Lucy's wellness

Episode 1 self love meditation 🧚🏼‍♀️🌿🌸

https://open.spotify.com/show/1znbbhzUZ5MPKBOnh09EOc?si=WyJPj7PmS4O_o3HJDWWKwQ

Reintroducing the Healing Your Way Home Podcast 🎙️

A space dedicated to helping you navigate your journey of evolving and healing. Through meditations, poetry and general chitchat, each episode will contain something nourishing for the soul. So get comfy, grab a cup of tea and join me in this expansion 🧚🏼‍♀️🌿🌸

First episode is out now!
Self Love Meditation 🫶🏻

You will heal from the same things more than once
You will navigate through heaviness and hopelessness more than once
You will feel joy more than once

Allow it all
Welcome it all
Notice how far you have come 🦋🌿🧚🏼‍♀️

🧚🏼‍♀️🌱🫶🏻

How long have you spent shrinking yourself?
Unable to grow into yourself because you’ve been so afraid of taking up space?

I used to pour so much focus into staying small, literally in my body but also everywhere else in life, fitting in, not daring to show people my quirks and I was the most disconnected I’d ever been.

When our attention is focused around shrinking, we don’t have the energy to explore who we are beneath what the world told us to be.
The more we focus on shrinking the more we dull our intuition and inner trust.
The more we dull our inner trust, the more disconnected we are from ourselves.

Start to welcome back your inner trust, your inner guidance by connecting to the world around you.
Ask yourself what it would look like you grow into yourself, what does that version of you need right now? 🌱

Distance from self is so often felt
When a heavy mindset is present

Where there is gentle love
There is less loneliness
When you forgive yourself for whatever lays heavy on your shoulders
You welcome space for new energy

Feel your feelings.
Words that are thrown around a lot without much explanation.
To create space for feelings can seem like an impossible task, especially if you’re already quite detached from yourself, so where do we go from here? If the emotions are big but have no where to go?
If you feel stuck in a loop of pain?
If you feel overwhelmed and lost?

You slow down enough to notice what’s happening - away from rushing through daily life.
You invite curiosity and start to explore sensations in your body - tight shoulders, swirling in your tummy, clenched jaw.
And instead of trying to intellectualise these sensations, you breathe into them, welcome them instead of pushing them away.

The journey starts with acknowledgment
It starts with simple curiosity surrounding what your body is telling you.

It starts with you 🫶🏻🌱

Your body is not an going project that needs to be fixed 🫶🏻

I just hope that you can find a little joy today and a small step towards returning to yourself 🫶🏻🌼

Don’t forget yourself.
We lose touch through rushing, through the hustle and bustle, through dieting, through forcing.
The sacred connection to ourself can wear thin after ignoring ourselves for so long.
Take this as a check in point, how can you start to take care of yourself and welcome back a little connection to your body?
Comment below if you have any ideas 🫶🏻

Are you detaching from the things you love to protect yourself?
Are you giving yourself the space to explore what happens if you show yourself some kindness?

Because it’s easier to face away from joy, to busy yourself with anger and heaviness because by doing so we feel as if we’re protecting ourselves from further pain.

It’s not a quick fix, but taking the time to observe the mundane, appreciate the glimmers of magic and find little moments where you care for yourself within each day starts to rewire the brain.

You are worth the time of experiencing yourself I. Everything you love 🌱

I’ve been thinking about my own eating disorder recovery recently and how much I had to surrender to the process.
The more I fought, the deeper I fell.
As soon as I moved into an existence of surrender I was able to navigate recovery a little easier (it was not EASY by any means but that slight shift did help).

If you are living with heavy thoughts surrounding your body and food please reach out to someone 🫶🏻

Creating inner safety when you feel disconnected, lost, fearful 🫶🏻

Some soft words from to start you week 🫶🏻🪴

Softly stepping into a new week with the intention of reconnecting to your body?
I’ve got you 🫶🏻

If you’re feeling lost
Uncomfortable in yourself
Tired of constantly trying to shrink or change
Disconnected
Desperately looking for a way to feel better about yourself
Then maybe this is for you

Anchor within yourself
Week 3 focusing on trust 🫶🏻

Are you moving into the holidays with heaviness and worry about food and how you look?
Are you looking to find safety within your body and let go of the negative thoughts?
Are you searching for support during the moments when it all feels a little overwhelming?

Through the month of December I will be here to hold a safe space for you.
Every Friday I am releasing a yoga flow to help you return to yourself and to be a small beacon of light during harder moments.

Join at any time by clicking below

https://www.lucyswellness.net/challenges 🫶🏻🧘🏻‍♀️

‘The comfort you seek is within you’

I don’t really know what that means, not fully.
I’ve spent a lot of time looking for comfort, for safety, just to feel at peace.
I think a lot of the time we look for these things outside of ourselves.
Through the reassurance and validation from others, through food, through buying new things, through a number of coping strategies.
All with the hope of feeling something.

Because it’s easier to feel something through the external, it’s easier to hold on to something when it’s right there in front of you.

The hard part is learning how slow down enough to listen, to start to understand how you can gift yourself all of the things you look for in others. To create your own safety and comfort,.
To learn how to trust yourself and your instincts.

Today, even if it’s just for a moment, welcome whatever discomfort is residing in you instead of numbing out with the external.
Ask what it may need from you.
Observe the feelings, observe the sensations, welcome a little more space.

If you need a bit more support I will be here to hold a safe space for you each Friday through December.
Every Friday I am releasing a yoga flow to help you return to yourself and to be a small beacon of light during harder moments.

