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This week we dive deep into the hidden cost of people-pleasing,  the guilt, anxiety, and self-abandonment that so many women silently carry.

From saying yes when your body is screaming no, to the deeper nervous system patterns behind fawning and approval-seeking, this solo episode explores why people-pleasing happens, how it impacts our relationships and wellbeing, and what it really takes to step into sovereignty.

Hannah shares personal stories, insights from a recent women’s circle, practical boundary-setting tools, nervous system regulation techniques, and compassionate guidance for anyone ready to stop abandoning themselves to keep others comfortable.

If you’ve ever felt exhausted from over-giving, afraid to disappoint people, or resentful after saying yes when you meant no, then this episode is for you.

Topics include:

• People-pleasing vs. the fawn trauma response
• Fear of rejection, conflict, and abandonment
• Why women often struggle to say no
• Nervous system regulation & grounding techniques
• How to build your “refusal muscle”
• Choosing authenticity over approval
• Learning to honour your own needs without guilt

A conversation about reclaiming your voice, your boundaries, and your life.

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Step into the transformative energy of the Scorpio Full Moon meeting the Beltane portal, a potent fusion of water and fire inviting deep emotional alchemy.

In this episode, we explore the difference between coping and true healing through a trauma-informed lens. You’ll be guided into the depths of your inner world, uncovering hidden patterns, emotional truths, and the subtle ways your nervous system shapes your reality.

We dive into:

• Shadow work and emotional honesty
• Nervous system regulation—beyond the buzzwords
• Control, power, and trauma responses
• Cyclical wisdom, hormones, and embodiment
• Practical somatic tools for real, lasting transformation

This is an invitation to slow down, feel deeply, and meet yourself with courage and compassion. Not to fix or force change—but to allow it.

✨ A powerful episode for anyone ready to move beyond survival and into embodied healing.

Book the drop in online moon circle, on a pay what you feel is right basis here: https://holistichealthc.kartra.com/page/moonceremony 

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What happens when you step away from the noise… and into the woods?

In this episode we explore the powerful impact of reconnecting with nature and why it’s becoming essential in today’s fast-paced, tech-heavy world.

We share how spending more time outdoors is transforming our health, creativity, and business, and introduce the ancient practice of living in tune with the seasons through the Wheel of the Year. With Beltane approaching, we dive into its meaning, energy, and how you can celebrate this potent time of fire, fertility, and new life.

This episode is your invitation to slow down, reconnect, and remember what truly nourishes you.

What you’ll learn:
• Why your body is naturally drawn to nature (and how to listen to it)
• The effects of constant technology and how to rebalance
• What the Wheel of the Year is and how it supports seasonal living
• The meaning of Beltane and how to celebrate it in your own way
• Simple rituals to reconnect with your energy, creativity, and joy

If you’ve been feeling overwhelmed, disconnected, or in need of a reset, this episode will bring you back to centre.

Book our woodland event on 1st May here: https://womenshealth.holistichealthcollective.co.uk/Beltane

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🌑 Aries New Moon: Aligned Action Without Burnout

Feeling the pressure to do more, faster? 

This Aries New Moon invites a different approach, courageous action that feels safe in your body.

In this episode, we explore how to work with this powerful new beginning through somatic healing, nervous system regulation, and aligned goal setting, so you can move towards your desires without burnout.

✨ Learn how to:

• Take action without overwhelm
• Break cycles of overdrive & exhaustion
• Work with fire energy in a grounded way
• Manifest goals through self-trust, not pressure

🌱 Take one small, aligned step today.

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Feeling more emotional, overwhelmed, or sensitive than usual? This Libra Full Moon is illuminating more than just your feelings, it’s revealing the patterns living in your nervous system.

In this episode, we explore the Libra Full Moon through a trauma-informed, somatic lens, helping you understand why certain thoughts, emotions, and body sensations are rising right now—and how to meet them with safety instead of resistance.

You’ll learn how lunar cycles influence your nervous system, emotional regulation, and relationship patterns, and how to gently process what’s surfacing without forcing or fixing.

This is your invitation to slow down, tune in, and reconnect with your body’s wisdom.

You'll learn:

• Why the Full Moon intensifies emotions and nervous system responses
• How Libra energy reveals patterns like people-pleasing and self-abandonment
• What somatic processing actually is (and how to practice it safely)
• The connection between your thoughts, body sensations, and survival patterns
• How to recognize where you’re out of balance in relationships
• Why healing isn’t about fixing but about staying present with what is
• Simple ways to regulate your nervous system during intense emotional cycles

✨ Ready to go deeper?

Join the Live Libra Full Moon Circle where we’ll gently process what’s arising in real-time through guided somatic practices.

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Libra Full Moon, somatic healing, nervous system regulation, trauma-informed healing, emotional processing, full moon ritual, astrology and healing, somatic therapy, people pleasing patterns, self regulation, mind body connection, lunar cycles, feminine energy healing, embodiment practices, healing through the body

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✨ Feeling emotional, foggy or deeply reflective lately?

The Pisces New Moon marks the closing chapter of the astrological year,  a powerful moment to pause before a new cycle begins.

Instead of rushing into fresh intentions, this moon invites us to slow down, reflect and integrate the wisdom of the past year.

In this episode, Sarah explores the deeper meaning of the Pisces New Moon through a trauma-informed lens, explaining why healing and growth happen not just through insight, but through giving the body and nervous system space to process experience safely.

Pisces energy reminds us that life isn’t only about action, it’s also about feeling, sensing and understanding the deeper emotional journey beneath our experiences.

In this episode you'll learn:

✨ Why the Pisces New Moon represents the completion of the zodiac cycle
✨ The symbolism of Pisces and the two fish swimming in opposite directions
✨ Why this New Moon invites reflection before action
✨ The neuroscience behind integration and memory reconsolidation
✨ How the nervous system processes emotional experiences
✨ Gentle practices to help you integrate the past year safely

This New Moon is about honouring the journey before stepping into what comes next.

