Inner Bloom

Welcome to Inner Bloom, Sound Therapy Maria is an experienced Psychotherapist and Sound Practitioner.

She specialises in combining sound therapy with her skills and knowledge gained through working in the mental health profession as an existential and contemporary psychodynamic psychotherapist. In 2020, Maria became the first distributor of Crystal Tones® Singing Bowls in East Kent. She has since established inner bloom Sound Temple which specialises in bespoke sound therapy treatments, courses, bowl consultations, workshops and raising awareness of the profound healing available through working with the Alchemy Crystal Singing Bowls. Maria has worked within the NHS, private and charity sectors with both adults and children as a psychotherapist. Her experience in this field has taught her that the body and mind are in union. Every trauma, negative belief and emotion is held within the body. The Alchemy Crystal Singing Bowls are a fantastic tool to enable you to be your own healer by helping you to connect with your body, exploring where trauma is held and helping you to align with your true essence. Through her unique practice, Maria aspires to facilitate a safe space for everyone, to enable healing and transformation to take place. She uses a combination of sound therapy and psychotherapy to help you develop and grow your inner awareness of yourself and soul journey. You are very welcome to experience her deeply transformative treatments or ceremonies by attending a private one to one session, or through her collaborative workshops and group events.

18/09/2026

You say yes when you mean no.
You over-explain.
You worry about disappointing people.
You read the room before you even check in with yourself.

And slowly… you lose touch with what you actually want.

Here’s how you can learn a different way 🤍

Start small:
✨ Pause before automatically saying yes
✨ Ask yourself, “What do I actually want?”
✨ Let someone be disappointed without rushing to fix it
✨ Practise saying a simple “no” without an essay attached
✨ Notice the guilt that comes up... and remind yourself that guilt doesn’t mean you’ve done something wrong

You don’t need to become cold or selfish.

You just need to try to stop abandoning yourself to keep everyone else comfortable.

Psychotherapy can help you understand where these patterns came from and create more space for awareness, compassion and choice.

If you’re ready to start working on this, comment or DM GROW for information about online psychotherapy sessions 🌱

16/09/2026

Your body has a way of speaking when you’ve been holding too much for too long...💔

The tight chest
The clenched jaw
The knot in your stomach
The headaches that seem to arrive when life gets overwhelming
The exhaustion that sleep doesn’t always fix

Sometimes we get so used to these sensations that we stop asking... “What is my body trying to tell me?”

Stress and difficult emotions can show up physically because the brain and body are constantly communicating. When your nervous system stays activated for long periods, it can affect things like muscle tension, digestion, sleep, pain and energy.

That doesn’t mean every symptom is “just stress”...your physical symptoms deserve proper medical attention too.

But healing can involve more than treating what’s happening on the surface.

It can mean slowing down enough to notice:
- What am I feeling?
- What have I been holding in?
- Where am I pushing myself past my limits?
- What does my body need from me right now?

You cannot fight your body into healing.

Sometimes the first step is learning to listen to it 🤍

Save this for the next time your body is asking you to slow down.

15/09/2026

There’s a reason you can understand something with your mind and still feel completely stuck in it.

Our brains don’t process thoughts and emotions in isolation. Stress involves interconnected systems including the brain, autonomic nervous system and body, which can influence heart rate, breathing, muscle tension, attention and digestion.

That’s why saying “I know I’m safe” doesn’t necessarily make your body feel safe.

🌟Psychotherapy can help you put experiences into words, recognise patterns and develop new ways of relating to yourself.

✨Sound-based practices offer a different kind of experience. Rhythm, vibration and sustained tones can give your attention something steady to focus on and may support relaxation and a shift towards a calmer physiological state.

And sometimes that combination matters.

Not because sound magically “releases trauma” or because talking can’t heal... but because healing is rarely just a thinking exercise.

We are thinking beings and sensing bodies.

Send us a DM if you’d like to work with both 🤍

11/09/2026

✨ Myth 1: “It’s magic”

Actually, it’s science-backed nervous system regulation. Sound affects your brainwaves, breath, and muscle tension- helping your body shift into a calmer state.

✨ Myth 2: “You should feel bliss every single time”

Not true. Sometimes sound brings deep relaxation… Sometimes it brings release… Sometimes it simply helps you feel more present.

All of these are valid. None are failures.

