When thinking about whether something was traumatising to you, it's essential to remember that your response and emotions are completely valid. One thing may be traumatising to one person but not another. It's completely subjective and your early childhood experiences and attachment play a key role in how you cope with trauma in adulthood. It's also important to never minimise your past and never compare it to someone else.
When you say to yourself, 'i'm ok, they have it way worse than me' - you completely invalidate your own experience and don't allow your nervous system the opportunity to process it.
This months Happy Heads Reset is called 'Processing Trauma' and will help you do exactly that. You'll get:
- Insight into trauma and how it effects the brain and nervous system.
- Tapping video to follow that will help you process your trauma.
- Top Tips on how to calm your nervous system anytime you go into the fight / flight / freeze response.
- Guided meditation to bring your brain back into balance and integrate your nervous system.
Follow the link HERE to sign up to the Happy Heads Monthly Reset, It's completely free!
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If you would like to work 1:1 with me to process your trauma please get in touch kim@happyheads.me I would love to hear from you xx
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10 MINUTE TAPPING TO REDUCE ANXIETY
Anxiety is completely normal if we didn't have it we would all be like lemmings walking into the road. Normalising anxiety and saying how you feel out loud is a powerful way to quickly change the way you feel.
Watch this video to see how tapping can help you reduce your anxiety in under 10 minutes.
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If you would like some one to one sessions to nurture your anxiety please get in touch kim@happyheads.me I would love to hear from you xx
PROCESSING BIRTH WORKSHOP
Giving birth can be a magical experience but for some women the opposite may be true. For many different reasons birth can be traumatic having a lasting impact on their mental and physical wellbeing. The spectrum of trauma is a wide one and can range from PTSD (when maybe a mother nearly lost her life during childbirth) not feeling heard, feeling helpless, having things done without consent, emergency c section, unexpected complications or interventions, long painful labour or anything else that a birthing mother finds traumatic.
Trauma is different for everyone so it's important to reflect on how birth effected you both physically and mentally. Even if you had a planned c section, your body is still experiencing a trauma from being cut open. You may have had a good experience but still wish some things had been handled differently. Perhaps there were times you didn't feel like you were being listened to, patronised or ignored - these are all things that have a lasting impact.
Join me on 23rd March at Midday for my 1hr workshop 'Processing Birth'. It's been specifically designed to:
Create a safe space for all mothers to process their birth.
Empower you with tools to calm and ground your energy whenever you need (even when with your baby / children).
Allow your nervous system to emotionally and physically process your experience.
Improve the quality of your sleep (the short amounts you do get).
Reduce stress and anxiety connected to motherhood and everyday life.
Make you feel seen, heard and validate your emotions.
Improve your confidence as a mother and overcome any fear of birthing again.
Nurture your mental and physical wellbeing.
During the 1 hr lunchtime workshop you'll learn:
Insight into birth trauma, birth PTSD what is it and how it can affect people's mental health.
Breathing Techniques - to calm and ground your whole nervous system.
Guided Meditation - to help you identify, process and release any parts of your birth you found challenging.
Emotional Freedom Technique (Tapping) - to help bring your nervous system back into balance and overcome any anxious, negative thoughts you might be experiencing.
The workshop is only £20, click below to book or you can email kim@happyheads.me. It will be recorded for anyone who can't watch the live session so you can watch in your own time.
I can’t wait to see you all there.
Big Love
Kim xx
TAPPING DURING PREGNANCY
Pregnancy is a magical time but it can also be mentally and physically challenging. Your body is going through so many changes, you may have morning sickness, aches and pains, raging hormones, worries about the baby, birth and beyond - it's a big transition! Is my baby safe? Will I cope with birth? Will I be a good mum? Am I eating the right things? How is my life going to change? Will I be able to handle sleep deprivation?
Anxiety during pregnancy is totally normal and every person will have a different thing that's worrying them. It's more important than ever to nurture your mind during pregnancy because this helps you to be as mentally strong as possible postpartum. Regularly tuning in to identify and process your worries is a powerful way to make you feel calm, grounded and empowered throughout the whole journey.
Watch this video to see how tapping can help you do exactly that.
OVERCOME YOUR NEGATIVE THOUGHTS
MONTHLY RESET - NOW LIVE!
We have on average between 6,000 - 60,000 thoughts per day. If most of those are negative it's easy to see how this can have a detrimental impact on your mental health and wellbeing.
The January Happy Heads Monthly Reset is called 'Overcome Your Negative Thoughts' and includes:
- Insight into negative thinking and the impact it can have on our mental and physical wellbeing.
- A tapping video to help you overcome your negative thoughts.
- Top tips to help you change your mindset and think more positively.
- Guided meditation to bring your brain back into balance.
