Stories about tension, restlessness and relaxation

The holiday is over, calendars are filling up again and the kids are almost back at school. You’d expect to start this period well rested, but for many of the women who come to me, it’s the opposite: they feel more tense now than they did at the start of summer. Why coming back is […]

During the day there’s no time to think about it. It’s only once the light is off and the room goes quiet that the thoughts arrive. What still needs to happen, a conversation that could have gone differently, something small that just won’t let go. Many of the women who come to me recognise this:

A day full of screens, meetings and a phone wedged between your ear and shoulder while you type. During the day you barely notice. It’s only in the evening, once you finally sit still, that your neck feels tight and heavy. Why you only feel it later in the day As long as you’re busy,

Breathe deeply, take it slow, do nothing for a while. These are the tips you hear everywhere when it comes to relaxing. For a lot of women that only works up to a point. You can breathe calmly on purpose and still feel that your body just isn’t following along. That has everything to do

I regularly hear from women that they’ve called themselves highly sensitive for a while, or that someone else used the term for the first time. Light that’s too bright, sound that lingers, a busy room that costs far more energy than it seems to cost the people around them. What that actually does to your

It happens regularly in my practice: someone is lying on the table, the tension starts to release, and then the tears come out of nowhere. An apology usually follows right away. Sorry, I don’t know where this is coming from. I don’t need to do anything special at that point. It’s actually very normal. Why

The summer holidays have started and many of the women who come to me expect this to be the moment they finally catch their breath. No alarm clock, no school routine, a bit more room in the schedule. Yet in practice I see that these weeks often don’t bring the rest you’d expect. Why a

Do you recognise these signs? Tight shoulders, a clenched jaw, poor sleep, or getting overstimulated easily. These are signs your body hasn’t truly been able to rest for a while.