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New revolutionary health ideas that will blow your mind: books and resources reviewed and discussed for you so you can inform yourself to make better choices in healthcare. From biofield resonance to the microbiome and beyond, if it exists to help us heal ourselves, I'm there! With interviews with like minded health-seekers, book reviews, discussions and Q&A sessions to find out more about this new, expanding medicine coming on-stream now that blows out of the water the old model of medicine ...
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My commentary on the insight and understanding of healing ME/CFS as a spiritual disconnect that nevertheless has physical consequences. I draw on an interview between Jenny Lynn and Raelan Agle as well as my own experience as a therapist for over 15 years. See that here https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KyFQKb0qS70 00:00 Intro 00:56 CFS/ME is a disco…
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My reaction to the death of TV presenter and doctor Michael Mosley was one of deep sorrow and shock despite not knowing him personally. I was stunned by the unnecessary loss but also realising I was reacting to an event that happened to me 40 years ago!! Find out how here. 00:00 Nature of Trauma - shock trauma of loss e.g. the tragic death of Micha…
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Recovery from chronic disease or conditions is not about fixing the problem. How the experience of Craig McKinley's sepsis and the work of Dr Rangan Chatterjee, Nicola Singleton and John Campbell has informed my work. Here's the interview with Nicola and Dr Chatterjee where she talks of what she discovered from working with him and how she got well…
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Why is this groundbreaking book so important? Here's my view... 00:00 Intro and Dr Mate's background 02:00 A leading light in emotional trauma awareness- and his personal experience of childhood trauma 03:44 Synopsis of chapters and the general direction of the book - disconnect from the self, attachment wounding, trauma is not always what we got b…
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My commentary on the lecture given by Iain McGilchrist yesterday to McGill University. for the original lecture go here https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=REB7GOxX5Mk 00:00 Intro to what's the matter with medicine in a left-brain world of disconnect - toxic world vs. 01:55 The importance of attention as a form of love 03:00 The doctor patient relation…
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Find out how to transform past experiences so that you can move forward in life without sabotaging yourself. An update on my microdosing months 3 after 1 month off Also how I've noticed EMDR works similarly to psychedelics. For the start of my microdosing journey go here https://youtu.be/841soWqB8Xs Find the talk with Jude Currivan and Pam Gregory …
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In this commentary on the words of Esther Perel and researcher Brene Brown I delve into how AI is creating a mental health crisis. Not Artificial intelligence but Artificial Intimacy!! Intimacy and Connection are crucial to healthy human expression but our relationships are being co-opted and distorted by social media. Find out how to build connect…
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I've become aware that vulnerability is key to true creativity - you cannot create something new without risk. Find out how I've discovered this in my own life and work - with the help of some others who've explored this - Brene Brown, Gabor Mate and King Charles!! 00:00 Intro to Vulnerability is the key to Creativity - work of Brene Brown 01:00 My…
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Lessons from the life and untimely death of Amy Winehouse after watching the movie Back to Black and also reading The Myth of Normal by Gabor Mate. How nervous system dysregulation plays out in the life and how it inevitably takes its toll as we seek to calm our nervous system in any way we can. Luckily with support and proper tools it IS possible …
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Men and women - the difference in how stress operates and how it manifests. And why men are less likely to admit they need help See this article for more details on gender differences in neurobiology https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3425245 00:00 The stress response in men and women are different - physiological differences in brain org…
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My commentary on the lecture given by Iain McGilchrist yesterday to McGill University. for the original lecture go here https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=REB7GOxX5Mk 00:00 Iain is a unique voice in that he marries the humanities (philosophy) and science (medicine) which gives him a broad view of the world. 02:10 Writing my current book Mind Medicine …
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Psychotherapist Virginia Satir (1916 - 1988) remains one of the most influential family therapists there have ever been but she is virtually unknown now outside of psychology. She taught the importance of feelings over thoughts and blew the current understanding and practice out the water with her emphasis on safe emotional connection and the reaso…
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In this audio I describe this ground-breaking information on how to heal with psychedelics from the book How to Change your Mind: The New Science of Psychedelics by Michael Pollan. The article I mention By Robin Carhart-Harris on The Entropic Brain on psychedelics is here https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fnhum.2014.00020/full 00:00 Intr…
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Anxiety is not a disease in the sense that doctors describe. It is a message from the body that something in your environment feels unsafe. For original article I'm commenting on go here. https://www.carolynspring.com/blog/six-steps-to-managing-anxiety/ 00:00 Intro - everyday trauma impacts the mind to create a sense of unsafety which can be easily…
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A new 'Magic Bullet' that few people know about (including your doctor!) ... The importance of Methylene Blue and how it might transform human health particularly in areas of low oxygen delivery (fatigue states, depression and neurological damage). Check out the original recording with Dr Gonalez-Lima on https://deeprootsathome.com/methylene-blue-m…
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Healing needs the body AND the mind to be engaged with a multifactorial approach. Modern medicine ignores this and concentrates on a single solution which often creates unwanted side effects. Using a biospsychosocial approach makes much more sense. Find out how to take back control of your health. Includes updates on Methylene Blue and Hormone Harm…
