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Restoring
Self-Worth

Deep down, you know you have value.

So why does self-doubt keep holding you back from fully embracing yourself and your abilities?

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Reclaim your inherent value.

Learn how to release low self-worth
and develop the inner resources
to befriend your mind and fulfill your heartfelt potential:
in your work, your relationships and your life in general. 

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  • Understand why old wounds still run the show; how neglect, criticism and shame get wired into your nervous system as a threat response, long after the danger has passed. 

  • Learn mindfulness practices that helps you meet the energy that underlies these wounds, so that they can soften and release.

  • Build inner strength and resilience to trust yourself again.

Why is it so difficult to shift negative beliefs?

If you feel constrained by low self-worth, it could be because

  • You suffered from childhood neglect or abuse

  • You grew up in a critical household

  • You were marginalised in your culture for gender, body image, ethnicity or religion.

  • You suffered from intergenerational shame

 

From birth, the messages we receive from our caregivers guide our first understanding of ourselves. If our experience is of being nurtured and cared for, we feel safe, loved, validated. If our needs are ignored, or we experience abuse, we feel unsafe. Alarm bells are set off in the nervous system. 

 

Instead of recognising that our caregivers are inadequate or at fault, our immature reasoning is that this neglect is a sign that there is something inherently wrong with us. It is our fault. The seeds of unworthiness and self-doubt are sewn.

When this happens, the brain reacts as if it were facing physical danger and defaults to survival mode,  triggering primitive flight, fight or freeze responses. When freeze or immobility response is triggered, especially when fight or flight are not available options, the outer expression may be immobility, but internally the nervous system is ‘buzzing’. It is like having one foot pressed down hard on the accelerator of a car and the other flat on the brake; a state of hyper-arousal. Without an outlet for this energy, it gets trapped in the body. Negative beliefs about ourselves become enmeshed in this energy.

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How do we release this blocked energy & our negative beliefs?

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When you learn to be mindfully present

to the physical sensations

that hold this trapped energy,  

the holding pattern can soften

and gradually release. 

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Steps to healing:

  • Go gently, a little at a time so change can be assimilated without becoming overwhelming.

  • Acknowledge the uncomfortable inner experiences you'd usually avoid.

  • Connect with the emotions underneath them.

  • Notice the physical sensations that arise with those emotions.

  • Meet these sensations with a caring, accepting attitude.

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It is also helpful to learn to anchor your awareness and to build inner resources.

This ensures stability is maintained while connecting with these relics from the past.

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I invite you to work with me to learn new ways ​

 

  • to relate to your inner experience,

  • restore your innate self-worth,

  • and live your life and your dreams fully.

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