Ruda Holistics

Ruda Holistics 🧡 Body-based Therapy & Energy Healing
Somatics • De-armouring • Nervous System Regulation • Emotional Trauma Recovery
📍Derry

🔥 Energy is not simply something we feel. It is something our biology is constantly producing, regulating and using. 🔥We...
14/09/2026

🔥 Energy is not simply something we feel. It is something our biology is constantly producing, regulating and using. 🔥

We talk about energy as something we either have or don't have.

“I have no energy"
“I feel full of energy"
"I have nothing left to give"

But underneath that experience is an incredibly complex biological system, and mitochondria sit at the centre of how our cells produce usable energy.

What I find particularly interesting is what happens when we stop looking at these systems in isolation.

Because the body doesn't experience things in separate categories.

Training.
Competition.
Stress.
Recovery.
Emotion.
Sleep.
Environment.

They're all influencing the same living system.

And this is where somatic work becomes particularly interesting.

Somatics brings our attention to what is happening within the body;
activation, tension, fatigue, sensation, effort, recovery and regulation.

It gives us a way of working with the body as a whole, rather than simply asking it to perform, push through or switch off.

For me, this is about exploring the relationship between "science" and "somatics & energetics".

The measurable and the felt.
The cellular and the whole body.
The physiology and our lived experience.

And that relationship has huge relevance to how we think about energy, performance, recovery, resilience and wellbeing. ✨

Because understanding the body isn't only about understanding its parts.

It's about understanding how the whole system communicates, adapts and responds.

There are moments when logic has very little to offer.. You can make the lists.Ask for advice.Look at the facts from eve...
10/09/2026

There are moments when logic has very little to offer..

You can make the lists.
Ask for advice.
Look at the facts from every angle.
Try to work out what makes the most sense.

And still, something inside you says,
this is the way. đź’«

Trust doesn’t mean ignoring reason, or abandoning discernment. It means recognising that not everything we know comes from conscious thought.

✨Sometimes the body knows before the mind can explain it.
✨Sometimes intuition speaks quietly beneath the noise.
✨Sometimes we can feel that something has run its course, even when we can’t yet see what comes next.

And that space between knowing and understanding can be incredibly uncomfortable.

Stay there.

Breathe.
Listen.
Stay open.
Stay hopeful.

You don’t always need certainty before taking the next step.

Sometimes trusting yourself means moving forward without being able to explain the whole path. 🧡

This morning, a song randomly popped into my head. As I listened, it brought back a memory. đź’«It took me back to childhoo...
06/09/2026

This morning, a song randomly popped into my head. As I listened, it brought back a memory. đź’«

It took me back to childhood and to the way music helped me survive.

It carried me through some of the deepest, darkest days. It kept me going. It gave me hope. It helped me process and move through emotions I didn’t yet have the words to understand.

Growing up was incredibly difficult.
I felt different.
I felt alone.
I felt scared.
I was sad.
I was suffering.
I cried.
I prayed.
I shrunk.
I hoped.
I felt like no one cared.
I was waiting to be saved.

And for a very long time, I’ve been searching..
Why can’t I figure out what I want to do?
What is my purpose?
What am I good at?

But when I look back now, I can see there was so much going on beneath the surface.

I didn’t even know who I was.
There was trauma. Unprocessed grief. Anger. Resentment. Fear.
I simply wasn’t connected to myself.

Something is beginning to shift.
The pieces are coming together.
It’s starting to make sense.

I can see how it shaped me.
How it drives me.
Maybe all of it is part of the story I'm here to live.

But every single thing I’ve experienced seems to be bringing me closer to what I want to do - in my work, in my life, in my relationships, in how I show up, and in what I want to bring into this world.

I want to make an impact.
I want to help people.

And for so long, I’ve tried to narrow it down.
What is the one thing?
What is the niche?
Who is my client?
What is the path?

But maybe it doesn’t exist in the way I’ve been trying to make it fit.

Maybe life is the work.
Maybe there are many chapters.
Maybe there are many avenues through which I can serve.

And every time I’ve tried to decide who I’m here to help, I keep coming back to me.

My story.
My experiences.
The things I’ve lived through, learned from, healed from, and am still healing through.

How can I use all of that to support someone else?

So, here it is.

I'm choosing to stop trying to fit myself into a box.
To be authentically me.
To let it unfold.

To keep growing, learning, serving, and making a difference along the way.

And this is only the beginning.

Lots of love. 🧡

There was a time when I thought I needed to have more answers..To think things through.Push through.Try harder.Be more d...
03/09/2026

There was a time when I thought I needed to have more answers..

To think things through.
Push through.
Try harder.
Be more disciplined.

Figure out what was “wrong” and fix it.

What I’ve come to understand through my own journey is that so much of what I was looking for wasn’t actually another answer..

It was a deeper relationship with myself.
Learning to notice.
Learning to feel.
Learning to listen.
Learning to pause before reacting.
Learning to recognise what my body was asking for - and trusting myself enough to respond.

