Unlock Emotional Empowerment

The reason I am passionate about unlocking emotional empowerment and building emotional resilience is because it is key to understanding ourselves, learning to accept and love ourselves. Therefore functioning with more efficiency, having deeper, more meaningful connections with others, and it helps create the foundations of good mental health and well being.

Most people who come to see me are experiencing acute symptoms of anxiety, worrying about the past or the future, this includes physical symptoms, and the anguish of negative thoughts that ruminate in a vicious cycle they struggle to break free from.

My passion for this topic is because I have suffered from debilitating anxiety, gut pain, nausea, brain fog, chest pain, panic attacks, negative thought loops and a lack of confidence in social environments.

Watching friends suffer from extreme emotional pain to the point of losing a friend to paranoia and suicide was terrible.

Living with family members in this state, heavily medicated with prescription drugs or others turn to alcohol and remove themselves from any social interaction, is not great either.

Embrace your emotions

Working with clients over the last few years I have discovered that embracing emotions is an important step in the healing process and for emotional empowerment. Which is a really fancy way of saying “To feel good about yourself”.

In our fast paced world we are fed so much external information about who we should be, what we should do and what we should want, we suffer from information overload. We get lost in the noise.

We are not taught how to manage or understand our emotions, and we are not taught how to trust our emotions or ourselves. Therefore we are not taught how to make good decisions for ourselves.

I believe that learning about emotions, what they do for us, how they show up, and how you can manage and transform your negative emotions is key to overcoming stress, anxiety and mental health problems.

Do you know what emotions do for us?

I have a saying that “Emotions are the thoughts of the body, and thoughts are the emotions of the mind”. Emotions are communicating with us, they have messages and wisdom for us, they tell us something in our life is changing or needs attention. They serve as our ‘moral compass’, telling us what is right and wrong for ourselves in any situation. For example,

Fear helps protect us. It is a warning signal that tells us to be careful.
Anger alerts us that something is not right. If our boundaries have been crossed, we will fire up to stand up for ourselves or others.

3 Tools I have for unlocking emotional empowerment are

Awareness by understanding what emotions do and what they feel like in the body. Learning to embrace positive emotions as well as negative ones without judgement. For example, It is ok to feel what I am feeling.

Transformation of challenging emotions into opportunities for growth and healing. By acknowledging your emotions, and thanking them for being there, it helps the emotion to soften and loosen its grip. Honouring yourself and the emotion helps to release the emotion from the mind and body.

Connection with intention. Embrace your desires by bringing awareness to what you want and need, making time for simply being, rather than doing. When we create stillness within by simply being, it allows us to connect deeply with ourselves to reflect on what we truly want in life.

By embracing all of your emotions, you unlock emotional empowerment. Which simply means “to feel good about yourself.”

Free your inner spirit is my 8 week healing journey. By unlocking emotional empowerment, I help people experiencing stress and anxiety to find calm, confidence and connection with themselves.