Many times, while growing up, I did not feel safe in my life and so I did not feel safe in my body.I started to hate this body that I did not feel safe in. My hate of my body and my driving, controlling coping mechanisms to help me feel
I had to let go and fall apart in many ways in the past 10 years, in particular, to get to where I am now in my journey of growth and health. But April particularly took the cake for a whole month of unravelling! I wrote this post at the
Most of the exhausted people I work with and know are givers. This often goes hand-in-hand with rescuing and/or people-pleasing (also called Fawning). All of these behaviours, when done to an extreme that causes imbalance and ill health, are trauma adaptations rather than healthy personality attributes. You can learn more
A friend was recently left feeling very ashamed and confused when she chose to remove herself from a corporate environment that was depleting her and causing a deep disconnection from her own truth and needs. She had been wanting to leave for a long time but the problem was that
The unique body design that enables women to create form and nurture life also makes women more vulnerable to fatigue and physical/hormonal imbalance. But that is not a weakness. There is no flaw in our design. It’s the pervasive productivity model in patriarchal, capitalist society that is flawed. The dominant
Are you afraid of your passion? Scared that if you embrace it fully you’ll burn out?Are you perhaps exhausted because you are spending so much energy suppressing your power? Your truth? Your light? Your voice? I noticed this in myself in the last year and a bit – after two
When Adrenal Fatigue Syndrome repeatedly brought me to my knees over a period of 5 years I knew that I needed to be doing something different to receive or experience something different. However, I was too tired and too overwhelmed to figure out what needed to change and, instead, kept
Trauma can create an identity/personality that seems to be who you truly are but is in fact not your true self.That trauma identity can then shape how you live life in a way that creates body and mind imbalance. Yet that identity, way of seeing the self and the world,
This holiday I was so looking forward to finally settling down and having a proper break in our new home with lazy days on the beach and fun times with friends. Instead, after a week in Johannesburg to see family for Christmas we unknowingly brought back an unwanted passenger…. Covid
Why do you keep doing the same things that you know are going to consistently make you tired? You can even watch yourself doing it and can’t stop and then wonder what is wrong with you that you can’t just STOP and rest. Or why is that even though you
