Gorgeous Listeners, welcome to this week’s episode of Finding Your Way Home,

A special treat - the opportunity to sit down with someone whose entire career has centred on "holding space" and healing trauma through a deeply somatic lens. 

Sophie Brigstocke is a phenomenally-gifted EMDR Therapist, Coach and Trauma-informed Breathwork Practitioner. Long before this, she was a birth-worker - not only supporting a generation of healthy births, but training a school of practitioners beneath her.  

And today, we dive into one of our utter passion topics - how to truly heal the patterns of Codependency that are often so woven into the fabric of our family dynamics, friendships and even professional hierarchies. 

In our conversation you will learn:

• The tell-tale signs you are in a codependent dynamic, and what this leaning may be trying to provide / protect you from
• How to un-mesh the enmeshment: boundaries, self-connection, beginning to rewrite the script of your relationships
• Applying this lens to the role of "Practitioner", "Healer", Therapist - what is the balance between caring for others, even in a professional role, and becoming overly-attached to fixing
• How to spot and navigate the propensity for burnout
• Breathwork through a trauma-informed lens - Sophie recounts some of the startling practices she has seen in this space, that we can learn from as space-holders
• The power of letting going of societal expectations around romance; how to allow you unique journey to evolve, and how prioritising the self can ultimately transform the sort of partner you attract

This is such a deeply rich, healing conversation - and profound for anyone who knows themselves to "people-please" or in any other way condition themselves to behave with others. Relish it my loves. 

To find out more about Sophie and her work:

Find her on Instagram: @sophie_brigstocke
Visit her website: https://www.sophiebrigstocke.com/

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Sending love, wherever this finds you,

Ax