Making friends with anger and rage
What if anger isn’t the problem? What if the problem is what happens when it has nowhere to go? A personal reflection, exploring how repressed anger shaped my body, my depression, and my healing.
Bev Bowman
What can happen when we stop fighting pain
I woke at 4am with a familiar pelvic floor cramp. Instead of trying to escape the pain, I experimented with something different: slowing down, listening, and working with my body rather than against it. A reflection on symptoms, awareness, and how our relationship with discomfort can sometimes change the experience itself.
When symptoms become adaptations
Many ongoing symptoms begin as intelligent adaptations rather than signs that something is wrong with us. This article explores how stress responses can become held in the body, and why healing often begins with listening rather than fixing.
Understanding a frozen shoulder differently
What is your shoulder conflicted about pulling towards you or pushing away?
What happens when we stop walking around discomfort?
We often know how important it is to feel emotional pain – but what about physical discomfort? A reflection on listening to the body, pain, and what happens when we stop resisting sensation.
Listening to the body: from fixing to curiosity
We often try to fix tension, discomfort or unease in our body, but what if the first step isn’t fixing, but listening? This article explores how bringing curiosity and understanding to what our body is holding can be the beginning of real change.
Why touch matters in dementia care
When words become harder to find, touch can become one of the most direct ways of communicating safety, comfort and connection. Exploring the therapeutic value of touch in dementia care.
Four seasons in one month
A gentle reflection on the menstrual cycle as a series of inner seasons. Exploring the shifts between expansion and contraction, and what the body may be asking for at different times of the month.
The diaphragm: gateway to safety and calm
Tension in the diaphragm can contribute to anxiety, shallow breathing, and a persistent sense of unease. This gentle exploration reveals how the body holds what feels unsafe to express – and how softening the breath can restore calm, safety, and connection.
The pathways we close
When something can’t be felt or expressed, the body doesn’t just hold it – it can close the pathway around it. This is a gentle exploration of how those pathways begin to open again.