Soul Medicine Blog.
A space for emotionally honest reflections on nervous system exhaustion, self-abandonment, grief, healing, relationships, Tarot, Reiki, and the patterns many women quietly carry.
Why Do I Feel Guilty For Having Needs?
Do you apologise before asking for help?
Feel guilty when you need support?
Struggle to rest unless you've earned it first?
Many women don't have a problem with having needs. They have a problem with believing they're allowed to have them.
Why Do I Feel So Disconnected From Myself?
What if you haven't lost yourself?
What if you've simply lost access to yourself?
Many women spend years becoming who life requires them to be, only to wake up one day wondering where they went. Here's why that happens and how to begin finding your way back.
Why Do I Feel Guilty When I Rest?
You finally get five minutes to yourself.
What do you reach for?
Your phone?
A task?
Something to clean, organise, research, fix, or think about?
If slowing down feels uncomfortable, the problem may not be that you're bad at resting. It may be that you've spent so long surviving through busyness that stillness no longer feels safe.
Why Am I Still Stuck After So Much Healing Work?
You've read the books. Listened to the podcasts. Done the healing work. So why do you still find yourself repeating the same patterns? The answer may have nothing to do with awareness and everything to do with survival.
You Think You're Overwhelmed. But Maybe You're Angry.
You think you're overwhelmed. But what if the thing underneath the exhaustion isn't stress at all?