Nicky Castles & Associates

I you're a woman who has been holding it all together — for your business, your home and everyone else — and you’re starting to feel stretched thin or running on fumes… this is your moment to pause.

Join Senomi de Villiers and I, for a Mini Self-Care Retreat — a gentle, 2-hour online experience designed to help you reconnect with yourself, restore your energy and breathe again.

You’ll:
🌿 Learn simple but effective ways to regulate your nervous system
🌿 Reconnect with who you are beneath all the roles
🌿 Create a practical self-care plan that fits your real life
🌿 End with a grounding meditation to release what no longer serves you

It’s time to refill your cup so you can finish the year calm, confident and centred.

🗓️ Saturday 22 November @ 9:30 - 11:30 GMT / 11:30 - 13.30 SAST
💻 Online (via Zoom) |

All the details & registration link are here 👉 https://richarddevilliers1.aweb.page/self-care-retreat-invitation

Would love to have you with us 💜
Nicky

We've done 8 Zoom lives since Senomi De Villiers and I started the fb group 'Women in Transformation'. The feedback has been great, thank you. I post one here ❤️

It's a safe learning space where we share knowledge, insights and explore big questions such as 'is setting boundaries an evolutionary process?'.

But on top of this something magical has been emerging, it has become a space of real connection and community for women who are navigating their way through big changes.

We are deeply grateful for this as part of our aim is to create a community of women where you can belong. Join our group and get free access to our Thursday Zoom lives - you can participate if you want, or not. You can join in your pj's, you don't have to switch your video on, you can ask questions or stay silent. Whatever it is that you need ❤️ Our style is real and authentic, nothing is staged and we always have some laughs 😃

This Thursday 19.00 BST I'll be talking about emotional intelligence and why it's ultimately the only differentiator we have and why is such a big deal in a pursuit of a succesful life, a life lived lightly. Join our group and get free access to our weekly lives and much more ❤️

https://www.facebook.com/groups/womenintransformation

I can't agree more ❤️

In the end, what we are looking for is to find ourselves, to be ourselves, to live our own life, instead of the life we were programmed to live.

You are perfect just as you are… 💜

Grateful for feedback like this that arrives just at the right time, just as I needed some good news. Thank you Geraldine ❤️

I had lovely feedback and a recommendation from a treasured client, this paragraph really moved me and made me deeply for being able to help people find a joyful way of living. Thank you so much, you worked really hard at getting there ❤️

If you struggle with anxiety, stress, worry or panic attacks then I want to invite you to talk to me about EMDR (eye movement desensitisation and reprocessing). I've honestly never experienced anything this powerful and its transforming the way I work, specifically with regards to the immediate relief it brings and how much sooner clients finish their journeys with me, sometimes all that is needed is one single session. Once a very upset client fell asleep halfway through, it's amazing 😁 See what one of my clients have to say.
Book a 20 min free call now to talk about how we could liberate you from anxiety and it's evil sisters
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For as long as I can remember my sister Senomi De Villiers and I shared a deep love of and dedication to helping people learn and grow as they struggle to deal with the ever ongoing changes that life brings. Together we've coached, mentored, trained and facilitated thousands of leaders, women and men across large corporates, medium sized entrepreneurial businesses and in their personal capacity. We have a unique dynamic that was forged in the fires of an extraordinary childhood and developed over many years of putting our heads together to find ways of adding value to others. We share a value of walking our talk so it is no wonder that we've faced many traumatic life changes that required personal transformation and we've learnt from that in a way that we're able to pass it on. Along the way we realised that one very specific main golden thread in our life stories, is helping women push through the chaos and loss of a transformational change to a place where they can thrive, so it only made sense that we yet again officially joined forces and will be launching our fb group and new program where we guide women to embrace the gifts in life-altering changes, enabling you to take control and design a brand new life, filled with greatness, joy, magic and awe so that you can live life in a lighter way.

Watch this space 😊❤️

Biologically we have a high need to fit in, be part of and belong to a group or society. At the same time we have a need to be different, to be ourselves and stand out in that group. Naturally this creates some inner conflict. How far dare we go to meet both these needs without compromising on belonging or own individuality? I believe it sits in our creativity to come up with that recipe and when I coloured this pic it depicted so clearly to me that it's about fitting in with our own unique and eccentric flair, following our intuition and our fascinations. It makes us who we are and it's what we are loved for. We have to first belong in ourselves before we can really belong to a group. That will bring both inner peace and fulfillment

On restoring harmony and flow

💫 Along with millions of people, I am triggered and disturbed by the war and thought its a good time to share with you a tool that I use with great success and that can be applied very effectively to emotions such as anxiety, fear, worry and stress

💫 10 years ago when going through a trauma I discovered EMDR, eye movement desensitisation and reprocessing, a type of trauma integration that is based on how the brain catalogues and files information. Often trauma goes unprocessed and that leads to symptoms such as recurring images, sounds, smells, recurring dreams and an inability to move forward. It worked as if by magic and I was able to process big chunks of trauma in a very short window

💫 I brought it into my work and it revolutionised the way I supported my clients in dealing with triggers caused by unprocessed information

💫 As time went by research showed that it can be used for a whole host of things other than trauma, almost anything that you are sensitised to and triggered by, can be shifted

💫 The results have been nothing short of miraculous, to give you an idea, I'm observing that clients work through issues in roughly half the time it would've taken without EMDR and the relief it brings is big

💫 One of the upsides is that you don't have to laboriously talk through everything again, in essence all that's needed is moving eyes from side to side and discussing what bubbles to the surface

💫 One of the few things that I have control over ito the war, is by bringing you a tool that will give huge relief so I'm giving sessions at a 10% discount for March. Book yours today
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💫 If you've experienced EMDR and are willing to share the results, please drop a comment below

January is the time for refreshed thinking and letting go of the outdated, much like the Romans did when they threw all their cracked, broken and unnecessary things over their balconies as a symbol of letting go to make space for the new. Let me help you think, feel and do differently, find a way of being and living life that resonates with you. [email protected]