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The Two-Week Wait Survival Guide

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

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

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

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

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

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.

Autumn Reflection and Self-Prioritisation

Autumn Reflection and Self-Prioritisation

Autumn is the ideal time for reflection and to prioritise yourself as a welcome relief to having to be over-productive and on all the time. One of my clients told me that making cakes for their children’s school fete had started to seem like a huge competitive effort....