What is The Window of Tolerance The Window of Tolerance is a model of nervous system regulation developed by Dr. Dan Siegel. It describes the optimal zone of arousal – the state where our physiology is balanced, we feel settled enough to connect with others, we can explore, learn and grow. Inside the window …
Introduction to This Nervous System Regulation Blog This blog offers a compassionate trauma-informed introduction to nervous system regulation – what it is, why it matters, and how trauma and chronic stress can impact it. We explore protective responses like fight, flight, freeze, and fawn, and share trauma-informed nervous system regulation frameworks such as Polyvagal …
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In this blog I’m going to share a little about the mindful compassion based 5 steps stress awareness and management model I’ve developed. First, let’s take a quick look at a few points around stress. Stress often gets a bad press, which is because it negatively affects our health and wellbeing when it’s certain types …
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Do you use end of year journalling? Some people like to use end of year journalling as part of reflecting on the year as it draws to a close. Journalling can be helpful as part of reflecting on the year and see what’s gone well, what’s not been easy or challenging and what helped …
This is part two of the healing within connectedness & love blog, in this blog we will look briefly at the importance of aligning mind, body & heart, along with connectedness in healing, especially living from the heart, connected to our true selves/true nature, other people, love and nature. You can find part one of …
I’ve been pondering healing and thought that I would sharing some of my musings around this and the importance of connectedness as part of healing, in particular to our heart, to love, nature and to something bigger than us. Part one of this blog will explore what healing means and part two will touch on the …
If you haven’t read part one of the blog yet you can find that here https://unityphysio.co.uk/grief-loss-in-persistent-pain-other-health-conditions-part-one/ What Can Help We need resources to help us in the grief process, resources help balance the challenges & vulnerabilities that arise. Two really important inner resources are compassion & being able to regulate the nervous system, I think …
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This blog is about grief and losses in persistent pain (also known as chronic pain) and other long-term health conditions. It’s important to be aware that reading this may be triggering for some people, please choose if reading it is ok for you. The suffering associated with losses and grief affects us all many times …
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What is commonly referred to as a flare-up in pain? An increase in pain or fatigue that significantly disrupts your daily function and/or sleep for a few days or more is commonly referred to as a flare-up, some people use other terminology, for example a set-back. Some things commonly go along with this including increased …
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Living well with pain can be misunderstood to mean that pain won’t change or go away, or having to put up with it and that nothing can be done. This is not what it means! Pain can and does change, nothing is ever the same even though it may feel like it is. For some …
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