About
My studies in holistic counselling made it possible for me to do in-depth work with students over a period of 26 years. It is a mentor’s duty to create a safe space where participants can explore the possibility of opening up in order to experience, to reach a willingness to discover who they are – or could become – and to realize that connecting with their feelings will lead to their own solutions.
The majority of South Africans carry an immense amount of tension, of which they are not aware, in their bodies. This self-protection mechanism is employed unconsciously in a country where constant stress, fear, anger, and a sense of helplessness need to be suppressed in order to cope with day-to-day life.
Emotional responses have corresponding sensations in the body. If the “feeling button” is switched off, we cannot receive the messages we are trying to send ourselves. When the messages between the body, mind, emotions and spirit are blocked, we remain disconnected from ourselves, integration cannot take place, and we don't have access to our own truths.