Tracy Cartwright Constellations-Healing-Insight

22/11/2025

20/11/2025

In this conversation with equine constellations facilitator Jenny Gibbons, we explore how horses become healers inside the constellation field — meeting people at the exact place their trauma lives.

The herd reads the body, the nervous system, and the unspoken story.
They respond with absolute honesty.
They mirror what we cannot yet name.
And they guide the human system back into coherence.

If you’ve ever felt the presence of a horse and known it was speaking straight to your soul, this episode will make deep sense to you.

We talk about:

🐴 How horses reveal what people can’t express
🐴 Trauma shifting through somatic and energetic truth
🐴 The field as a living intelligence
🐴 Generational healing through movement and instinct
🐴 Why the body trusts horses more than words

This episode is powerful, grounded, and full of real stories from Jenny’s work with her herd.

20/11/2025

The moment you decide you’re done repeating the same old patterns…
everything shifts.

No rescuer. No shortcut.
Just you, choosing a truer, fuller, more honest version of yourself.

That version of you is the one who brings the change.
That’s where your power has always lived.

19/11/2025

Tomorrow, the doors close for the ANZCI Family Constellations Facilitators’ Retreat with Margarete Koenning.

This is your moment to step into a space of presence, learning, and connection.

A weekend to explore, reflect, and expand alongside fellow facilitators, held in the nurturing embrace of Ōrongomai Marae.

📅 28–30 November 2025
📍 Ōrongomai Marae, Upper Hutt
Register now: www.anzci.nz/2025fweekend

Come with an open heart. Leave with deeper insight, embodied wisdom, and a renewed connection to your facilitation journey.

19/11/2025

💓💓💓💓 Kaitaia family constellation workshop with Frida 💓💓💓💓

3 DAYS TO GO!

Something unseen might be holding you back, maybe in your relationships, at work, or even just in feeling at peace. Often, it’s not even yours. It’s inherited through family patterns, old emotions, or responsibilities that once helped someone survive, but now keep you stuck.

This Saturday, 22 November, join me in Kaitaia for a Family Constellations Workshop, a safe, supportive space to:

- Bring hidden family dynamics into the light
- Release what’s been weighing you down
- Reconnect with your own strength and clarity
- Step into more ease, flow, and possibility in your life

Spaces are limited to 15, so if your heart is nudging you, now’s the time to register.

Come with an intention, leave with insight.

Register Now:
www.fridakabo.com/familyconstellationsworkshopkaitaia

14/11/2025

This could so easily be my story, it’s as if she has written about me.

I see how grief has taken its toll on my family and the weight of it is overwhelming.
Both sides of my family have deep pools of grief unspoken and covered up.

All this and my own personal grief as well. I’m so grateful for constellation work, and the tools it brings me to move through this, layer after layer one step at a time.

THE LYMPHATIC SYSTEM OF A GRIEVER — Post 1/30🌿

“When Grief Sits in the Body”

A healing series by Lymphatica

Tonight, I am not writing as a therapist.
Not as a practitioner.
Not as someone who teaches healing for a living.

Tonight, I am writing as a daughter.
A daughter who lost her mother.
A daughter who has carried a grief so heavy that her body could no longer hold its own weight.

Because there is a truth I cannot keep silent anymore:
My grief did not stay in my heart — it broke into my body.

And if you have ever lost someone you love, maybe your body knows this truth too.

🌿 When Grief Lives Inside the Body Before It Finds Words

There is a silence after losing someone that does not feel peaceful.
It feels like a collapse.
A drowning.
A falling into yourself with no way to stop the descent.

When my mother died, the world kept spinning as if nothing happened…
but inside my body, something shattered.

Before I even knew how to speak my pain, my lymphatic system was already speaking it for me:

My lymph nodes swelled.
My underarms became puffy.
My chest tightened.
My gut twisted.
My exhaustion became bone-deep.

I felt as if my whole body was carrying a sadness that had nowhere to go.

Only later did I understand:

Grief is not only emotional.
Grief is physical.
Grief is cellular.
Grief is lymphatic.

🌿 Why Grief Slows the Lymphatic System — The Science of Missing Someone

When the heart breaks, the body goes into a kind of survival that does not feel like survival at all.

