Thoughts & Words

A practice to connect and support self-growth. Core values are the things that are important to us. Throughout our lives, they rise and fall in importance depending on what we're going through...

Feeling a bit of social anxiety on the horizon? Take the pressure off through graded exposure. Graded exposure is a strategy used in anxiety management. The idea is that if we gradually...

Self-care is any thing you do to take care of yourself. It doesn't need to be glamorous, elaborate or expensive. It serves the function of helping you stay well. Your baseline self-care is...

We can use self-regulating strategies to shift our mood, anxiety, and energy levels. This includes doing things that are activating and down regulating to help us return to a balanced...

We all have a relationship with our body. For movement professionals, this relationship can be put in the spotlight — we work directly with our body and support others in...

  Every time summer comes around I observe the normalisation of irregular eating in social settings. While it is normal to under-eat on some days, and overeat on others (especially...

In times of distress, sometimes the kindest thing we can do is distract. Distraction is a coping strategy where we shift our attention away from distress, and towards something else....

*from social media. It’s long overdue.Since starting @iliveinbalance in 2018, my Instagram page has been a blend of work and play. At times it feels like the job that never ends...