Type yes below if you’re interested 🫶🏻🧘🏻‍♀️

The chance to Anchor Within Yourself has begun.

Through the month of December I will be here to hold a safe space for you.
Every Friday I am releasing a yoga flow and meditation to help you return to yourself and to be a small beacon of light during harder moments.

Follow below to find the first flow and let me know how you get on 🌲🧘🏻‍♀️

https://www.lucyswellness.net/challenge-page/140645af-d4b8-4b20-ac9d-1bf328a54678

Picture this -

You spend the month of December pouring love back into you,
stepping away from fear, stepping away from the disconnection you have with your body and return to yourself.

I spent SO many Decembers filled with fear, avoiding food, hating my body and feeling alienated from everyone. The holiday period became dark and heavy.

I know I’m not alone in these thoughts and because of that I wanted to create something to support you through the end of the year.
Somewhere you can feel held, return to yourself and let go of fear.
Through the month of December I am gifting you the chance to
‘Anchor Within Yourself’

Weekly pre recorded yoga flows to help you find ease, safety, compassion and bring you back to yourself.

If you’re interested in this free support, type ‘yes’ below 🫶🏻🍂

Have you slowed down enough to gift yourself the chance to observe?

To notice mood shifts
Sensation
Energy

It’s easy to fall into the mundane patterns of life
To feel stagnant and heavy

As we enter a new week can you slow down and simply observe the currents
beneath the rush of day to day life,
Then ask yourself how you can honour yourself and hold yourself.

Allowing yoga to be the guide rather than the solution

Not viewing it as the thing that fixes you, but rather the act of movement that guides you to where you need to be

The welcoming of expansion through areas of darkness

The gentle dance between softening and strength

The subtle shifts of energy

The balance of meeting yourself where you’re at and navigating challenge

The art of existing

Things to remember as you move into a new week

you do not need to start dieting because it’s Monday. ‘Starting again’ whether it’s daily or weekly sets you up to be hard on yourself and feel like a failure when it doesn’t work out as you imagined. Be gentle and honour your hunger.

Movement should feel good, not forced. Allow yourself the space to decide what feels good.

The most beautiful thing you can do is find magic within the smallest mothe insignificant times are filled with joy, if you slow down enough to witness them.

What is it that you are focusing on? Where are you spending your energy? Whether that’s thoughts, activities, the people you surround yourself with.
How can you welcome new thoughts and habits to set you up for brilliance?

Because there is already brilliance and wonder within you, just take some time to explore it.

Pay attention to what you need in this very moment
Allow yourself to honour it
Without fear
Without what ifs

Meet yourself here and now 🫶🏻

I know it feels like the control and restriction is the only way to exist,
It brings a false sense of safety, comfort, maybe even joy to a certain extent.

Until it doesn’t bring those things at all and you’re left feeling empty and lost, detached from yourself.
So you you start again, with the intention of being more disciplined, convincing yourself that this time it will work and you will find happiness within the rules.

What if I told you that all of the safety you seek
All of the joy
All of the longing for connection
All happens when you take the time to reconnect to yourself, when you nourish yourself and when you listen to your body.

Your happiness is not determined by diets, strict rules, cutting food groups.
Your happiness is held within the way you treat yourself and the space you hold for yourself.
Find ease
Be gentle
Honour your body

What I’ve come to realise is that navigating life isn’t about perfection.
Whether it’s within relationships,
Healing,
Mending,
The space you reside in,
Your work.

But rather about your intention being your driving force

The intention of what you’re welcoming in
The intention of thoughts you allow to take residence
The intention of your movement
The intention of how you exist in each moment

So often we strive for perfection, we get completely lost along the way and it can be reflected in so many areas of life - our bodies, exercise, presence on social media, our relationships, our work

I encourage you to ponder, to let go of achieving the most perfect existence and instead, acknowledge your intentions and where you maybe might want to adjust them

🌱

Feeling rather than fixing 🫶🏻

For years I would plan how I could look better for summer
Lotions
Potions
Diets
Exercise

I was ashamed to exist in my body and dreaded the warmer months

It hurts my heart to look back on because there’s so much join in living, exploring, feeling the warmth of the earth beneath your feet and wearing clothes that allow you to breath
Instead of sucking in your stomach and wishing you could be anyone but yourself.

Maybe this could be the summer you come back to yourself
The summer that you allow yourself to breathe
The summer you find beauty in everything including yourself

If you’re looking for a little nudge on your journey, you can join my email list (no spam I promise)
You will receive a FREE ebook - healing your way home and a monthly yoga class sent to your inbox, all holding the intention of healing the relationship with your body and build trust within yourself.

Message me for details or visit my website 🫶🏻

Your life will be made up of memories both good and bad
Memories that are beautiful
Memories that don’t care about the wobble of your arms or the softness of your core
Memories that shouldn’t be shrouded in sadness because you believed that you weren’t good enough exactly as you are

You are good enough
Make the memories
Eat the food
Be bold and be brilliant ✨

Recovery.

It will never feel like the right time.
There will always be that voice, the one telling you that it can’t get better, that you don’t deserve it, that if you just go on a little longer it will be worth it.

The first step towards getting better isn’t ‘the hardest’,

all of it is hard,

Noticing that you aren’t okay is hard, relapses are hard, the good days are hard, the bad days are worse.
But the first step is one of the most important, it signals that you are stronger than the monster clutching onto you, even if you don’t feel like you are.

So no, you will never feel ready.
But I can tell you it is worth it.

To feel alive
To feel free
To feel safe within yourself
To feel at home
To be at peace

It IS possible and you CAN do it.
Take the step 🫶🏻