The Foxlie Plan

10/07/2024

Doing an insta live at 12.30 with Lisa Nash and Pause Live.

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22/06/2024

Recorded a podcast last week with the marvelous Victoria Hardy aKA Ginegunhinged for Pause Live - currently editing it - but so excited about this one - I can’t wait to share it x

23/10/2022

Just to let you know that moving forward I'm no longer going to be using this page.

Exciting times are coming - the first chapter of my book HTR: Hormone Tension Release is being released tomorrow on: https://www.facebook.com/HormoneTensionRelease/ so please follow and like this page.

I am so excited and I can't wait to hear your feedback.

Lots of love Allegra xoxo

02/04/2022

It appears I'm a finalist of the Rising Star Award.

31/03/2022

When the brain senses a threat / danger it activates various responses to protect us:
1. The fight or flight stress response that’s lead by the nervous and endocrine systems
2. The freeze response that can be parallel to the stress response
3. The pain response lead by the nervous system
4. The inflammation response lead by the immune and nervous systems
5. Tiredness & fever response lead by the immune system
6. The starvation response lead by the endocrine system

The problem is that sometimes the danger doesn’t actually exist. The brain only has to perceive a danger/ threat to activate a response. For example, amputees often say they feel pain in the limb that has been amputated – even though the limb is no longer attached to their body.

Accumulative stress can trick our brain, into thinking there’s a tiger we need to run away from, even when the tiger doesn’t exist, putting us into unnecessary protective physiological reactions fight / flight / freeze / appease.

So we need to let the brain know that we are safe and that there's no threat / danger. By doing so, these protective responses are calmed and deactivated.

I help people with PTSD, insomnia, anger, anxiety, overwhelm, imposter syndrome, chronic pain and inflammation, fibromyalgia, sciatica, back ache, migraines, restless leg syndrome to feel better.
The techniques I use are cutting edge, resetting and rebooting the nervous system.

I teach online on zoom and in person in my lovely studio in Chester (UK). For more information, then please message me.

30/03/2022

How do you know what "safe" feels like in your body? What love feels like if you never had a care giver who was emotionally regulated and loving?

When I'm working with clients, getting them to understand what safety and love feel like can take time especially if they have Post traumatic stress disorder (PTSD).

We are social animals - people are vital to our social nervous system and if we can't find safety in other human beings, sometimes we can only find safety in other mammals.

My experience with clients is endlessly realising that people’s experience with their pets (dogs, cats etc.) when they were growing up were sadly sometimes the only cases of unconditional love that they experienced and this can be a real reference point:

"You know what safety can be like, because do you remember holding the dog you grew up with or learning what it was like to feel love and sentience from another animal."



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24/03/2022

Stress is the biggest insider threat to your workforce.

Stress dysregulates our nervous system, which impacts our endocrine system and emotions.

Think of the body as a massive Internet with IOT (Internet of Things). Signals are carried along the nervous system to all these massive array of devices (the adrenals, thyroid, pituitary, ovaries, te**es etc.) ... the device does whatever work it's told to... but if the signals don't arrive, or arrive corrupted, your harmonious system can fail in surprising, hard to diagnose ways.

Common signs your nervous system is dysregulated include:
· Waking up at 3 a.m. unable to get back to sleep
· Low s*x drive
· Erectile dysfunction
· Mood swings: Anger, anxiety, depression, imposter syndrome
· IBS
· Migraines
· Worse Perimenopause & Menopause symptoms
· Worse PMT, PME, PMDD symptoms
· Infertility
· Weakened immune system

I can show you how to reboot your nervous system, which helps your endocrine system to work better, reducing and eliminating the above symptoms.

I offer some very cool workshops on Insider threat and stress management, offering powerful simple solutions to resolve and eliminate the above issues, making your workforce a happier healthier and more productive one.

Stress really is your biggest insider threat - don't fall foul of it. For more information feel free to message me or call me on 07493 094673

22/03/2022

It's mother's day this Sunday - how about you buy your loved one a gift voucher for either 60 minutes of 90 minutes with me.

https://thefoxlieplan.com/product/tension-trauma-release

This voucher entitles you to a 60 minute Tension & Trauma Releasing Exercises Session with Allegra, either online on zoom or in person at her studio in Chester, UK.

22/03/2022

What is body therapy?

Body therapy enables you to release negative emotions without the need to talk about past events, which can be retraumatising.

When we work with the body, we come into our body, we identify and release these stuck negative emotions, allowing us to activate our energy channels (nervous system), releasing tension, which in some cases could have been with you since childhood or the womb, taking our body from a contracted, protective, rigid structure to an expansive and relaxed one. Making us more connected to our body, giving us clarity and acceptance, taking us from living in the past, to living in the present.

