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Exploring Life via a Psychosomatics & Emotional Anatomy Lens
by Gillian Maddigan & Bianca Moeschinger
Reparenting the Self: The Dance Between Memory and Becoming

Author: Bianca Moeschinger

April 2025


Following on from my last two blogs and podcast episodes, I’ve been left lingering with a question I know many of us ask:

"But what do I do now?"

I’m an adult. I can’t go back and change my childhood.
I am, in many ways, the product of my upbringing — of w...

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Chewing on the Truth – And Why Silence Can Speak Louder

Author: Bianca Moeschinger

April 2025


There’s something I’ve noticed in myself over time — a pattern, a habit, a dance with discomfort.

Whenever I have a gut feeling that feels intense — fiery, inflammatory, the kind that could cause a ripple or reaction — I don’t speak it. Not at first.

Inste...

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Beyond the Image: Claiming Your Reality - What’s Your Reality Beneath Your Image?

Author: Gillian Maddigan

January 2025


“What is Body Image?” Perhaps the real question should be, “What is your Body Reality?” If we break it down, ‘image’ is something imagined, not yet in existence, while ‘reality’ is already present. Through the lens of Psychosomatics, body image is the manipu...

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How is My History Shaping My Body and Mind?

Author: Gillian Maddigan

February 2025


The accumulation of past experiences shapes our bodies and minds. Every moment of joy, pain, stress, and relief is imprinted within us, influencing how we move, think, feel, and react. The tissue of our body carries these memories, sometimes as tension or d...

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"When Your Doctor Says It's Psychosomatic"

Author: Bianca Moeschinger

December 2024


Hearing the words "your symptoms are psychosomatic" can feel like a slap in the face. For many, it stirs feelings of dismissal, frustration, or even shame. We want—sometimes desperately—for a doctor or specialist to label what is happening to us. We crave...

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Conception to Adulthood: The Structure of Performance in Psychosomatic Therapy

Author: Gillian Maddigan

December 2024


What makes us who we are? How do our genetics, environment, and choices combine to shape not just our abilities but our physical and emotional patterns? Psychosomatic Therapy offers profound insights into this question, exploring how our mind, body, and emo...

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Healing into Wholeness: A Journey from the Inside Out

Author: Gillian Maddigan

December 2024


Healing isn’t a linear path but a deep, transformative journey that starts within. It begins with recognition: something is broken, something is weakened. This acknowledgement is the catalyst for a cycle of repair—a process marked by discomfort, commitment,...

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"Understanding Psychosomatics: The Mind-Body Connection and Its Role in Healing and Wellbeing"

Author: Gillian Maddigan

October 2024


 

Psychosomatics is the intricate connection and communication between the mind and the body, a dialogue that shapes who we are as human beings. This connection underpins our emotional reactions, physical behaviours, and, ultimately, our experience

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Exposed - A Poem by Gillian Maddigan

Author Gillian Maddigan - 4th June 2024

Gillian's Emotional Release Poems


I recently completed facilitating the 6 day Psychosomatics and Emotional Anatomy training with Bianca and our most recent student cohort.  After course I allow the integration and feel into how I am landing in this newly r...

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Realising the sword within is just step one

Author Bianca Moeschinger - 4th June 2024

Bianca's Light Series


Discovering the sword within is a moment in our lives when we realise that we have been living dual by nature. This way or that way, right or wrong, good or bad, this is naturally imprinted from conception it helps us find out who w...

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The dance of energy between practitioner and client on the table - Part 1

Author: Bianca Moeschinger - 11th January 2024

Psychosomatic Therapist and Emotional Release Bodyworker Series


As many of you know, I work with people's body-mind relationship mostly with my hands and in presence. I dance with a lot of other people's energy on a close and personal level. Knowing...

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To Truly Face the World is to Allow yourself to be Seen

Author Bianca Moeschinger - 1st December 2023


To truly face the world is to allow yourself to be seen. By being seen, you open up to another's judgment of you. This judgment can be the very thing that makes you turn in again and again and again.

That judgment is only talking about the judgment y...

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