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The formulation and development of life changing therapy: BodyTalk

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The BodyTalk system was developed by Dr John Veltheim in the early 1990s, out of personal necessity. A chiropractor, acupuncturist, philosopher, reiki master and lecturer, Dr Veltheim ran a successful clinic in Brisbane for 15 years before moving to Florida to develop bodytalk and train practitioners. Dr. Veltheim, a native Australian, has been aware of body […]

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MDMA-assisted therapy is made for veterans, it will never reach them.

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Recent scientific trials on the efficacy of MDMA assisted therapy has created lots of excitement around a ‘breakthrough treatment’ for those suffering from Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) and Complex PTSD (C-PTSD). Particularly following the promising start and ultimate shut down of drug-assisted therapy trials in the 1960’s. (Nature Medicine) PTSD is a debilitating condition

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The ultimate stress buster no-one is talking about.

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I know this is a phrase we hear over and over again, but after I was introduced to TRE I didn’t understand why I hadn’t heard about it before. This is a powerful technique that could benefit many people. TRE stands for Trauma and Tension Release Exercises and it a natural way for the Nervous System

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What mindfulness isn’t teaching you…

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With work stress reaching new levels and people taking new ways to maximise their lives, the mind is overloaded with information, stress and worry. As such we are seeing the boom of the spirituality rise in western culture. Ancient spiritual practices are being rebranded as stress busters and sold to individuals and companies as a

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Why a mental health diagnosis can be unhelpful.

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Mental health can be a tricky thing to write about. You are ultimately trying to articulate your view on human suffering in a way that does not undermine the visceral, sometimes unrelenting pain that an individual goes through. When I started to realise I was operating on a different, darker plain to some of the

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What I learnt from my first meditation retreat.

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Going onto my first meditation retreat I didn’t know what to expect. Probably because I hadn’t really comprehended what I had signed up to. I’d joined an online meditation retreat that was 4 days long. Didn’t sound that hard so hadn’t give it a second thought until the first day arrived. The ‘arrival’ was a

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Expectation Management with Self-Development

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When we embark on our self-development journeys, we’ve already taken huge steps. We’ve paused our busy lives long enough to truly reflect on how we are leading ourselves, assessed our satisfaction within, and decided to do something about it. We may even know what our first steps are to improving our situations, relationships and contentment.

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Why it’s called ‘stress management’ not stress avoidance.

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At some point in our lives, we all feel that overwhelming sense of doom. That knot in your throat, tightness in your tummy or inability to speak or even move. Stress can be an unbelievably unpleasant emotion that can cause serious damage when unchecked or misunderstood. But that doesn’t mean that it is inherently bad

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