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The Mother-Daughter Shift
As your daughter experiences her first bloom, you face a profound role rebirth. This mother-daughter transition often feels like an antagonistic tug-of-war, but it is actually a vital stage for growth. Learn how to release authoritarian control and become a guide.
The Teenage Emotional Winter
Adolescence is a period of massive internal change. Instead of viewing withdrawal as rejection, we can reframe these quiet phases as a “teenage emotional winter,” a necessary time for rest, nervous system recalibration, and developmental growth within a safe, supportive container.
The Two-Week Wait Survival Guide
The cliffhanger experience of the two-week wait can feel like a perpetual emotional seesaw, swinging between it will and it won’t. We acknowledge the intense weight of this waiting period, where so much is pinned on a single future result, which can cause hypervigilance.
Bodywork in Winter: Releasing Held Tension
Have you noticed how differently your body moves in winter? We brace ourselves when the cold arrives. Our shoulders hunch up toward our ears, the jaw tightens, and the breath becomes shallow. We literally pull inwards away from the cold to stay warmer at our core. But...
The Natural Transition
What happens when you hold steadfast to a fertility plan, but your body doesn't follow the script? In this episode of the Healing Practice podcast, we dive into the emotionally heavy territory of letting go of your timeline and learning how to manage yourself when...
Recalibrating Through Winter
While summer demands we run at a thousand kilometres an hour, winter whispers a grateful relief. In this episode, we explore “wintering,” the necessity of resettling your frequencies, drawing down the covers, and cocooning yourself from external stimuli. Winter offers a perfect natural boundary for recalibrating through rest and self-understanding.
Finding Your Footing In Autumn
Do you wake up wondering how to honour your emotional centre? I don’t, and chances are you probably don’t either. Yet so much of the language around wellness suggests we should somehow be doing exactly that. What I do notice, though, especially as the season cools, is...
Menopause as a Coming Home
The journey through menopause is often framed as an ending, but it is truly a breakthrough. In this episode, we readdress the narrative, exploring this transition as a powerful “coming home” to the authentic self, shedding old obligations to reclaim sovereignty. Menopause is a permission slip for liberation.
Preparing for Birth in the Cooler Months
The cooler months can offer a natural invitation to slow down as your pregnancy draws closer to birth. There is something about the colder weather that encourages you to come inward, to close the doors to the outside world for a little while, and begin cocooning...
