Claire Serena

12/09/2026

If you didn't know I host a podcast. The Healing & Becoming Human Podcast and well I don't normally post my episodes on fb.. why 🤷 but this is one episode that comes up so often in conversations. Toxic shame (unhealthy shame) isn’t just a behaviour; it’s an internalised belief that there is something wrong with us at our very core, It drives the fawning, the people pleasing, and the chronic self-abandonment we use just to feel safe and accepted in our relationships which it unconsciously filters into as partners/friends/work and parents. In this episode, I break down the critical difference between healthy, corrective shame and toxic shame. But shame also drives the rigid defenses that can tear families apart. This we are seeing more of on line. It’s the root of explosive anger, reactivity, and the behaviours that many on the internet casually overuse and mislabels often as "narcissism". Narcissistic Personality Disorder (NPD) is a clinically recognised mental health condition. What some people casually and frequently label as "narcissism" is most often just narcissistic traits, rigid, protective trauma responses, dysregulated survival mechanisms, or someone acting out of their own unresolved pain. Over years and decades, this suppressed physiological state of shame manifests in the body and can lead to illness, chronic pain, profound fatigue, hormonal disruption, and autoimmune disease. If you want to listen to a pod I have left the link above. if you listen, thank you.x
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https://open.spotify.com/episode/3Hxg8LVMWN6Bvr9SRLftxD?si=7j4M8-VJRX2CE25jATHkXw&utm_source=copy-link

The Healing & Becoming Human Podcast · Episode

09/09/2026

It has been a while since I have been here... I couldn't access my page 🤔 that's another story...

If you hadn't realised 2026 has officially become the year of "nervous system" advice, and I absolutely refuse to teach most of it...

Most of what is being sold online, forcing yourself to be "calm," performing massive trauma releases for likes, or trying to "quantum leap" your mindset is actively keeping you stuck in survival mode.

Slapping positive affirmations over a dysregulated body isn't healing. It’s high-vibe gaslighting, usually sold by uncredentialed scientists & coaches 🤷 regurgitating what they heard a guru say on a stage, with zero clinical understanding of the body.

You cannot out-think a survival response. Mindset work is entirely useless if your body is actively screaming 'danger.'

29/01/2026

January 1st and most will have set goals for the year from adrenaline, maybe pressure or fantasy timelines and then comes February, new month, trialling a different mindset maybe, same outcome which will most likely leave you feeling the frustration, anger and emotion of the resistance and lost momentum. The 🧠 telling you, "you were never going to do it" beating yourself up mentally and emotionally right?

Your unconscious is keeping you stuck in old patterns of survival that no book, podcast or positive mindset work will support this new identity you are desperately seeking.

Research suggests you have roughly 165,000 thoughts per day, 95-96% of those thoughts are the same ones you had yesterday and the day before and so on. So when your intentions set on the 1st Jan contradict the identity that once kept you safe, your internal system does what it knows best. Resists, keeping you where it feels safe. You feel the push pull within. The negative internal chatter, feelings arising in the body.

Makes sense right?

The real work, is when you become aware of your unconscious thoughts, understand the positive intentions of the parts that have been keeping you safe. You can't create a new identity from old beliefs, and patterns that were built from survival. Your system, psychologically, somatically and even genetically are still organised around the old version of you, the one who learned to stay small, stay safe, stay acceptable. All of which live in your unconscious mind and body, and in the epigenetic imprints passed down through your lineage. They organise your sense of safety, identity and possibility. You cannot override what is within with a January vision board or a burst of motivation. Trust me I've been there!

A new identity required a new internal environment. One where you feel safe and no longer looping from old stories. You don't become someone new by pushing harder, by reading positive affirmations every day in the mirror, you become someone new by healing rewiring and shifting the internal conditions that make becoming inevitable.

Are you ready to stop looping?

Claire 🤍

18/01/2026

I see the fire horse energy everywhere. It's frantic, westernised rush to be somewhere else.

But today is the beautiful Capricorn new moon, a quiet, earthy invitation to explore your own foundations, to feel into the soil of your own life and what seeds are actually ready to be planted. Remember, you are nature and nature is still in darkness right now. Growth doesn't happen in light it happens in the deep.

I see the desperate manifestations sprints, the vision boards being used as distraction from the truth that lives in our very bodies. The parts we have not explored. Felt. Understood.