And this has changed so much more than how I feel in my body.

It’s changed how I navigate relationships.
How I make decisions.
How I experience disappointment.
How I rest.
How I care for myself.
How I respond when I’m anxious, overwhelmed or activated.
How I set boundaries.
How I allow myself to be seen.
How I trust myself.
And how I move through life when I don’t know what comes next.

This is the work I offer.

Somatic Alignment, Bodywork and Energetics create space to slow down, feel what’s happening beneath the surface and reconnect with the wisdom that is already within you.

You don’t need to arrive knowing what you need.
You don’t need to know how to “do” somatic work.
You don’t need to be fixed.

You can simply arrive as you are.
And we listen from there.

If you’ve been feeling disconnected from yourself, stuck in your head, overwhelmed by what you’re feeling, struggling to know what you need, or simply longing to feel more at home in your body…

I’d love to hear from you. 🧡

DM me “SOMATIC” and we can start a conversation about what you’re experiencing and whether a session might support you.

Holding space is not about doing more. 💫It’s not about how deep you can take someone, how intense you can make an experi...
02/09/2026

Holding space is not about doing more. đź’«

It’s not about how deep you can take someone, how intense you can make an experience, or whether you can create a visible release.

It’s about presence.

Your capacity to stay grounded enough to listen.
To feel your own boundaries.
To sense what is safe.
To notice what is arising without immediately needing to change it.

It’s about discernment.

Knowing when to guide.
Knowing when to pause.
Knowing when to say no.
Knowing when not to take someone further.

And perhaps most importantly, it’s about trusting the wisdom of the person in front of you.

Their body.

Their timing.

Their capacity.

Their process.

Because we are not here to become the authority on someone else’s healing.

We are here to create the conditions where they can begin to hear themselves more clearly.

Sometimes that means doing less.

Sometimes it means sitting in the silence.

Sometimes it means allowing discomfort to be there without rushing to resolve it.

And sometimes the most profound work doesn't look like a breakthrough at all.

It looks like someone leaving your session and making a different choice.

Walking alone.

Feeling an emotion without abandoning themselves.

Spending time in their own company.

Coming back into relationship with their own body.

This is integration.

This is embodiment.

This is where the work becomes theirs. 🧡

We’re often taught to push fear away, overcome it, or avoid whatever is making us afraid.But fear is part of our protect...
30/08/2026

We’re often taught to push fear away, overcome it, or avoid whatever is making us afraid.

But fear is part of our protective system. It is trying to gather information and prepare us for what might happen next..

Sometimes fear is telling us “pay attention.”

Sometimes it’s telling us “this matters.”

And sometimes it’s simply an old alarm responding to something that feels familiar.

The invitation isn’t to eliminate fear.
It’s to become curious about it.

What is it protecting?
What is it asking you to notice?
And what choice feels right once you’ve listened?

You can feel fear without letting fear make every decision. 🧡

Grief isn’t a problem to solve.It doesn’t always move in a straight line, and it doesn’t have a fixed timeline.Sometimes...
25/08/2026

Grief isn’t a problem to solve.

It doesn’t always move in a straight line, and it doesn’t have a fixed timeline.

Sometimes it feels like sadness, sometimes anger, numbness, longing, exhaustion, or even moments of joy that arrive unexpectedly.

Our grief can tell us something about what mattered to us.

Rather than rushing to make it smaller, we can learn to make space for it - to notice what it needs, what it’s showing us, and how it changes over time.

You don’t have to “move on” from what mattered.

You can learn to carry it differently. 🧡

24/08/2026
Rejection can touch something much deeper than the moment itself. 🌹Sometimes someone doesn’t respond well to our boundar...
24/08/2026

Rejection can touch something much deeper than the moment itself. 🌹

Sometimes someone doesn’t respond well to our boundary, and suddenly we’re questioning ourselves.

Did I ask for too much?
Should I have been more flexible?
Maybe I should have given more.

But what if their response isn’t a reflection of your worth? 🙏

What if your boundary simply showed you what they were - or weren’t - able to meet?

From a somatic perspective, there is so much to notice here.

The tightening in the body.
The urge to explain.
The fear of being left.
The impulse to abandon ourselves in order to restore connection.

Can we pause there? âś‹

Can we feel the discomfort of rejection without making it mean that we are unworthy of love?

You are allowed to have needs.
You are allowed to say no.
You are allowed to take your time.
You are allowed to have boundaries.

And if someone walks away because of them, it doesn't mean you should have given more of yourself.

Sometimes the most loving thing we can do is stay with ourselves. 🧡

The goal isn't to never experience rejection.
It's to experience rejection without rejecting ourselves.

What happens for you when someone doesn't respond well to one of your boundaries?

Anger isn’t inherently negative. It’s information. A signal that something matters, a boundary has been crossed, or a pa...
24/08/2026

Anger isn’t inherently negative.

It’s information.

A signal that something matters, a boundary has been crossed, or a pattern needs our attention.

The goal isn’t to silence anger, but to listen to what it’s telling us. 🧡

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