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Emotions, Alexithymia and Chronic Pain

Emotions, Alexithymia and Chronic Pain

The underlying concept behind the SIRPA approach is that pain and many other persistent health conditions are often triggered, or perpetuate, as a result of the build-up of unresolved emotions related to past or current chronic stress or trauma. These symptoms are...

How to Help Someone in a Health Crisis

How to Help Someone in a Health Crisis

Here are some suggestions as to what to do or say when people are in crisis and you wish to support them. Since my own health crisis recently I have formulated some thoughts which I hope will help others…. Instead of worrying about overwhelming someone with too many...

The Hidden Impact of Compromise

The Hidden Impact of Compromise

‘An agreement made between two people or groups in which each side gives up some of the things they want so that both sides are happy at the end.’ Oxford Learners Dictionary. We are often told that compromising is helpful in maintaining a good relationship with other...

Husky Sledding and Dealing with Fears!

Husky Sledding and Dealing with Fears!

Earlier this year I was lucky enough to go on the trip of a lifetime.  Husky sledding in Lapland.  It was an amazing experience!  I love snow. I’m still like a child when it snows, and I love to walk and play in snow.  We each drove a team of 4 dogs with our own sleds...

Hypermobility from a Mind Body perspective

Hypermobility from a Mind Body perspective

The term joint hypermobility (also known as being “double-jointed”) describes the ability to move a joint through a wider range of movement than “normal”.  Associated symptoms may include joint and muscle pain, joint dislocations,  temporomandibular joint (TMJ)...

Irritable Bowel Syndrome and my cat

Irritable Bowel Syndrome and my cat

For many years I have had symptoms of Irritable bowel syndrome (IBS). This is a condition causing episodes of abdominal cramping, bloating, diarrhoea and constipation.  There is no known cause, and no structural abnormality of the bowel is found on investigations.   ...

Facing my fears and taking the plunge!

Facing my fears and taking the plunge!

I am currently working with Georgie Oldfield to help with my recovery from back and hip pain and here is what happened this week. Swimming is one of my favorite activities yet I haven’t swum for 18 months. The symptoms of back and hip pain and the accompanying fear...

Benefits of walking

Benefits of walking

We have been walking since we were infants when we learnt this skill by trial and error and lots of repetition until it became an automatic program in our subconscious. There is no ‘correct way to walk’ as such, because it depends on your individual structure, but...