When you are encouraged to ignore your biology to vibrate higher so you can align you are triggering a survival loop. You are telling your nervous system that the truth of its experience is a block to be bypassed.

If you are being advised or told that your epigenetics and your trauma can be cleared in a 60min call or a healing session ask yourself why after 48hrs do I feel back in that body of dysregularion, of fear, and anxiety?

Source runs through us yes
Consciousness is rising
But it can only anchor when the vessel, your very body, your nervous system feels safe.

No one can clear that for you.
You hold the key.
You don't need a rescue mission.

Claire x

16/01/2026

Everyone posting 2016 - 2026 glow ups, and yeh I love seeing them all but gosh when I looked back to those days what I see is truth though as t isn't a glow up, it's a decade I survived.

2016 looked like I had it all together.
The business.
The success.
The relationship.
The smile.
Life on the outside looked good right?!

Inside, I was gone. Numbed out with alcohol at weekends, threw myself into the gym thinking discipline could fix what I refused to feel. I sabotaged anything that got too close. I said yes when my body said NO.
I couldn't hold a boundary.
I tried to be the good mum, the strong woman, the one who didn't crack.

I was performing a life. Today, I'd tell her, you're about to be cracked open.

In months you'll lose your mum suddenly to a brain injury.
You'll move through years of silence, secrets, and pain. Truths untold.
You'll f**k up.
You'll lose yourself.
You'll try to outrun the ache with busyness anything that keeps you from feeling.

Everything you relied on will collapse the moment your son stops breathing for what felt like an eternity.
That will be the moment everything changes.
Not in a pretty way. In a brutal way.

And somehow, slowly, painfully, beautifully you'll find your way home.

2026 your here...
Heart open
I feel.
I see.
I'm safe.

This isn't a glow up .
This is the return.
Bolder.
Clearer.
Honest.
Alive.
I AM home ❤️

Pics
1. Florida with my boy
2.Mum ❤️ at a wedding
3. Amusing on a flight to Florida (oh gosh a flight I'll never forget with my sister .. one word... Champagne 🤣
4.Girls hol in Ibiza
5.My love ❤️
6.
Where it all began for you in Ibiza Rocks 😍
7. TGIs with my boys 😍

❤️❤️❤️

15/01/2026

Nothing changes until you stay.

Not in the story.
Not in the mindset.
Not in the performance.
Not in the healing loop.

But in your body.

In that place you will meet her 🔥

08/01/2026

For years, I thought healing meant becoming more “spiritual.” more crystals, more rituals, more sage, more inner work.a s**t tonne of cacao. I had it all. Done it all.
The certificates. The experience. The wisdom.
Truth. I got caught up in the noise, the language and quite possibly a decade ago the aesthetics.

Let me tell you honestly, none of that can ever hold or heal you when your nervous system doesn't feel safe or maybe has never known what safety is.

I have been on this Earth for 51 years, I know the difference between a breakdown and a breakthrough. I have experienced both.

2025 was the year that showed me what I thought I'd healed, believe me when I say I had only scratched the surface previously.

I didn't collapse into victim mindset. I didn't come on here and share the details.
I didn't make it my personality. My identity.
But I won't pretend it was easy.
F**k it was like being stuck in a tornado at times. 🌪️

Something happened that I have never experienced before. It certainly wasn't about "a dark night of the soul" in the aesthetic Instagram way some speak about it, nope,
It was for me
Real
Raw
Surreal
I was cracked open, in a cellular way. I have had many spiritual experiences but this. Something else I'm not going to explain on detail but some will know, God has showns a light on the parts I had to see. Within and surrounding me.

I thought I knew it all but there were truths I avoided, but I now know my physical body wasn't safe to to go there then. Decades I carried parts of me I felt scared to face. Until I felt held. Safe. When I did. Things changed. I have changed. I feel like my whole physical body has came alive. May sound daft right I get it. I truly get it.

I didn't get to this place because I
Manifested it 🥱
Changed my vibration
Bought a crystal
Pulled a card.

But because my nervous system finally felt safe enough to allow the truth to rise. To see.

This I now fully believe is what embodiment is.

This year IS about being bold. Of course we have fire horse energy posted everywhere right now... But remember this one thing, What's not anchored in safety, will burnout or burn down!

