Contemplating making resolutions for 2015? Make them FUN (my column for Natural Health)

You can read the whole column by clicking the link below.

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Wishing all y’all the Happiest of New Years and all good things for 2015!

Metta,

Eve

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Current Yule, Christmas and New Year yoga class availability at Feel Better Every Day

While a big part of me feels like we’re still in April (this year has sped by even faster than most!), it’s nearly 2015 so I’m just flagging available classes for the coming weeks:

Tuesday 16th (7.30pm)

Thursday 18th (6pm)

Saturday 20th (10.30am)

Tuesday 23rd (7.30pm)

Saturday 27th (10.30am)

Tuesday 30th (7,30pm)

Special New Year’s Day class (6pm) (book quickly to avoid disappointment)

Normal scheduling resumes from Saturday, January 3rd, 2015.

Click here for more information about the classes or get in touch.

Hope you can join me!

Metta,

Eve

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PS – For those of you who come to my classes at DS Fitness, the gym will be closed during the usual Wednesday class time on Christmas Eve and New Year’s Eve but there’s availability for Wednesday 17th and in the New Year.

Energy work ‘not brain surgery’ – my highlights from the AMT Conference 2014

I really enjoyed the Association for Meridian and Energy Therapies (AMT) conference at the gorgeous View hotel in Eastbourne this weekend.

Energy work might sound quite strange to many in this part of the world but while none of us doubt our physical bodies (even if we often ignore their needs), increasingly, we’re more aware of our energy bodies.

I offer a range of therapies with energetic components – the ‘soul’ bit of my holistic mind, body, heart and soul practice – like crystal therapy, psychosynthesis counselling, yoga therapy, Energetic NLP and EFT).

And I regularly encourage clients to pay attention to how things make them feel energetically. What lifts their spirits? What drains them? What (a favourite psychosynthesis question) makes their hearts sing? As AMT’s founder and chair, Silvia Hartmann said, ‘If you tell someone they’re a piece of ****, their energy goes down. If you tell them they’re good, it goes up. It’s not brain surgery but common sense.’

My highlights from the conference included teaching a yoga class (with a sea view!) on the Saturday morning and (something that lifted my own energy to such an enormous degree I imagine it’ll keep me going until it’s warm enough to sea swim again in 2015) my November sea swim on Saturday lunchtime. We had amazing weather and while the water was very cold and I only stayed in for 10 minutes, it was glorious.

While all the speakers I heard were interesting, Susan Kennard, Sam Thorpe and Amy Kiberd were especially fab.

Going back to Silvia’s ‘not brain surgery’ comment from her keynote speech, self-care makes sense. ‘The more you have, the more you have to give.’

You might want to think about something someone did or said that made you feel awful and contrast that with something that made you feel all shiny and invincible.

You might also want to think about the things you tell yourself (and others) that lift your energy and those that make you feel like an amoeba (or worse). Noticing them in a mindful and compassionate way, will help you choose kinder thoughts and words – for yourself and others – in the future.

If you’d like some support, get in touch.

Metta,

Eve
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My feature for Rapport on using your Hallowe’en costumes and decorations to unleash your power and soothe your soul (October 2014)

Click below to read more about ways you can make the most of this time of year to explore different aspects of yourself…

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Metta,

Eve
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RIP Dr Masaru Emoto

Sad to hear of his passing but very grateful for his work. Due to his research, we know that water actually changes chemical structure depending on the thoughts people think around it. As Louise Hay said, when we smile at water, it smiles back. When we hate it, it cringes.

Obviously, this has enormous applications for humans as water makes up so much of us.

How are we talking to ourselves? When using words of self-loathing, what’s happening physiologically? How can we be kinder to ourselves? Notice your self-talk and make it as compassionate as you can.

Find out more about Dr Emoto’s pioneering work by clicking here or watching this video.

Metta,

Eve
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Promising new research on yogic breathing for PTSD

New research by Richard J Davidson et al, published in the Journal of Traumatic Stress, has shown promising results for downgrading hyperarousal in the autonomic nervous system.

