For social workers, support workers, occupational therapists and everyone whose work is caring for others For social workers, support workers, occupational therapists and everyone whose work is caring for others Much of what happens in helping work never gets spoken. A client's shoulders rise before they answer. A young person goes still when a door slams. Your own chest tightens as you listen to a difficult story. These are nervous system signals, and learning to read them, in yourself and...

Breathwork is not bad for women. There is no scientific evidence that conscious breathing, as a category, harms the female body. The evidence shows something more nuanced, and far more empowering. Your breath changes with your cycle, your life stage and your health, and the right practice at the right time can support you deeply. Where this started Recently, one of my clients came to me unsettled. Her physiotherapist had told her that breathwork "isn't good for women." She had been feeling...

The heat turns the dial up. Your breath teaches you how to turn it back down. Most people walk into an infrared heated yoga or Pilates session for the sweat. The stretch, the flush, the feeling of having earned it. And those are real. But the heat isn't there just to make you sweat. It's there to stress you, just enough and on purpose. Because a nervous system doesn't learn to regulate in comfort. It learns under load. Your body has a switch You have two main gears. The sympathetic state is...