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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Sacred Space: How to create an altar for spiritual practices

Holdingspace/ August 31, 2021/ Cacao

An altar serves as a visual point of focus for our spiritual practices such as meditation, any kind of energy work, setting intentions, repeating affirmations or journaling. An altar is a sacred space – a physical way to connect to the spiritual world. Creating an altar is therefore a spiritual activity too that’s best to carry out mindfully and with

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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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How to create emotional safety in your life

Holdingspace/ August 19, 2021/ Psychotherapy

Sometimes we all experience that nervous, anxious, uncomfortable feeling running through our bodies. When feel anxious, worried, or tense, we naturally begin to pay closer attention to what’s happening around us. We’re subcosciously looking for the cause of those uncomfortable sensations. We might even start analysing the past events or imagining different things that could go wrong. Does that sound

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