Embark upon a journey of embodied self-development that enables you to live better with yourself. Living Better With Yourself is a practical guide to help you increase your awareness of how you currently experience your life and incorporates different psychological and body-focused approaches. Acting as your personal journal, this book offers you the opportunity to better understand how your past has impacted your own development and provides you with numerous exercises to further your personal growth. It combines key psychological insight with tools to help you integrate different parts of yourself, while using your body as the primary way of bringing about change. Living Better With Yourself includes:- 180 exercises to get to know yourself better and grow further in an embodied way- Space to write and sketch while journaling your personal journey- Over 50 audio files to guide you through a number of the exercises- A trauma-informed perspective to better understand why we act and feel the way we do in difficult circumstances- Key insight into 10 main areas of the human experience, namely the emotions of fear, anger, shame and guilt, the balance between thinking and feeling, the inner critical voice and ‘should’ statements, the need for control and safety, the ‘good’ and ‘not-so-good’ sides of oneself, and self-esteem. This book is also an excellent resource for professionals accompanying others in their personal development.
An assertiveness embodiment exercise practising a strong, vocal ‘No’ and reinforcing personal boundaries through physical expression.
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A body-based polarity exercise during which you shift between low and high self-esteem postures before finding balance.
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A nurturing visualisation exercise to receive affirming words while noticing bodily reactions.
3/3/26 • 06:19
A posture experiment so you can express self-esteem physically and notice emotional shifts.
3/3/26 • 06:48
A mirror-based body-awareness exercise identifying where self-worth is felt physically.
3/3/26 • 05:12
An exercise where you shift from protective to open body positions, exploring the sensation of vulnerability safely.
3/3/26 • 09:39
An exercise to help you shrink past dangers mentally and reinforce present-day safety statements.
3/3/26 • 06:27
A protective imagery exercise visualising a boundary around you that strengthens with your breath and shields you from threat.
3/3/26 • 14:59
A self-soothing embodiment exercise using physical self-embrace to generate and expand feelings of care and protection.
3/3/26 • 04:11
A trauma-awareness exercise noticing bodily reactions to upsetting memories and practising grounding and distancing imagery.
3/3/26 • 18:52
A guided visualisation recalling a person or place associated with security, strengthening internal access to safety.
3/3/26 • 05:44
A body-based grounding exercise exploring where you physically experience safety and how posture strengthens that sensation.
3/3/26 • 06:39
An extended chair-work dialogue between your ‘good’, ‘not-so-good’ and whole self, fostering integration through spoken self-dialogue.
3/3/26 • 23:42
A mirror-based embodiment exercise. By exaggerating both sides physically, you experience how it feels to inhabit each extreme and explore integration.
3/3/26 • 08:38
A chair-work confrontation exercise. By imagining your opposite side sitting across from you, you explore emotional and physical reactions and gradually reduce internal tension.
3/3/26 • 05:32
A grounding embodiment exercise cultivating steadiness and strength through posture and imagery, particularly for those who feel overly unstructured.
3/3/26 • 06:57
An assertiveness exercise countering ‘should’ statements with a strong, embodied “No!” to cultivate autonomy and emotional empowerment.
3/3/26 • 02:58
An imagined confrontation exercise where you stand tall and speak freely to those associated with your ‘shoulds’, noticing shifts in identity and power.
3/3/26 • 03:32
A visualisation exercise imagining life without certain ‘shoulds’. You’ll explore emotional, cognitive and bodily responses to the idea of freedom.
3/3/26 • 02:48
A mirror confrontation exercise. By speaking your ‘should’ statements aloud in a stern voice, you’ll observe your emotional and physical reactions.
3/3/26 • 04:43
An embodied empowerment exercise. You’ll explore how posture reflects self-criticism, then deliberately shift into a powerful stance to counteract the critic and connect with inner strength.
3/3/26 • 09:50
A guided imagery exercise in which you imagine the critic outside yourself, observe its qualities and then visualise it shrinking. You’ll reflect on how its presence affects your breathing and emotions.
3/3/26 • 06:05
A chair-work dialogue exercise involving three roles: yourself, your critical voice and a nurturing voice. By moving between chairs, you’ll explore each perspective and strengthen your compassionate inner voice.
3/3/26 • 20:06
An embodied liberation exercise imagining life without shame or guilt, then expressing that freedom physically through movement.
3/3/26 • 05:18
A rehearsal exercise for difficult encounters. You’ll practise counteracting automatic shame responses with conscious physical and emotional adjustments.
3/3/26 • 04:02
A symbolic movement exercise in which you physically step away from the weight of shame or guilt, observing shifts in sensation and emotion.
3/3/26 • 07:34
A self-compassion exercise using touch and imagination to soothe areas of the body associated with shame or guilt.
3/3/26 • 03:51
A posture-shifting exercise challenging shame physically. By adopting an open stance and affirming your worth aloud, you’ll explore how embodiment affects emotion.
3/3/26 • 06:50
A mirror-based embodiment exercise to observe how shame and guilt manifest physically through posture, facial expression and bodily sensations.
3/3/26 • 04:57
A somatic release exercise using full-body shaking to disperse angry energy and restore grounded calm.
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