It’s the first longitudinal randomised controlled trial to show benefits in PTSD symptoms through controlled breathing.

Find out more about this research by clicking here.

And if you’d like to experience yoga therapy sessions, courses and classes (based on the training I did at the Minded Institute, incorporating yoga, mindfulness, neuroscience and psychotherapy), get in touch to find out how you can learn to use your body and breath (as well as your mind) to deal with stress, anxiety, depression and traumatic stress (including PTSD).

Metta,

Eve
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In case your hols are still ahead (my feature for Rapport on making the most of holidays)

Click the link below to read the column.

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What changes are you ready to make for the sake of your health (or even life)?

‘… healing yourself is not for the faint of heart. I had to grab myself by the ovaries and make some scary-ass choices,’ remembers integrative medicine pioneer in her best-selling book, Mind Over Medicine, Dr Lissa Rankin.

Much as I’m loving the whole book, this sentence took me back to my 20s when I had to make some scary decisions myself.

Quitting alcohol to alleviate some of the pain of a chronic pain condition meant that I had to start dealing with the underlying causes of my having been drinking too much from too early an age.

And finding out I had a healthy heart, before an operation, meant I gave myself a month to quit my heavy smoking habit.

This bout of ill-health changed my whole life (not just lifestyle but career path, ultimately leading to Feel Better Every Day) and when I look back, I’m grateful for it.

But it was pretty horrific at the time.

Still, I love supporting clients in listening to their own body’s (and mind’s, heart’s and soul’s) whispers before they start screaming for attention.

If you’re ready to make some big changes and would like some support, get in touch to find out how I can help.

Good luck and Metta,

Eve
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Early bird discounts for upcoming yoga therapy courses and workshops (for stress, anxiety and depression; better sleep and rebalancing the chakras)

There’s still some availability for my next Yoga Therapy for the Mind 8 Week Course for Stress, Anxiety and Depression (starting on Monday, 8th September).

And I’m also taking bookings for my Better Sleep workshop on Saturday, 6th December (and the 6 Week Course which starts on 9th January, 2015) and Chakra workshop on Saturday, 22nd November (and the 7 Week Course starts on Tuesday, 6th January, 2015).

Find out about early bird discounts and more by clicking here

Click here for more information.

Do get in touch if you have any questions or would like to chat about them.

Metta,

Eve
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My Post Graduate Certificate in Integrative Counselling and Coaching has arrived

My Post Graduate Certificate in Integrative Counselling and Coaching, from the University of East London, arrived today.

It still makes me smile to think that I’d just been asked to review Nash Popovic and Debra Jinks’ pioneering book Personal Consultancy: a model for integrating counselling and coaching for Coaching Today and Therapy Today.

On reading it, being a bit of a learning addict, I just had to sign up to do the UK’s (possibly the world’s) first post grad level integrative counselling and coaching with Nash.

I’ve been working integratively, since I started – my initial training was in crystal therapy and I developed Crystal Coaching as my final project for that (having also qualified as a coach by then) back in 2004.

I’ve added several services since – EFT, NLP, counselling, yoga therapy and now coach-therapy – and ‘therapeutic mind, body, heart and soul practices’ is the best way (so far) I’ve come up with for describing what I offer at Feel Better Every Day as a whole.

Some of my clients choose just counselling or yoga therapy or coaching etc while others appreciate the opportunity to have something quite unique for themselves.

Going back into an academic environment (and learning from a lovely group of classmates as well as Nash) has been an interesting journey.

It has helped me think more consciously about what works where and when and with whom. I think my favourite thing about the Personal Consultancy model is that the client is always in the loop.

It’s not about the coach-therapist thinking, ‘Ooh, this would be good here’ but instead saying to the client that what they’ve said brings up a couple (or more!) possible ways of working and what would they like to focus on. So the client chooses their path themselves.

If you’re interested in my approach, please click here for more information.

And if you’ve already got a counselling and coaching background, you might be interested in looking into the training yourself – click here for more information.

Metta,

Eve
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