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Over the last nine months, I’ve been on a journey through an Introduction to Counselling course. At its heart, it’s taught me something simple, yet deeply powerful - how to walk alongside someone as they face life’s challenges. Not to fix. Not to rescue. But to trust that they already hold their own answers. That my role is to be there… to hold, to support, and to offer an attuned presence. It’s that feeling we all recognise when it happens. When you leave time with someone a

I went out for a walk in the woods, to come back to myself. I had been living outside of my window of tolerance. I was feeling tense, on edge, and finding it difficult to access that place of calm and ease within. ⸻ At times of stress, or when our body perceives a threat, we can move into automatic responses. You might notice moments where everything feels a bit too much - thoughts racing, body tense, emotions close to the surface. Or times where it’s the opposite - things f

We all regulate in different ways. Some bodies settle through movement. Others through breath, cold water, quiet, or talking things through. Some regulate by organising their thoughts or feeling in control of their environment. But something I’ve been learning through my own study, client stories, and hands-on work is this: some nervous systems find safety most powerfully through touch. Touch isn’t just comfort or relaxation. It tells the body: you’re here, you’re safe, you c

(and how I used EFT to release my internal blocks to it) Rest. We know it’s important. We tell ourselves we’ll get more of it “when...