Helping you feel more relaxed every day
“Sometimes the most productive thing you can do is relax” ~ Mark Black
Would you like to use your stress to help you (in the longer term) transform your life while also (almost immediately) start feeling better every day? With a trauma history and/or ADHD, Self care and self-care rituals and practises can feel essential rather than simply nice to have but it gets easier
Read on for more on how we might work together to help you with stress either one to one (online or by telephone across Ireland and the UK or with face to face indoor or outdoor nature-based sessions in Westport, Co Mayo, Ireland) or from anywhere in the world through the Sole to Soul Circle: Trauma-informed and ADHD-friendly self and Self care).
Scroll down for immediate access to more simple and effective Self and self-care ideas, Self and self-care rituals, resources and mind-body practises you can start implementing right now for instant results. Are you ready to (with practise) potentially retrain your nervous system, rewire your brain and gain a better understanding of how the stress is helping to redirect you for long term improvements?
“It’s amazing how that stress and negativity, if there’s no outlet, poisons you. If I hadn’t spoken to you, I don’t know where I would be. I always felt better when I left after a session. I was quite a broken person back then. I feel 1000 times more upbeat than I was in November and look forward to forging ahead.”
T, Essex, UK ~ read more
We often think of stress as a bad thing but a healthy amount of stress is great for helping us become better, learn more, to thrive even
This kind of stress is known as eustress. Imagine a baby learning to crawl then toddle the walk. (Hopefully) no one is yelling at them to hurry up but they want to grow and develop.
The kind of stress that is less healthy – that can be positively unhealthy if it becomes chronic – is known as distress.
It’s what so often happens in modern life. We live sophisticated lives with our devices and 24/7 living but our bodies and brains simply weren’t designed to cope with so much excitement and stress.
Our ancient ancestors lived mostly peaceful existences and their stress responses would be triggered occasionally by sabre toothed tigers and similar actual threats to life and limb.
Physiologically, we might react in the same way to the thought of an email or a conversation at work.
When we don’t allow ourselves enough downtime and rest, our nervous system gets unbalanced.
We start producing stress hormones even without having stressful thoughts let alone actually being in the grave danger our limbic brains think we’re in.
This can result in unpleasant symptoms like feeling like crying, snapping at people, outbursts of anger, self-harming behaviours and insomnia.
I always know when I need to up my own self-care because little irritants start feeling bigger than they are.
Being told or even telling ourselves to “calm down” or “relax” can have the opposite effect.
Fortunately, there are many things we can do to help ourselves and I love sharing these tools with my clients, students and groups
All my work is collaborative so the choice about the direction we take and tools you learn is entirely up to you.
The fact that you’re even reading this, looking for support and knowing you can improve things is a big step.
I use a range of tools to help you ease your stresses (click here) depending on what you want support with and what appeals most.
“It was very calming and relaxing and made me think about looking after myself more and how breathing in various ways can make such a difference to how you feel. Eve is a lovely person with a real understanding of what people are feeling and her gentle but positive way of explaining everything helped me to enjoy the sessions with her. Thanks so much. This really helped me to feel better about things.”
G ~ Self care coaching with yoga ~ read more
Would you like to feel more relaxed?
‘Thank you again so so much; you will never understand how much you have helped me gain a little bit of normality back in my life just from using the techniques you have taught me. I really enjoyed our classes and you put me at ease straight away. I mentally “roar” (Lion pose) at people now. Focusing on grounding takes me out of whatever anxious moment I’m in. The breathing exercises, remembering to be kind to myself, chanting, poses, and noticing physical sensations like itches (and the itch magically disappearing!) has been most helpful. Thank you so much for the learning, understanding and most of all, the giggles.’
R, Essex, UK
A huge amount of 365 Ways to Feel Better: Self-care Ideas for Embodied Wellbeing is designed to help you move from endless Stress Response (sympathetic activation of the autonomic nervous system) and into Rest/Digest mode (parasympathetic activation). Remember, you deserve to take better care of yourself and to create a life you don’t need to retreat from.
Read some selected articles and columns about stress here
While all the episodes will have something to support you in finding more calm, ease and peace, you might especially enjoy: