Gracious Flow

What is it that lifts your soul and fills your energetical cup each morning as you set your intention for your day?

What do you do to conciously move into your day from a positive and calm space?

Taking a moment to acknowledge the bueaty that is in each mornings sky is often one of the ways we take a moment in gratitude to set the foundation of positivity for a new day. Be it the rays of light the sun gifts us, the stillness in the bay, the gentle breathe of a breeze, or the cleasing effects of a strong wind and gift of a morning rain.

We seek to check in on our perspetive on how we are seeing things infront of us.

The bueaty of perspective checking is that we have the power if we so choose to change it.
By doing this we can change the feeling of every moment we might come across in a day from one that challanges to one that uplifts us.

It's all in how we look at situations or events.

We have the power to create our day how we want it.

What do you do to see things in a way that empowers you even when life might seem overwhelming and full of challange and unknowns?

Namaste

Gracious Flow

May 2024 be filled with many blessed and sacred moments for you all.

We just wanted to let you know we are back after a short break with our family over the festive season, ready to take on New clients with our Holistic Counselling, Empowerment Coaching and Holistic Relationship Support services.

If you are looking to invest in yourself from a holistic approach in your mental, physical and spiritual health and wellbeing for 2024, reach out via our socials pages or check out the services we offer via our website https://graciousflowtherapies.com and we can support you to achieve the goals that you desire moving forward.

You are deserving of self-care, you are enough as you are, we are all amazing and our potential is endless.

Blessings and light to you all

Namaste

Gracious Flow

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Supporting Change and Transformation

Why?

Understanding why we do something is not always easy, especially when it comes down to unconsciously triggered reactions and responses when we are caught in challenging or confronting moments. These moments might be with your partner, close loved ones, children, work colleagues, an authoritarian figure, or even a random stranger out in the street.

Why does that person or group of people stir me up, why do I feel intimidated by the way that person approaches me, why does the behaviour of that person leave me feeling so frustrated or annoyed, why do I feel unseen or unheard when I am surrounded by those people and the why does this and why does that can go on and on……

When we take the time to look deep into where these unconscious actions and responses come from it can empower us in incredible ways to change our internal stories so significantly that we can change the way we function within our everyday lives entirely. Opening us up to living a new and more authentic and real experience in many aspects of our lives and stepping into a more assured and confident version of ourselves.

When we address the why and see past the response but find the reasoning behind these responses, we then allow ourselves to see if the responses we are unconsciously making are in line with who and how we want to live our lives moving forward. It gives us the insight to understand how we have come to have these responses and see past the why and into how we have these responses. There is nothing more disempowering than allowing old patterns of behaviour and reaction to drive the way we live our lives only to keep repeating the same scenarios repeatedly and feeling stagnated and stuck in a life that doesn’t fully serve our goals and wants for how we want to live.

But have you ever thought to yourself why these things keep happening to you and wanted to know how to change the situations you have been repeatedly finding yourself in regarding your reactions and responses in certain situations through your life and connections with others?

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Do you ever feel like you are moving through life unconsciously?

Do you ever feel like you are embodying behaviours or habits that do not serve you or those around you?

Do you ever feel like you are so disconnected from your self and your potential?

Its so normal to go through phases or stages where we feel we are operating as a small fraction of who we feel we truly are or have the potential to be. But, as we have all heard before; the things we do today are creating our tomorrows....what sort of tomorrow are you creating?

Its time to ask yourself some powerful questions:

~ How is this way of being making me feel?

~ How is this way of being affecting those closest to me?

~ How long do I want to live like this?

~ Am i ready to do what it takes to rewrite my current reality?

Every single moment is a new opportunity to turn things around, to rewrite your story, to change a situation or way of being that is not working.

Sometimes in order to truly absorb and accept the above statement we need to create a little stillness and some quiet where we can tune in to the possibilities and limitless potential that the above truth gifts us with.

Were not saying its always as easy as one moments silence and bang your everything you always dreamed of for yourself. It does take awareness and continuity and often our unconscious habits are multilayered patterns that have been running since childhood.

This is where support and guidance can have huge and lasting effects, so long as you are ready to invest in the process of your own unravelling and growth journey.

Our holistic Counsellor Paul is here to hold a safe space for all our clients, new and continued.
Check out our website for more info and to make a booking.

Namaste



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Just a little reminder that taking a rest is not lazy.

Doing something to fill your cup is not selfish.

Slowing down can sometimes be the most productive thing you could do.

Namaste



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Our home amoungst the gums and koalas for the next few days.

Its been a wild ride preparing for a spontaneous family trip away with 2 x visits to A & E (everyones ok now) and a mix up with the number of guests staying in our cabin (the 5 of us slept in the same bed last night 🤣).

But, we are here and soaking up the natural beauty of this place and the opportunity to all have some time away together.

So much gratitude.

Namaste



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Grounding

Some of the beautiful and abundant benefits of taking the time to be in nature, to be still, to be barefoot on the earth:

Diffusing and liberating feelings of stress, overwhelm, or anxiety.

Boosting immunity, reducing inflammation, and ability to improve sleep.

Reconnecting to self, to source, to the Great Mother.

Allowing your heart and your breath to recalibrate to the vibration and frequency of the natural world.

Blessings and light for a grounded and abundant rest of your week.

Namaste



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Sunday's are for slowing down 🤍

Learning from our Children to Stop and Be

In moments like these, our children express their love for one another yet simultaneously sit at one with their surroundings, entirely and totally enveloped in the present moment. It allows us to connect and tune into the moment ourselves, but only when we stop and observe do we become reminded of this.

We can take so much from observing such moments that we can overlay back into the lives we tend to lead as adults. Our children are our greatest teachers and naturally make the time to be present and aware of the moments they share in a natural and uncontrolled space.

It also highlights the beauty of just sitting and being and opening our senses and energies to connect with the world around us. As adults, we get so caught up in doing that we often forget to sit and be in the just being.

How often do you sit with a loved one in an embrace in silence and just be?
How often do you stop and listen to everything around you, holding no judgment or expectation?
How often do you tune into nature and allow the orchestra of life to fill your sense with its rhythms and vibrations?

Making time for these moments as adults is even more important than we think. These moments can allow chemical changes within our brain to shift our nervous system out of the all too often engaged Autonomic Nervous System activation state and allow our parasympathetic nervous system to be more activated and engaged.

This allows the chemical balances within our body to shift from stress activation to relaxation activation.........

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Namaste

Gracious Flow

Victorian School holidays are just around the corner, and the winter snap is really biting this week.

What do you do with the little people in your household to fill your days with wholesome and mind-expanding experiences to leave lasting positive memories in their amazing little minds?

Our family loves the great outdoors, and we will always get out into nature as often as possible, even during school. We find it raises our children's vibration tenfold, and they all resonate at their highest expression when they are able to be free and uncaged after school and at the end of term.

Our oldest is a fire rocket, and when able to let his creative and explorative expression be fully unleashed, he blows our minds with what he has to offer us all in how he faces the world. He is a child who knows no bounds and reminds Sarah and I to check in and stay attuned to our inner child's voice. We both have strong inner child voices that have always sought freedom and an untethered life outside the bounds of society's norms.

Our middle child brings a sense of lightness and play, as the way he walks on this earth is light and gentle but joyfully and uplifted. He reminds us to connect with our playfulness and checky natures, and he often comes out with a natural sense of humour that leaves us all in stitches. His energy is pure, and his spirit is strong even though his natural approach to life is from a gentle heart.

Then we have the little vibrant soul of our youngest. She lights up the room the moment she arrives. Her face says a thousand things, and her joyfulness and character are infectious and hilarious at the same time. Seeing her in her element as she dances and skips amongst the grass with the grace of a hummingbird sets both my and Sarah's hearts free. She reminds us to tune into our fairy spirit and feel lightness and shimmer in all things that we encounter.

We hope to see some of you out there this holiday.

Namaste
Gracious Flow

In our busy world, how often do you honour yourself and find the time to just be and sit in intentional contemplation and tune into to where you are within your mind, body and spirit?

Can you switch off when you know you need to, or do you just keep going and find yourself getting overloaded and overwhelmed, caught in a cycle of trying to prove yourself, to yourself, to family and friends, to work colleagues and all those around you?

Does your inner mind chatter challenge you, with the stories your tell yourself that lead you to over extending and trying to please everyone. Putting your own self on the back burner and then leaving you feeling resentful of the situation your in and those around you?

Being caught in this sort of drama triangle is difficult to get out of. Especially when you don't really understand why you do it in the first place. You jump form Victim to Persecuter to Rescuer and back again. Never finding a center place of being able to be your true authentic self.

If this is something you find yourself doing all the time, just as I did in my early life jounrey. Getting support from a Holistic Counselling approach around looking into the root cause of why your self talk story has been written this way. Can be the key to shifting and rewriting a more empowering and powerful story for yourself to begin the journey back to self and understanding what it is you need, to feel whole and deeply intune again for you.

Doing this doesn't just benefit you, it will benefit all those you love in your life and all those around you equally. By taking progressive and empowered positive steps to understand your self on an even deeper level has the ability to enrich and uplift your life to a whole new level and living.

If this sounds like something you want to explore, reach out to us here via the link in our bio where we can offer you support to look deep into your historical story and create new and more positive ways of writing your new one.

Namaste

Gracious Flow

In the relationship journey, we connect with our partner emotionally, spiritually, physically and lovingly as we share our lives with unconditional love and endless commitment to that person. It is undoubtedly one of the most significant and profound relationships we will ever encounter as we move through our lifepath.

Before this relationship, there is our relationship with ourselves, which can take years for many of us to find a complete sense of wholeness within. Many of us enter into our relationships, hardly scratching the surface of our understanding of who we are individually and often with a blueprint from our own parent’s modelling of a relationship that has left us with an incomplete handbook of how to be in a loving and committed relationship for ourselves

Even after we have entered into a life commitment with our chosen partner, there is always self-work and self-growth to be done if we so choose. Yet our relationship with our partners is the most expansive space we create in our lives that can give us insurmountable awareness and knowledge of ways to grow and evolve as individuals and partners alike. It can............

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We offer support for you and your partner if you wish for a safe space to explore and work through any issues or challenges you might be facing in your relationship. Our Holistic Counsellor can hold a safe and positive space for you to feel heard, acknowledged and supported to work through these challenges in a progressive and positive way.

Contact us at GRACIOUS FLOW via our website https://graciousflowtherapies.com/relationship-support

We are here to hold a powerful and safe space for you.

Namaste

Gracious Flow

Changing Habits and seeing life through a New Lens

Every day we have a choice,

Every day we create our reality,

Every day we have the power to live in unconscious reaction or conscious action.

How we perceive and approach each moment in our daily lives and what thoughts we allow to control our everyday narrative is up to us.

Too often, we are woken by an alarm that we disdain and, on autopilot, reach over and press the snooze button unconsciously, already feeling that we haven’t had enough sleep and possibly feeling inside that we don’t want to face the day ahead just yet.

This often-habitual pattern can set us off already into a negative state of thinking that can lead into our day and cause anxiety and stress within our bodies. We set the precedence of sluggishness, and life is hard and tough to face before getting out of bed. To drift back into sleep or to lay half asleep with our minds running wild around all the things we perceive we need to achieve to feel value within ourselves. To get out of bed later than we intended, now feeling rushed, stressed, running late for the day and needing a coffee to wake us up and give us the kick-start we need.

By this time, our autonomic nervous system has already begun its cycle into dominating our thought patterning, and the effects of fight and flight-reactions are underway. We bring this unconscious energy into our reactions within our family unit before we have even begun the breakfast routine. Everyone else begins to feed off this vibration, and the cycle increases outwardly to the whole family into a cycle of eat, sleep, repeat, eat, sleep, repeat..........

Does this sound familiar to you?

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Are you ready to make considerable changes in your life, but feel unable to make those shifts alone?
Do you want holistic support while creating a new self-awareness around what might be holding you back?
Have you tried to make changes before but found yourself circling back and unsure why?

If you are ready to invest some space and time to address any challenges, you may be facing in your life at this time. Gaining the support of a skilled and professional Holistic Counsellor can enable you to achieve new and expansive levels of awareness that can assist and aid you in making changes and shifts in your thinking and life, which can support you in making the moves your want for your life to feel more whole and balanced.

Considering that we are all many layers deep and emotional, physical and spiritual beings. The holistic approach looks into all aspects of our life that may play into daily challenges. Seeing all clients as truly amazing and powerful beings, holding a safe space with compassion and support to empower, encourage, and uplift clients to make new, more aligned, authentic choices for themselves moving forward.

Is it time for you to step out of the fog and stand strong and majestic in the life around you?
Are you ready to invest in yourself now to change your story to better support you to move in the direction you wish for your life?

We are here to hold space for you to do this with compassion, tools and skills that can change lives for the good

Namaste

The power of the feel of the sun on our faces can uplift our spirits and change the energy within our whole being. Its warmth can feel like a big nurturing hug.

That moment as its radiance penetrates and fills us with its warmth can be the beginning of a new way of being in that moment.

How often do you stop and let the warmth of the sun enrich your day?
When you're feeling out of balance, do you take a moment to stop, breathe and allow the sun's vibrancy to wrap you in its warm hug?
Do you take time in your day to stop, close your eyes and feel the energy of the sun on your face?

In times of stress and heightened anxiety, this simple ritual can allow you to reset and centre and bring about a new, more positive perception and change in your thoughts, mind and day. It can be a beautiful thing to do first thing in the day as the sun radiates its warmth.

Why not try I for yourself today and feel how it can shift your mood and energy into a more positive vibration.

Namaste

Gracious Flow

Post-Traumatic Stress and the journey beyond.

Being in the position I am now as a Holistic Counsellor, having travelled through myself the journey of Post Traumatic Stress (PTS) 10 years ago. For over 18 months, my life felt like it was spiralling downward, and my world collapsed. Leaving me feeling there was no end to how I would get myself back out of the hole I found myself in. Until I found the tools and skills that worked for me to self-manage and understand how PTS works on a physiological and neurological level, could I move forward and onward in my life.

I write this article to give anyone who might feel that there is no light left at the end of the tunnel they might be in right now a sense of hope and knowing that they are not alone. Intending to let them know they are not alone in this and that there are people out there who can come from a compassionate and understanding place for what it takes to keep moving forward when all seems lost and too much to bear.

My writing comes from the heart and a place of deep gratitude and compassion for those struggling with the physical and mental PTS symptoms of overload in their everyday lives. I would not be in my current position to support and hold space for others looking for support to face and deal with the challenges moving through PTS can present for them. Without the support and compassion of the people who aided me in my time of need, I would not have been able to reach further in my life than I ever imagined possible.

Everyone’s journey through PTS is personal, and what might have triggered the effects of one person’s PTS can differ significantly. It can occur during childhood and lay unresolved for many years, leaving people with anxiety, anger management and daily reactions that dictate their interactions and action around many scenarios. It can be triggered by an event people have been exposed to at work, at home, socially or personally. What causes one person’s PTS may not be something that triggers someone else PTS, but for them, it is real and all-consuming at the time.

You have possibly noticed that as I write this article, I have not put the D at the end of the PTS Acronym, more commonly known as Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD). This is because disorder adds a level to the label that can be a negative aspect and labelling of someone suffering from this extreme stress situation. I don’t see it as a disorder and never saw my challenges with PTS as a disorder. What happened to me was a result of a situation that was real, and that left me injured on a mental and physical level. That was unseen by the outsider and, therefore, very hard for an outsider to comprehend or understand why I was struggling in life the way I was. Moving through the PTS, I now see it as something that has enabled me to grow exponentially in self-awareness, self-understanding and self-management that, without going through it, I would probably have never reached.

