Alone for Christmas: The Link Between Tribal Belonging, Trauma Responses, and Practical Coping Strategies

The holiday season is often portrayed as a time of joyful celebration and togetherness. But for many, it can be a painful reminder of loneliness and the holidays can be an isolating time, especially if you’re spending Christmas day alone. This isn’t just a matter of...
“All I Want for Christmas is a Break”: Handling Holiday Expectations (Without Losing Your Sanity!)

“All I Want for Christmas is a Break”: Handling Holiday Expectations (Without Losing Your Sanity!)

“All I Want for Christmas is a Break”: Handling Holiday Expectations (Without Losing Your Sanity!) Ladies let’s face it: Christmas can feel less like a season of joy and more like a season of jobs! Between hosting, gift shopping, decorating, cooking, organising...
Understanding Trauma: How the Freeze Response Affects Healing and Recovery

Understanding Trauma: How the Freeze Response Affects Healing and Recovery

Understanding Trauma: How the Freeze Response Affects Healing and Recovery When your survival brain interprets your experience as too much; when you can’t communicate or take action, this is known as the freeze state. Your survival responses (fight/flight/freeze)...
What is Trauma?

What is Trauma?

If you regularly struggle with stress, anxiety, and overwhelm, there may be an underlying issue from your past that’s causing it. Trauma may be impacting you more than you realise. What is Trauma? Trauma has been described as a highly activated, incomplete...
4 Breath-Work Exercises to Support Your Nervous System

4 Breath-Work Exercises to Support Your Nervous System

Trauma is physiological. It is a highly activated incomplete biological response (fight, flight, freeze). Anxiety signals that your nervous system is lacking safety and we constrict. This impacts our nervous system, muscles and tissues.  Constriction in the body...

Part 2 ~ How to Set Boundaries: Simple, Practical Steps to Protect Your Time and Energy

There is a need for a range of different types of boundaries in your life, because they apply in various mind, body, and soul human experiences. Physical Boundaries This includes recognising and talking about your own self-care needs (what you eat, how you move your...