Hope you've all had a great summer. I've just been confirming the events schedule for Autumn, dates will be with you soon but just wanted to confirm who's joining us: 🎨 Art Therapy and Emotions Workshop With Lynne Grahame I've also got Lynne Grahame, an amazing art therapist who is also trained in psychodynamic work. Lynn is a BAAT and HCPC registered art therapist with a Postgraduate Diploma in Art Therapy, working since 1999 across the NHS, mental health and community settings. She'll be using simple techniques with colour and art, not about beauty, talent or skill, to help you access emotions as part of your inner work. 💖Conscious Menopause With Cathy Skipper Cathy Skipper, a Jungian therapist, has agreed to do some talks on midlife and menopause, understanding emotions, and the role that dream journaling can play. Cathy is a Jungian-informed guide and "menopause midwife," drawing on alchemy, shadow work and the sacred feminine to help women move through menopause consciously, she's been guiding women through this journey since 2017. 💟 Live Guided Allowing With Sam Miller Sam Miller from The Great Allowing is coming back to run some live guided emotional allowing sessions. Sam's approach is trauma-informed, somatic and depth-psychological, drawing on her own recovery from chronic illness as well as trauma therapy, somatic experiencing and nervous system science. 📒Group Emotional Coaching and Journaling Pippa Braund will be back with her group emotional coaching and journaling support sessions. Pippa holds an MSc in Audiology, works part-time for the NHS, and is a certified Holistic Life Coach trained in Pain Reprocessing Therapy, Emotional Awareness and Expression Therapy, and Accelerated Experiential Dynamic Psychotherapy. 🗓️Dates and times will be with you soon

Hope you’re doing okay in the heat. I sent an email this week with a few coping tips on there, nutrition and sleep support mostly, so hope it landed in your inbox. We’ve had an added layer of complication this week in that we’re fostering a six week old puppy. Of course, she’s adorable, but we’re also staying super sensible about this and know we can’t commit to anything until we see that it’s right for everyone. One thing we’ve definitely had to commit to is regulating our nervous systems in different ways. This little pup needs periods of stimulation and play, and periods of decompression, basically the doggy equivalent of a yoga nidra. I’ve already noticed she’s forcing me to be more productive in the time I work, so that I can properly rest in the time I’m not. I’ve been drawn to Tara Brach’s meditations a bit more this week, we all need to stay connected to our felt sense, our gut feeling, and be led by that rather than overthinking it. I’ve been doing her somatic practices to stay connected, because my mind is mostly going WTAF. I’d love to hear how you’re getting on in this heat, and how you’re doing with your own boundaries. Boundaries can be tougher to hold at the moment too, there’s often more happening in summer, more social connection and engagement taking place, and the heat just adds another layer of intensity to all of that. The longer days, and extra light can also be overstimulating in themselves. We don’t get that same natural pull to head home and settle into proper downtime the way we do in winter. Interestingly, people in countries with the longest days often say they crave winter, and I never really understood that until now. Instant grounding meditation 7 mins here Relax back into mystery 18 mins here Living presence12 mins here

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Really enjoyed this and super fascinating chat, sharing as you may enjoy. It's deep, insightful but has many laugh out loud moments too. Really struck me how much Ruby not only had poor attachments and early life trauma but is carrying so many difficult generational experiences and from a Mindbody perspective could be manifesting as a deep depression. I've been debating a silent retreat too but not sure I could do a month 😮 https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/begin-again-with-davina-mccall/id1773104705?i=1000758784567

It is an odd feeling to have nowhere near the amount of energy required to make it through a ‘normal’ day. I struggled big time yesterday and it now feels like the last couple of weeks have the same sort of flavour as when I discovered an under active thyroid and at the start of perimenopause. Where no amount of time in bed will be enough and the tiredness, headaches, low mood and body aches makes it feel like I’m dragging around a ball and chain. So I’m taking today off, and maybe tomorrow. We will see. But my ego is already suggesting that this would be an excellent opportunity to look at new mortgage options and sort out some business admin if all I'm doing is lying on the sofa 🙈 Also, I had 3 crazy dreams last night, all contributing to a restless night. One was about how Covid was being spread through spiders 🕷️ And we were all trying to avoid them, they were everywhere, and a colleague didn’t help me when I had managed to zap one (with an actual taser), she stood back and watched while I struggled to tackle this 3 cm beast 🤷🏼‍♀️ Another was really hazy and something to do with lots of people not being respectful and honest. The last was also hazy but was about the charity event I stepped down from earlier this year and I was sneaking away from one of the evenings through others’ back gardens and got caught climbing out of someone’s window. But then they started chatting to me🤔 I think I need a holiday 🤪