The thing is that when it came down to mental Injury 10 years ago, and still today, society is not structured to comprehend how to deal and cope with someone who has no visual or physical injury to show compassion over. Most of humanity will offer assistance and do what they can to help and support the physically injured person. If someone you see or know shows up with a cast, bandage or stitches, we can see they have been injured and make compensations and show compassion for their needs and requirements.

Regarding mental injury, we are not versed in what we must do to support and assist this type of injury. Not seeing it makes it very hard for us to understand, and for the person suffering this injury, it is so challenging for them to explain or share what they are going through. Explaining their feelings and why they do it can trigger symptoms when injured with PTS. This can lead to the injured being triggered again and compound the recovery journey for the sufferer as their injury becomes re-injured and can take longer to heal.

My way through PTS was complex and challenging, even though I sought the assistance of a psychologist, which was a requirement from the place of work where I sustained my injury to support my recovery. At the time, I went weekly and spent six months under the care of the psychologist and on a superficial level; these sessions allowed me to function a little better in my day-to-day and enabled me to feel that I was not going mad and completely broken. They allowed me to understand what was going on for me on a surface level from when the injury occurred. After six months, though, I was still struggling within myself and did not feel settled or centred. Sleep was non-existent as closing my eyes would open the chance of flashbacks of the event that triggered my PTS symptomology. I was always anxious, easily triggered into being overwhelmed, frustrated and having emotional meltdowns of tears or anger. I always felt broken and had low self-worth and self-value, feeling alienated from family, friends and community. I found ways to numb these feelings and imagery that would flash into my days and, like many who suffer from this type of injury, softened the edges with alcohol, avoidance of social settings and hiding away the turmoil that was going on inside from anyone close to me.

It was not a life I had ever thought I would live as I was always outgoing and vibrant, up for a joke and open to trying wild and out-there things. I was living as a shadow of myself, scared of my own shadow and jumpy and on edge all the time. Everything in my life seemed to come crumbling down at the same time, I lost my job as I felt I couldn’t return to the workplace where I acquired my injury, and my relationship of nearly ten years fell apart, and I was left to find a way back from the brink feeling very alone.

I was so very fortunate to have the support of a close friend who, luckily, based on a background of holistic wellness and with unconditional support, stood by me to find my way back from the brink. There were many slips back down the ladder, but each day, with small steps, I could raise myself back up to a sense of being that allowed me to feel whole again. I could return to having a value in life for who I was to a level that, even before the PTS injury, I could not achieve.

The thing is, with PTS injuries, often it isn’t just the scenario that caused the injury that comes into question. It can spark an unravelling of suppressed and unconscious historical grief and trauma you have hidden away from in your past. It can lead you to need to address so much of your own life and story so that you can rebuild from the foundations up, allowing you to rise back out of the ashes stronger, more aware of what you are capable of, and leave you knowing that you have always been and will always be stronger and more courageous than you ever gave yourself credit for.

With this being said, ten years down the track and a lot of heart-wrenching learning, re-schooling, self-awareness, self-development, self-acceptance and personal growth. I can hold a space for others going through their trauma journey from an authentically compassionate space. Knowing what it took for me to rebuild my life was my journey, and what it might take for someone else to rebuild their life is their journey.

If I can support and hold space for anyone who wants to step forward and move out of the shadow of what their PTS has created for them, I will do so. Having been through it first-hand, and found my way back and further forward than I thought I would at the time. I am so grateful for so much and honoured and humbled to be able to have become a Professionally Qualified Holistic Counsellor so that I can offer the compassion and support to others that I was fortunate to receive to begin my journey back to the self I needed at the time of my PTS injury.

Blessings and light to all those that may be finding difficulty, challenge and suffering from PTS injuries. You are not alone, and there are people who can hold a safe and powerful space to step beyond and through the challenges you might be facing right now. Underneath all that we face, we are all amazing beings, and stripping back the layers of the story we have been telling ourselves reveals the possibility of writing a new and more positive one that can create a new and more positive version of ourselves we never knew possible.

Namaste

Paul
Holistic Counsellor and Empowerment Coach

GRACIOUS FLOW
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