Sense of Self & Purpose
With or without children, life as a process of personal evolution can have us questioning who we are and what is our fundamental life purpose?
Such questions can deeply affect sense of self with repercussions felt through careers, relationships, sense of identity and orientation.
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“A self that goes on changing goes on living,”
Virginia Woolf
Now that I'm here, who am I?
Questions of identity and sense of purpose can create repercussions felt across every realm of life. Let's explore your big questions with compassion and generosity of spirit.
Now that I'm here, who am I?
Questions of identity and sense of purpose can create repercussions felt across every realm of life. Let's explore your big questions with compassion and generosity of spirit.
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Ch-ch-changes
There are times in life, when we are agents of our own change. There are times when change is brought to bear upon us. Change is a constant and whether or not we are seeking it, skills and techniques to cultivate self compassion and resilience will support your capacity for responsiveness and adaptability.
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Beginnings & endings
Passions, relationships, careers - they have their own season. There is no play book for the "right way" to experience beginnings or endings. Feelings can be intense, confounding and surprisingly changeable.
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Fluidity
Many find their personal sense of identity, orientation, attraction and or expression remain fluid over their lifetime. Fluidity can include your felt sense of your gender identity and or your orientation - that is what gender am I now identifying as and who am I attracted to?
Perhaps it's not you who feels they're changing, maybe it's someone dear to you and you feel you need to explore what it means for you.
Compassionate exploration of these questions can help you find warmth, compassion and acceptance of yourself.
Womanly Counselling is trauma oriented practice​. Womanly Counselling can support you to cultivate an attitude of self-compassion, kindness and curiosity is helpful to understand and respond to difficult emotions that can arise in times of change and transition.
My practice integrates Trauma Focussed Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (TFACT) with somatic psychotherapies created from my therapeutic womanly yoga practice offer you a place to be sincerely seen and heard in your pain and tools of breath awareness, subtle and effective somatic movement to help you find a place of acceptance and healing on your own terms.
Recognising that your mental health across your life span is not separate from your whole body, therefore a natural consequence of engaging with these practices will be felt in your capacity to accommodate each moment in your cycle/ life-stage; building energetic and emotional reserves; stimulating circulation; soothing tired mind and frayed nerves; boosting immunity; improving sleep; moderating your metabolism and building healthy emotional boundaries.