Are your words stopping you from healing?

WORDS can be SO powerful. And yet we throw them around every day without too much thought. Thoughts, conversations, texts... there's a constant dialogue going on in and around us that can be like little grenades going off all over the place!  And, guess what? Grenades = Fear = Pain Is it time to decommission […]

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Self Care and Chronic Pain

      ~ The greatest act of self care is to believe that you are worthy of care ~

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World Menopause Day 2022

Today is about raising awareness of the menopause... raising awareness of the symptoms experienced and treatments available so that women no longer have to suffer in silence as our grans did... Today Ladies, I'm here to tell you that Menopausal symptoms are NOT inevitable... you CAN be free from them WITHOUT medication! (Sometimes you just […]

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The Root Cause of Chronic Pain

All pain has a purpose. Yes, it makes us irritable and scared and sometimes downright miserable. But what's it's real purpose? It's higher purpose? Acute Pain This serves to tell us about damage or potential damage to our bodies. It's a call to action. So if we cut ourselves or break a bone we feel […]

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Do you feel Good Enough? Know your Self Worth

How often do you stop yourself from doing things because you think you’re not good enough? That you won’t do it well enough? That you’re not clever enough? Strong enough? Interesting enough? Thin enough? Funny enough? Pretty enough? Brave enough? That there’s no point trying because it won’t be as good as someone else’s effort, […]

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Therapeutic Journaling

Life is full of upsets. Every day something will happen that disappoints, angers or scares us. What do we do when things upset us? We are masters of avoidance. More often than not we push it down inside, pretend it doesn't matter, lock it away and get on with life. While this works for a […]

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Mindfulness Meditation, Stress and your Health

So we all know that stress is bad for us and that research now shows strong links between chronic physical and emotional stress and poor health. You can read more about this in Chronic Stress and your Health But what can we do about it? The obvious thing is to avoid or get rid of […]

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Chronic Pain – what do we really know?

This blog post is dedicated to Dr John Sarno 23/06/1923 - 22/06/2017 - the pioneer of mind-body medicine. I, along with my fellow mind-body workers, will continue to strive to realise his vision of the acceptance of mind-body theories by mainstream medicine.

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When Biology meets Quantum Physics…

Evidence of Placebo and Nocebo Effects show our thoughts have strong interactions with our bodies. When people expect something to happen to their bodies, such as side effects of medication – it often does. If people believe something has happened to their bodies, such as happens with sham surgery - it often feels like it […]

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Fibromyalgia and Chronic Fatigue Awareness Month

This is a little extra blog in honour of Fibromyalgia and Chronic Fatigue Awareness Month.

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