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𝘉𝘳𝘦𝘦 𝘕𝘪𝘤𝘩𝘰𝘭𝘭𝘴 🤎 𝘈 𝘸𝘰𝘮𝘢𝘯 𝘰𝘯 𝘢 𝘮𝘪𝘴𝘴𝘪𝘰𝘯 🏹
𝘐𝘊𝘍-𝘤𝘦𝘳𝘵 𝘊𝘰𝘢𝘤𝘩 | 𝘘𝘶𝘢𝘭𝘪𝘧𝘪𝘦𝘥 𝘊𝘰𝘶𝘯𝘴𝘦𝘭𝘭𝘰𝘳 | 𝘞𝘳𝘪𝘵𝘦𝘳 | 𝘚𝘱𝘦𝘢𝘬𝘦𝘳

05/02/2026

Saw this on FB this morning and loved seeing other peoples! Here’s mine from chat gpt. (The prompt is: “Create a caricature of me and my job based on everything you know about me”)

02/02/2026

My latest Substack piece is live.

I’m leaning into my next dream of being a writer. It’s sure but slow progress. I’m loving becoming a new, updated version of me. It’s like I’m collecting my old dreams along the way 🐚 and taking them home with me.

Link 🔗 in my story.

Bree x

26/01/2026

I’ve been brewing these new offerings for a while, and I’m excited to now share them with you.

I’ve noticed a big change in my pace in the last 12 months, and it feels right to offer something that reflects what I have been needing. It’s usually the best compass for me in my work as it’s aligned and true.

I hope you too can feel the peacefulness and gentle care behind these new services, designed to soothe your soul in an increasingly fragmented world. 🕊️ 🌍

Book in via the link in my bio.

Bree 🤍

11/01/2026

I never thought I would enjoy walking alone, let alone for long distances!

And yet, it’s been the one thing that has sustained me and remained consistent throughout summer 🌺 🚶🏼‍♀️

No matter how I’ve been feeling, I’ve gotten up, put my walking shoes on, and headed out the door 🚪

It’s been such a sweet gift to discover how much I enjoy being with myself.
No pressure. No demands. Just me, my thoughts, and nature.

To be consistent with just one thing has been a quiet, steady comfort.

Too often it’s: “I should be doing this” or “Why aren’t I doing that?”

- And there are always a multitude of ways we can decide we’re failing, depending on how we look at things.

But what if I’m succeeding at this one thing?

Right now, it feels like enough.

Is there just one thing you’re finding you can be consistent with?

09/01/2026

Now I understand why so many Hollywood films center on women desperately seeking to find themselves in their forties.

22/12/2025

As 2025 draws to a close, I'm aware of the wheel of time slowly but surely turning.

It brings up an appreciation of life and a sort of melancholic nostalgia to the surface. Certain chapters of my life have ended and won't be experienced again and certain chapters have yet to arrive.

There is much to appreciate from the past, and much to feel quietly hopeful about for the future.

For now, I get to close the laptop, close down parts of my brain, close the doors to the studio for three weeks, and simply be where I am.

There is such a sigh of relief in this - a lightness and freedom that comes from surrendering to the moment, and letting everything go.

I hope in some micro moment, you feel that sense of freedom, even just once, over the holidays too.

This year - as every year does - had it's own special flavour. For me 2025 felt like this sweetness amongst the hard times, perhaps reminiscent of a rose bush, with it's sweet scents, beautiful folds, and a few sharp thorns to remind you that Life is precious, fleeting and holds her own timing and mystery.

I've learned that I can only truly understand Life/ nature’s mystery if I’m quiet enough, boundaried enough, and still enough.

This year repeatedly reminded me that my work is not about 'fixing' myself (even though that is very much my reflex), nor is it about pushing forward (confusing, because we are told this all the time).

It’s about learning how to stay present with what is occurring in any given moment, exactly as it is.

I do my best work when I get very still and attuned. Not when I am trying to fix or push forward. If I do this, I miss the magic and mystery of space doing it's own thing. I get in the way.

Getting out of the way - mine, and others - is an ongoing process and I can't say I am winning, but I sure am learning.

Below is a picture of what taught me the most about being this year: My garden. The poppies I planted that I had given up on, and thought were never going to bloom. Well, they sure had a different idea. This is the heart of the Being Way. It's breathing in the name.

Thank you to my friend Susan Pearl for the poppy seeds 😘

When I reflect on this year, I also feel full of gratitude when I think of the people I worked with - whether as clients or collaborators.

To my clients: your courage in meeting yourselves, and saying things out loud, sometimes for the very first time, moved me, sometimes to such a deep place of feeling that it took me some effort to hold my emotion in.

Your willingness to step over the threshold and talk in a new way, to express, to feel, and to meet yourself with honesty and tender care is not to be taken lightly. It is big work, and it's work for the brave.

As we move towards the end of the year, I want to leave you with this:

Let this year be what it was, and slowly but surely, the book of 2025 will close itself all on it's own. Eventually your shoulders will drop, and your breath will reach your stomach, and a new drop of something - whether it's excitement, a new awareness or inspiration or a new connection - will land in it's most perfectly formed timing.

That's what I learned this year: To trust in the unseen, to have faith it's all working out. And that there is so much more happening beneath the surface. Even if it feels confusing or like the end.

Thank you so much for being a significant part of this space, whether you are here as a supporter, a client, a friend, or a peer, or all of the above!

It brings me that same sweetness I spoke about earlier to share this space with you.

Thank you again.

