Your Ultimate Guide For Health & Wellness Living

A reflection on how hope, belief, and subconscious thoughts may influence our health and wellbeing, and a simple exercise to explore the mind-body connection in everyday life.

You may have heard of the Vagus Nerve which is one of the most powerful communication pathways in your body running from your brainstem through your neck and into your heart, lungs and digestion system. And it plays a huge role in how calm (or not) you feel. If you’ve been experiencing things like: • Stress • A racing mind • Feeling easily irritated or emotional • Feeling flat or disconnected • Low energy or constant fatigue • Anxiety …your nervous system may be stuck in “fig

If you don’t know what this is, read on - because in my opinion (especially if you struggle with stress, energy, motivation or overwhelm like I did)… it’s worth knowing the basics. There’s a part of your brain called the Anterior Cingulate Cortex (ACC). And I like to think of it as a bridge in your brain that connects your thinking, feeling, and action - especially when you’re under stress or facing discomfort. So it’s pretty important. What does the ACC actually do? Helps y

For years I believed I was a binge eater. I used to say I had a “sugar monster” inside me, one that appeared whenever cookies, cake, chocolate, or peanut butter were around. (To be fair, it had excellent taste.) When it showed up, I felt like I had no control. My solution, I thought, was simply to try to contain it. The narratives I kept hearing reinforced that belief, that some people just have to rely on endless willpower around food. But beliefs are powerful. When you beli

I have talked about why willpower fails and why pull / pleasure beats push / pain. Today, let’s talk about how to make change permanent. Lasting change requires emotional conditioning, not just understanding something intellectually, but feeling it deeply and repeatedly. Neuroplasticity, the brain’s ability to rewire itself shows us that we can change these patterns by creating new neural pathways. New beliefs stick when you: Create a new meaning Pair it with strong positive

For years I was a binge eater, I called it my “sugar monster”. Cookies, cake, chocolate and peanut butter…honestly it had excellent taste. There were clear triggers: low energy, a special occasion, feeling empty or what I now know as head hunger. I tired everything to stop it - hypnotherapist, restriction, punishment, exercising it away like I could undo it with a sweaty sorry. None of it worked. I felt helpless and frustrated and I saw it as “who I was”. Then last year

I have talked about why willpower isn’t the answer to sustainable change and for this post, we’re going deeper: why change only sticks when it comes from a pull, not a push. Pain may start your motivation, but it doesn’t last. We naturally move away from pain (push) and toward pleasure (pull), and lasting change comes from moving toward something you genuinely want or find pleasurable. What a pull actually looks like in real life: A pull isn’t a rule, a plan, or something you