns, resto...
13/05/2025

✨ The ShadowCognition Theory™ ✨
A 10-week guided journey into the unconscious designed to transform inner patterns, restore nervous system balance, and reconnect you with your core self. A therapeutic and scientific based approach.

What you’ll gain:
✔️ Tools to uncover limiting beliefs
✔️ CBT-based strategies to reframe self-criticism
✔️ Emotional regulation and grounding practices
✔️ Somatic healing and body-based awareness
✔️ Inner dialogue techniques for parts work
✔️ Mindfulness for nervous system resilience
✔️ Reflective prompts, meditations & guided integration

This is more than a course it’s a return to your wholeness.
🧠Enrolment now open.

🌸 To the women who mother in all the ways... 🌸Today we honour:The mothers who are healing.The daughters who carry their ...
11/05/2025

🌸 To the women who mother in all the ways... 🌸

Today we honour:

The mothers who are healing.
The daughters who carry their mother’s stories in their bodies.
The women navigating grief, longing, or distance.
The cycle-breakers, the nurturers, the space-holders.
The ones re-mothering themselves.

Mother’s Day can stir many emotions love, ache, gratitude, complexity.
At MindfulWell, we honour all of it.
You are allowed your truth. You are allowed tenderness.

Whether you’re mothering a child, an idea, a community, or your own inner world—
You are seen. You are sacred. You are enough.

With love,
🫶 The MindfulWell Collective

“By age 7, most of your core beliefs are already in place.”Not 27. Not 37. Seven.Before you had words for the world your...
08/05/2025

“By age 7, most of your core beliefs are already in place.”
Not 27. Not 37. Seven.

Before you had words for the world
your nervous system was already learning it.

🧠 Through tone, touch, tension.
Through who showed up… and who didn’t.
Your developing brain formed templates for love, safety, worth, rest, and who you had to be.

This is what neuroscientist Dr. Dan Siegel calls the interpersonal shaping of the mind
and it’s at the heart of ShadowCognition:

The beliefs driving your adult life often began long before you could question them.

But here’s the shift:
This isn’t about blame. It’s about awareness.
Because once we see where a belief started, we don’t have to keep carrying it.

Your inner wiring isn’t destiny It’s data.
And you get to rewire with choice, safety, and support.

🖤 What’s one belief about yourself that might not actually be yours?

“The brain processes social rejection the same way it processes physical pain.”That ache in your chest after being left ...
06/05/2025

“The brain processes social rejection the same way it processes physical pain.”
That ache in your chest after being left out? It’s not just emotional—it’s neurological.
🧠 Neuroimaging studies show that the anterior cingulate cortex, the same region activated during physical pain, lights up during moments of social exclusion.

This is why early rejection doesn’t just fade—it wires itself into our stress response.
ShadowCognition helps us trace how unresolved social pain silently shapes behaviours like:
➤ People-pleasing
➤ Overachievement
➤ Emotional detachment

The brain remembers what the mind tries to forget.
Let’s interrupt the pattern—not just manage the pain.

🛡️ Ever wondered why a small disagreement can feel so big in your body?You’re in the middle of a meaningful conversation...
04/05/2025

🛡️ Ever wondered why a small disagreement can feel so big in your body?
You’re in the middle of a meaningful conversation. Connection is flowing.
Then someone disagrees.

Suddenly, your stomach flips.
You shrink inward.
Your heart starts racing.

🧠 This isn’t weakness—it’s a nervous system doing its job.
When disagreement once meant disconnection, rejection, or even emotional danger, your body learned to brace.

This is implicit memory, a survival imprint from the past.

We don’t just react to what’s happening now.
We react to what it reminds us of, often outside our conscious awareness.

Therapy calls this neuroception: the subconscious scanning for threat or safety.
It’s not about logic. It’s about your body trying to keep you safe.

But here’s the beauty:
Once you see the shadow, you can choose not to shrink from it.
You can start responding from the now instead of the then.

Shadow work isn’t about fixing you.
It’s about understanding what shaped you and reclaiming your response.

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♡ A. Williams △ Psychology △ Mental health advocate ✨Published Author - thought catalog ✨Author of the art of being you “ A collection of essays for self-growth and self-discovery” thoughtcatalog.com/amy-reis-williams

Amy is a health science student majoring in clinical psychology and psychotherapy; she writes in her spare time and teaches mindfulness for all ages while raising a family, inspiring others through words and supporting mental health with topics that you can relate to. Amy is a published author on thought catalog and Medium.

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