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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
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
‘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!
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
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
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!
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...
Which Part Of Your Internal System Is Creating Pain? Healing Chronic Pain Using IFS Therapy
So many chronic pain sufferers go from treatment to treatment seeking answers to their pain. Only to be told, ‘It’s probably in your head’. From my own personal experience, as a previous IBS sufferer, I would also be told, ‘Maybe it’s emotional?’ When I first learnt...
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...
Raynaud’s disease by Irralee Andrzejowska – Part 2 – Steps to Healing
This is part two of my blog about Raynaud's Disease, if you would like to read part 1 click here.My Steps to Mind-Body HealingSo, back to the upcoming trip to the Lake District, I had some work to do! I therefore decided to apply the principles of mind body...