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Welcome to my blog—a space for personal reflections, insights and tools to help you make sense of your feelings.

Learning self-compassion (and how to combat a vulnerability hangover)

My changing relationship with self-compassion I’ve been thinking recently about how self-compassion shows up in my life. And how, for me, it was the necessary foundation of all the healing that followed. Without self-compassion I believe I’d still be stuck in anxiety and shame the majority of the… Continue Reading

4 August 2023

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Why am I angry that I’m angry?

Recently I’ve identified a pattern in myself. As soon as I start feeling angry it instantly ramps up to MAXIMUM RAGE and suddenly I’m shouting at the people I love the most. After some reflection I realised that feeling angry in itself makes me feel more angry. A… Continue Reading

13 July 2023

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It turns out my body knew what it was doing all along

With a gentle invitation to “dance with me” at the One Woman Conference in London in May, Susie Heath brought a beautiful healing energy to the room. Accepting that invitation—letting my body move to the music in communal dance with 200 other women—felt utterly magical. And, totally unexpectedly,… Continue Reading

3 July 2023

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Learning to move feelings through my body

The first time I connected emotionally with my body I vividly remember the first time I deliberately moved emotions through my body. I’d just turned 40. Over the last couple of years I’d been slowly regaining access to my feelings, after a lifetime of shoving them away deep… Continue Reading

1 July 2023

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Step 1: Get out of bed

Learning to focus on the next tiny step In 2013 I took a career break to spend a year volunteering with on-the-ground conservation projects around the world. This was before I started my healing journey, and at the time the only emotions I recognised in myself were anxious,… Continue Reading

28 June 2023

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