"In our conditioning to be linear, we've become psychologically and spiritually disconnected from the womb, the seat of a woman’s sacred cyclical centre and her power disconnecting us from the intelligence of our body and our own true nature, rhythm and cycle"

Nicola Lucie

Shadow work is fundamentally about healing and integrating trauma and unraveling the conditioning that gave us a false sense of our identity.

However, it is so much more than this.

It’s about coming back home to our true nature. Back home into our bodies. Back home into our roots.

As women, we have been conditioned to live constantly in the head and in the doing of life, heavily focused on performance, and a very masculine way of showing up in the world.

Yet we have a completely different rhythm and nature to men with a different biology that is cyclical not linear, and in constant transition and flow through our menstrual, reproductive and life cycles.

Our energy ebbs and flows throughout the month. Sometimes we want to be out there, relating, communicating, connecting and taking action.

Then there are others times, when our biology calls for us to slow down, take it easy so we can rest and recuperate and replenish.

We’re like the four seasons of the year and the lunar cycle every month - ebbing and flowing.

We experience cycles within cycles, creating life transitions that is a woman’s nature through maidenhood, motherhood and into cronehood, each one giving us an opportunity to embrace more of our power and potential, not found in the head, but in the very seat of our womb.

However, in our conditioning to be linear we've become psychologically and spiritually disconnected from the womb, the seat of a woman’s sacred cyclical centre and her power disconnecting us from the intelligence of our body and our own true nature, rhythm and cycle.

This disconnection happens on an individual and a collective level, you can see it in yourself the way you behave and believe, relate and communicate and when you look around at the women in your life, beginning with your Mother, caregivers, family and friends, and extending into the workplace, your colleagues and team members.

This Disconnect Reflects In How You:

* Suppress the deeper needs of your body, physically, emotionally, psychologically and sexually and keep pushing through regardless and eventually leading to burnout, stress and overwhelm.

* Relate with your menstrual cycle, motherhood and menopause, the physical and emotional symptoms you experience

* Communicate with yourself and others, verbally, somatically and emotionally

* Regularly take flight from what triggers you, what you fight against and the unhealthy habits you have adopted to numb out your feelings

* Unconsciously keep reacting to your unresolved wounding, trauma and conditioning and perpetuating the patterns of behaviour you created as a result

* Continue to disrespect your own boundaries, putting the needs of others before your own

As you unconsciously keep choosing to stay in this chaos you are recreating every single day, you are ignoring the screams from your body and your deeper self, seeking love, care and attention from the world around you rather than within yourself.

Your body can only cope with so much before it gives out.

Your psyche can only cope with so much before it says - enough!

Everything that has happened to you is stored in your body.

* Every emotion you have not given yourself permission to feel

* Every wound and trauma you have not resolved

* Every limiting belief, behaviour and unconscious pattern you have created just to survive

And all of it is blocking you from your own true nature and your ability to thrive and have a healthier relationship with yourself, as a woman, a daughter and a mother. 

But to really understand and embody our own nature we will have to come back home into the womb, into the very roots of who we are.

This is where Shadow Work designed specifically for women comes in.

Your body contains all of this emotional toxic waste, all of your crazy, unhealthy yet very valid patterns and fears, limiting beliefs and behaviours and all the unresolved wounding, trauma and conditioning you’ve experienced.

Plus, all the energy of so many other people are also taking up residence in your body’s energetic fields, which means there is actually little room for your own nature to shine and for you to thrive.

The way I approach Shadow Work, strips back each of these layers, one by one and each time you retrieve an element of your own nature, and remember your own rhythm, parts of you long forgotten as you fitted into other people’s expectations, conforming and performing as you went along.

The deeper you go, facing your own demons, you learn to be radically honest with yourself and ask the questions you never dared ask before because on some level they gave you a false sense of safety, security and stability.

The deeper you dig, the more you let go of creating more space on the inside, more space for you to embody your true nature, power and potential, and more strength to exercise healthy boundaries and honour your needs.

The more space you create, the more you get out of your head and back into your body, into your heart and your capacity to love, sinking deeper into your inner realms until you’re sat in the very seat of your womb, feeling deeply rooted and connected, grounded, liberated and empowered.

It is here, where you reclaim your crown as you sit on your inner throne, the queen of your own inner kingdom embracing your true and divine nature.

To help you on your journey, here are a few questions to help you remember your true nature:

1. What is your relationship with your womb?

2. Do you feel connected or disconnected to your womb?

3. How do you feel about your body, menstrual cycle or the life-cycle you’re experiencing?

4. How does your energy ebb and flow during the day/week/month?

5. If you could change one thing about yourself what would it be? Why?

Remember the journey back home starts and ends with you!

With Love, 

Nicola x