The Sensitive’s Guide to Savouring Life

Explore a collection of heartfelt letters and insightful articles centred around embodied healing, Self-leadership practices, and slow, intentional living specifically crafted for sensitive souls.

Embracing the Present: A Heartfelt Connection as 2024 Draws to a Close
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Embracing the Present: A Heartfelt Connection as 2024 Draws to a Close

There’s always a buzz of electric energy around this time of the year - when the days reach the zenith of shortest daylight hours in the Northern hemisphere while simultaneously welcoming the longest daylight hours in the Southern hemisphere.

Do you feel the magic of this season in the air?

A time for celebrations of all kinds, and lively gatherings with family and friends, and simultaneously a time for retreating inward to reflect on the year that has passed and to plan for the year that is fast approaching.

Though I’m usually the type of person who loves reflecting on the past and imagining the future yet to come, I am feeling a call to take time to stay rooted in the present moment in these final days of 2024.

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Are You Sensitive? Identifying, Understanding, and Honouring Your Sensitive Nature
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Are You Sensitive? Identifying, Understanding, and Honouring Your Sensitive Nature

Across many cultures, sensitivity is often regarded as a sign of weakness, a burden or a personality flaw that needs to be fixed. It is also often misunderstood as solely a female trait which leads to even harsher treatment of males who may display any signs of high sensitivity.

In truth, being sensitive doesn't equate to weakness; rather, it's akin to possessing an internal compass finely tuned to the emotional landscapes around you.

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The path to embodying our hidden wholeness
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The path to embodying our hidden wholeness

Just because the world has been hard on you, does not mean you should be hard (or harder) on yourself. Hardening our hearts, and toughening up can hide our wounds but they do not heal them. And when we hide what has not been healed, we miss out on the joy of living from our wholeness, and instead settle for a divided life.

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9 lessons I’m embodying through Trauma-Sensitive Yoga
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9 lessons I’m embodying through Trauma-Sensitive Yoga

The lessons I share here are not isolated to the practice of yoga on its own, but are highly relevant and supportive to the way we live our lives as well. In fact, yoga is a way of life (and not just a physical asana practice, limited to one hour on a mat). These lessons arrived in my being as the fruits of my practice and now I offer them to you, in hopes that they too may plant seeds of hope and peace within you, and invite your curiosity to explore the depths of your being through yoga or a different form of embodiment practice.

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