The festive season can be complicated when you’re carrying grief or emotional heaviness. While the world becomes brighter, louder, and busier, your inner world may feel quieter, tender, or out of step with the celebrations around you.

In this episode, we talk gently about the many shapes grief can take; from bereavement to life transitions, relationship changes, burnout, identity shifts and the quiet losses we don’t always recognise as grief.

You’ll hear compassionate reassurance that:

• your feelings make sense
• there is no timeline for grief
• nothing is wrong with you
• you’re allowed to honour what’s true for you this season
• you don’t need to force joy, energy, or togetherness

We also explore how the pressure to “be festive” can intensify emotional pain, and how giving yourself permission to step back or soften expectations can bring a sense of steadiness.

Toward the end, there’s a short grounding moment, not to change how you feel, but to support your nervous system gently.

Listen in for warmth, validation, and the reminder that you’re not alone in this.

If you’re looking for deeper support, you’ll also hear about my new 20-minute hypnotherapy audio, A Gentle Space for Heavy Hearts. It's available in both English (Scottish accent) and Shetland dialect. It’s created as a safe, soothing place to rest with whatever still feels tender, without pressure or emotional demands.

🔗Links Mentioned in This Episode

A Gentle Space for Heavy Hearts - Hypnotherapy Audio
20-minute support for grief, loss & emotional heaviness
Available in English or Shetland dialect
£14.99 each - Purchase Here

Anxiety often ignores logic.

You can tell yourself “I’m fine… nothing’s wrong…” yet your body refuses to settle.

This episode of The Shetland Resolve Calm-Cast explains why that happens, and introduces a simple physical anchoring technique that helps your nervous system find calm even when your mind is spiralling.

You’ll learn:

• why anxious brains don’t respond to reasoning

• why the body often reacts like a startled animal

• the science behind physical anchors

• how bringing finger and thumb together can settle your system

• how to practise the anchor anywhere, privately and calmly

• how the nervous system learns faster through sensation than thinking

• why hypnosis strengthens the anchor and makes calm more automatic

This episode has everything you need to get started.

And if you’d like to deepen the technique so the anchor becomes effortless and reliable, you can explore the Anchored Calm hypnotherapy audio inside the Shetland Resolve audio library

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If you’ve ever started a new self-care habit with the best of intentions (journaling, meditation, drinking more water) and then somehow forgotten by day four, you’re not broken and not alone. You’re human.

In this episode, we look at why habits often fade, and how to make them last without relying on motivation or guilt.

You’ll learn:

• Why most habits fail even when you want them to work
• How “starting smaller than feels reasonable” is the real secret to momentum
• Simple ways to attach new habits to the routines you already have
• That kind consistency actually builds habits that feel natural, not forced.

Think of it as a calm, practical guide to turning your tiny self-care actions (peerie tweaks) into steady rhythms that stick.


Mentioned in this episode:
• Episode 2 – Simple Self-Care for Well-Being
• Free worksheet: Create Your Own Self-Care Plan
• The new Shetland Resolve Calm Collective Membership – a private and calm space with guided audios, practical tools, gentle accountability and optional community (link in show notes)