Words Matter The words we use are powerful and they don’t exist in isolation. The words we use with others often reflect the words we use with ourselves. Becoming aware of our inner dialogue can therefore be just as important as becoming aware of the language we use in conversation. Their impact is shaped …
What Supports Creating Compassionate Trauma-Informed Healthcare Cultures? Compassionate trauma-informed healthcare does not emerge from policies, training sessions or good intentions alone. It is created through the everyday actions, relationships, practices, self-compassion, understanding of trauma and cultures that shape how we meet ourselves and one another. While this blog is focusing on healthcare the principles …
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What is Compassionate Trauma-Informed Healthcare? Compassionate trauma-informed healthcare brings together compassionate care with trauma-informed principles. It has compassion at the heart, which changes how individuals, teams, leaders and systems operate. It’s about creating healthcare systems that support staff and service users, recognise that anyone can be affected by trauma, and support more sustainable …
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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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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 …
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