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Whole Women Wellness
Serving the remembrance of Divinity in the body🌹
Mentor | Speaker | Threshold doula
🎙️ Host @theartof.thriving.podcast

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What the “nice girl” training costs your nervous system.

Autoimmune disease is a label given when the deeper processes in the body aren’t fully understood & it’s often accompanied with… it’s hereditary & for life.
But the body isn’t broken, it’s stuck in a healing crisis, trying to protect and restore, & unable to finish the job.

Firstly I want to state that Autoimmune conditions are incredibly complex, there isn’t enough information or support, & hardly anyone understands the impact they have on a person’s life.
There are many contributing factors, & they’re different for every person.

But this is what I’ve noticed working with women who carry these diagnoses.

These Women learned to be good.
To keep the peace, to be liked, to be available for everyone else, always.
To make their needs small and emotions smaller.

It makes sense that 75-80% of people with autoimmune conditions are Women, in a culture that teaches girls to be agreeable.
Nobody decides to become a people-pleaser.
We learn it to stay safe & loved.
But when self-suppression becomes chronic, the fear of rejection, which at its root is a fear for survival, turns inward, & the body has to carry the stress.

“Shrinking is a form of self-burial” -Mumma G.

And yes, genes matter. But we don’t inherit a “bad gene” like a sentence handed down.
What we inherit are family patterns, emotional, mental & physical, along with stress, toxic exposures & internal & external environmental influences.
These shape how our genes express.

Inherited predisposition is not destiny, & none of it is a personal failing.

In my work, I’ve seen bodies transform when given the right support to find balance.

So where to start?
With your relationship to SELF: your voice, & your pleasure.

Pleasure is a highway for life force to move through the body.
It brings blood flow & softness back to the tissues.
It teaches the nervous system to trust & stop bracing for impact.
It brings a Woman into her wild aliveness & plugs her into her own wisdom so she no longer needs to scramble for approval.

So if you’ve been calling the ache in your body “normal,” this is your sign to listen deeper.
And if you want support, reach out by @_hannahvela_

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9 days ago

Having the willingness to discover who we are beyond the stories that we tell ourselves is one of the greatest gifts we can give ourselves & yet there are very real defence mechanisms that can get in the way.

After over a decade of supporting people to move beyond their limitations, and seeing this come up in majority of my clients,
I call this the elastic band mechanism.
It’s when we set the intention to show up differently to move towards our goals or desires, but a part of our subconscious goes “but I won’t know who I am then!” Because the new self is beyond what the current self has known and so we sabotage... We let resistance or other excuses get in the way of continuing to show up how we said we want to.

It is also important to understand that when I’m talking about going into a freeze/shutdown state, that is the autonomic nervous system activating to protect us. This is a universal protective mechanism, it’s not a flaw and it’s not something to bypass or shame ourselves for experiencing.
The parts of us that feel unsafe need to be met, felt & listened to first.

With practice however, one can work to strengthen their vagal tone.
This is the nervous system’s capacity to move fluidly between states of activation, calm, and yes, even freeze/ shutdown/ fight/ flight.
When I talk about being able to self assess from the shutdown, this is a result of cultivating high vagal tone, which means I can stay present within the shutdown rather than disappearing into it. I can sense what’s happening in my body, alert my partner to what’s happening inside of me so he knows to pause the conversation & maintain relational contact, and eventually I can choose to shift gears.
This is very different to overriding the freeze response.

Willingness to know ourselves better as well as willingness to be wrong about our ideas of how things are, is the difference between us collectively experiencing our full potential as humans on this planet in a harmonious way or not. by @_hannahvela_

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15 days ago

Numb Women are controllable Women.
(Now numbness isn’t wrong, it serves a very important function to protect the individual until it’s not needed anymore).
But when a Woman is cut off from her body, her pleasure & aliveness… you sever her from her wisdom, leaving her to search for approval everywhere else, except for in herself.

But when a Woman finds her way back to her pleasure as embodied prayer, she plugs back into life.
More life force occupies her body, she receives nourishment from every second of being alive & she understands her pleasure as a devotional practice that brings her deeper into herself, supporting her to reoccupy her own throne.

She becomes self resourced & a Woman like that is near impossible to control.

Imagine for a moment if this state was the collective feminine base line… how different the world would be.
There is still a lot of unlearning that needs to happen to get there but we are well & truly on our way & may this revolution of the senses re balance the world 🔥🌹 by @_hannahvela_

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19 days ago

Had to surprise my husband with a cheeky choreo on our wedding night 🔥
He was absolutely gobsmacked cause he really wasn’t expecting it and i’m so proud of my girls for pulling this together with only a couple run throughs in the days before!
Thank you @bkellycohen for creating this super fun little dance
and @samirezzat_ for capturing this moment 💫♥️✨ by @_hannahvela_

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a month ago

I have been changed by this love in ways I never could have imagined. ✨

I love doing life with you @joshvroberts by @_hannahvela_

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a month ago

You can’t keep a good thing down & it’s time to rebalance balance the world !
🔥🔥🔥

This is why I do the work I do,
Because surrendering to turn on is the most radical fuck you to a Culture built on control. by @_hannahvela_

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a month ago

The truth about creating the life of your dreams,
Is that you will be required to get radically honest with yourself about what you want.
A question I see countless Women uncomfortable asking themselves.

