Emma Toms

Oct 21, 2024 | athletics.pensacolastate.edu | Paige Phillips |Maya Figueroa |Vivian Kettenhausen |Emma Toms

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Jun 17, 2024 | medium.com | Emma Toms

Over the years I have learned to let go of the idea that I need to be fixed in any way. This is down to my own ride on the wellness route and experience. Thinking back and noticing the challenges, when I tried to get well, my thoughts were always around pushing, overriding, trying harder, doing better and beating myself up when I couldn't and burned out completely. These cycles left me feeling like a complete failure.

May 23, 2024 | medium.com | Emma Toms

Wholeness is not achieved by cutting off a portion of one's being, but by integration of the contraries. - Carl JungHave you ever been broken? Shattered into pieces? Wandering and lurching, trying to find a way? Often desperately wanting to become something new. Something different. We want to scrub the parts of us that feel old, boring and dark. We want to forget who we were and move on. Take the pieces away that don't fit anymore. But we know we can't, right?

May 23, 2024 | medium.com | Emma Toms

Some of us manage to hold the stresses and strains of life under the surface without expressing it outwardly. For others its a little different . The hiding shows up as illness. Skin rashesHeart palpitations. Difficult digestion. Autoimmune disease was my body's way of letting me know. I held lots of unexpressed feelings and emotions. A feeling that I had to keep it all down, to control every aspect of myself. I felt unable to express my voice in case of causing others distress, unable to be myself.

May 16, 2024 | medium.com | Emma Toms

The body is not a mindless machine; the body and mind are one. ― Candace PertI am starting to write a project about my experience with autoimmune disease and how I got myself back to health. I don't want to go through the whole story because that would ruin the project, but I wanted to try to describe the ways in which this experience of illness taught me about myself. I was hit hard at 17 and no wonder really, I felt lost and depressed.