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Creating Compassionate Trauma-Informed Healthcare

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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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Understanding Compassionate Trauma-Informed Healthcare

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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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The Window of Tolerance and Chronic Illness

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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 …

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Somatic Tracking: A Mindful Body-Based Practice for Nurturing Safety

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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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Nervous System Regulation: A Gentle Path to Coming Home to Your Body

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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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The Mindful Compassion Based 5 Steps Stress Awareness & Management Model

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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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Managing Pain and Fatigue Over the Festive Period

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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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Healing Within Connectedness & Love (part two)

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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 …

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How Can Physiotherapy Help With PoTS?

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Physiotherapy can be helpful for people with PoTS (postural orthostatic tachycardia syndrome), it is recommended to be with a physiotherapist that has a specialism or special interest in PoTS.  Before we look at how physiotherapy can help let’s look at what PoTS is. What is PoTS?   Postural orthostatic tachycardia syndrome (PoTS) is a form …

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