31/05/2026
Whilst my last few posts have been all about poking fun at myself as well as offering some pretty cool info, this one is a little deeper.
The prevalence of men and women struggling at the moment, people feeling stuck, broken, empty and lost in their lives keeps turning up for me again and again in the work I do. I probably get 5 emails/texts or calls A DAY from people struggling with these feelings.
It would be easy to waffle on about why, but then I stopped, reflected on my own life and called in my no bulls*it policy. I asked myself the question "why does this feel like such an epidemic at the moment" and it forced me to look back at my own journey, my own experiences and use them as a base to understand.
So, here goes.
I know what it's like to suffer abuse at the hands of others from a very early age
I understand the mind f*ck that situations of emotional abandonment and neglect cause
I understand the self-punishment we so easily treat ourselves with - because we've suffered so much, we don't know how to hold ourselves and regulate our own emotions
I understand that when we then become parents, have mortgages, bills, partners, bosses and jobs that suck the life out of us ..... and all the while, while "life" is building................. so is the resentment and anger sitting inside us,
We just get f*cking consumed with trying to be breathe, get s**t right, keep the balls in the air, live up to the expectations of others and most importantly avoid the scary beast inside that we are too scared to poke - but which is knocking on the door to our mind every day.
And you know the funny thing, you can't tell from the outside because this picture of me is when I was probably really close to the edge of completely loosing myself.
We feel like we are drowning, losing all comprehension of who we are, what we want, what it simply feels like to be happy - and in many moments I would have just accepted ... calm, not happy, just a feeling of being in control of what was inside of me tearing me apart slowly.
Loosing ourselves is an insidious thing.
Its soooo easy to lose ourselves to not only the pain, but also in the busy-ness of keeping it all at bay, mostly because we don't know where to start, how to unpack it. And that makes it worse cause we're just PILING ON ourselves at this point.
So, we stay in overwhelm and disconnection - we push people away, we don't show up for ourselves, we don't stop to look at what's actually happening in our lives, we just push forward in the stupor of pain and confusion like a fu*king robot doing all the things ........ and feeling NOTHING.
I've spent 40 years working my own sh*t out, and I understand - for me anyway - what were the critical things I did to start to turn it all around.
If you're lost, broken, stuck, suffocating ... YOU ARE NOT ALONE. Please reach out to someone, don't every hesitate to reach out to me for a session .......................or even text me to set up a chat about where you're at.
My work exists, my clinic exists to help kick start the process with nothing but compassion and understanding and a whole lot of body work, woo woo and energy!
0494 568028
Samm xx