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 …
What is Somatic Tracking? Somatic tracking is a mindfulness-based practice. It involves gently bringing attention to physical sensations with a sense of safety, curiosity, and without judgement or expectation of a particular outcome. It draws on principles from a mindfulness, somatic experiencing, interoception neuroplasticity research and pain neuroscience education. The term “somatic tracking” was …
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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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The festive period can be a wonderful time and a difficult one too for a variety of reasons for some people, including for people managing health conditions associated with persistent pain and fatigue. These health conditions include: persistent pain, fibromyalgia, ME/CFS, long covid and PoTS. If you live with one of these conditions, or another, …
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What Is Pacing? There isn’t an agreed definition of pacing, I would define it as flexible way of structuring your day in a way that supports both function and wellbeing. Pacing essentially means breaking down tasks and activities into manageable chunks with consideration of the different types of activities, including enough short rest breaks …
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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 …
What Is a Pain Specialist Physiotherapist & How Is This Different to MSK Physiotherapy? Persistent pain (also known as chronic pain) is a specialist area/field in healthcare, it’s an area that I have specialised in and wanted to share a little on what this means. A little background on physiotherapy training, following completion of …
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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The guidance in this blog can be used for people with and without persistent pain. Many people know exercise is essential for the health of body, brain and mind. We get modulation of pain perception, known as exercise induced hypoalgesia, from a release of helpful chemicals like endorphins and dopamine. However, for people with persistent …
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