Softening is different to letting go. Letting go feels frightening, like a huge leap and it’s a one-time option that could go well or not, and feels risky. But softening, well, that’s soft. It’s gentle and safe. It’s just loosening your grip slightly while you still hold yourself steady.Continue Reading
The Happy Inside iPhone app (and program and podcast) originally focused on gut disorders. While they still remain a big focus, the app now includes other chronic conditions, illness, pain, anxiety and stress. Why? Because gut disorders are just one way psychological and emotional factors present themselves in the body – there are many other...Continue Reading
Emotions aren’t tangible objects you pack into a box and store under the stairs or in the attic. You can’t just sweep them into a dustpan or out the front door. Emotions are energy within you and when you push that energy aside, you’re doing so inside your own body.Continue Reading
We’ve dived into emotions, their representations of your thoughts and how they affect your digestive system. Now let’s look at unresolved emotions and where they go. THE VESSEL Our body is a vessel that carries our consciousness and being through life. Everything is generated inside our body, including our thoughts, emotions, feelings, sensations and ailments....Continue Reading
That link between your body and mind is unmistakable. You can’t switch off the connection between the mind and gut, but what you can do is create a really great friendship where the both of you thrive.Continue Reading
We had a look last week at thought processes triggering a physical reaction, which we feel as an emotion. Now let’s look specifically at how these emotional reactions affect your digestive system. Your brain is part of your central nervous system – brain, spinal cord and nerves that branch off in to every limb and...Continue Reading
When we make decisions and behave in ways that meet our own values, we experience healthy self-esteem. This is why coming home to listen to ourselves is crucial in all that we do. THE THINGS WE WILL DO TO FEEL SAFE Too often we are handing over far too much of ourselves to people we...Continue Reading
When we make decisions and behave in ways that meet our own values, we experience healthy self-esteem. This is why coming home to listen to ourselves is crucial in all that we do.Continue Reading
External grasping. I was a champion at this once upon a time, and I admit if I’m not mindful, I can lose myself for hours in all the information available online. It’s just so appealing, right? Through this topic of recurring questions, you should now be gaining valuable insight around patterns of thoughts and behaviours...Continue Reading
We’ve got Google, apps, social media, books, articles, doctors, practitioners, workshops, health retreats, yoga, and the rest – there is no shortage of information or help out there that we engage with every day. It’s evident that we are seeking for something more. Grasping though has a different feel to it; it comes from...Continue Reading
