MANDY ENNIS
Counsellor & founder of Re-Connect
Make room for yourself.
When you’re used to keeping everything going, it can be surprisingly easy to lose touch with yourself along the way.
Re-Connect is a six-week, in-person programme offering space to slow down, listen to yourself and connect with other women doing the same.
Come back to yourself
A client once described our individual work together as helping her feel like herself again, while recognising that it was still an ongoing process. That feedback stayed with me.
Life changes, and we change within it. What we need, what matters to us and what we have room for can shift. Sometimes coming back to yourself means getting to know who you are now.
Re-Connect isn’t something you complete once and then have everything figured out. My own experience wouldn’t let me make that promise.
Re-Connect gives you the opportunity to understand yourself more clearly: to notice how you speak to yourself, question expectations you’ve been carrying, recognise your qualities and explore what matters to you. From there, you can begin finding manageable ways to respond to your needs.
You may return to the same questions at different points in your life and find different answers.
That’s what ‘come back to yourself’ means to me. It’s a practice I’m still returning to myself.
More than six weeks
The original Re-Connect groups showed me how powerful it can be when women have space to talk, reflect and realise they’re not the only ones feeling this way.
What stayed with me was how much I wanted that connection to continue beyond the six weeks.
My hope is for Re-Connect to grow into more than a programme — a community women can keep coming back to, in whatever form that eventually takes.
