Let’s Talk About...The Body That Learned To Be Quiet

The body remembers what the mind tries to silence.

May this remind you to listen with gentle attention.

Every suppressed feeling leaves its trace.

Honesty

Intelligence

Being

These were the energetic intentions that came through in the opening of this circle style reading.

None of these chapters are here to overwhelm you, so as I found myself saying in the live I am yet to share on Awakening To And Understanding Migraine (I’ll share the replay next week), know that we can pause, step away, return another time - or not - to this work at any time.

As you begin this reading, bring in the image or connection with a tree.

An inner tree, with roots twisted and tangled and many as the roots of illness.

The trunk as perhaps your nervous system.

And the branches and leaves speaking to the patterns and adaptations we’ve been discussing in recent weeks and all the symptoms as expressions of the tree and its trunk as the nervous system.

Photo by Johann Siemens on Unsplash

There is an invitation to return to this tree in this reading.

I hope this analogy helps many more of you in “recognising that the ways in which we grew, like trees, was brilliant and not wrong” as Morgana Clementine so aptly puts it.

This chapter is a great reminder that this entire pathway is not about forcing anything.

Each gentle invitation that accompanies each chapter is about noticing.

No need to rush or push or fix or change anything.

We are meeting ourselves with awareness. With compassion. With tenderness.

And if you find that as challenging as I have done for most of my life, know this space has been created to help support you and hold you in that.

Let me know which parts of this chapter speak to you. What resonates. What’s true for you. And always feel welcome and invited to share any aspect of your story and experience. I’d love to hear from you.

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Enjoy this Chapter Closing Ritual

Place a hand on your chest or belly. Take a slow, expansive breath. Imagine energy flowing from roots to trunk, trunk to branches, branches to leaves.

Say quietly or silently:

“I honour my quiet.

I release what has been held too long.

I allow my body to speak.

I welcome my voice and my life.”

Hum if it arises. Let your shoulders drop. Let your jaw unclench. Feel a little more space within.

Carry this presence into the next chapter, where we explore the research, insight and understanding of migraine – it’s complexity, it’s disparity, it’s prevalence – and uncover what is being done, what can be done, and how the body, voice and life can be reclaimed.

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Catch up ones missed

Pathway One: Awakening Through Struggle - Seeing Through The Old Paradigm

A live reading, gentle reflection and honest conversation on chapters:

1. A Beginning I didn’t Expect

2. When Awakening Costs You Everything Familiar

3. When Pain Speaks and No-one Listen

4. Choose Your Path (yet to re-record)

5. The Power of Belief (yet to re-record)

6. The Illusion of Function

7. The Intelligence of Malfunction

8. The Cure Myth

9. The Root Cause

10. The Root Cause - Part 2

11. The Patterns That Once Protected You

12. The Patterns That Once Protected You - part 2 (this one)

13. The Body That Learned to Be Quiet (recorded but yet to share)

14. Awakening To and Understanding Migraine (4pm BST today - join us live)

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Catch up ones missed

Pathway One: Awakening Through Struggle - Seeing Through The Old Paradigm

A live reading, gentle reflection and honest conversation on chapters:

Part One of Pathway One: ROOT - Listening to what can no longer be ignored.

1. A Beginning I didn’t Expect

2. When Awakening Costs You Everything Familiar

3. When Pain Speaks and No-one Listen

Part Two of Pathway One: RECLAIM - Remembering the wisdom beneath survival.

1. Choose Your Path (yet to re-record)

2. The Power of Belief (yet to re-record)

3. The Illusion of Function

4. The Intelligence of Malfunction

5. The Cure Myth

6. The Root Cause

7. The Root Cause - Part 2

8. The Patterns That Once Protected You

9. The Patterns That Once Protected You - part 2

10. The Body That Learned to Be Quiet (this one)

11. Awakening To and Understanding Migraine (live recorded, to be shared next week)

12. Navigating Treatment, Holistic Care & Transformation - join us live on Tuesday 29th September

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If you want to venture deeper into the work: PRE-ORDER

📖 Migraine: Root. Reclaim. Rise.

This action guide memoir and integrative healing companion brings together the story, framework and practices that have been unfolding through this work…

an invitation into the journey of understanding my story in more depth, the reclamation of my voice and discovering what becomes possible when you begin to lead from within.

Pre-order the book (two new countries have been added and more will continue to be):

🇬🇧 UK

🇩🇰 Denmark

🇫🇷 France

🇳🇱 Netherlands

🇸🇬 Singapore

🇦🇪 United Arab Emirates

🇿🇦 South Africa

No publisher meeting went ahead this week as planned so I am still no further forward on what’s happening with the manuscript and front cover. I recently learned feeling in the dark can be a common author/publisher experience.