We now consume more information in a day than we used to in a year, and 80% of global workers now experience information overload. 76% report that this causes daily stress and anxiety.

What does this do to our creativity, our ability to access inspiration within ourselves?

There’s another clue in the fact that human attention span on screens dropped from 2.5 minutes in 2004, to 47 seconds in 25.

I used to chase the feeling of jumping out of bed every morning… I don’t anymore.

When I first did mindset coaching in 2020, looking to change my life, I told Angela that this was how I wanted to feel I thought if I started every day feeling that excited, I’d know I’d found happiness It wasn’t a bad goal to set, but it changed over time, for various reasons.

Hello, I’m Becky. Settle in and grab a cuppa while I tell you a little bit more about me, what led me to become a somatic practitioner and explore conscious living, and what I love most about my work since founding The Loud Quiet in 2023.

Via life abroad, a classic early-thirties life reassessment, ADHD diagnosis, leaving a corporate career, some very difficult life experiences, an often unkind internal monologue, a need for human connection and finally following my heart before it imploded from being ignored any longer.

There’s something very encouraging happening in health and wellbeing, which I keep hearing more and more. I’ve been made aware by an increasing number of my clients, that they’re being advised to try out somatic therapy and breathwork by talk therapists and doctors.

I love that the healthcare industry is starting to work in a more integrated way. A few of those professionals have apparently even recommended me personally, which is always lovely to hear.

“It’s a privilege to feel…”

I just ran the last in my four-event series of Permission to Pause retreat days. This time, we explored the theme of trusting ourselves.

These events weren't just about resting, finding calm and acting zen. They were about exploring how our relationship with ourselves changes when we allow ourselves to pause and really pay deeper attention to our human experience. And how it becomes so much easier to FEEL when we do that.

I’ve really noticed in 2026 that more people than ever seem to be finding out about somatic therapy, as an alternative to traditional talk therapy. Find out more about the 1:1 sessions I offer as a trauma-informed somatic practitioner.

Two years ago, I spoke onstage about pregnancy loss to 150 people at an International Women’s day event.

It’s so hard, so exposing, to put yourself out there in the most vulnerable way imaginable. But I knew in my gut I wanted to speak in front of that audience, and that I wouldn’t regret it.

Oh the joy of looking back at everything that’s happened this year, for me and The Loud Quiet ❤️ I loved creating this roundup video and remembering everything I’ve created, experienced, and all the wonderful people I’ve met.

I loved running my Come to Life course over October and November. We met three times a week over six weeks, for morning and evening sessions (and a bonus session in week 7). You can imagine that there was such a beautiful group energy that developed between us in that time.

This week, I was talking to a lovely breathwork class attendee about ADHD.

She’s been to numerous events of mine, and said she only realised from a recent social media post that I have ADHD, like her. She was surprised as I always seem so calm.

At one time, I would have felt like a fraud for this. Because inside, I would not have matched up with the front I was trying to put on for the world.

Some of you may know I was training as a person-centred counsellor, alongside my somatic practitioner training. I quit the former a few months ago, after passing Level 3. I was, for the most part, really enjoying studying with my peers and tutor in class each week, so it was a hard decision.

How many of us can relate to having the thought that our suffering must mean there’s something wrong with us? Yet there are so many common experiences we all have, that we feel alone in. Because we give our pain the meaning that something in us must be broken.

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We're all emotional human beings, but we're putting on a front most of the time. Whether it’s because we don’t feel comfortable sharing emotions, or it doesn't seem appropriate, or we're in a society which is all stiff upper lip, or whatever. All of these reasons are understandable and valid, and deserve acknowledgement.

“Anxiety makes it feel impossible to detach from the spiral of negative, repetitive thoughts. Connecting with your body and quieting the mind can then feel like a mammoth task. But we can loosen the grip of mental overwhelm in mere minutes, when we know how to bring ourselves into embodied presence (and commit to practising it repeatedly, like with any skill).”

In the second week of my Come to Life course, we explored the theme of Hearing What Your Emotions are Telling You. I loved leading practices on the rich and oh-so-human topic of emotions.

Someone pointed out on the call that emotional work is hard. So true. Yet that work is so necessary; our emotions have so much valuable information to give to us. They connect us with who we are and show us the truth underneath everything; all of the masking, reactionary emotions and patterns that we have. The protective behaviors, the limiting beliefs that aren't really helping us and don't really feel productive anymore, yet we don't know how to change them.

Every single emotion you feel is valid. Emotions arise so your body can process something, then it can free you of it. Curiously, compassionately validating emotions connects us to who we are deep down. Our thoughts can lie to us about that; emotions can’t. The body, unlike the thinking mind, always tells the truth.

At this year’s Great British Food Festival, I was asked to speak on the talk stage panel about ADHD in women, and how breathwork can help with some of the symptoms. As you may know, there has been a huge rise in ADHD diagnoses in women since 2020. A large contributing factor to this was the fact that so many people had more quiet time with themselves during the Covid-19 pandemic.

How I found purpose through a need for connection