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Soothing our Nervous Systems with Francine Forde

Kylie Patchett Season 2 Episode 7

France Forde is a Craniosacral Therapist, Intuitive Channel and Facilitator who provides her services In person (London, UK) and Worldwide (via Zoom). Fran happens to also be neurodivergent and coming to us from the "other side” — yes indeed people, Fran is post menopausal!

Fran generously gifted me a craniosacral session with her prior to our interview and you can tell from my voice just how chilled my nervous system as a result. The session felt to me the perfect blend of the anatomy and straight science behind the nervous system and the intuitive woo woo side that Fran has naturally had from a young age where she speaks to your spirit guides and support team. My Dad turned up in my session saying he always has my back and Fran told me exactly where he was touching me - the same place that I have two previous experiences of the sensation of being hugged from behind by him whilst driving. 

The session was delicious and all sorts of relaxing and soothing and I feel like shifted the physical remnants of some deep, deep trauma releasing work I have been working through via talk therapy and my own somatic process. I highly recommend you experience a session for yourself. 

In this episode, we cover 

- Fran’s turning point where her perimenopause symptoms, a break up, memory and concentration issues and hating her job all collided in a cry out for change one night whilst speaking with a friend; and how as a result Fran left her relationship, shifted homes, and changed careers

- The mental health symptoms, together with always running hot, putting on weight, not feeling in control of her physicality which all culminated with her daughter telling her “you look like you’re dying” - and how in a way, she was (in terms of old self death, new self in process)

- The mental health impacts of perimenopause we need to be speaking about: including panic attacks, depression, anxiety, loss of confidence, memory and condition issues and questioning our lives and identities.

- Our nervous system: what it is, how it becomes dysregulated and simple ways to tend to our nervous system ourselves on a day to day basis

- How trauma is stored a cellular level, so whilst we can “think” we are over something, our body may have a very different opinion

- how our systems can be so attuned to living in chaos, we do not recognise we are in a heightened state, the lasting impacts of the pandemic on our nervous systems 

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