Why Stepping Into Your Calling Feels So Hard

In 2021 I was invited to contribute a chapter to a book featuring stories from women in business. The brief was to share key lessons from years of entrepreneurship, the adversity, the pivots, the moments of courage that shape a business journey.

At the ...

Before you read this, just notice where you are. Feel your feet on the floor if you can. You can take this at your own pace and stop whenever you need to.

We Are All Born in Pieces

Nobody is born with a fully formed, integrated self. That might surprise you, but it is true.

Babies move through...

Trauma & Integration · The Energy Gardener

From Fragmentation to Wholeness

If you've spent years in therapy, talking, reflecting, managing, and still feel like something essential remains just out of reach, this is for you. Not because conventional therapy has failed you. But because it may simply...

 It’s been a few years since I last made a New Year’s 'resolution'.

Many years ago, I used to feel as though this moment marked a point where I could look at what I was dissatisfied with in myself and declare that I would change it. Now, I use the end of the year very differently. I use it to sit q...

We’re entering a period of time that naturally supports the energy of completion. You may be feeling this.

This month I invited a small group of women, all healers who’ve been walking a growth path alongside me for many years, to join me on a Full Moon walk.

Where I live there are many walking tra...

Pause for a moment and really consider.
Who holds the power in your inner world?

Is it the inner protector?
The part of us that monitors the boundaries. Always scanning for transgressions. Quick to react to anything that feels like a threat.

Is it the inner manager?
The one who organises and plans. T...

Over the weekend, I found myself in a heartfelt conversation with a friend who confided in me about the challenges she was facing within her friendship circle. She described a constant struggle, feeling consistently misunderstood and misinterpreted. As someone who deeply values ethics and sensitivit...

Following a deeply visceral reclaiming of power for a client, an experience we explored in today's follow-up coaching session, I felt it would be valuable to articulate this profound shift that occurs through careful exploration in Transformational Hypnotherapy.

I jumped back on Zoom to record this...

Revealing Unconscious Truths to Release New Potential in Your Life

In my upcoming talk, Revealing Unconscious Truths to Release New Potential in Your Life, for the Remothering Masterclass 2023, we'll be discussing the importance of bringing self-awareness to what is not yet known to you: your uncon...

Hypnosis is Finally Being Studied by the Scientific Community

Despite hypnosis having been around for hundreds of years, modern psychotherapy has largely overlooked it.

Science tends to avoid what it cannot fully understand, prove, or replicate within measurable parameters. The mystery surrounding...

“The ego is not master in its own house.”    Sigmund Freud

Understanding how the subconscious mind operates is crucial in order to harness its processes for your benefit, to wire your subconscious mind to help steer you towards what you actually want.

The subconscious mind is continuously payin...

Your Creative Business is a Fire

A note before you read: this piece sits in a different register to my clinical writing.

Working with me is not purely clinical. The name Energy Gardener probably already signals that. My work is grounded in psychology, neuroscience and trauma-informed practice, but...

Are You a Laser or a Spotlight?

We are not all wired the same way energetically, and understanding which type you are can explain a lot about why certain situations energise you and others quietly drain you dry.  This can be especially true for the Sensitive and Change-makers amongst us.

The two t...

The Chinese Bamboo Tree

There is a parable I return to often, both in my own life and in my work with clients. It is about a tree, but it is really about what happens in the years before anything is visible.

To grow a Chinese Bamboo Tree, you plant a seed and you tend it. You water it, clear the g...

For over a decade, fibromyalgia was a constant presence in my life. Relentless pain, deep fatigue, a body that felt like it was working against me no matter what I did.

I tried everything. I managed, adapted, medicated, pushed through. And for years I understood it purely as a physical problem in n...

The Generation That Raised Itself

There is a particular kind of person who grew up knowing, without being told, that the adults in the room were not quite managing. Who learned early to read the mood of a household, to make themselves useful or invisible depending on what the moment required. Who b...