Alternative Wellness Lifestyle Spirituality

9 Spiritual Symbols and their Meanings

Lotus flower The lotus flower, as part of the flora, has the ability to grow in muddy waters. For that reason, it represents the ability of humans to rise above…

Healing Lifestyle Mental Wellbeing Mind Balance Therapy

Stages of Detachment – Learn How to Let Go

Detachment - a feeling of not being emotionally involved. Detachment can be used when we need to detach from a person in our lives that is having a less than positive impact on us…

Lifestyle Mind Balance Spirituality

Yin Yang

Yin-Yang is the symbol that represents difference yet unity in life. Yin is associated with darkness, femininity, mystery, passivity, the night sky, or the old. Yang is associated with lightness,…

Family Lifestyle Therapy

Internal Family Systems

The founder of Internal Family Systems (IFS) a model of psychotherapy, and founder of the IFS Institute is Dr. Richard Schwartz. IFS understand parts as a kind of ‘subpersonality’, they…

Healing Lifestyle Mental Wellbeing

Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACE)

Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACEs) is a term used to describe specific traumatic events that occur before the age of 18. They can include direct experiences which are things that are directly done…

Family Healing Lifestyle Therapy

Toxic shame is a debilitating feeling of worthlessness and self-loathing. No- one is born ‘ashamed’ – “Wherever there is shame, there has been a shamer”. Ref this Ordinary Shame Shame is an uncomfortable feeling that you get when you have…

Healing Lifestyle Neuroscience

Primary and Secondary Consciousness

Our Consciousness is capable of operating in two modes Primary and Secondary Consciousness. Primary Consciousness The first consciousness mode is what neuroscientist and psychedelic researcher, Robin Carhart-Harris, at Imperial College…

Healing Lifestyle Mental Wellbeing Mind Balance Therapy

Post Traumatic Growth

Trauma can lead to deep pain, but post-traumatic growth shows how it can also spark personal growth, challenging the idea of helplessness in the face of trauma. It counters stigma,…