Journal

Notes on stress, rest and remembering yourself.

Short pieces by Chantal on burnout, the nervous system, the body, emotions and the work of therapy.

• All, 30 posts
• Burnout, 6 posts
• Nervous system, 5 posts
• Body and mind, 5 posts
• Emotions, 5 posts
• Therapy, 5 posts
• Wellbeing, 4 posts

30 posts

Latest · Burnout · 9 min read

Understanding Burnout: Its Causes, Consequences, and Solutions for a Healthier Workplace

Burnout is increasingly recognized as a state of physical, emotional, and mental exhaustion that arises from prolonged and excessive stress.

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Wellbeing · 3 min read

Transform Your Mindset: The Mental Health Benefits of Decluttering

Exploring how decluttering can help you beat Burnout

Read Burnout · 1 min read

Is it Stress or Burnout?

In this blog you will learn the difference between Stress and Burnout.

Read Burnout · 4 min read

5 Signs Your Body is Telling You You're Burnt Out

Exploring symptoms of Burnout and how they present through your body.

Read Burnout · 2 min read

Understanding Personal Boundaries: Why They Are Key To Preventing Burnout

Breaking down what a personal boundary is and how boundaries help you live a balanced life.

Read Burnout · 3 min read

You Think You're Burnt Out, But What Does That Mean?!

An easy read introduction to Burnout and how you can start to resolve it.

Read Burnout · 2 min read

How to Recover from Burnout

3 Essential Strategies to Support your Recovery

Read Therapy · 4 min read

Do you believe you have to get rid of parts of yourself, in order for you to move forward and create the life you want? You don't have to.

This blog explores how you can update and integrate parts of you that may be frozen in the past, through the lens of Internal Family Systems.

Read Nervous system · 2 min read

Have you heard the term 'Glimmers?'

This is what I'd like you to know about glimmers and how they nourish your nervous system.

Read Body and mind · 5 min read

Understanding Top-Down and Bottom-Up Approaches in Psychotherapy

A Holistic Approach to Healing and Personal Growth.

Read Nervous system · 3 min read

The Healing Power of Breath

Exploring how a Gentle, Slow, Deep Parasympathetic Breath Works to Restore Optimal Nervous System Flexibility.

Read Nervous system · 4 min read

An opportunity to uncover your Autonomic Story

Exploring how your physiology and psychology are interlinked and how becoming nervous system aware supports your therapy experience.

Read Therapy · 3 min read

Embracing Your Personal Process in Therapy

Exploring what being in process means and what it offers you.

Read Wellbeing · 4 min read

Creating New Neural Pathways for Well-being.

Looking at the role movement plays in integrating emotions, renegotiating trauma, and how it accesses the parts of the brain in need of healing.

Read Therapy · 4 min read

The Power of Compassion: Nurturing Personal Growth through Self-Compassion

Looking at the role compassion plays in the therapeutic process

Read Body and mind · 3 min read

Exploring the Benefits of Somatic Therapy as part of your Journey

Let's get curious about working somatically as part of the therapy journey.

Read Nervous system · 3 min read

The Autonomous Nervous System: Maintaining Balance and State Regulation

Exploring how the Autonomic nervous system influences mental well being.

Read Therapy · 3 min read

What is inner child work?

Taking a look at what the term 'Inner child' means and how this relates to how we show up as adults.

Read Nervous system · 4 min read

Let's get curious about Ventral Vagal State

Taking a look at what ventral vagal state offers us through the lens of Polyvagal theory.

Read Therapy · 2 min read

How to make Therapy work for you

My Thoughts and beliefs on making the therapy experience the investment you want.

Read Emotions · 2 min read

Let's get curious about Anxiety

A spotlight on what Anxiety is

Read Wellbeing · 2 min read

Benefits of cultivating Inner Stillness

What does Inner Stillness offer us

Read Body and mind · 1 min read

When the Body becomes the Mind

Getting curious about conscious choice

Read Emotions · 2 min read

Let's get curious; Sitting with Feelings & Moving with emotions

How moving with our emotions can help us

Read Emotions · 1 min read

Let's get curious about Emotion

Understanding Emotion as 'energy in motion'

Read Emotions · 2 min read

What fills your Heart?

Connecting to your Heart centre

Read Body and mind · 2 min read

Let's get curious about our 3 'minds'.

Understanding Heart Brain coherence

Read Emotions · 1 min read

Let's get curious: How long does it take to feel an emotion?

Understanding what it means to feel an emotion

Read Wellbeing · 1 min read

Let's get curious about Self-care

Understanding Self-care

Read Body and mind · 1 min read

Let's get curious about embodiment

Understanding what embodiment means

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