The Healing Connection
VICKY DAWKINS
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What Does Neuro-Affirming Therapy Actually Mean? Moving from shame towards understanding, compassion and acceptance.
Maybe you've spent much of your life with a quiet sense that you're somehow getting things wrong. Too sensitive. Too emotional. Too intense. Too disorganised. Too easily overwhelmed. Too much. Or perhaps you've heard the opposite: you're not trying hard enough. You're not reaching your potential. You're lazy. You're careless. You just need to be […]
How Stress and Emotions Affect the Body: Understanding the Mind-Body Connection
Our emotional wellbeing and physical health are so closely connected. When we experience times of prolonged stress, anxiety, unresolved emotions or difficult life experiences, our nervous system can remain in a heightened state of alert. Over time, this constant state of survival can begin to affect how we feel physically as well as emotionally.