JANINE LATTIMORE
Wellbeing researcher, writer and teacher
Be brave enough to be yourself
A trained teacher and former youth worker and group fitness instructor, I have had an almost life-long passion for mental, emotional and physical health. I have been helping people to learn, grow and navigate life for over 30 years.
My focus is on what gets the most effective results, the most efficiently. That’s why I use and teach embodied mindfulness processes because they are the easiest, fastest and most effective way I have come across for people to create change, healing and transformation for themselves.
I test and live everything I teach. I am not interested in just selling you something.
My aim is to empower you to unleash all the love and power within you, and to have fun doing it!
I am certified as an NLP Practitioner and Coach, a Nia somatic movement instructor, and as a VITA Sex, Love and Relationships Coach.
I help people experience more love and vitality.
In all aspects of my life and work – that is my overarching intention.
What love and vitality mean for me:
– self love
– alignment with Love
– belonging
– safety
– acknowledgment (seen, heard, felt)
– clarity
– aliveness
– free flow of energy
– allowing
– receiving
– balance
– eagerness
– friskiness
– power
– life force
– adventure
– creativity
– animation
– strength
– vigor
– stamina, resilience
– bloom
– sparkle
– fun
The first thing to know about me is that I am highly creative and neuro-spicy, and I always have multiple projects on the go because life is too damn interesting to do just one thing. I have had many business brands over the years and have engaged with various trainings. Partly this has been due to my own evolution as a person, and partly it has been because I have listened to voices other than my own and tried to fit popular moulds. It took me fifty years to realise and be okay with the fact that I don’t really fit common moulds, and to accept that at my core I am a multi-faceted researcher writer and teacher – that is my joy; that is what I always return to; that is my elemental expression of self.
Natural and wholistic wellbeing is my jam though – it has been since I was a teenager. My interest began as a driving need to clear my abundant cystic acne. That was a quest that would go on until i was in my 40’s and found out that most of my acne is the result of inflammation caused by sensitivities – primarily salicylate intolerance.
I started out focused on natural eating and skincare and then progressed into fitness when I became a hula hoop fitness instructor in my mid 40’s. That was a fun ride. Following the end of my second marriage in 2016, my interest turned more towards emotional and mental wellbeing. The impact of stress on our health and wellbeing has been of key interest to me since the early 2000’s.
A lot of my current work is centred around embodied mindfulness. Embodied practices connect into your entire neurology and nervous system and not just your cranial brain and conscious mind. For example, your body actually has three brains or neuron centres. The one we most often think about and pay attention to is the “head” or cephalic brain. We also have a heart (cardiac) and a gut (enteric) brain. Each has sensory neurons, motor neurons and neurotransmitters. They are able to take in information, process it, store it and access it when needed. They are all true brains.
Embodied work taps into the all information and wisdom of the body through the medium of sensations and emotions as well as thoughts.
Mindfulness is primarily about noticing the experience of the present moment.
It involves things like slowing down, specific focus, stillness, silence, being in the now moment and viewing all experience from the now perspective.
Embodied practices work so effectively because they tap into your subconscious and unconscious mind which controls most of your behaviour, but which largely runs on auto-pilot without your conscious awareness.
This is where all the programming you took on when you were a child is held as an operating system.
This is usually the key reason why you find it hard to change habits or behaviours.
It is not that you don’t have enough willpower, or haven’t learned enough yet, or haven’t found the right answer. It is because you have programs running deep in your mind that you are not consciously aware of yet which are driving your behaviour.
A common example of this is that excessive overthinking and worry, and/or anxious people pleasing is commonly a response to being criticised a lot when you were a child, and you had to analyse everything you did in order to feel accepted by your parents and avoid being told off. You learned to be hyper-vigilant to read their energy and try to predict all the possible outcomes in order to create a level of safety for yourself. This became an imprinted programme in your subconscious; a deeply embedded pattern of behaviour. It is likely that you were not fully aware of what you were doing when you were young, and that as an adult you now think that it’s in your personality to be worried and anxious because you can’t seem to stop.
Through embodied mindfulness practices and coaching you can intuitively connect into that scared inner child programming and re-parent yourself to feel loved, good enough and safe to relax. When you transform your deep inner programming in this way, the change in your outer behaviour can often happen effortlessly and naturally.
