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VIDEO: Happy Therapist, Happy Clients!

Jan Normanton • Jul 03, 2022

It is said a therapist can only help their clients go as far and deep as they themselves have gone with their own inner work.

Having worked on myself for over 20 years with psychotherapy, group therapy, embodiment work and trauma healing and more, I continue my inner work every day as it never ends. I journal daily, unpack and unpick my beliefs and mindsets, explore my triggers, practice reframing. My nutrition choices are conscious and for optimum health. Every day  I get out in nature, meditate, practice yin yoga, sound bathe. I continue my week with a selection of practices for good health and wellbeing such as hot yoga, cold water swimming, conscious connected breathwork and womb healing amongst others.


I am in a great place and wish to stay here and so this inner work is never done. Instead we can return over and over again to the same themes,  allowing for deeper dives and new experiences and revelations from the same issues. We may begin perhaps with talking therapy, cognitising and rationalising issues, then lean into them feeling the full range of emotions. We may experience them somatically and energetically then further, spiritually. Until full integration occurs, when all the processing and grieving is done, perhaps for what was and what wasn't, for what we got and what we didn't get in our lives.


It is an honour to hold space for clients to come and share, dive even a little into their issues and gain fresh insights and understanding of what bothers them, be that physical, emotional or mental.


It is an honour to hold trust for clients to release traumas in a gentle, non invasive, safe way.


If you feel this resonates and think I might be able to support you, please feel free to contact me for your free initial consultation to explore how I can help.

VIDEO: We get to choose - either a vicious cycle of stress or a virtuous circle of peace

By Jan Normanton • 16 Nov, 2023
Can you cultivate a rest state within by staying present, focusing on what is, noticing the difference between the stressful internal chatter and the actual state of your present peaceful reality. Come into presence and get anchored in the here and now, within the body. The mind takes us away from our body and truth – that all we have really is the here and now.  We get to choose - either a vicious cycle of stress or a virtuous circle of peace.

VIDEO: Imagine Life without Procrastination, Rumination and Catastrophisation!

By Jan Normanton • 16 Nov, 2023
For me, the only true way to leave that monkey mind, to leave the procrastination, the rumination, the catastrophization of our mind is to come into the body. This is my truth, when I come home to myself and drop into my body; this is the fact of the matter - right now I am ensconced in nature, I can hear the babbling brook, I can feel the beautiful warm air on my skin, I feel expansive, free, liberated; I’m moving my body and I feel well. I’m breathing deeply, oxygenating my whole body with freshly oxygenated, nutrient-rich blood and getting out of breath. I feel fantastic. That is my truth in the here and now.  If I choose to stay in my mind, I can get very stressed and generate an entire stress state in my body. When I choose to drop into the body and stay present with what it is, my truth at this very moment, I get to experience something wonderful.

VIDEO: How do you remain embodied and cease the self abandonment?

By Jan Normanton • 12 Nov, 2023
There are so many ways we self abandon. And one way to stop ourselves from doing this is to commit to self care with our time, intention, attunement, focus. In this way we replenish ourselves, fill our boots in whatever way moves us, inspires us, enables us to feel alive! Embodiment is to be at home in the body, to stay true to ourselves versus self abandonment.  In remaining embodied, we are present to what is, to life in that very moment, rather than drifting off into the future or past. It is here that we can fully and completely experience life, tuning into all our senses and feeling every sensation. I find myself in nature, immersed in nature. Over and over again. I come home to myself. How do you remain embodied and cease the self abandonment?

VIDEO: Is this serving me?

By Jan Normanton • 07 Nov, 2023
This season I’m letting go; letting go of thoughts, mindsets, beliefs that no longer serve me. I’m decluttering, clearing out – physically, mentally, emotionally, energetically and spiritually. Creating space, for expansion, for allowing new beliefs, mindsets, thoughts and new feelings come in.  I’m clearing the decks and every day I ask the question “is this serving me?” - is this thought, this mindset serving me, and if the answer is no, I let it go - with grace, with love, with compassion and I create expansion in my body, space in my mind; I create and grow and nurture resilience to support me to go forth.

VIDEO: There is enough time!

By Jan Normanton • 02 Nov, 2023
There is enough time! Try this as a mantra to yourself to soothe your nervous system and return to steady state.  This together with belly breathing and extending the exhalation is a quick, easy way to get out of the stress state and into the rest state.

VIDEO: Our mind can be our best friend or our worst enemy!

By Jan Normanton • 31 Oct, 2023
Our mind can be our best friend or our worst enemy! We get to choose. What we focus on grows, amplifies, so be careful what you think about! We have agency, when we can catch our thoughts, recognise that it’s our thoughts that determine how we feel inside and we can challenge or gently be curious about these thoughts and instead attune to what’s going on in the here and now, in the body. This is our reality, what’s really happening in the here and now, in our body.  So when we drop into the body, breathe into the belly, exhale for longer than we inhale, ground ourselves - then we can come into the here and now and recognise what is true for ourselves in the here and now; are we safe in the here and now, or have our feelings been running amok and creating the physiology of stress rather than rest. When we come into the body, come into our truth - we can come to that beautiful state of rest instead.

VIDEO: Anchor into your body - to find your refuge, safety and wellbeing

By Jan Normanton • 26 Oct, 2023
How safe and soothed do you feel in your mind right now? Ask the question about your body. How safe and soothed do you feel in your body right now? You might notice a vast difference. Notice how the mind takes us away from the present tense and your place of safety, with its constant chatter and disappearing into the past or future, into the dramas of daily life. Drop into that safe space of your body in the here and now instead.  Anchor into your body - to find your refuge, safety, wellbeing.

VIDEO: our thoughts drive our physiology and our physiology drives our thoughts

By Jan Normanton • 24 Oct, 2023
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VIDEO: Mindful Moments - the Elixir of Life!

By Jan Normanton • 19 Oct, 2023
MINDFUL MOMENTS….How many of these do you allow yourself in your day? A chance to come into presence. To notice your surroundings. To notice yourself. How do you feel. Can you come into presence and connect through your senses to the here and now and to yourself. Can you take some slow deep inhalations and longer exhalations. Then notice how you might feel differently now. I so hope you feel better for and coming into your present reality and for returning to your true self. 

VIDEO: Stay close to yourself and the present for greater agency

By Jan Normanton • 17 Oct, 2023
By choosing to come into my body and the present moment, I get to nourish and nurture myself and replenish my spirit. In doing so my resilience increases so that, as and when challenges arise, I am better placed to deal with them. I generate a better foundation for my future self in choosing to stay close to myself and be present.
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