Mental health week
I had the honour of collaborating with @ World Federation for World Peace Mental Health Awareness Week. A special thank you to the visionaries behind this presentation, @Satomi and @Sam. The organisation is remarkable for fostering connection and promoting good in the world, elevating women’s superpowers to lead together, guided by love, action, and connection. Their aim is to transform collective challenges into a more coherent and thriving organism.
We gathered to connect, and I had the privilege of sharing a glimpse through my personal lens—the importance of enhancing sovereignty and self-governance. Mental health has been a significant theme throughout my life, especially as I experienced our beautiful mother being swept into the dis-ease of bipolar disorder. The impact of the experience touched not only her life but all of those within its collective family system, bringing forth the often chaotic expressions of this condition. Our family’s journey through this has awakened many perspectives, with one profound realisation emerging: true service to the world begins with self-love, self-care, and self-governance.
A vital part of awareness is that one of the strengths of being a woman is our innate capacity to nurture and nourish as a natural reflex, including ourselves is often where the condition has become imbalanced. Women as a collective, in imbalance, are great givers, but not necessarily good at receiving. I think the airlines have it right with the life mask on our own face first. Here we want to recognise that unless we are serving from a place of overflow, we contribute to collective dissonance and dysfunction. When we embrace responsibility of wellbeing for our lives, we reclaim our harmonic superpowers and can offer our overflow to the world we live in. This transformation allows us to move beyond narratives that diminish and lean into elevation of our more balanced, coherent, natural state of a thriving organism. Allowing for mental, physical and psychological wellness to be the ripple.
This powerful space of self-responsibility ignites coherence, connection, and personal gifts, offering us the most potent position of influence.
Key Takeaways:
We are born into the most sophisticated instrument—the body. Learning how to use it elevates self-governance and awakens our innate intelligence.
Together, we explored:
Self-love and self-care as medicine for all forms of dis-ease, depression, and destruction. These practices nourish our inner wellness garden, creating the biochemistry of well-being, harmony, and acting as potent immunity boosters.
Rituals, meditation, and breathwork as powerful tools for tuning into ourselves and regulating the central nervous system. These practices shift us from feeling powerless to empowered, from anxiousness to presence, and allow the intelligence of the body to do what it was born to do: heal, process, receive, and enjoy life.
The importance of movement, which reminds us that our bodies hold onto past patterns. Moving the body releases these old imprints, making space for present awareness, processing, regeneration, and agility. We are born to move and thrive.
Body/mind/emotion mastery, which enables us to take the driver’s seat. Instead of being swept away by our emotions, we can use them as momentum for our dreams and actions. By recognising which patterns serve us and which do not, we can channel our energy in ways that benefit ourselves and the collective—this is a true superpower.
Connection to deeper listening through body awareness, allowing intuition and innovation to rise. With a little attention to the central nervous system and the feeling body, we can regulate our responses and master the most sophisticated organism we possess.