Emotional awareness is often described as the foundation of emotional wellbeing. It is the ability to notice, identify, understand and response to emotions in ourselves and others. Many of us grew up being taught how to manage our behaviours. Yet for many of us the skills for recognising and managing the emotions underneath our own, and others, behaviours was not explored to the same extent. This leads many of us finding it difficult to recognise or understand what we are fee

Stress is a universal experience, but its impact on our nervous system is often overlooked. When stressors trigger the fight, flight, freeze response, our bodies prepare to face danger. In modern life, these reactions are frequently activated by everyday pressures. Once the stress cycle is activated and our body is prepared for danger, regulating our nervous system requires a completion of the stress cycle. If the stress cycle remains incomplete, excess energy, and tension ca