Knowing your anxiety - and how to support yourself in it
Anxiety presents in many forms and tends to show in particular ways for each of us individually. When quite heightened anxiety can be debilitating - disrupting sleep, impacting our decision-making capacity and causing us to withdraw.
As a part of my work as a therapist, I encourage clients to become familiar with their own anxiety signals. We explore what behaviours and experiences they observe in themselves as they become anxious.
You can do this too …
Meeting a part of self we fear
For many, therapy or even the prospect of sitting with self, can be terrifying because we fear what we might uncover. In truth, however, meeting those parts of self we fear, can be incredibly healing and transformative. Here is a little story of my own journey of meeting a feared part of self …
We are so much more than ourselves
The potency of connecting to self, all the parts of our being, to others, and to the earth, beyond words.
We are so much more than ourselves …
How to sit with your feelings
Often in therapy, we are asked to "sit alongside our feelings" … but what does this really mean and how do we do that?
How to be present with self
My invitation as always, is to find ways that are meaningful and supportive to you, to remain present to you and your world. Not just during holidays, but during your everyday.
What is your calling this year?
I seek to let go
to let go of expectation and demand
to give myself more space for play
in my body, in my being, in my psyche
to embrace all the risks, the challenges and the joy that will no doubt arise
Finding our way back
I am reminded it is through connection we heal.
For me it is in connection with nature, my body, my loved ones, my community, the parts of me that become activated, and everything in between – that I find my way back.
So, this is a little note, to reach out and say, wherever you are standing in the uncertainty of the world, I am alongside you too.
The power of showing up
Show up for yourself. Show up for those you care about. Show up for the planet.
We all need it.
It is through connection we heal.
Naming our feelings to find calm
My invitation to you, is to regularly spend time gently checking in with the parts of your own self-experience, and as your parts begin to reveal, wonder with them what they would like to be named?
Just as we tend to feel more at ease when someone addresses us by our name, the same applies for the parts of our self-experience.
How to support your sleep
Foundational to our wellbeing, yet rarely sufficiently guarded, sleep is an area of therapy that constantly arises.
Letting go to embrace life
The more I show up for self the more I can show up for other