5 Practices for Nervous System Regulation Maybe you have already optimised your calendar. Your habits. Your diet. Your exercise. Your sleep tracker. But have you optimised the operating system running it all? Nervous system regulation is about making it easier for your body to process and eliminate stress and trauma. Nervous system regulation for high…
Spiritually speaking everything is interconnected and our actions can have ripple effects on things around us. In Holistic self care, that concept is applied to our habitual patterns. How we treat ourselves, is connected to how we feel about ourselves and what we learned in childhood, thus creating our habits. If we want to change…
Apart from Depression and Anxiety, another major mental health challenge of our times is lack of focus. Whether diagnosed as ADHD or ADD, lack of attention or focus means that our brains are deprived of certain key chemicals or neurotransmitters that help us stay on task for longer periods of time.
Last year, I was researching plant medicine for prolonged grief about the loss of my father some years back. It felt as if a rock was lodged in my throat, especially when I meditated. I knew I was holding some complicated grief. Counseling helped me understand that it was grief and I worked with some…
Looking for something that gets you through tough times? maybe it is the last push you need to make prior to a major goal such as a big exam, final year in your degree or care for a critical illness. Maybe you notice symptoms of burnout such as chronic fatigue, listlessness, lack of joy, irritability…
The place where we truly build ourselves looks far less dramatic than we may imagine. The deepest work we can ever do isn’t in a perfect space. But in a quiet simple space. If not in nature, then it may be in room with a few comfortable chairs, a meditation cushion or a soothing blanket. There are no actual demons, dragons or devils in a therapy room, except the ones in our minds. Some of the hardest work that anyone ever does is in this room, yet there is nothing there except the opportunity to feel feelings in a safe place.