TRE® is one of the most effective anti-stress tools available in trauma therapy, taking you into your body, allowing deep tension release in the fascia, taking your nervous system out of fight / flight / freeze / appease into rest & digest.

It is effective tool when treating PTSD, anxiety, anger, sadness, imposter syndrome, insomnia, restless leg syndrome, sciatica and a whole host of other disorders. The TRE community has also found that it can help decrease the incidence of bed wetting in children.

I teach online and in person at my lovely studio in Chester (UK). Sessions are £50 for 60 minutes where you will learn the art of grounding, self regulation and TRE. You will learn which part of your nervous system is activated and how to progress the neurogenic tremors into parts of the body that have been inaccessible.

For more information feel free to give me a call on 07493 094673

Certified TRE®, Neurogenic Yin®, Yoga, Pilates, Qigong & author of HTR: Hormone Tension Release.

19/03/2022

Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACEs) have been linked to worse premenstrual tension PMT symptoms.

Maybe your parent was an excessive habitual alcohol drinker or substance abuser – they still managed to hold down a day job and believed they didn’t have a problem because they were financially successful, but were highly emotionally volatile – anger being their go to mood when drunk?

Maybe you would sit at the top of the stairs most nights listening to your parents’ toxic arguments?

Maybe a parent would come into your room at night waking you up, telling you that they were leaving because your mum’s throwing them out? (Maybe you pretended to be asleep during these regular intrusions)

Maybe your parent hit you as a child (a slap, a fist, a wooden spoon etc.)?

Maybe your parent repeatedly locked you in the downstairs toilet as a form of punishment?

Maybe you were sent to bed without food and locked in your bedroom?

Maybe you were bullied by an older sibling or siblings?

Maybe a parent emotionally abused you, regularly putting you down, telling you how successful they are and how you will never amount to anything, because you are just like the other parent?

Maybe your drunk parent fell and hit their head when you were a child, ending up in hospital for a month on a life support machine, whilst during that time you overheard your mum saying he might die? Maybe on the journey home from the hospital, you witnessed the parent with the brain injury releasing their safety belt and opening the door whilst the car was doing 70 mph?

Maybe you witnessed your parents being physically violent towards one another? Maybe you and your siblings had to run from your home to your grandparents house at night, because you’d just witnessed your mum being hit?

Maybe you witnessed one parent locking the kitchen door to prevent the other parent from entering - whilst the other parent screamed “Open the door or I’ll kick the door down”?

Maybe your parents separated or divorced? (Or maybe they go back together and the household turned abusive again).

Maybe you were separated from the twin you loved at the tender age of 6 who was sent to live 100's of miles away from you.

Maybe you’re thinking I haven’t experienced emotional abuse, I was the lucky one because, whilst my dad bullied my brother, he liked me, so was nicer to me - witnessing a sibling or parent being bullied can have long-term damaging effects on your physiology, nervous system, personality and menstrual cycle.

“Along with familial violence, abuse or neglect, and parental separation or death, any event that undermines a child’s sense of bonding, safety, and security is defined as an ACE” (Curtis, 2021). ACEs are linked to increased likelihood of psychosis, coronary heart disease, depression, premature death etc. When we witness or experience bad things, our body contracts - I know all of mine did when I experienced every single one of the above ACEs. Now when the body contracts into a defense physiology, this can cause chronic tension patterns in the body, especially within the hip flexors which are the muscles vital in our "Flight response", these along with tight hamstrings and a few other can tighten as cortisol rises which can tilt our pelvis causing pain similar to sciatica on the run up to a woman's menstrual bleed.

There is now clear evidence suggesting that childhood maltreatment can increase the risk of worse premenstrual symptoms or PMDD later in life by a whapping 6.7 times if the abuse was s*xual, 2.6 times if the abuse was emotional and 2.1 times in cases of severe physical abuse (Elizabeth Bertone-Johnson, 2014). There’s also an increased risk of fibroids for women who experience early-life abuse (Boynton-Jarrett R, 2011)

I have devised a system called PMT Release which releases premenstrual tension (PMT), premenstrual Exacerbation (PME) and Premenstrual Dysphoric Disorder (PMDD) from people's lives and I am looking for people affected with these disorders to take part in a case study.

Do you know anyone who suffers with unmanageable symptoms on the run up to their menstrual bleed? Mood swings: anger, anxiety, sadness, depression, overwhelm, ADHD, brain fog. Pain: migraines / headaches, belly, back, thigs, b***s. nausea, IBS. Insomnia, restless leg syndrome and so much more I can help them.

I would be grateful if you would flag them up to me - the case study starts in June - and is online, so they can live anywhere in the world that has an internet connection - thanks xx