Finding hope and possibility despite limitation… when you live with a chronic illness or want to prevent one.

Shift how you feel from the inside out when you live with a chronic illness or want to prevent one.

Recommitting to self-nurture when you live with a chronic illness or want to prevent one.

New year… Tired You? Starting slow and authentic when you have a chronic illness or want to prevent one.

Honouring Loss when you have a chronic illness or want to prevent one. Do you owe yourself time to feel and heal?

Is it time to recommit to yourself? Self-care as a foundation for more when you have chronic symptoms (or want to prevent them).

Doing less to do what counts when you have chronic symptoms (or want to prevent them). Meaningful change doesn’t always occur by adding more .. when we are already overloaded.

As the days get shorter and colder here in the northern hemisphere it's a natural time for rest and reflection. Nature always signals to us what we should be doing, if we pay attention and follow her lead.

Our brains are programmed to try and protect us from the worst case scenarios via a phenomenon called the 'negativity bias'. We naturally focus more on the bad than the good. Our brain does this to help us plan, prepare for and survive any eventuality.

We’ve all heard the saying that what we focus on grows. Where your attention goes your energy flows.

Yoga has contributed SO much to the planet, offering us a path to healing and growth in all ways.. If we want it. But what is yoga? Is it for everyone? Can yoga help your chronic pain or health problems?

Have enough bad or stressful experiences in life (or one long one); focus on them enough you can develop a chronic illness. What do you do when your protection systems are in overdrive? When they no longer accurately signal or assess what is happening in your body tissues and systems?

Lockdown has eased, the sun is shining, the flowers are blooming, the hint of summer plans is in the air. But maybe you’re not blooming, maybe the idea of coming out and interacting feels daunting.

The long winter is drawing to a close. Who would have thought that in the still, stark, barren winter, so much activity was going on beneath the surface? In the world of Chronic pain and illness, it may feel like you are living in a perpetual winter.