Just being there is no small thing. When we are present with someone’s expressions of their life force, there’s a profound effect created that brings about healing. When you experience this, a wonderful healing takes place and there is a natural relief of your...
One: Too Much Load Can Lead to Injury People who are not sleeping, or resting, who are managing lots of stress, are emotionally out of balance and whose nutrition is poor are more likely to experience pain and get injured. When people are training they often are very...
Helping people with anxiety has traditionally been seen as the territory of mental health professionals. Anxiety is most commonly framed as a psychological problem. My clinical experience for over twenty years has been that by safely connecting to the body, people...
As a young child, one of my clients learnt to dissociate when her parents were arguing. When I first started treating her, and didn’t understand the dissociation model I now work with, we both thought the sessions were productive because she consistently reported a...
Feeling is hard. My aim is to make it simple I’m a passionate and persistent champion of embodiment. As a bodyworker, all my work is aimed at supporting people to find health and happiness by connecting to the body. Whatever has happened to you, whatever your belief...
When we’re looking to reduce pain and anxiety, developing skills and words about how to interact with the feeling states inside you is really important. In this blog, I’m going to explore the art of feeling, and how we can get better at learning how to manage intense...
It may be five years since the first covid lockdowns, but in some ways we’re still navigating very disrupted times culturally and politically. In these challenging times, we can resource ourselves by acknowledging the feeling states inside of us. For me, the body is...
The very nature of trauma is that it is overwhelming – it’s more than our organisms can cope with. Trauma often shatters our worldview and rules of fairness and justice no longer seem to apply, which can lead to a spiritual crisis and a profound re-evaluation of...
A few years ago, several newspapers wrote stories about my Trauma and Tension Releasing (TRE) workshops, calling TRE “the new mindfulness craze set to take London by storm.” Today I thought I’d share one of the articles, from the London Evening Standard (you can see...
Over the past twenty-five years as a bodyworker, I’ve come to see that most of us don't understand how powerful feeling is. And I’ve had the privilege of witnessing the important changes that happen for people experiencing pain, trauma and anxiety, when they become...
‘The map is not the territory’ Science gives us amazing tools and models. But when we divorce scales of temperature from the human experience of hot and cold, when we think of measured ‘clock time’ as more real than ‘lived time’, when we substitute maths for living...
Anything can work some of the time. Nothing works all of the time. This phrase works really well to illustrate the complexity of working with pain. Pain is dependent on multiple, diverse, interacting variables. Pain is a perception due to the interplay of biological,...