This is a threshold moment, and it often requires the sacrifice of all that isn’t supporting you in moving towards what you want as well as the willingness to step up & ask for it, claim it, make it happen, etc.

Do you find it easy to get in touch with/ ask for what you want? by @_hannahvela_

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3 months ago

In my natural habitat ✨

Thanks for the awesome snap @harrison.j.studios

#forbeautiessake by @_hannahvela_

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8 months ago

It’s crazy to me how imbedded this still is in our collective psyche.

The idea that women’s fertility falls off a cliff at 35 comes from a French study using birth records from the 1700s. Women with no modern medicine, nutrition, or healthcare. And yet this is still the data shaping how millions of women think about their bodies and their timelines.

How much pressure have women put on themselves & their relationships because they believed this to be true!?

It’s time to update the collective story!

Naturally as we age our hormones change, but through devotion to our bodies & selves we can come into balance & support our fertility.
Between 1990 and 2019 the United States actually saw a 67% rise in Women having babies past the age of 35.

A reminder to our thoughts are infinitely powerful & what we believe literally transforms us on a cellular level, so knowing this is incredibly important.

Share this with a sister who needs to hear this ❤️‍🔥🌹❤️‍🔥 by @_hannahvela_

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4 months ago

My Prayer is…
That every young Woman remembers who the fu*k she is,
The Gift she is just by existing,
And that the sense of that, becomes so embodied and anchored in her centre, that she can rest here and this can be her unshakeable sense of home.

Because when we know ourselves, what we bring, how worthy we are and we move from here,
Everything changes.

You no longer lean outside of yourselves to gain something from another because you already have all you need within you.

You will save so much energy, not wasting it on those who simply do not have capacity to meet you.

You will have zero tolerance for anything less than the bare minimum when it comes to presence, devotion, and truth.

And you won’t waste energy trying to prove yourself because you will emanate it effortlessly.

You will no longer chase, you will choose.

The road to getting here is often paved with toad after toad, boundary crossed after boundary crossed,
including sometimes the crossing of our own until we have learned enough times that doesn’t feel good and we aren’t going to tolerate that way anymore…
but when you do Land here,
Back home in your centre, knowing the magic that you are,
you will laugh compassionately at your past self for putting up with all that she did,
You will become a walking transmission of a new standard
And you will raise your daughters in a way where she never forgets who she is.

Be the egg.
The egg doesn’t chase, she chooses the best sperm,
And in the words of my dear sister @marleythorpe_
May the best Man win 😉 by @_hannahvela_

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10 months ago

The good news is…
That we always have the power to make changes in our life when we radically & powerfully choose it.

I want to share with you a pretty wonderful phenomenon.

Something happens in the moment we DECIDE we want to write a new story for ourselves.
Perhaps you’ve been in a spiral pattern for a long time, drama after drama, health issue after health issue etc…
These occur as a result of our internal subconscious belief systems. (IYKYK)

So if you’ve had enough & you want something different for yourself, then you have to make a decision,
With such firm intention to change that belief.

When you make a choice,
The amplitude of that choice carries a level of energy that causes your body to respond to your mind.
So much so that that moment becomes a moment in time that you’ll never forget AND the stronger the emotion when you make that choice, then the more you will remember the choice & it will quite literally integrate into your cells, your subconscious & start to ripple the affects out into your life.

You have to DECIDE who you want to be & what you want to experience.

Fascinatingly, Water has been shown to respond & be influenced most strongly to human emotion.
Let us not forget we are 99% water by cellular mass.
So what this means is, the more the choice ‘means’ to you emotionally, the stronger the impact & imprint on your being.

So if you believe the power to make changes is outside of you,
Then you’ll likely stay where you are.
Life can still support you, but blessings don’t easily flow through a closed door.
But if you choose to write a new story for yourself then the universe will begin to conspire in your favour just to see you finally shine.

What I’m sharing here is at the root of what I work on in my mentorship’s, if you’d like to learn more,
drop a ‘power to change’ below. by @_hannahvela_

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4 months ago

I’m 3 months into this trip & realised I hadn’t shared any photos on my feed of the journey! 🫣

Moments from such a special getaway up to Kintamani for my 32nd birthday.

My 32nd birthday had been long awaited by me,
In numerology I’m a 32/5 and there had been many times throughout my 20s where different intuitives sharedy 32nd year would be a big powerful & initiatory year for me.
So let’s see! I’m excited to see what life brings.
A birthday on a volcano definitely feels like a great way to launch into the year.

So grateful to my man @joshvroberts for whisking me away so good 🥰✨ by @_hannahvela_

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