When Life Throws You on Crutches
An accident sent my January plans went out the window 🪟✌🏽
… and it revealed my Somatic Intelligence in real time.
Four days into January and all my start-of-2026 plans got thrown out the window – enter some crutches 🩼🩼
A sudden accident left me with some pretty nasty foot injuries, amongst other things, all of which I’ll heal from in time 🙏🏽 … but in the space between now and then…
travel plans, fitness and movement plans,
business plans, program launch and promo plans,
any plans for walking (lol)
– bye bye! Ta ta see ya later.
Navigating challenges and triggers really show us how far we’ve come. And through this crutches season I’m in, I’ve had a renewed gratitude for the somatic capacity I’ve built over many years.
It’s meant that…
💠🔑 I knew how to allow my body to process a large portion of shock and fear from the accident (shaking, breath and diaphragm fluctuations, decompression tears etc). It all flowed through me without suppression or shame.
💠🔑 I knew how to use my breath, my voice (internal vibration/tone), my touch, and my sight to bring safety and calm into my system, in order to traverse moments of intensity or pain.
💠🔑 I knew how to accept where I was with embodied surrender, and ride the emotional waves that followed. Rather than staying in resistance to reality, and defaulting to emotional avoidance or mental analysis.
💠🔑 I knew how be with overthinking or over-achieving parts of me so they didn’t drive my behaviours or choices. Instead I supported my grounded self lead so I could receive the rest and time off to heal.
💠🔑 I knew how to find more presence and beauty in moments increased awareness – for my body’s capacity to heal and the loving support around me.
This is the somatic intelligence I’ve developed and continue to grow, all under the bright spotlight of a challenging time.
Many clients come to me…
When something in life tips them over the edge, and the body (physically and emotionally) is signalling hard 🌪️🌪️. But we quickly discover, it's not that one thing; that’s not how the body works.
It is the build up of unprocessed somatic experiences or emotions,
…the accumulation of held tension or living from the head,
…the nervous system locked in survival mode,
…that means there’s no space within. 🚫 No space to create what they desire!
They’re full.
Any rocking, or extra load to that container (their body), leads to flooded overwhelm. And that’s the signal they’re now experiencing.
⛰️ The frickin invaluable gift of this work means that you can actually traverse life’s inevitable ups and downs. You become, at your core, unshakable.
You can, as I have, move with the tides of discomfort by staying in connection with the felt experience of it. You know the language of your body and what it needs. And so life with somatic intelligence becomes less about managing or pushing, and more about moving forward with.
If this experience has brought anything into focus for me, it’s this: start now, so your system has the capacity to meet life and when it twists.
I hope you all experience the gift of this deep relationship with your body, and therefore yourself.
