Stress, you hear about it all the time, you’re told to reduce it, but what is it?? Stress is an acute response by the body when faced with a threat – be it physical, emotional, chemical, or spiritual. The body responds by activating what is called the sympathetic nervous system. This response prepares you to […]

Your sympathetic nervous system is the official term for that branch of your nervous system that drives the stress-response. You know that feeling; your heart races, your legs fill up with blood, your attention narrows, and you panic. That’s your sympathetic nervous system kicking in, and there isn’t much you can do to control it […]

Health is a complicated topic so I like to focus right down to the core of the issue, as mostly everything health and body-related arises from some kind of nervous system dysfunction. So, reducing stress is key to putting things back together again. Your nervous system is the key element in health; it’s the electrical network […]

If you want to change your life on a deep level, you need to reprogram your subconscious. If you don’t you end up trapped in a cycle of doing the exact same thing over and over again, whether or not it is working for you. Note that psychologists and psychotherapists are highly trained in working […]

Meditation is one of those very beneficial activities that most people avoid doing because they ‘can’t do it’. It’s actually really easy, but I also struggled when I started. In this post I want to share with you the power of meditation for health and healing, because it was pivotal in my own path back to health. […]

You hear about stress all the time, and you may have been told that stress impacts your emotional and physical health – but what the hell is it?? Stress is an acute response by the body when faced with a threat – be it physical, emotional, chemical, or spiritual. The body responds by activating what […]

Stress is an illusive term – we are told we are stressed, need to be less stressed, but sometimes we don’t even understand what they are saying. I was told I needed to ‘calm down’ for years before I got sick – but I had no understanding of stress or what it was doing to […]