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Here i am reviewing and interpreting the book The Road to Character by David Brooks. How we find meaning and authentic expression in life is not through avoiding suffering but how we deal with our subsequent demise. Whether through illness or other struggles we all need eachother to help pick ourselves up and make the world a better place. 00:00 In…
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My journey with microdosing and how therapeutic doses help heal our relationship with ourselves and Nature. Please note to date drug laws prevent me talking about sourcing. See Paul's 2023 update on his 2009 talk here https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qry8K7KPHIQ If you'd like to start with the original go here https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XI5frPV…
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Update on week 2 in the microdosing experiment with psilocybin PLUS a discussion of 'The Psychological Drivers of the Metacrisis' with Iain McGilchrist, Daniel Schmachtenberger and John Vervaeke. In this video I discuss my changing experiential awareness when on microdoses of psyilocybin and how it enhances productivity. As part of my ongoing journ…
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In this update into week 4 of my journey I notice not only the sensory changes but also perceptive ones. Feeling part of something bigger.... find out how it's affected me and what I'm learning as part of this journey. Week 4 of psilocybin microdosing. 00:00 Intro to microdosing 01:00 Awareness of our imminent planetary extinction but with hope for…
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In this update into week 6 of my psilocybin microdosing journey I notice how I am revisiting lessons from the past, investigating A Course in Miracles (doing the workbook) and changing my practice to be more empathic. As part of my learning I am researching mushrooms and their uses. I refer you to the excellent film on the subject Fantastic Fungi. …
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I describe the ongoing surprising revelations in this week 8 video from a holistic therapeutic perspective. Coming to a break point it's time to assimilate the learning. Some surprising conclusions in this healing journey of a middle-aged psychonaut.. Stamets stack protocol with niacin (vitamin B3) and Lion's Mane Named after Paul Stamets. See this…
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How empaths (highly sensitive people) become people pleasers who fail to get their emotional needs met. The roots lie in childhood attachment. How you can change this pattern. 00:00 Intro and why most of my clients are empaths/ HSPs 01:46 Trauma is difficult to process in childhood - and needs a grounded parent to allow emotions 02:50 Beliefs drive…
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Here I look at Birth Trauma and how it affects everyone (not just women who give birth!). Birth is the single most important event in everyone's life and how it happens determines the quality of our lives - especially in the area of health and wellbeing. It shapes the understanding of ourselves and our relationship with others. If it is traumatic i…
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Bringing back the soul into medicine - how modern medicine has lost its soul and creates all sorts of negative results which are bankrupting the healthcare profession both monetarily and in terms of doctor's purpose and meaning. But plant medicine offers a way to bring that back and may yet overturn the current biomedical machine to create true hea…
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In this first part of my Book Review I look at 'The Genie in your Genes' by Dawson Church, PhD. I look at how ground-breaking this book was (2007, rev 2009) and how it was so far ahead of its time in teaching us about how your environment (the thoughts you think, the emotions you feel - or don't allow yourself to feel) all get buried in your body c…
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In this follow up to my review of the classic book The Genie in your Genes by Dawson Church, I describe the innovations in energetic medicine interventions. the last 6 chapters of the book cover comprehensively a new approach to healing outside the conventional medical paradigm and propose new solutions which are less expensive and more fundamental…
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I talk about how Empaths at the extreme end of high sensitivity may have the gift of clairvoyance. Whether you think it's a scam or not, there are examples of people who do this for a living and also help the police (unofficially) to solve murders. I use the example of famous medium Nicky Alen whose family have had extraordinary abilities. How does…
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In this podcast I talk about attachment wounding (failure of bonding with caregivers) and why and how it shortens your life, as we saw last week with singer Sinead O'Connor dying in her late 50s. This may happen for many different reasons: birth trauma, having a mum who is herself traumatised or with post-natal depression or being separated shortly…
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In this book review of Notes on a Nervous Planet by Matt Haig, I take you through what I learned of Matt's battle with anxiety and panic attacks and my view of his advice. This is an easy accessible book which I highly recommend. I covered many of the topics included in my latest book The Highly Sensitive Handbook just out now.https://amzn.to/3sira…
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In this podcast - one of the most important I've ever recorded - I discuss the difference in the conventional medical approach and the more complementary/holistic view to health and healing 00:00 - Intro to the New Biology in healthcare 01:00 - body as a machine v.s a holistic systems view of mindbody on a spectrum of health 03:00 - disease is rand…
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In this podcast I cover the latest research that links imbalance in the ventral vagus nerve (innervation of the head and neck) with chronic inflammation throughout the body. We know that most disease has inflammation at its core - anxiety, depression, arthritis, heart disease, and even auto-immunity are all linked to the imbalance of this important…
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In this podcast I talk about the recent publication of my book The Highly Sensitive Handbook - How Sensory Processing Sensitivity & Childhood Trauma Hijacks Your Health, I go through the information in the book and why it's a must buy for ANYONE who thinks they may be highly sensitive or lives with one! This is NOT another highly sensitive person b…
