Body Image & Embodiment
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Anxiety in the Body: How to Feel It Without Being Overwhelmed
Understanding where anxiety lives in your body, and learning to work with it there, is a different and often more effective approach than trying to address it at the level of thought. Because by the time anxiety shows up as thought, it's already been present in the body for a while. The thought is often the last thing to arrive.
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Fascial manoeuvres: what they are and why your body holds tension
Yesterday I attended my second fascia experience. The first was a few weeks ago in a workshop where the idea of fascia was introduced. There are only three people in Victoria holding these sessions, and if you're interested in the body, how it holds tension as well as trauma, this might be for you. My second session was a one-on-one, an opportunity to delve into something specific: the recurring shoulder injury, the headaches, and the way the lines of the body stiffen when the fascia hasn't been opened or hydrated.
The Body as a Source of Emotional Intelligence
I did not understand, for most of my life, that my body was a source of information. I understood it as a vehicle, something that transported my mind from one place to another. Something to be maintained. Something that felt things, yes, but whose feelings were secondary to what I thought.
How I Finally Got My Dream Body (And Why It Had Nothing to Do With a Diet)
A Warning and an Invitation: if you are here for a quick fix, read on no more. I mean that kindly. There are plenty of places on the internet that will sell you one. This is not that place. But if you are exhausted by quick fixes. If you have tried them, lost count of how many, and arrived here with a particular kind of tired that goes deeper than fatigue, the tired that comes from fighting something for decades and not winning, then you are exactly where you need to be.
Softening the New Year: A Devoted Approach to Wellness
This isn’t a fitness routine. It isn’t a fad diet, calorie counting, or a 30-day reset. It’s something quieter, deeper, and far more sustainable. It’s a relationship. A relationship with your body, built on understanding rather than control.
Ecstatic Dance: A Homecoming to the Body
While in Ubud, I’ve been trying to open myself to everything this place offers. There’s a current of possibility here, pulsing quietly beneath the surface. After experiencing the depths of sound healing—something I’ve done before and always found moving—I felt curious to take it one step further.