Tag: mental health
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The return of the thinness obsession and what it’s costing our nervous system
It feels impossible to ignore the growing rise of “#skinnytok”, the movement towards slimmer, smaller bodies. Which feels like such a shame because for a while, it felt like there was a really positive shift towards accepting bodies of all sizes. As someone who works with the body, I find myself curious about the impact…
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The link between our breath, mental health and emotions: a somatic interpretation of the nervous system
If you think to any past experience of deep emotion, your breath would have shifted in response. Be it a gasp in shock, a sob in grief, or an inhale in excitement, your breath would have changed. Those heart racing, eyes leaking, belly flipping things we call the feels, it all changes our breath. In…
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