1️⃣ Breathing becomes shallow.

Your vagus nerve tightens.
Your diaphragm locks.
Your neck and chest stiffen.
And these are the very places where major lymph pathways live.
When they tighten, they close.

2️⃣ The immune system becomes overloaded.

Cortisol rises.
Inflammation simmers quietly.
The lymph thickens.
Everything becomes heavy.

3️⃣ The nervous system freezes.

Not because you don’t feel —
but because feeling becomes unbearable.
The fascia traps emotion.
The lymph tries to carry memories, longing, pain…
and eventually collapses under the weight.

Your body mourns right alongside your heart.

🌿 The Part I’ve Never Said Publicly… Until Now

This is the hardest part to admit.

But I believe — with every cell in me —
that the grief I carried after losing my mother did not just hurt me emotionally.

It changed my body.
It changed my health.
It changed the trajectory of my life.

I cannot make medical claims.
But I can speak my truth:

I believe my grief contributed to the illness that followed—
to my thyroid cancer…
to the years of fear and uncertainty…
and eventually to the brain surgery that changed everything.

My body was not just “sick.”
My body was broken by longing.
Broken by trauma.
Broken by a sadness too large for the lymphatic system to carry alone.

I look back now and see it clearly:

The grief was too heavy.
And my body broke trying to hold it.

🌿 Grief Made Me a Patient Before I Was a Healer

There were months where I helped people heal while I was falling apart.
Where I drained lymph while my own lymphatic system was drowning in fatigue.
Where I taught breathing while I felt suffocated.
Where I stood strong for others while collapsing silently inside.

I have never felt more human.
More vulnerable.
More aware that even healers need healing.

Sometimes I still reach for my mother in small, automatic ways—
in victories, in moments of fear, in the quiet hours of the night.
And every time, a part of me aches:

“Mom, are you seeing what I am becoming?”
“Would you be proud of the woman I am today?”

This longing…
this unspoken conversation…
this ache that never fully disappears…

It sits in the lymph.
It sits in the tissues.
It sits in the breath.

🌿 Why This Series Matters

Because grief is not a moment —
it is a biology.
A chemistry.
A physical shift in the way your body survives.

If you have ever wondered:

“Why am I so swollen?”
“Why am I always tired?”
“Why does my chest feel tight?”
“Why does my body hurt more since I lost them?”

I want you to hear me:

💚 You are not imagining it.
💚 You are not weak.
💚 Your lymphatic system is grieving with you.
💚 Your body is trying to carry the love you lost.

And your body is allowed to mourn.

This series will help you understand
why grief affects your lymph,
why your symptoms feel heavier,
and how to gently guide your body back into safety —
not through force, but through tenderness.

🌿 **Tonight, I honour my mother…

and the body that survived losing her.**

And if you have ever lost someone —
no matter how long ago —
I want to whisper this:

Your lymph remembers them because your love was real.
Your body aches because the bond was deep.
But your body can heal, slowly, softly, beautifully.
And you do not have to walk this journey alone.

I am walking it with you.
With grace, gentleness, faith, and understanding.

Bianca 🤍
Lymphatica 🌿

13/11/2025

Money is energy, and it carries stories from generations before us.

In this new episode, Tracy chats with Laura Dheygers | Energy Journeys - Systemic & Family Constellations about financial trauma, ancestral abundance, and how Family Constellations can help us reconnect with flow.

A grounded, soulful conversation on healing your relationship with money and freeing the next generation to live in abundance.

Listen now: Reclaiming Flow, Money & Ancestral Abundance through Family Constellations with Laura Dheygers

🎧 Listen now on Spotify, Apple Podcasts, or your favourite platform.

13/11/2025

I found this really interesting.

🌊 What Is the Glymphatic System?

The glymphatic system is the brain’s unique waste clearance network, functioning similarly to the lymphatic system in the body—but with a twist. It was only discovered in 2012 by Dr. Maiken Nedergaard, and it has since changed how we understand neurodegeneration and brain inflammation.
This system relies on cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) to flush out waste products from brain tissue through perivascular pathways, facilitated by a type of glial cell called astrocytes. These cells regulate the flow of interstitial fluid and act as a conduit for metabolic clearance during deep sleep, especially in slow-wave sleep cycles.