To get it simply sign up to the Happy Heads Monthly Reset. You'll also get a FREE meditation as soon as you join xx
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MANIFEST THE LIFE YOU WANT
"A manifestation is something that is put into your physical reality through thought, feelings and beliefs" Law of Attraction
Without consciously realising - we are always manifesting. Every thought you have creates an energy flow within and around your physical being. This energy attracts its likeness. So if you’re thinking “I’m not good enough” then your energy may start to reflect that and it will be harder to attract positive experiences that align to your authentic self.
The opposite experience occurs when you think high-level thoughts like 'I AM good enough’. Your energy will start to exude confidence and positivity and in turn will attract better experiences into your life. Every thought you have informs your energy, and your energy manifests into your experiences so to put it simply - your thoughts and energy create your reality.
Here is the four step process to follow when you manifest your dreams:
Step 1. Let Go Of Resistance
Before you can think about manifesting your dreams, you first need to let go of resistence and self doubt that might be holding you back. These are the limiting, negative beliefs that your brain defaults to when you even begin to think about what you want from your life
Step 2. Set A Goal
The next step is to actually set a goal. What are your biggest dream? What truly makes you happy? It’s much harder to get to a destination if you don’t know where you want to go. If you don’t yet know what you want from your life then think about how you want to FEEL - calm, happy, grounded, confident, empowered…. this is equally as important and can often inform you of your dreams.
Step 3. Learn To Attract Deliberately
You have set your destination, now you have to get there.
You have set your intention and know what you want from the universe, so now you must take action to ensure that your dream is manifested into a reality. If you set your goal and then put it to the back of your mind, it will never become a reality. Remember, you are what you give your attention to. Therefore, you should try to fuel your dream with as much positive attention as possible.
Here are some of the best ways to fuel your dream with positive attention;
Speak about it
Dream about it
Talk about it
Think about it
Create a dream board
Use visualisation
Use affirmations
Feel good about it!
Fill your mind with thoughts of you living out your dreams and feel excited about it. This should immediately heighten your positive energy and emit a frequency to the universe that you will want it to match.
Step 4 – Act ‘As If’
When you act, speak, think and feel ‘as if’ you are already living your dreams. The Law Of Attraction can work to match all of the positivity that you are emitting and provide you with more of the same.
For many, acting ‘as if’ can be a great cause of internal conflict. After all, you are acting ‘as if’ you are rich/successful/healthy/happy when your reality may suggest completely otherwise. However, it is important to try and avoid this inner conflict at all costs. Your task is to feel as good as though you are already living your dreams.
So, begin to believe more and allow yourself to feel good knowing that your dreams are already on their way.
Finally – dream big! The bigger your dreams, the more beautiful your reality can become.
Tapping is a powerful tool at helping you manifest the life you want because it enables you to do a number of things:
Identify what your dreams actually are
Begin to shift your internal narrative about the dream
Overcome any self doubt that will be holding you back from manifesting
Release negative energy in your nervous system that might block your dream
Put it out into the universe with powerful, spoken affirmations like I AM SUCCESSFUL , I AM HAPPY
Watch the video above to see how you can use tapping to manifest your dreams.
WELLBEING RETREAT - 1 DAY TO GO!
TRANSFORM YOUR MIND, BODY & SOUL…
“The happy heads retreat was the perfect reset button for me. The retreat was a brilliant combination of self help tricks, reflection and goal setting. Kim is a truly wonderful facilitator who draws on her own experiences and struggles to help her clients rationalise and work trough theirs. I would highly reccomend this retreat to anyone, those with specific areas they want to work on, or those who want to book in and just get a life MOT, it’s a fantastic course I would love to do all over again." Liz
Only 5 days until the Happy Heads Wellbeing Retreat begins! It's been specifically designed to help you transform your mental and physical wellbeing enabling you to kick start 2023 feeling calm, grounded and empowered.
"I got so much from the retreat with Kim. I learned some really effective ways to control my demons and make the day-to-day more manageable. And the guided meditations gave me a beautiful introduction to the practice. Kim has the most open, comfortable and kind presence - it was a real joy. Would highly recommend."
Toby
To make it easily manageable the retreat is set across 4 lunch time sessions.
Each Wednesday @12pm there will be a 1.5hr LIVE online workshop that will help you delve deeper into what you really want from the year ahead and overcome any self doubt that may be holding you back. Every workshop includes insight into the brain and topic, breathing techniques, guided meditation and Emotional Freedom Technique (Tapping).
4th January - Self Love & Set Intentions
11th January - Overcome Negative Beliefs
18th January - Manifest the Life you Want
25th January - Step into your Power
"The Happy Head’s retreat came at the best time possible for me. The retreat provided the perfect pause for reflection.I would definitely recommend."
