Salt by Nayyirah Waheed “Salt is a journey through warmth and sharpness. This collection of poetry explores the realities of multiple identities, language, diasporic life & pain, the self, community, healing, celebration, and love.” (ref Amazon) “Waheed tackles some important and tough subjects like the African diaspora, motherhood, the ways in which feminism can benefit […]
Book Review: Waking The Tiger – Healing Trauma by Peter Levine
Peter Levine: Waking The Tiger – Healing Trauma. “Nature’s Lessons in Healing Trauma… Waking the Tiger offers a new and hopeful vision of trauma. It views the human animal as a unique being, endowed with an instinctual capacity. It asks and answers an intriguing question- why are animals in the wild, though threatened routinely, rarely […]
Book Review: The Body Remembers by Babette Rothschild
Babette Rothschild: The Body Remembers “This book shines a bright light on the impact of trauma on the body and the phenomenon of somatic memory. It is now thought that people who have been traumatized hold an implicit memory of traumatic events in their brains and bodies. In essence, the body of the traumatized individual […]
Book Review: The Body Keeps The Score by Bessel van der Kolk
Bessel van der Kolk: The Body Keeps The Score – Mind Brain And Body In The Transformation Of Trauma “The effects of trauma can be devastating for sufferers, their families and future generations. Here one of the world’s experts on traumatic stress offers a bold new paradigm for treatment, moving away from standard talking and […]
Grief – It’s Challenging!
In this article we will consider how grief and loss may hide in everyday experiences and offer some ideas on how we might better understand ourselves or others who are in pain with grief. Supporting someone who is grieving may seem simple, however anyone who has been in this situation knows there are challenges. Each […]
What You Need To Know About Trauma
Three Excellent Trauma Books I recommend reading about trauma and recovery. Everyone can benefit from understanding trauma; what it means, how it affects us and how we heal and recover. With so much of our news and information coming from social media sources it is important to find reliable and well written information based on […]
They lay close to your heart waiting to be uncovered…
Desire Mapping is all about becoming aware of what your Soul really craves and making it part of your mind set. Desire Mapping is the revolutionary way to plan your life. We push Resolutions Out. Invite Revolutions In. Enquire here for the next Desire Mapping Retreat The weekend workshop / retreat is a step-by-step journey […]
Talking with Children About Tragic Deaths
9 Tips to Help Children with Difficult Loss It can be difficult to wrap our minds around the idea of explaining a suicide death to children. Our instinct is to protect our children from the terrible truth and the heart-breaking situation, so a part of us would like to avoid having these conversations. And usually […]
Our Classic Workshop – Soothing Sessions
OUR CLASSIC WORKSHOP is the stress reducing, calming workshops combining trauma sensitive yoga, mindful movement, and distress regulation techniques. You are invited to learn and practice new stress management tools. We shall explore and experience fresh ways to soothe and calm your mind, body and the way you view the world around you. Soothing Sessions […]
The Letting Go Paradox
The Way of Grief and Loss No disputing we need to let go of things and stuff that is weighing us down – material items, stress, angst, people, screens… the list is long for us all. “Sometimes you don’t realise the weight of something you’ve been carrying until you feel the weight of it’s release” […]