Leaving the shell behind

The past two years have been taxing for everyone to various levels. Many being filled with fear and anxiety, some experiencing the “great divide” as it seams to have unfolded.

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Alja Hopkins
Heart-centred healer

When a child experiences their parent/caregiver as unavailable, unpredictable, rejecting or a source of pain the insecure attachment develops, also called developmental trauma.

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Alja Hopkins
Heart centred work

The biggest shift in my professional work happened when I learnt to become fully present with my clients and do my own personal work first. By no means I’m calling myself “a great therapist” but I’m certainly able to be more present and with that hopefully much more helpful and effective, compassionate.

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Alja Hopkins
BODY - HEART - BRAIN- MIND COHERENCE

❤️ Our HEARTS play an important role in our emotional experience. The HeartMath Institute have conducted numerous studies which have provided new insights into understanding how the activity of the heart is linked to our emotions, vitality and well-being.

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Alja Hopkins
It’s ok to CHANGE

WHAT IF? What if it is possible to make a different choice today? What if it is possible to start seeing the world with fresh eyes, drawing the wisdom from your very own heart♥️?

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Alja Hopkins
Vulnerable

“In our culture we associate vulnerability with emotions we want to avoid such as fear, shame and uncertainty. Yet we too often lose sight of the fact that vulnerability is also the birthplace of joy, belonging, creativity, authenticity and love” by @brenebrown .

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Alja Hopkins
Cactus DOORKNOB

A picture is worth a thousand words! I’m sure we can all relate to this one 🌵. How often do you want to feel closer to your loved ones yet you somehow mange to push them away?

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Alja Hopkins
Breathe easy

Inhale & Exhale 💫 Breathe in the MAGIC in between. @anipemachodron teaches us pause practice, a simple technique we can use anytime we need a break from our habitual patterns: “Our habits are strong, so a certain discipline is required to step outside our cocoon and receive the magic of our surroundings.

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Alja Hopkins
Changing Brain

Using Emotional Freedom Techniques ( EFT/tapping) has been proven to be very effective and have a lasting impact when it comes to dealing with person’s emotional eating. Check out @petastapleton & the team incredible research outcomes in the image above.

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Alja Hopkins
2020

2020 - for many people on the planet this year has been challenging (mildly put). Uncertainty however is “a constant” in our lives any year, any day. “Will life go back to normal and when?” “Normal never was.” is what we hear often. I thought to share what I have, over years, found profoundly helpful in becoming more comfortable with uncertainty and also more present

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Alja Hopkins
LUGGAGE - The choice is mine

Anyone else relates? Are you carrying the dandelion or are you the other character? How often do we find ourselves carrying heavy burdens, unaware of why we do or what exactly they mean? Let me share some facts known to date as per @brucelipton about subconscious and conscious mind!

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Alja Hopkins
♥️Math

I have truly enjoyed the past months, guiding health professionals in deepening their skills in helpful, evidence informed techniques and methods such as is the HeartMath system.

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Alja Hopkins
Hay-fever and emotions

Spring is on the doorstep in Australia, and as nice as it is, it can onset the hayfever symptoms in some of us. It caught me a bit by surprise as I have truly been well, relaxed and mostly in tune with my body, having a good work-life balance ratio.

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Alja Hopkins