NI Creative Connections

21/02/2025

Granny Rachel’s Kitchen grannyrachelskitchen just a reminder that all our offerings will be under Granny Rachel’s Kitchen now! Head on over to our page to find out more about this 👇💕✌️☮️🌈

17/02/2025

I’m moving all of our NI Creative Connections offerings across to Granny Rachel’s Kitchen & grannyrachelskitchen as part my plan to factory reset! Please like and share this page and keep an eye out for up and coming Create Hope: Somatic EMDR & Creative Practice! Our social presence will be transferring across so please like and share to keep up to date! 💕✌️☮️🌈

17/02/2025

I’m moving all of our NI Creative Connections offerings across to Granny Rachel’s Kitchen as part my plan to factory reset! Please like and share this page and keep an eye out for up and coming Create Hope: Somatic EMDR & Creative Practice! Our social presence will be transferring across so please like and share to keep up to date! 💕✌️☮️🌈

09/02/2025

I love this Dr. Arielle Schwartz! At this present point in my own recovery, as complex grief and trauma resurface, being still in my body actually feels dangerous yet is exactly what I need. Thankfully through somatic practice and compassion focused therapy I’m cultivating a safe enough space within myself to tap into rest tentatively and to learn that the worst will not happen or if it does that it’s not always my responsibility to hold everything together. Rest is not collapse or being frozen in trauma response. Rest is safety and restoration. What do you need today to feel safe enough to slow down and rest in stillness? 💕✌️☮️🌈

Today’s teaching (from Costa Rica over zoom) was all about the healing potency of resting in stillness.
Although rest is an integral part of our body’s rhythm, many of us have a complicated relationship to rest. That’s because our culture tends to condition us to believe that our self-worth is based on productivity. You might feel guilty for resting or believe that it is selfish to take time out. You might fear that if you slow down, you will miss an opportunity. Maybe you fear that you will lose momentum or that you will become stagnant. Perhaps you have received messages that you’re lazy if you’re not working hard or being productive. These ingrained messages can cause you to neglect your health or believe that “hard work” is what brings happiness. Sadly, this can lead you to feel disconnected from your deeper self, and you might question the point of all this hard work.

Over time, an addiction to busyness can also lead to burnout, which can affect your endocrine system functioning and overall physical health. Cultivating a nourishing relationship to rest takes consistency and practice. Paradoxically, when you do embrace the need for rest, you tend to be more focused and attentive during the day, which can ultimately allow you to be more productive.

In order to rest into a place of deep stillness, you must feel safe enough to let go of your defenses, which will allow you to access your parasympathetic nervous system’s relaxation response. Reclaiming a healthy relationship to stillness can take time.

Settling into stillness also allows you to access the inner wisdom that can be found within the depths of your psyche. As if diving deep below the surface of the ocean, you find the slowest moving currents of your soul’s wisdom. Within these depths, you connect to your intuition. As you reside in this deep connection to your heart, you learn to trust this inner knowing, which becomes the guiding compass for your life’s decisions.

Thank you Na Dine for capturing this moment from todays class 🪷🦋💖🙏🏼

05/02/2025

The Ministry of Justice has announced landmark reforms to support survivors of child sexual abuse.

This is a victory for the power of testimony. A victory for the thousands of survivors who bravely contributed to the Truth Project, the IICSA recommendations, and the thousands more who share their stories with NAPAC each year.

Learn more about what this means for survivors: https://napac.org.uk/justice-without-a-time-limit-landmark-win-for-survivors/

01/02/2025

All set up for todays Spring Afternoon Retreat for ni_creative_connections at Vault Artist Studios! Sharing the ritual of Communitea and power of creativity and somatics! If you missed this one new dates will be released soon 💕🌈✌️☮️

30/01/2025

activist Magz Gibney has got her hands on a copy of this amazing book ‘Drop the Disorder + Do Something’ 💙

Thrilled to have a chapter in this book on activism to change the culture of mental health!

Get your copy 👉 https://www.pccs-books.co.uk/products/drop-the-disorder/

29/01/2025

grannyrachelskitchen

Last chance to get booked for this weekend! Hope to see you there!

Step into Spring with vitality and hope by joining our Spring Afternoon Retreat. Experience the ritual of Communitea and the warmth love and protection of Granny Rachel’s Kitchen. Includes:
Tea Ceremony & Afternoon Treats
Intentions Setting, Meditation and Mindful Movement
Inner Child & Self Care Ritual
Blend & Brew Experience with a Sobrietea Coach

Book a place here 👇
Granny Rachel's Kitchen Spring Afternoon Retreat https://www.eventbrite.com/e/granny-rachels-kitchen-spring-afternoon-retreat-tickets-1150303602039?utm-campaign=social&utm-content=attendeeshare&utm-medium=discovery&utm-term=listing&utm-source=wsa&aff=ebdsshwebmobile

20/01/2025

Good morning! If you haven’t already signed up for our classes we’re in the final week!

Our Friday lunchtime class starts this week at Vault Artist Studios and the Monday evening class has been pushed back to 27th January and will be at Blackmountain Shared Space!

Create Hope - 6 week Somatic EMDR & Creative Practice
☮️Mondays 6.00 - 7.30pm
27th Jan - 3rd March
Blackmountain Shared Space
✌️Fridays 12.00 - 1.30pm
24th Jan - 28th Feb
Vault Artist Studios, Shankill Road Mission

Hope to see you there ☮️💕🌈✌️
Places limited. Booking link 👇

https://www.eventbrite.com/o/ni-creative-connections-peace-for-all-campaign-66631416673

https://www.instagram.com/ni_creative_connections?igsh=MXRmMTFvOXo4MHVieA=

13/01/2025

Please support our work by booking a place on Granny Rachel’s Kitchen Spring Afternoon Retreat 🫖💕☮️🌈

Step into Spring with vitality and hope by joining our Spring Afternoon Retreat. Experience the ritual of Communitea and the warmth love and protection of Granny Rachel’s Kitchen. Includes:
Tea Ceremony & Afternoon Treats
Intentions Setting, Meditation and Mindful Movement
Inner Child & Self Care Ritual
Blend & Brew Experience with a Sobrietea Coach

Book a place here 👇
Granny Rachel's Kitchen Spring Afternoon Retreat https://www.eventbrite.com/e/granny-rachels-kitchen-spring-afternoon-retreat-tickets-1150303602039?utm-campaign=social&utm-content=attendeeshare&utm-medium=discovery&utm-term=listing&utm-source=wsa&aff=ebdsshwebmobile

13/01/2025

Join us at Vault Artist Studios and step into Spring with vitality and hope with our Afternoon Retreat and experience ritual of Communitea and warmth, love and protection of Granny Rachel’s Kitchen. All funds raised in aid of ni_creative_connections. Booking link in our bio 🫖💕☮️🌈

10/01/2025

Create Hope - 6 week Somatic EMDR & Creative Practice
Mondays 6.00 - 7.30pm
20th Jan - 24th Feb
Online
Fridays 12.00 - 1.30pm
24th Jan - 28th Feb
Vault Artist Studios, Shankill Road Mission

Hope to see you there ☮️💕🌈✌️
Places limited. Booking link 👇
https://www.eventbrite.com/o/ni-creative-connections-peace-for-all-campaign-66631416673