Doula
After the workshops you’ll receive a support email that has all the key insights from what you learnt, a meditation recording for you to use, tapping videos to follow and a weekly (easily doable) practice to help you integrate the tools and techniques into your day. Each one will be recorded so if you miss one you can always catch up.
"That was AMAZING Kim thank you. I cried the whole way through it!"
Rachel
It’s been designed to completely reset your mind, body & soul. Spaces are limited, to book on click the link below or you can get in touch kim@happyheads.me.
The whole retreat is £110, spaces are limited don’t miss out!I can't wait to see you all.
Big Love xx
“I have just finished the Happy Heads Retreat and really cannot recommend it highly enough. As someone with a chronic neurological condition I have suffered with worry, self-doubt and anxiety most of my adult life. Kim delivers the sessions in a very calm and gentle manner and she has such a reassuring way about her which really helped me to believe I could achieve what I wanted to. The retreat left me feeling truly empowered. If you want to make a change in your life then I urge you to try it for yourself."
Vikki
HAPPY HEADS WELLBEING RETREAT
“I have just finished the Happy Heads Retreat and really cannot recommend it highly enough. As someone with a chronic neurological condition I have suffered with worry, self-doubt and anxiety most of my adult life. Kim delivers the sessions in a very calm and gentle manner and she has such a reassuring way about her, which really helped me to believe I could achieve what I wanted to. The retreat left me feeling truly empowered.
If you want to make a change in your life then I urge you to try it for yourself.”
TRANSFORM YOUR MIND, BODY AND SOUL….
The Happy Heads Wellbeing Retreat is officially back and i'm so excited to share it with you! It's been specifically designed to help you transform your mental and physical wellbeing enabling you to kick start 2023 feeling calm, grounded and empowered.
To make it easily manageable the retreat is set across 4 lunch time sessions.
Each Wednesday @12pm there will be a 1.5hr LIVE workshop that will help you delve deeper into what you really want from the year ahead and overcome any self doubt that may be holding you back. Every workshop includes insight into the brain and topic, breathing techniques, guided meditation and Emotional Freedom Technique (Tapping).
4th January - Self Love & Set Intentions
11th January - Overcome Negative Beliefs
18th January - Manifest the Life you Want
25th January - Step into your Power
After the workshops you’ll receive a support email that has all the key insights from what you learnt, a meditation recording for you to use, tapping videos to follow and a weekly (easily doable) practice to help you integrate the tools and techniques into your day. Each one will be recorded so if you miss one you can always catch up.
It’s been designed to completely reset your mind, body & soul. Spaces are limited, to book on click the link below or you can get in touch kim@happyheads.me.
The whole retreat is £110 but special Early Bird Tickets are only £80, don’t miss out! xx
TAPPING FOR TIRED MUMS
Being a mum to a little one can feel really challenging because you are often sleep deprived and that's tough! When you’ve had a bad nights sleep there is a 66% amplification to your brains amygdala (fear response) which means:
- It’s easy to feel more anxious
- Harder to think clearly and focus
- Easier to think negatively
- Harder to self regulate your emotions
- Your nervous system may feel frazzled and more sensitive
- You may feel floaty and like you’re on another planet
Whilst I can’t give you the gift of sleep I do know how to calm your nervous system, which is all you need to do on days when you’ve had zero sleep and you'll be surprised at how much more awake you feel afterwards!
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Watch this video to see how it's done and reset your tired mind 👆🏼
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TAPPING FOR PARENTS
Finding time for self care as a parent can be tough when all your energy is being poured into your little ones. A child's brain is still very much developing, which is why they are unable to self regulate their emotions - they need us to help them. That's incredibly hard to do if you're feeling exhausted, stressed, anxious and low. The more you nurture your own mind, the easier it is to nurture theirs.
Watch this video to see how you can use tapping to calm your incredible parent brain.
If you would like more support nurturing your mind please get in touch kim@happyheads.me I would love to help xx
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TAPPING ON UNCERTAINTY
The world is a bit of a crazy place to live in right now because so many things are uncertain and if you read the news your brain will be filled on a daily basis by things that can make you feel overwhelmed, anxious and panicked (I stopped reading it a while ago for this very reason). The 'unknown' is a very common anxiety trigger because the brain can easily think up the 'worst case scenario' and then the mind starts to believe what it's imagining and that creates more anxiety - it's a dangerous spiral to go down. The difficult thing about this particular anxiety trigger is that we ultimately don't know what the future holds because we're not mystic meg with a crystal ball. We have to find space within ourselves to be comfortable with uncertainty and start to gently rewire your neurological pathways to believe in the positive possibilities that the future may hold.
Tapping is a powerful way at bringing your whole nervous system back into the present moment and bringing stillness to your busy mind. It's the perfect tool for reducing anxiety, so why don't you try it now for 10 mins?
For more support in calming your mind please get in touch kim@happyheads.me I would love to hear from you XX
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