Personal change and transformation arise through a blend of conscious awareness, unconscious (or subconscious) shifts, and somatic changes in how the body holds itself and its patterns.

It's important to remember that we are never static. As human beings, we are of movement and of flow. We need the in breath and the out breath, we need free-flowing of expression of all the colours and textures that we are, and and it's important for our health and wellbeing to get to know and to befriend all of this.

But s is the way, we to learn from a young age that only certain feelings and experiences are desired by the world around us, and we begin to shut down certain aspect of our personality. This is entirely normal but also not ideal. Over time, we can begin to clamp down our breath, restrict our range of expression, somewhat lose our connection to who we actually are. And by adulthood, it is the norm to censor our personal stories and tell only the ones that match who we think we should be, finding that our careers, relationships and parenting are filtered through this restricted lens. And when things get icky somehow, we start to feel all of this as constriction, depression, pain, and stresses of various kinds, and then wonder why life isn't working as we want it to be. 

People often find that as the belt gets tighter and tighter, decision making becomes increasingly compromised, their personal relationships suffer, health becomes affected, sleep patterns become less than healthy and in many other ways their bodies and minds begin to operate in a less than optimal way. 

My clients all share one thing in common that they often don't realise:- they are all having a very human experience of life and as a trusted coach and therapist I get the overview on how exquisitely beautiful each of those lives are, in all of their colours and with whatever is going on emotionally, physically, mentally and spiritually. We do our best with what we know, and when we can know different - that to release and allow so much more of who we are is possible, so much more flow, love and appreciation and what can seem like miracles, begin to happen. 

Writing can be a wonderful way to begin to know ones-self and create more of this movement and flow. We can do this as journalling whatever is going on for us - by noting the content of our lives - and by using specific writing prompts and exercises that delve into unconscious and hidden realms. And if we are working together at the time, it can create a deeper shift to take what you are exploring into your sessions with me to delve into more understanding and release and freeing some of the more tightly held patterns with someone who is well trained to help.

In of itself is a powerful and transformational practice to write in these ways. You can play and express and allow your pen to take you to all kinds of places. Sometimes it can feel freeing, sometimes enlightening, sometimes you may feel long forgotten things and all sorts of other experiences will occur for you. To write is to allow the inside out and to take so much more notice of all of the colours and textures of this world that we live in. It can be beautiful and mundane. Happy and sad. It is all the experiences. Below I outline a few different ways you can play with this and create a writing practice that works for you.