ORA WELL

05/09/2026

The body stores emotions through physical changes in the nervous system, muscle tension, and connective tissues when emotional responses are triggered and left unresolved.

Research shows people consistently feel distinct emotions in localized physical regions.

Ask about Specific somatic trauma release techniques to reset the nervous system and relieve tension held in the body.

03/09/2026

03/09/2026

Tool 5

Transition from work to home Rituals

A transition ritual is an intentional action that signals your brain to switch from "work mode" to "rest mode." Without a clear boundary, the mental load of unfinished tasks leaks into your personal life, leaving you feeling chronically drained. Whether you commute or work from home, the secret is engaging your senses or physical body to tell your nervous system it is safe to relax.

So here are some ideas

Set an Intention: decide a consistent time to close out work every day.

Organise Your Workspace before leaving. Studies have shown that clutter increases stress and anxiety.

Create a music mix that you can play on the way home and don’t forget to use your breathing techniques. Breathing in the day's actions, feelings and thoughts and letting it all go.

Go for a mindful walk. (watch out for Mindful Walk tool)

Create a space in the house where you can light a candle, look out to nature and, using your breath, to bring yourself back into your body, leaving behind the busy mind chatter of your workday.

Create an area in the garden that you can sit and reflect.

Tea Ritual. A mindful practice of preparing, serving, and savouring tea to create calm, connection, and presence

Shut the world out and have a shower, washing away the worries of work.

02/09/2026

15/08/2026

On this channel, I break down the real science behind psychiatric medications, withdrawal, and tapering. If you want clear, evidence-based information to make informed decisions about your health, you can watch here: https://www.youtube.com//featured

13/08/2026

Employment Assistance Programmes:

The Employee Assistance Programme (EAP) is a free, anonymous, short-term counselling service your employer sponsors to support you through any challenges you might be facing at work or in life.

You can have free counselling with me under the EAP system if your workplace is aligned to: Telus Health Instep or Habit Health Vitae

You can ring your providers directly and ask for me.

If you have any questions, feel free to contact me

13/08/2026

There is never a time that the body is never influencing the mind and there is never time that the mind isn’t influencing the body, they are one of the same. Thoughts and feelings are being stored in centres of survival. Understand how you are able to find your way back to balance with the practise of breath.

11/08/2026

Tool 3

BE IN THE MOMENT

Being in the moment—also called mindfulness or grounding—helps with overwhelm, trauma and stress by teaching your nervous system that you are safe right now, in this moment. It stops the loop of past pain or future worry.

Get out of the mind chatter that is overwhelming you! By simply noticing that it has momentarily taken over, you can bring things back to the present moment by being in your body now.

Breathe in through the nose and exhale twice as long out of the mouth...
Come home to your body.

Check into your senses, one at a time.
Notice what sensations are within and out, whether it’s a breeze against your skin, the sound of a bird, or children laughing. Feel your feet on the ground … Pay attention!

Try Narrating Your Actions...
Being in the moment and telling yourself you are safe helps calm a busy mind and a stressed body. It brings your thoughts back from fear of the future or worry about the past, to the quiet of right now.

Why This Works.
It Stops panic: Your brain stops a false alarm
It Calms the body: Your breath slows down.
It Grounds your mind: You notice the real world around you.

Say in your head or out loud, "Right now, in this moment, I am safe."

07/08/2026

Tool 2

ACCEPTANCE

WHAT IS ACCEPTANCE NOT

Many people equate acceptance with approval. But this is not true. Acceptance doesn’t mean you like, want, support, or would choose what you are accepting. It is not giving up, losing hope, or relinquishing agency. It is also not passivity, settling, or apathy. In reality, acceptance is quite the opposite.

MIND BODY.

Acceptance operates not just at the level of thought but throughout the entire body-mind system. Physical tension often represents embodied resistance, muscles bracing against experience, breath constricting to limit feeling. This physical armouring maintains psychological patterns and prevents full processing of emotional experience.

Acceptance helps distinguish between what can and cannot be changed. Energy directed toward the unchangeable is wasted. The past cannot be altered. Other people cannot be controlled. Certain limitations are permanent. Accepting these realities allows energy to go to where change remains possible, moving forward.

Those who develop acceptance capacity describe a quality of freedom previously unknown. This freedom does not mean the absence of difficulty. Life continues to present challenges, losses, disappointments, injustices. The difference lies in relationship to these experiences. They are met, felt, processed, and released rather than fought endlessly. Pain becomes simply pain, rather than pain plus the suffering of resistance.

SELF-CARE takes on new meaning within an acceptance framework.