A SOMATIC AND NEUROBIOLOGICAL PERSPECTIVE ON SELF-DEVELOPMENT AND HEALING
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On this journey of self-development and healing that many of us are on, it is easy to fall into the trap of focusing only on the problem....
Ida Helmers
Nov 27, 20232 min
INTENTIONAL COMMUNICATION
As human beings we communicate to each other all the time, not just through words. Someone even said: ”We cannot not communicate”....
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Ida Helmers
Nov 15, 20233 min
RELATIONAL EVOLUTION
Do you know the most common struggle couples face today? The conflict between the seemingly opposing needs of individuality and...
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Ida Helmers
Oct 15, 20232 min
Fertile ground
Deep within your inner ecosystem is a fertile ground. No matter what you’ve been through and where you come from this soil is ripe and...
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Ida Helmers
Sep 28, 20232 min
Creating space between stimulus and response
“Between stimulus and response there is a space. In that space is our power to choose our response. In our response lies our growth and...
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Ida Helmers
Sep 13, 20232 min
What if Love is the guide and not the destination?
My biggest relational wound is a question: will Love stay? This wound has left a vigilance deep in my tissues, always waiting for it to...
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Ida Helmers
Aug 23, 20232 min
We need each other to heal what was hurt by another.
Relational trauma and dysfunctional relational patterns can only be fully healing in relationship. This is what I create spaces for in my...
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Ida Helmers
Aug 10, 20232 min
It is time for a new paradigm in relating!
As our culture shifts and changes towards increasingly individualised needs we find ourselves in a conflict with the old relationship...
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Ida Helmers
Jul 10, 20231 min
There is no such thing as having a regulated nervous system.
Saying you want to have a regulated nervous system, is like saying you want to be happy all the time. I mean yes, that would be nice, but...
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Ida Helmers
Jun 21, 20231 min
MY NERVOUS SYSTEM = MY INNER ECOSYSTEM
It runs through my entire organism, linking all seemingly separate functions to each other in milliseconds. It weaves the past, present...
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Ida Helmers
Jun 6, 20232 min
What is in the way is the way.
When we start taking new steps towards what we want in life we are usually met by either fear, doubt or frustration pretty soon on our...
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Ida Helmers
Jun 3, 20231 min
All you need is love?
They told me all you need is Love. But when I looked to get my needs met in Love instead it showed me what I really needed. When I went...
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Ida Helmers
Jun 3, 20231 min
Poetic somatics
When I let there be space between my thoughts space pours gold into the cracks of my mind. When I open myself up and receive the...
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Ida Helmers
May 24, 20232 min
We cannot change something with the same mindset that that created it.
The idea that there’s something wrong with us that needs fixing is the same idea that made us change, suppress and adapt who we are in...
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Ida Helmers
Apr 1, 20231 min
The language of your body
Do you know the language of your body? The words your body speaks through ever so subtle sensations. A wisdom waiting to be uncovered by...
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Ida Helmers
Mar 17, 20231 min
A space for transformation
Here are some glimpses into our relational laboratory, where deep relational transformation takes place: Brave beings coming together in...
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Ida Helmers
Mar 9, 20232 min
From the MICROCOSM of a WORKSHOP to the MACROCOSM of your LIFE
Being stuck in certain relational dynamics, patterns and challenges can be quite frustrating and really hard to get out of on your own....
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Ida Helmers
Mar 7, 20233 min
SLOW DOWN TO SHOW UP
I am still landing after a beautiful weekend at a festival, where I had the pleasure of guiding an embodiment with all participants...
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Ida Helmers
Feb 17, 20232 min
EVOLUTIONARY CONFLICTS
Needing to be in the same reality is what prevents us from being in the same reality. Needing to have the same point of view is what...
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Ida Helmers
Feb 15, 20231 min
What I am learning as I am going through the process of uncoupling / break up repair
It is never too late to repair. Even if we cannot go back in time we can still give each other the healing experience now of...
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