If your body was your child, how differently would you treat it?

This is a question I pose to my clients, because it’s so easy to take your body for granted. It’s easy to simply expect it to ‘work’ for you, to keep showing up and pulling you through, to keep loving you, regardless of what you think about it or do to it.

Would you push your child to the point of exhaustion every day when they’re already tired?

Would you….
Poke and squeeze them?
Say horrible, self-degrading things to them?
Allow them to sit all day without any form of movement?
Fill them up on foods that aren’t nutritious and ‘healthy’?
Tell them off for outgrowing their clothes as they grow older?
Find them unlovable because they look different to their peers?

Thinking of my body as someone I’m in a loving relationship with, and that I care for, helped me so much in shifting my perspective around accepting my body and creating the habits that truly serve me.

💛 So that’s my invitation for you – if you were to think of your body like your own child, how would you show up for it? What would you do differently?

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Praise the woman…

I love this poem, as it reminds me of what’s possible when women are open to accepting one another, to hearing each other’s stories, to getting behind each other’s journeys, and holding more space for each of us to be fully seen in our own version of power.

Because I’ve been on both ends of the equation where the need to feel seen as worthy, capable, or enough meant one woman was pitched against the other. It didn’t feel good. I find women tend to be hardest on each other because as Joy Sullivan highlights – it’s just love knocked off balance. We tend to look for our (and others) sense of safety, love, and connection by using criticism, comparison, and competition…but what could be possible if we transformed this fierce criticism and competition against each other, into fierce camaraderie? What would that look like in our day-day lives?

👉 So, that’s my invitation for you this week:

- How can you praise the women in your life more? What would it look like to lift them up and support them?
- What difference do you feel this would make in your life, and the life of the women around you?

Sarah x

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Every time you do or don’t do something, it’s a choice.

I wanted to leave this little reminder here as we head into the latter part of the week and as you approach your weekend, because I see so many people beating themselves up when they choose to invest in down time or the act of ‘doing nothing’. They never allow themselves to enjoy it, and often wind up talking about it negatively because they feel as though doing nothing is pointless.

If this is something you struggle with, I invite you to play with reframing the act of doing nothing as a conscious choice - that the very act of doing nothing is its own version of doing something!

For example instead of seeing the act of resting on the couch as ‘doing nothing’ see it as a choice you are making to recharge and reserve your energy for the next day?

Instead of seeing the act of staying in to watch a movie as ‘doing nothing’, see it as a choice you are making to honour your boundaries if needing time away from others.

👉 I'd love to know how this lands for you - How would this reframe shift how you feel in these moments?

Sarah xx

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Home

As I look down, I see my black tights speckled with my cat’s fur, my hair tie around my wrist. Around me I have towels folded on the couch, pot plants here and there, and a single pink tulip rests in a jar beside my favourite candle. Her precious petals are enclosed around each other, her eyes peeping out from the middle.

Bliss.

I love my home, in all it’s daily simplicities, it makes me feel at ease.
No more rushing, no more pushing. I can simple be.

When I sit with this, the word home is so powerful, as it can be anything and many things…a house, your ‘body’, another being, an object, a specific place, your community… anything that feels safe to you.

Because…
Home is where your whole self can be held without expectation.
Home is a place you can come back to time and time again.
Home is a space that allows you to grow and change.
Home is where it’s ok to be messy.
Home is a place you can unfold just like the tulip.

What feels like home to you?

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One of the most effective ways of understanding how you feel, and learning how to move through difficult emotions, is through your body. In fact, the word emotion comes from the Latin word ‘emovere’ which means to move out.💃

Yet being in touch with your body is something lots of us struggle with, because we buy into misguided beliefs around what ‘embodiment’ actually means.

We think that to be embodied means you have to move well, boldly embrace your sensuality, look a certain way, hold yourself a certain way, have the ability to manipulate and control your body in a certain way…. Pretty much we start to see our relationship with our own body as something outside of ourselves based on its outward appearance and functionality, rather than seeing it as an intuitive guide 🙌

Embodiment is about coming back INTO and communicating WITH your body - noticing changes/shifts both internally and externally, tuning into the message behind these shifts, and trusting yourself to respond in a way that honours this. This can be as simple as,

✨ Going to bathroom straight away rather than holding on.
✨ Acknowledging you’re hungry and eating something.
✨ Noticing when you’re tired and going to bed.
✨ Noticing when your posture and breathing changes.

So, my invitation for you this week is to bring more awareness to how your body speaks to you throughout the day:
- What changes do you notice?
- Where do you notice you tend to ignore your body’s messages?
- What’s one thing you could bring into your week to deepen your connection with your body?

With love, Sarah x

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A phrase I love to think about is conscious living - am I consciously bringing the things into my life that will support me, that I need, that will bring me joy, that align with what I value?

So as we approach the start of the week, I invite you to pause and check in - what might you need this week to better support you?

✨ Maybe you’ve got…✨

- lots of work on and need to consider meal prep in advance so you know you’ve got everything ready to rock and roll when you get home.

- multiple social events and need to block out some time for yourself to recharge.

- a health concern that’s been bugging you and you need to set up a reminder to book in an appointment with the doc.

- an intention to bring movement into your days so you need to set your gear out before bed or put it in the car so it’s all ready to go.

- to pack some snacks in your bag so you always have something easily on hand when feeling peckish.

- loved ones you’re wanting to connect with, so you need to reach out an organise a catch up….

Sarah x

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