✨ Myth 3: “It’s a way to escape your emotions”

Actually, it helps you meet your emotions in a safer, slower, more grounded way. Sound doesn’t numb you- it supports you.

If you want more grounded, true-to-the-body info on sound healing and nervous system care, follow for more

10/09/2026

The loss

The disappointment

The uncertainty

The things that happen that you never asked for…

We don’t get to choose every experience life brings us.

But we do have some choice in what we do with it 🌟

And honestly, that doesn’t mean always responding perfectly. Sometimes we react, we get angry, we shut down, we fall apart.

That’s human.

The work is learning to notice what’s happening inside us, understand where it comes from, and slowly create a little more space between what happens and how we respond.

Because we may not be able to control life.

But we can learn to meet it differently 🤍

09/09/2026

Sound continues working after the session ends✨

Integration isn’t about understanding or meaning-making… it’s about allowing the body to settle, process, and recalibrate.

Move gently

Drink water

Resist the urge to rush into productivity.

If emotions surface later, that’s normal.

Your nervous system is completing a cycle.

There’s nothing to do, just space to let it land 💛

If you’d like to experience this, we’re sharing a free 10-minute restorative sound bath.

Comment or DM “SOUND” to receive access

08/09/2026

Your mind will wander. That’s what minds do.

The goal isn’t to stop thinking.

It’s to notice when you’ve left the present, and gently come back.

Try one of these:

🌿 1. Name 5 things
Look around and name 5 things you can see, 4 you can touch, 3 you can hear, 2 you can smell, and 1 you can taste.

🤍 2. Come into your body
Notice your feet on the floor.
Feel the chair underneath you.
Take one slow breath and notice what moves in your body as you breathe.

👂 3. Listen
Close your eyes for 30 seconds.
Instead of following your thoughts, listen for every sound you can hear.

🫶 4. Ask yourself:
“What is actually happening right now?”
Not what happened yesterday.
Not what might happen tomorrow.
Right now.

You might notice that, in this exact moment, you are safe enough to simply breathe, feel and be here.

And if coming back to yourself feels easier when you’re guided into stillness, a sound bath can be a beautiful place to begin 🌿

Comment SOUND for a free online 10-minute sound healing experience

04/09/2026

One of the things we would want people to understand is that people pleasing isn’t usually about being nice...

It’s a learned way of keeping ourselves safe.

If somewhere along the way you learned that keeping other people happy meant avoiding conflict, rejection, disappointment or disapproval, you may become very good at anticipating what everyone else needs.

This is at the detriment of being your authentic self. Creating depression and anxiety.

And you might not even realise you’re doing it anymore

If this sounds familiar, start small 🤍

✨ Before saying yes, give yourself a moment... you don’t have to answer immediately

✨ Ask yourself: Do I actually want to do this, or am I afraid of saying no?

✨ Notice the guilt that comes up when you choose yourself...guilt doesn’t always mean you’ve done something wrong

✨ Practise small boundaries with people you feel safe with

✨ And remind yourself: someone being disappointed with you doesn’t automatically mean you’ve done something wrong

You don’t have to become less caring to stop people pleasing

You can care deeply about others while still making room for yourself 🌱

That’s where psychotherapy can offer a safe space to understand these patterns and gently begin to change them 🕊️

Comment or DM GROW for information on online psychotherapy sessions

02/09/2026

You can notice a thought without believing it.

You can hear the fear without letting it make the decision.

Sometimes healing begins with creating a little space between you and the voice in your head 🤍

Notice it…

Pause…

And choose what you do with it ✨

01/09/2026

Maybe we don’t talk enough about the messy middle 🌿

The part where you know you’re lucky, but you still don’t feel fulfilled

Where you want to move forward, but a part of you is still grieving what you’re leaving behind

Where you feel uncomfortable and instead of immediately asking “how do I make this go away?” you learn to sit with it for a little while 🤍

And perhaps one of the most important things to remember...

Understanding yourself doesn’t mean you have to stay the same

You can understand why you developed certain patterns

You can have compassion for the version of you who needed them

And you can still decide that they no longer serve you

That’s growth 🕊️

You don’t need to have everything figured out before you’re allowed to change.

Sometimes, you just need a little space to listen to what’s really going on beneath the surface.

That’s where psychotherapy can help! Creating a space to explore the parts of yourself that may be difficult to understand alone 🌱

Comment or DM GROW for information on online psychotherapy sessions

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