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by Gillian Maddigan & Bianca Moeschinger

Body Language Can Influence Your Audience in a Positive or Negative Way

Author: Gillian Maddigan

March 2025


Body language is a powerful tool that influences how your audience perceives you—either reinforcing your message or working against it. While you may have a clear verbal message, your unconscious body language—what I call body gossip—is telling its own story.

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The Hidden “Body Gossip Tells” That are Sabotaging your Communication.

Author: Gillian Maddigan

March 2025


Understanding the Power of Non-Verbal Communication

Every time you interact with an audience and every interaction has an audience—whether on stage, on camera, or even in a one-on-one conversation—two conversations happen simultaneously. The first is what you...

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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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The Stories We Hide Behind: Breaking Free for True Change

Author: Gillian Maddigan

January 2025


Investing in the Same Old Story

For almost half my life, I’ve worked with people deeply invested in their stories. These weren’t just tales they told themselves; their stories were woven so tightly into their identities that it was almost impossible to sepa...

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Why Fix Your Body and Not Your Mind? Reconnecting the Two for Growth

Author: Gillian Maddigan

December 2024


When I was first asked this question, it deeply intrigued me. For some time, I had been asking myself: “How did we become so disconnected from the unity of mind and body?”

For as long as I can remember, I’ve been fascinated by people. Initially, I observed...

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The Framework of Self: Exploring Identity, Personality, Character, Image, and Ego.

Author: Gillian Maddigan

December 2024


I’ve been mulling over the differences between identity and personality lately. As often happens when I muse, I found myself tumbling down the rabbit hole—grabbing at rising balloons of possibility, only to watch them pop, replaced by new perspectives.

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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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7 ways to build Psychosomatic Resilience

Author: Gillian Maddigan

October 2024


Strengthening the Mind-Body Connection

In today’s fast-paced world, resilience is more important than ever. Life presents us with challenges, whether it's the pressure of work, relationship dynamics, or personal setbacks. Resilience is the ability t

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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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My Journey with large thighs and a knee lock

Author Gillian Maddigan - 12th January 2024

Psychosomatics and Emotional Anatomy Master Class


One of the biggest body challenges over the 45 years of living my body has been my relationship with my thighs since 13 years of age.

One of the anchor stories was being the fatty in my family this was...

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Our Layers of Being Human, Psychosomatically Speaking

Author: Gillian Maddigan - 29th March 2023


We, humans, are long-lived complex creatures with many layers to our being and our interactions.

From our physical bodies to our emotional and mental states, we are a culmination of our experiences and the way we have interacted with the world around u...

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