Kathryn Rollins | Public figure
Kathryn Rollins
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23.01.2022 One of the best things I ever started doing was tracking my stress response. Do I feel safe? Is my sympathetic or parasympathetic nervous system active?... Am I in fight-flight-freeze-tend-and-befriend or rest and digest? When I started doing this I began to uncover all kinds of hidden stressors. If you had a stressful childhood it’s harder for you to notice when you feel unsafe as an adult. It’s harder to track if a romantic partner is exciting because they’re dangerous and unsafe or if you’re in love. The stress response can be addictive, even pleasurable. So start simple and begin to track the feeling of safety in your body. First learn what safety feels like... how does it feel to be totally relaxed and at ease? Use embodiment techniques like breathing, sounding, touching the base of your body and legs. Then check in with your environment, do I feel safe here? Then take internal inventory. Is there anything in my life creating a lack of safety for me? Are there any boundaries I need to create? Check in and see which people feel safe for you to be with and which ones don’t. Beware the tend and befriend response too... which can emerge in situations with people we feel unsafe around but seek closeness with in order to trade for safety. This is especially common in women. Signs of being stressed include repetitive and obsessive thoughts, difficulty sleeping or waking up in the middle of the night, numbness or vaguing out, feeling disconnected, inability to sit still or relax, indigestion, muscle tension. You can also do things to release stress from the body and come into a more relaxed state. This is what we teach at WILDGRACE and also what I do with clients in sessions. Advantages of having a relaxed nervous system? Better all round health, faster healing and recovery, more pleasure, better sleep, better digestion... it’s endless really. Worth it? Definitely. This is something we explore in my course Do You Love Me? Applications close tomorrow night. Click the link in the comments to apply.
17.01.2022 I did the thing I thought was impossible. I transitioned easefully from lovers to friends with not one but TWO people. This possibility seemed like an impossibility for a long time.... The weight of my desire and the repetitive looping nature of my wounding wanting to play out the striking cut of separation was strong. I struggled against the current I had an inkling of an idea of what might be possible with the right tools I didn’t want to cut and run. So I delved deep into myself over and over Uncovering and releasing the things I found that weren’t mine Healing wounds with my consciousness and embodiment techniques Allowing my animal body to shake and roar and moan Softening into my glorious effervescent heart. And then one day... it was. I breathed into it and it was. I felt my love louder and brighter than my fears. I held myself through my darkest moments and came out the other side. Want to learn these tools for yourself and delve deep into your own patterns? Join us for Do You Love Me? starting Tuesday 19th Nov. Applications close Sunday. 8 spots left. Click the link in the comments to apply.
14.01.2022 WHY YOU’RE NEVER REALLY ‘HAPPY’ IN A RELATIONSHIP Ah, the age old question why don’t things ever feel the way we want them to feel? Why does love have to be so DIFFICULT?...Continue reading
13.01.2022 Photo: Phoebe Kuhn
13.01.2022 Are you tired yet? Of fighting the inevitable? Of resisting the fall?... Of trying not to become the thing you most fear? As a society we are drenched in the belief that we aren’t enough That if left to our own devices we would be all the things we hate. I don’t believe this to be true. When conditioning and trauma are released from the body It effortlessly and beautifully self-regulates. And suddenly you’re able to breathe easier, move more effortlessly through the world, love and receive love. This is who you really are. Are you ready to step in? To book and session with me and come home to yourself click the link in the comments. Photo: Alpha Lumi Ana
08.01.2022 DO YOU LOVE ME? These are the words that quiver on our lips as we navigate the world as insecure bumbling beings. While it’s often directed outside of us... The truth is that we are actually asking ourselves. Self, do you love me? Do you love this about me? Do you love this part? This quality? This flaw? Do you love my hips and thighs? Do you love my awkwardness? Do you love me when I’m needy or jealous? Do you love my rage and sadness? Do you love my addiction? Do you love my neuroses? Do you love me? This program helps to bring all of these insecurities to the surface to be looked at and loved. For four weeks, you are invited to come to the communal table with all of your darkest parts and share yourself. At the same time, I offer you revolutionary embodiment tools and techniques for helping you fully feel and release that which keeps you stuck in negative thought loops and behaviours. To dissolve that which keeps you in patterns that don’t serve your highest good. Whilst we visit the darkness, we don’t stay there. It’s an intimate deep dive into loving yourself fully and wholly Not through placing a bandaid over the things you don’t like about yourself Rather allowing them to come up and be loved by all of us as we journey alongside one another. This is for anyone who wants to love themselves more and come home at last. Applications for 2020 are now open. www.kathrynrollins.com.au/do-you-love-me/ Photo: Mystic Mind Photography
04.01.2022 Choose Love. In every moment, choose Love. If I’m honest, I used to think that this idea was bullshit, an imposition on my freedom, an offence to my victimhood, my life. Now, not so much.... To choose love you also have to be able to recognise when you’re operating in pride. When you care more about how you look to others than where you’re moving from. Here’s your challenge, spend some time each day connecting with the current of Love running through you. Whether it’s through dance or song or exercise or nature or breath. Notice how it feels in your body, and then bring as much of that feeling into your day to day life as possible. Take this feeling of Love and lather it all over yourself and your life. Ask yourself, what would Love have me do? Where is the current of Love flowing? Choose Love.
02.01.2022 I can’t emphasise enough just how important it is to learn to reparent yourself So much of our mental noise is a symptom of feeling unsafe or stressed Which can be massively aided through self parenting.... Self talk Allowing your emotions to be there instead of trying to suppress them Moving your body Self soothing Creating space for emotions to move and be felt AND the epic medicine of realising just how capable a parent part of you is. At WILDGRACE we teach that the mind is the parent and the body is the child. How we interpret our bodily sensations and respond to them is a big part of how we move through life. Are you listening? Ignoring? Suppressing? And are you engaging your full body in the response? Not just dancing with the mind but engaging your physicality as well? For more insight on this you can also check out my self parenting series of meditations available via the link in the comments. Big love. Photo of me parenting myself by MysticMind Photography from our Wild Grace Foundations Training