Join the Pisces New Moon Circle

You’re warmly invited to the Pisces New Moon Somatic & Healing Circle:

Thursday 19th March
7:30pm UK
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Continue the Journey

Inside the Healing Portal membership:

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In this week’s episode of the Holistic Health Sisters Podcast, Hannah explores a powerful and often overlooked truth: living joyfully is your purpose.

Inspired by the book Soul Mastery by Sonya Choquette, Hannah reflects on how easy it is for adults to get caught up in responsibilities, routines, and endless to-do lists and how this can slowly disconnect us from joy.

This episode is a gentle reminder that joy isn’t something we earn once everything is done. It’s something we are meant to experience every day.

Hannah invites you to pause, reflect, and reconnect with the simple things that spark joy, creativity, and passion in your life.

In This Episode We Explore, Why living joyfully is part of your soul’s purpose

Simple Ways to Tap Into Joy

Hannah shares accessible ways to reconnect with joy, even in busy lives:

Joy doesn’t have to come from big life events. Often it’s found in the small everyday moments.

A Question for You

Take a moment to pause and ask yourself:

“Am I living joyfully right now?”

And if not…

What small thing could you do today that would bring more joy into your life?

Resources Mentioned

• Soul Mastery by Sonya Choquette
• Teachings from Bashar via Darryl Anka

Connect With Us

We’d love to hear from you.

What brought you joy today?

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Work With Us

Explore our events, retreats, and online community:

🌿 Women's circles
🌿 Singing circles
🌿 Retreats
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In this episode, we’re stepping into the healing portal of the Virgo Lunar Eclipse a powerful threshold moment of release, purification, and nervous system recalibration.

This isn’t about manifesting more.

This is about simplifying. Softening. Letting go of what your body is no longer willing to carry.

We reflect on the recent solar eclipse in Aquarius (February 17th) and explore what’s shifted internally and externally since then personally and collectively. Eclipses accelerate timelines. They illuminate what can no longer be bypassed.

And with Virgo’s medicine, that illumination often lands in the body.

In this episode discover:

What a Lunar Eclipse Really Represents

Virgo Medicine & Wholeness

The Gut-Brain Axis & Stress Science

Perimenopause & Gut Changes

Virgo Eclipse Support Practices

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This eclipse peaks March 3rd, and we’ll be gathering for our Virgo Lunar Eclipse Full Moon Circle at 7:30 PM (UK time) or get the replay when you regsiter.

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This week on the podcast, we are joined by the incredible Denise Parpworth  therapeutic counsellor, mother of three, grandmother, business owner, and one of the most quietly powerful women we know.

Hannah met Denise through our women’s circles, and after one very inspiring conversation we knew I had to invite her onto the podcast.

Why?

Because Denise speaks about things many of us experience as hard such as single motherhood, earning income alone, building businesses, childbirth, leaving home at 15 and she describes them as… easy.

Not because life handed her ease.
But because of the lens she chose to look through.

In this episode, we explore:

✨ Building confidence through action
✨ Raising three children as a largely single mother
✨ Earning income without burnout
✨ Creating work-life balance by design
✨ The power of strict but supportive routines
✨ Why she doesn’t watch TV or scroll first thing
✨ The mindset shift from “this is hard” to “this will work”
✨ Home births, autonomy & trusting your body
✨ Gratitude as a daily discipline
✨ “Be. Do. Have.”  designing life intentionally

Her morning routine alone is worth listening for!

This conversation is a powerful reminder that:

• Your mindset shapes your experience.
• Confidence is built by doing.
• Ease is often a decision.
• Discipline creates freedom.

About Denise

Denise is a therapeutic counsellor based in Kings Hill, Kent, offering in-person and online sessions across the UK.

She integrates:

• Talking therapy
• EFT (Emotional Freedom Technique)
• Breathwork
• Holistic approaches tailored to each client

🌿 Website: www.therapeuticcounsellingwithdenise.co.uk

🌿 In-person (Kent) & Online UK-wide

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This New Moon Solar Eclipse in Aquarius (Tuesday 17th February) opens a powerful eclipse portal. Eclipses are accelerators. They shift timelines, reveal truths, interrupt patterns, and invite rapid endings or unexpected openings.

But this one?
It’s not about force.
It’s about surrender.

In this episode, I guide you through:

✨ What a solar eclipse really represents (and why it only happens on a New Moon)
✨ The deeper meaning of Aquarius energy, visionary, humanitarian, revolutionary
✨ Why this eclipse at 28° Aquarius signals completion and course correction
✨ The nervous system lens: how to stay regulated during collective chaos
✨ Why you don’t need to manifest or “push” this moon
✨ The power of becoming an “island of coherence”

✨ Practical grounding tools for overstimulation, racing thoughts & emotional detachment
✨ How to work with your body (calves, ankles, circulation) during Aquarius season

We explore insights inspired by astrologer Pamela Gregory, nervous system research from Stephen Porges, and coherence teachings from the HeartMath Institute.

This eclipse asks:

Where are you putting your focus?
Are you seeding what you want… or reinforcing what you fear?

Remember:
You do not need to override your body to catch up.
You do not need to force manifestation.
Healing is integration, not acceleration.

🌑 Join Us Live

Aquarius New Moon Solar Eclipse Circle
🗓 Tuesday 17th February
🕢 7:30pm (Replay available)

Pay what feels aligned.

We will practice:

• Coherence breathwork
• Nervous system regulation
• Embodiment rituals
• Collective healing intentions
• Join here: https://holistichealthc.kartra.com/page/moonceremony 

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