🔥 When the Glymphatic System Is Inhibited: The Inflammatory Storm

When the glymphatic system is impaired, neurotoxic proteins—like beta-amyloid, tau proteins, and inflammatory cytokines—begin to accumulate in the brain's interstitial spaces. This accumulation triggers:
* Microglial activation, leading to chronic low-grade neuroinflammation
* Increased production of pro-inflammatory cytokines like IL-6, TNF-α, and IL-1β
* Oxidative stress and mitochondrial dysfunction within neurons
* Blood-brain barrier permeability ("leaky brain") and further immune dysregulation

Over time, this chronic inflammatory state can manifest as:
* Brain fog, memory issues, and cognitive decline
* Mood disorders such as anxiety and depression
* Increased risk of neurodegenerative conditions like Alzheimer’s and Parkinson’s
* Worsened systemic inflammation due to vagus nerve signaling disruption

🛌 Sleep, the Glymphatic Switch, and Circadian Health

The glymphatic system is most active during deep sleep, particularly during non-REM slow-wave phases. When sleep is disrupted—whether due to stress, screen exposure, sleep apnea, or erratic sleep cycles—the brain cannot engage in glymphatic flushing.
Sleep deprivation has been shown to:
* Increase extracellular beta-amyloid by up to 43% in a single night
* Decrease the expression of aquaporin-4 (AQP4) water channels in astrocytes, impairing fluid transport
* Heighten markers of neuroinflammation, including NF-κB signaling and glial activation

🧬 Systemic Inflammation and Glymphatic Dysfunction: A Two-Way Street

Interestingly, inflammation itself suppresses glymphatic flow. Research shows that systemic infections, autoimmune flares, and even gut dysbiosis can produce pro-inflammatory cytokines that reduce CSF dynamics and glymphatic activity.
Conversely, poor glymphatic clearance can worsen systemic inflammation by:
* Disrupting hypothalamic-pituitary-adrenal (HPA) axis signaling
* Altering vagal tone and the gut-brain-liver immune axis
* Impairing clearance of immune-modulating neurotransmitters like glutamate

🌿 How to Support Glymphatic Health

1. Prioritize Deep Sleep
* Aim for 7–9 hours of uninterrupted sleep in total darkness
* Use magnesium, L-theanine, or glycine to support non-REM sleep
* Avoid screens and caffeine 3+ hours before bedtime
2. Rebound, Stretch, and Move Your Spine
* Movement of the spine and neck enhances CSF circulation
* Manual lymphatic drainage may also indirectly stimulate glymphatic function
3. Hydration & Electrolyte Balance
* CSF production is heavily dependent on fluid status
* Add trace minerals or electrolytes to water to support fluid dynamics
4. Nutraceutical Support
* Resveratrol, turmeric (curcumin), omega-3s, and NAC reduce neuroinflammation
* Melatonin not only promotes deep sleep but enhances glymphatic activity
5. Cranial and Cervical Lymphatic Drainage
* Facial and neck MLD can relieve interstitial congestion
* Techniques like craniosacral therapy or vagal nerve stimulation may further support this network

🧠 Final Thought

The glymphatic system is a vital yet vulnerable detox engine for the brain. When impaired, it doesn’t just affect cognition—it can unleash a cascade of inflammatory dysfunction that spreads throughout the entire body.

By supporting this system through sleep hygiene, lymphatic stimulation, and anti-inflammatory practices, we lay the foundation for resilient mental, neurological, and immune health.

©️

13/11/2025

50 episodes.

Each one a conversation woven with stories of healing, connection, and belonging.

What began as a simple idea to share the beauty and wisdom of Family Constellations has become a heartfelt space for reflection, learning, and community. A place where we remember that healing doesn’t happen alone, and that every story has a place in the greater whole.

I’m deeply grateful to every guest who has shared their heart and insight, and to every listener who has tuned in, reflected, and found something of themselves in these conversations.

Here’s to the next 50, to more stories that remind us who we are, where we come from, and how deeply we are all connected.

Listen to all 50 episodes of Constellations and All That... on your favourite podcast platform, and tell us, which one has been your favourite so far?

13/11/2025

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