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In this presentation as part of my community group sessions each month (join in here), I talk about the importance of the Cell Danger Response and why it is so key as to how people get stuck in chronic disease states. Based on the work of Robert Naviaux which you can access here https://naviauxlab.ucsd.edu/ or a simplified article with the diagrams…
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The Tyranny of Thinking - How Overthinking Exacerbates Symptoms in Chronic Illness. The thinking (cognitive) parts of our brain are extraordinary problem solvers but what happens when the thinking is part of the problem? In this podcast as part of my weekly updates on matters related to Emotional Health and Healing, I discuss The Tyranny of Thinkin…
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In this podcast I discuss 'verbal inflammation in public discourse' - a term coined by Zach Bush which I loved. It is especially prevalent on social media where many people are completely anonymous or under pseudonyms. This type of inflammation gets its name from the effect of having an injury to the body and the redness and heat that follows - but…
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In this conversation with former Division 1 diver and now Integrative Sports Nutritionist Drew Mulvey, we look at how her past experiences of bullying and over-training affected her view of herself to create disordered eating resulting in burnout and a series of health diagnoses that left her feeling like she was completely outside the bell curve o…
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Find out how to reclaim your emotional equilibrium in this fascinating and practical talk where I demonstrate exactly why this happens and HOW to rebalance your brain and nervous system with somatic (body-based) interventions YOU CAN DO ANYWHERE. In this video interview by The Serene Lawyer, Doris Goodenough, I talk about Emotional Resilience and a…
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Did you know that anxiety, pain and fatigue are caused by implicit memories stored in the body from childhood? Whenever you were overwhelmed when young and couldn't process your emotions, that alarm signal gets stored in the body as an unconscious memory of threat that continues to trigger your autonomic nervous system. So, to heal your symptoms yo…
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In this audio I discuss the importance of trauma/ Adverse Childhood Experience/ACEs to mental and emotional health. I describe what ACE's are and how they are the unresolved traumas that happen even in ordinary childhoods that eventually cause physical problems later on in life. 0:00 Intro 0:41 PTSD symptoms 01:22 ACE studies 03:19 trauma in the av…
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In this audio I discuss how EMDR works and could help you recover from childhood trauma including early experiences you won't remember such as peri-natal trauma. I talk about why Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing works well with birth trauma and other common experiences that cause medically unexplained symptoms like anxiety, heart palpi…
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In this extended video (unique to my podcast) I go into more detail about how Eye Movement Desensitisation and Reprocessing (EMDR) works not only to help people recover from one-off childhood traumas like abuse but also early experiences you won't remember such as birth and perinatal trauma. I talk about why EMDR works well with birth trauma and ot…
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In this week 5 audio of my microdosing journey, we see that a surprising change has occurred that I hadn't expected at all.... As a middle aged woman and therapist my experience may be different from many of the microdosing YouTubers out there and I wanted to give my perspective. 0:00 intro 0:18 random dreams 00:48 weight loss 01:32 fat storage fun…
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In The Truth about Unwanted Weight Gain I blow the lid off why people gain weight- and it's not about lack of willpower or a personal failing. Often it is chronic unremiting stress - much of this from your past experience. I am a former scientific researcher, and now naturopath and somatic trauma therapist and I'm here to help you find out why and …
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In this final week of my microdosing journey I look at the lessons learned over the 6 weeks as well as an incredible lucid dream I had which illuminated very clearly the over-riding lesson of this plant medicine . As a middle aged woman and therapist my experience may be different from many of the microdosing YouTubers out there and I wanted to giv…
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In this New Approach to Eating Disorders I tackle the important subject of Disordered Eating. The problem isn't about the food, interestingly. Eating is the way that the craving brain tries to create a distraction (a form of dissociation) to the problem of unresolved emotions - ones that are not able to be safety from childhood. For more on this se…
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If you suffer with migraines, this podcast is for you! With background as a research scientist and a PhD in Somatic Trauma Release, I talk about WHY you get migraines and the real reason why pills and medicines are not the solution. Pills do not tackle the root cause which is to do with inflammation caused by: stress, gut dysbiosis, toxins and your…
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In this week 4 recording of my microdosing journey, we see that great changes have occurred and have been affecting me physically. As a middle aged woman and therapist, my experience may be different from many of the microdosing bloggers out there and I wanted to give my perspective. 0:00 intro 0:15 gut issues 01:00 why now? the terrain and suscept…
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Find out what drives our DNA to turn on and off. The hidden factor in each of us that controls our genetic blueprint to be read - and it's something that all of us have but many of us are unaware of - our microbiome. Please if you like my podcast Buy me a coffee here: https://bmc.link/patriciawoE watch a related video on Youtube: HOW YOUR GUT TALKS…
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An update from week 3 of my microdosing journey - this has been less eventful but still interesting. Find out why I started this journey and what I hoped to achieve. You always need a question when working with 'the wood'. The question I am asking is - what do I need to let go of? I work in the mental health field helping people overcome anxiety. 0…
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