Many physical issues often have an emotional/psychological component - something we now recognise as a 'biopsychosocial understanding' of disease. We are not machines - we interact with others and our brains learn by their experience. This does not mean it’s ‘all in your mind’ – it means the problems are physical and real but they will respond to emotional healing and social connection.
 
This integrated 'mindbody approach' has 3 central tenets:

• the body is a system that occasionally goes out of balance - you cannot separate parts and just treat symptomatically

• physiology and psychology are interrelated - your biography can become your biology

• past adverse experience changes your brain via neuroplasticity to alter your stress response to create a pro-inflammatory state that never switches off, creating symptoms throughout the body

 
To truly heal you must dampen the fires of inflammation via:

1. diet (an anti-inflammatory diet of low simple carbs, moderate protein and high quality fat)

2. lifestyle (restful sleep, outdoor exercise, etc)

3. emotional trauma healing

 
Of these it is the last that is the most important. The autonomic nervous system connects our emotional (survival) brain with our body organs to either allow healing and rest or breakdown and threat depending on its unconscious perception of threat. You will stay stuck in a threat response until you release the past stressful experiences (adverse childhood experience - ACE) held in your body. These are incredibly common and can result from attachment wounds like birth trauma, bullying, narcissistic parenting, etc. This understanding is the hidden link where mind and body connect via emotions which have a resonance that is felt throughout the body, but emotions that were felt in childhood are stored.
 
These have to be dealt with to heal effectively as if this resolution is missed then further suffering, sometimes for years, is inevitable.  Don’t make the mistakes I made!
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I use a range of body-based (somatic) treatments depending on your needs. I call it ‘Alchemy’ as it is the ‘art of transformation’, and this is what I hope to do for every client; not just get them back to health, but to be more connected, more in tune with their lives and spirit than ever before. It is a radical departure from most mainstream healthcare… so requires pro-active participation not passivity. This isn't just about releasing your symptoms, it's about finding out who you really are! Come join me as a fully realised human being.
 
Read more about mindbody medicine, adverse childhood experience (ACE) and the causes of disease as determined by natural medicine (naturopathy).