What Happens When You Suppress Your Emotions

Holdingspace/ February 21, 2023/ Emotional Healing, Psychotherapy

When you suppress your emotions, you make a conscious decision to push those feelings down. You try not to feel them, and keep them hidden instead of processing and expressing them. The challenge is that suppressing our emotions can have both short-term and long-term effects on your mental and physical health.  Short-term effects of suppressing emotions may include: Overtime, this

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Crying is Therapeutic – 6 Benefits of Crying

Holdingspace/ February 7, 2022/ Emotional Healing

Crying is a natural function of our bodies. We all cry sometimes, for instance when we feel sad, when we’re grieving, when we feel moved, or frustrated. Some people cry more than others, and it is also believed by some that not crying at all can be dangerous to our health.  On a physical level, humans can produce tears for

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How to do Inner Child work

Holdingspace/ November 22, 2021/ Emotional Healing

We all have an Inner Child inside of us. It is that part of us that has always been within us: from the moment of our conception, through our time in our mother’s womb, through birth, childhood and the developing years. Our Inner Child has always been there: when we were an infant, a toddler, young child, during our school

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You deserve what you desire

Holdingspace/ August 19, 2021/ Emotional Healing, Yoga Therapy

You deserve what you desire. Do you believe me when I say that? We often live our lives following unconscious beliefs about what we deserve, who we are or what we are capable of. Not all of those beliefs serve us well. In fact, some of these beliefs can be self-limiting and they are a result of emotional injuries. When

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