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Hacking your nervous system

Quick nervous system hack... Big meeting? Job interview? Public speaking? Performance review with the boss? Tough conversation? This is for you...The nerdy bit... when you switch from your Parasympathetic Nervous System (PNS aka your 'Cool as a cucumber' state) to your Sympathetic Nervous System (SNS / Fight or Flight) you turn down the pre-frontal cortex (executive functioning) of the brain (or the 'wise owl' as I like to call it). The pre-frontal cortex is the part of the brain that provi...

The 'sickie'

The 'sickie' – you might want to sit down CFOs…A Frost & Sullivan 2022 study found that absenteeism cost an eye watering 24 million to Australian businesses in 2022 with Gen Z twice as likely as the Boomers to call in sick.The health and wellbeing of your staff is however much more complex than the quantitative figures around sick leave, workers’ compensation, and turnover.Unfortunately, staff can’t come into the office and leave the rest of their lives at the door… so the question...

A mountain goat track

Often when we begin a healing process, we have on our rose-tinted glasses and think it will be a linear progression, simple and straightforward – right? No problem. However what often happens, is that it takes us on a very different journey, more akin to a meandering mountain goat track through the mountains, the valleys, back to the Mountains, oh look another valley (maybe my damn goat is actually lost at times!?) versus the straight, clear path of the highway at 110k down the straight! I fir...

Rest & Digest for Health

There are very few things in life we have 100% control over and the food we put in our mouths is one of them. Second only to the quality of the food the eat is our body’s ability to digest and assimilate what we are consuming. Let’s have a look at that process…Autonomic Nervous System:The first thing I want to discuss is our autonomic nervous system and in particular the differences between the sympathetic and parasympathetic states in the body and how they relate to the digestive pro...

Water

Fun facts… 55-60% of the body is made up of water.Humans can survive 6 weeks without food but only 3-4 days without water.The most common nutritional deficiency in the US today is water (not sure Australia / NZ are faring much better!). Water plays numerous vitally important roles in the body, such as: improving oxygen delivery to our cells;transporting nutrients;enabling cellular hydration and cell to cell communication;moistening oxygen for breathing,cushioning and lubricating bone...

The world will not be destroyed by those who do evil, but by those who watch and do nothing. Albert Einstein

The world will not be destroyed by those who do evil, but by those who watch and do nothing. Albert Einstein One of the recurring themes that has been coming up in this time has been accountability… Accountability for our words, deeds and actions and how very important that is in our lives. You might have seen I’ve started getting a little vocal on my social platforms about causes that are important to me and I’m going to continue to do that (the un-follow button is always but a click...

I sat with my anger long enough, until she told me her real name was grief…

I sat with my anger long enough, until she told me her real name was grief. This quote really resonates with me as I uncover another layer of myself…  why do I feel anger? (you could insert any other emotion here…  hurt, disappointment, happiness, sadness) Is it really the emotion manifesting, or am I sitting at the surface of the real reasons I feel a certain way?Anger without true investigation of its origins is particularly insidious, it has the potentia...

Shadows, Triggers, Power and Boundaries

I had an interesting experience recently where I spent some time with a friend whom I found was pushing all my buttons and triggering my shadow side in a major way.Now, this wasn’t being done deliberately by any means, however there it was, I felt my body reacting in ways I didn’t like… I felt myself starting to be reactive to their behaviour, impatient, short and frustrated.They say that the things that trigger us in others are mirrors to our own shadow so I have been sitting with th...