The Calm I Didn’t Know I Was Missing

I remember the exact moment I realised I was holding my breath.

Not dramatically — not in a panic — just… constantly slightly short of breath. The odd part? It wasn’t happening when I was in social settings, when distracted or rushing around. It was happening in the calm, quiet moments at home.

That’s when I realised I wasn’t calm. Not really. Not deep-down, body-level calm.

I’d been living in a kind of functional stress. On paper, everything looked fine. But my nervous system was stuck in survival mode. I realised what dysregulation looked like in everyday life — jaw clenching, shallow breath, zero tolerance for noise. And it wasn’t until I began creating daily rituals that my body started to believe me when I said, “We’re safe now.”

🌿 How I created my inner calm

One of the first things I did was to stop treating oils like a last resort. I started using them proactively, AND on the good days. The small but powerful habit of diffusing a blend of Lavender, Lemon, and Peppermint or StressAway & Copaiba became my breathing space in a bottle.

But the shift didn’t stop there.

I began to pair emotional release with nervous system regulation. That looked like:

– Dancing to let energy out of my body

– A few minutes of somatic unwinding each evening

– Lavender + Orange on my pulse points or in my hair, because they ground me instantly.

– And applying Progessence Phyto Plus each night: a natural progesterone support oil that I now won’t be without (ladies did you know when progesterone drops, stress goes up?) This is bio-identical progesterone, without cancer risk & mixed with oils - incredibly supportive for all ages from menstruation into menopause and beyond.

🧘‍♀️ What I know now

You don’t realise how tense your body has been until it finally softens.If you’ve been living in “functional stress,” take this as your sign. You deserve to feel calm in your bones.

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