Focus Areas
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By considering the mind-body connection, we find different and complementary paths that lead towards greater ease.
Chronic Stress
Stress is a normal, necessary and healthy part of life. It is how we grow, how we gear up to move past obstacles and maintain the energy to persevere. It is important to differentiate between the different types of stress. Physical exertion, which engages the nervous system to increase the body’s ability to meet physical demand (such as increasing the heart rate to go up the stairs), should not be considered as stress. And there is a difference between healthy stress and unhealthy stress. Healthy stress increases adrenaline and cortisol but also excites and motivates (learn about “Eustress”). With acute stress, your body engages stress physiology for a short time, often due to a specific stressor, and then resettles. On the other hand, with chronic stress, there is long-term persistent stress physiology.
Migraines
With more than one billion people affected worldwide, migraines are a prevalent health issue and considered a leading cause of disability, impacting people’s work productivity, engagement with their family and overall quality of life. Reports show that women are 3 times more likely to have migraines than are men.
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Anxiety disorders are some of the most common mental health disorders people struggle with. Over the past few decades, anxiety disorders have been on the rise increasing by more than 55% since 1990 and it is estimated that 4.05% of the entire global population has an anxiety disorder (Javaid et al., 2023).
Depression
Depression is a major health concern globally. The World Health Organization identified depression as a leading cause of disability worldwide with 5% of adults suffering from depression.
Digestive Disorders
Digestive disorders have grown more and more common in modern-day living, for various reasons. And while digestive disorders are experienced physically in the abdominal viscera, mainly the gut tube - stomach sac, liver, pancreas, spleen, small intestines, and colon – diseased condition of the gut can also create a lot of discomforts and impact on people’s mental health, relationships, capacity to sleep, capacity to concentrate, and overall engagement with everyday life.
Fibromyalgia Syndrome
Fibromyalgia is a complex chronic condition that affects the muscles and the joints, impacting people’s functioning and quality of life. Data indicates that 1 in 20 people are affected by Fibromyalgia globally and women are about 7 times more likely to develop it than men (News-Medical.net., 2023). That being said, the impact on both men and women is significant.
PostNatal Recovery
The ability to bring life into this world and become a mother is an incredible thing. This incredible journey is a life-changing event that can be extremely joyful as well as transformative. Supporting the mother post birth is an important part of holistic healthcare that can have a significant impact on both the mother and the baby as well as the rest of the family.
Birth Trauma
The term Birth Trauma is not yet a diagnostic term in the diagnostic manuals. However, specialists in the field of trauma are finding that there is a different presentation of challenges that seem to be shared among people who experienced a traumatic birth journey. As such, among trauma specialists, Birth Trauma is recognized as its own category. Birth Trauma can have profound and lasting effects that extend into adulthood, in obvious and subtle ways that impact mental, emotional, relational, and physical health.