I can hold me now.🔥

Xx

12/12/2025

I found myself journaling this week reflecting back to the years previous when my diary was bursting at the seams and I was running on caffeine. I thought being successful meant I was constantly on the go, saying “yes” to every client. I wanted to make everyone happy. I was the people pleaser. But in the process, I said “no” to the most important person, myself.

Our nervous system is wired for safety. When we’re overwhelmed, it can feel almost impossible to say “no” or set boundaries, especially around the festivities when expectations from and ourself are so high. I used to ignore the signs my body was giving me, the tension, exhaustion, that sense of dread when I overcommitted. I would live on caffeine, spend 14hr days working, not eating! It felt safer to keep going than to disappoint anyone.

I would spend Xmas Eve wrapping for my family, I was stressed with the house clean, the never ending tasks. I wasn’t sitting watching Xmas movies, playing games, and the guilt was heavy.

But I’ve learned that Christmas isn’t about running yourself ragged or being the peacemaker for everyone else. The real magic is in being with the people who make you feel safe and seen, where you can just be yourself. It’s about listening to your body, recognising when you need to step back, and giving yourself permission to rest, stay in your pjs, watch movies, saying NO without the guilt.

Last year I fully closed the door on my previous business. This year, I’m winding down, not up. I’ve set aside time for self-care, for me & my daughter, because she’s busy too. I am showing her that it’s ok to put you first. I have days planned with my favourite people, and no I don’t have my shopping finished or gifts wrapped BUT (and maybe you need this reminder too) it’s okay to do it at your pace.

Christmas can bring up all sorts of conversations & emotions, especially with family and friends. Be kind to you! Choose what supports your peace, your well-being, your joy. If you’re ever feeling overwhelmed, know you’re not alone. My invitation to you is to maybe this year, give yourself the gift of presence, and when it feels too much. Take some space. Come back to you. Your safety ❤️

X

11/12/2025

✨What an honour. My heart is full of gratitude today. Gosh, I’ve had the privilege of supporting many beautiful souls and after 6 months with an extraordinary woman, a powerhouse, whose energy is truly next-level has been incredible to be part of. Watching her move through deep healing, rise into her fullest self, and elevate her frequency has been nothing short of inspiring in all honesty.

This is what healing is about. This is what trusting yourself is all about. My incredible client has embraced every part of her journey, from the shadows to the breakthroughs, with real courage guided by her intuition. She’s not just healing and transforming her own life, she’s shifting the energy for everyone who is a part of her world, everyone she touches. Her light is a reminder to us all that we are limitless when we choose to move beyond old stories. Old beliefs. Trust our intuition and own our power.

I don’t write in this space about my clients, but this soul, this incredible light, she is living proof that when you honour all parts of yourself and commit to your growth, you not only heal, you raise your vibration and you get to feel safe in your nervous system to hold the vision for change, for growth, the relationships, the business, you get to hold hands with fear and step into it all, wow! 💥 No one can do this for you right? The impact she’s making now is just the beginning, I know 2026 is going to be a year where her light reaches even further. 💛

🧠At the end of the day, your mind can keep you safe and stuck, or you can choose to take back the reigns and step into new possibilities, and create a life beyond limits in 2026. The choice is always yours.

Claire x

01/12/2025

💥You asked, we listened, 2026 is happening ✨

🌿✨ Retreat Announcement ✨🌿

and myself, two of the worlds first Master Intuitive Psychology Coaches are so excited to invite you to what will be an immersive and transformative retreat experience on ;

🗓️Saturday 24 January 2026
🕣 10am - 4pm
🌳 Colzium House, Lennox Estate, Kilsyth
🥙 Tea/Coffee/Water, Snacks and a seasonal lunch is included
⚡️£111 ( Early Bird Offer)
(From 1/1/2026 price will increase to £145)

✨This will be a powerful, expansive day designed for deep healing, guiding you to activate and apply your intuition throughout this incredible day.

✨We’ll journey together through Inner practices, Seasonal Yoga, Sound Bath and a range of powerful soulful practices plus so much more that we be sharing with you in the coming weeks!

❤️Tickets are extremely limited and will be released tomorrow, Tuesday 2nd December. If you’re part of our email community, check your inbox today for an exclusive early access link! For everyone else, keep an eye out for the ticket link dropping tomorrow.

💥 If you’re ready to say YES to this journey, and to stepping into what will be an expansive 2026 make sure to act quickly, spaces will go fast!

❤️We can’t wait to share this magical day with you. ✨