Healing from complex PTSD – c-PTSD
Healing from complex PTSD is...complex. We often arrive at this point after years - even decades - of trying to cure, treat and manage a number of different issues separately,…
Releasing emotions stored in the body
You’ve gone through a lot - and now it’s time now it’s time for releasing emotions stored in the body - but how do you do that? First of all,…
How To Stop Intellectualising Emotions
So you've figured out you're intellectualising your emotions - and you want to know how to stop. Let's check we're on the same page here. You know you’re intellectualising your…
How to get out of pain
It's easy to get stuck in pain. Physical pain takes over your body. Emotional pain takes over your body, mood, emotions, and thoughts. Existential pain takes over your thinking and…
Some observations on emotional pain
Emotional pain hurts It's pain - it hurts. As dull or as sharp as physical pain. The McGill pain index provides a fascinating range of descriptors, should you be intrigued.…
Cluster headaches
Sometimes, I get headaches. Whether they're cluster headaches or migraines, I've no idea. But they hurt. I'm going to call them cluster headaches for now, as the pain maps more…
Releasing hip pain
"Hey! Look at my hip!" my client exclaimed, delightedly lunging and lifting her leg to demonstrate. "I can move it!" One month earlier, she'd come to me for a healing…
Sensitive insensitive
Have you ever noticed how it's very often the most insensitive people who are the most sensitive? How they can be insensitive to others feelings but are really sensitive themselves?…
Overdiscipline – making yourself do too much
When we add more discipline to our lives - new food habits, a new exercise routine, a new rhythm for our work day - we need to steer a balance…
Four kinds of stuck – and how to get out of them
You know what you want to be doing, but you're not doing it. You focus for a brief moment, then it's gone and you're away, floating around in a cloud…