Love,

Bree

18/12/2025

I was about to do my sign off photo for the year when Mum popped down to visit, so it end up turning into fun, impromptu photo shoot with me mum and James 😍

Feels sweeter this way, rather than just me solo, as it shares some of the people behind the scenes who keep me held, loved and anchored. Though I have so much love for what I do, I need a strong support system to be robust! 💪🏼❤️

I want to say a huge thank you to every person who chose to do some inner work this year. I feel so grateful to walk parts of your journey alongside you. I’m still amazed this is my job 🤷🏼‍♀️ I don’t know how I got so lucky, but I appreciate every single blessing that comes my way.

This year I also collaborated on some fun projects with incredible women - every experience with you raised me higher - Thank you for being utter delights to work with ✨

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Wishing everyone a fun, delicious, safe, and restorative holiday season.

I can’t wait to see what’s in store for us in 2026..!

Thank you for supporting this life & business of mine in all the ways you do.

Every part matters.

Bree 💙💟

27/11/2025

When you step into my room (whether in person or online) we don’t just talk about what’s happening in your life. We work with it. You feel it. You transform it.

I use a variety of experiential tools that help you access parts of yourself you may not have drawn on before. Instead of staying in your head, you get to safely experience something in a new way.

This might look like inner child work, role play enactments, embodiment practices, mindfulness, empty chair dialogue, or externalisation.

Depending on what you need that day, I blend humanistic approaches such as Inner Child Work, Psychodrama, Gestalt, and Narrative Therapy with behavioural tools like CBT and mindfulness.

I never know what will unfold in a session. That’s the beauty of this work. ✨

Together, we step into the unknown, and again and again, it reveals aha moments of insight, relief, and breakthrough that can’t be reached by talking alone.

🤎

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17/11/2025

A behind the scenes peek into my current client landscape for anyone who is curious 👀👀

I love seeing both new and familiar names pop into my inbox every time a client booking comes through!

Thank you to my clients for finding your way to The Being Way - and for returning over and over again 💗

If you’re curious about coaching, my door is always open.

Bree x

15/11/2025

What a year. 🦋

I’ve just finished my year-long training in Psychodrama (an experiential psychotherapy) and today was our final day as a group. As always, it was uncomfortable, intense, deep, and utterly fulfilling.

It feels no coincidence that this method, rooted in spontaneity and creativity, has aligned with a year where I’ve felt my most creative, and my most liberated - even while navigating big life happenings. 🌙

I still remember day one of our training: feeling so overwhelmed, on the edge of an anxiety attack, calling my sister at lunch wanting to run. I’m so glad that I stayed. So glad that I stretched past what was comfortable and allowed the group to see the most vulnerable, hidden aspects of myself.

As a result of the work, I’ve noticed my client work become richer, more creative, and more alive in the room.

Massive love and respect to our trainer, Martin Putt, for guiding us through some rocky waters with such skill and kindness. And to the group: we did it!! And boy, it wasn’t easy. Wish I didn’t miss you guys already.

Grateful and happy to have felt so alive and free this year ✨

29/10/2025

To help me process my inner world, I’ve found myself writing again. This recent patch of writing has been more intimate and vulnerable, with the covers pulled right back.

I haven’t felt this exposed about sharing my work in a long time, which tells me it’s probably a good thing for me to both feel and share, despite the discomfort.

After now - after 32 years of writing and 20 years of being a published writer - I’m finally embracing that I am, in fact, a writer. ✍🏼

I write about the fullness of being human - how love and pain can sit side by side, how loss can deepen our aliveness, and how beauty somehow finds its way through it all.

If you, like me, find yourself lost (and found) in the delicious craft of words and stories, I’d love to connect with you, especially over on Substack.

You can find me there under Bree Nicholls or The Fullness of Being, and I’ve shared the link in my stories.

Bree 🤎

https://substack.com/

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28/10/2025

Coming up on the last day (ish) of Spring, I am cohosting a special day retreat at Waterfall Lodge in Warkworth. The day is full of practices that are designed to restore and uplift your spirit, such as yoga, Pilates, mediation, inner child work and jewellery making. All food and drinks are lovingly prepared for you and provided.

It’s a beautiful way to start your summer off with a little bit of intentional time for you to reset and revive. We (me, Amanda and Vania) would feel honoured to have you join us on this special day.

🗓️ Saturday 29th November
📍 Duck Creek Road, Warkworth
〰️ 9 - 5pm
🎫 $350

Keepsake - you will take home your own .co.nz necklace valued at $199 💞🥰

Simply message me to join. X

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My Background

For the last 5 years (2014-2019) I have worked at APN Outdoor - now known as JCDecaux - an Outdoor Media Company. I began as an Account Manager and by the time I finished up I was Group Sales Manager. Prior to APN Outdoor, I worked in Advertising & Communications agencies in Auckland and London for 6 years. After a period of burn out, time off and subsequent reflection in 2009, I changed course and studied a Bachelor of Counselling, where post degree I worked in both private practice and for Epsom Girls Grammar and Youthline, counselling for 3 years.

In my last few years at APN Outdoor, I felt driven to nurture my background in People & Wellness more and could see areas within the business where I wanted to initiate change. With the blessing of the GM, I created and facilitated a successful Mentor Programme, working with the junior positions across the company. Alongside this, I also worked part-time with WellMe, (the workplace wellness warriors) as their Health and Well-being Coach. This year, I made the leap to leave my role as GSM at APN Outdoor and combine my previous skills & experiences and bring them to life via Corporate Facilitation/Mentoring work.

Qualifications & Courses:

Bachelor of Counselling