The Baggage Reclaim Sessions

Natalie talks about why we don’t have to become drained, resentful or burnt out from supporting others.  Instagram | Break The Cycle Online Course | Blog | Shop

As humans, we don't like having problems, especially when we feel it's unwarranted and that we've done all the right things. But what if this is part of the problem in the first place? Natalie shares insights on how we can learn (and move on from) problems with more love, care, trust and respect.  Instagram | Break The Cycle Online Course | Blog | Shop

Natalie talks about when somebody attempts to erase the past by acting as if it didn't happen and trying to pick up where they [decided they] left off.  Instagram | Break The Cycle Online Course | Blog | Shop

So many of us fear that we are 'needy' and so settle for less than what we need, desire and deserve. We also may have been called it by someone else, and it's left a mark. Natalie dives into the truth about 'neediness'.  Instagram | Break The Cycle Online Course | Blog | Shop

Natalie talks about why our attempt to be giving or to make amends can backfire if our actions cross boundaries.  Instagram | Break The Cycle Online Course | Blog | Shop

It can be super frustrating when you have a negative experience of someone, and everyone else thinks the sun shines out of them. Natalie talks about why our experience of a person can differ due to context.  Instagram | Break The Cycle Online Course | Blog | Shop  

When somebody fakes a future to get what they want in the present, the disappointment, confusion, self-doubt and sense of rejection can leave us reeling and distrusting. Natalie revisits Future Faking and why we must, ultimately, be careful of deceiving ourselves.  Instagram | Break The Cycle Online Course | Blog | Shop    

Natalie talks about why the infamous piece of advice, 'He's just not that into you' from the 2004 book of the same name, can easily be misinterpreted as 'You're not enough' or 'They behaved as they did because they didn't feel enough'.  Instagram | Break The Cycle Online Course | Blog | Shop

Natalie talks about why we resist blocking, unfriending or deleting even when continuing to engage hamrs our emotional, mental, physical and spiritual wellbeing.  Instagram | Break The Cycle Online Course | Blog | Shop

Boundaries are widely misunderstood, so it's no surprise that so many of us struggle to have that at work. Natalie dives into what it means to have work boundaries and why they matter.    Instagram | Reclaim Your Work Boundaries | Blog | Shop

Natalie delves into our messy relationship with rest, including acting as if we owe everyone our 'free time' to others and our fear of appearing 'lazy'. Instagram | Break The Cycle Online Course | Blog | Shop

Natalie talks about the three vulnerability habits we all need to embrace: admitting what we don't know, admitting when we've made a mistake, and admitting when we're in the wrong. Instagram | Break The Cycle Online Course | Blog | Shop

Natalie talks about shifting our relationship with trust to a healthy place, including recognising where some of the things we do to foster trust or 'make' someone prove that they are trustworthy are precisely the source of us feeling unsafe in the first place.  Instagram | Break The Cycle Online Course | Blog | Shop

Natalie talks about why we need to shift our perception of what a breakup is and what it means about us so that we can let go of old stories and painful feelings that still affect us today.  Instagram | Break The Cycle Online Course | Blog | Shop

Natalie talks about why we need to change our relationship with criticism so that we stop investing so much of ourselves into trying to control the uncontrollable and being self-critical.   Instagram | Break The Cycle Online Course | Blog | Shop

Natalie talks about how we've been socialised to keep up appearances and why this pretence, whether it's about nothing being wrong or that who we are is not OK, is damaging to our wellbeing and relationships.    Instagram | Break The Cycle Online Course | Blog | Shop

Sometimes we try to 'manage ourselves' too much instead of articulating a need or a boundary. Natalie shares her insights from a recent experience of this and how it's revolutionised her attitude towards her needs and what sets off anxiety.    Instagram | Break The Cycle Online Course | Blog | Shop

Natalie explains why it's time to recognise that people can be more than one thing and stop denying, rationalising, minimising, excusing, assuming and generalising ourselves into feeling stuck because we can't reconcile who we think someone is with other things that don't fit that image.  Instagram | Break The Cycle Online Course | Blog | Shop

Natalie explores the unease we experience when we believe that things seem a little or a lot too perfect and what we can learn from it Instagram | Break The Cycle Online Course | Blog | Shop

Natalie shares how we can use our awareness of certain habits as a notification that we are anxious about *something* so that we can take better care of ourselves.  The Anxiety Sessions | Instagram | Blog | Shop