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Our articles are designed to educate and empower you and are rooted in our biopsychosocialspiritual approach to health and growth. Psychoeducation is an evidence-based part of recovery from mental health challenges, trauma, and chronic illness.

We teach about biology and neurology, the psychology of growth and change, the power of community and social factors, and the importance of meaning, purpose, and a sense of being part of something greater. All of these combine to create our shared experience of being human.

Nadia Georgiou

Trauma And CFS/ME, Chronic Pain and Environmental Illness

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Min read
July 1, 2024

Memories, stress, emotions and unmet needs can take physical form via your nervous system in ongoing waves of disquieting sensations, fatigue discomfort, or pain. Learning how to stop and reverse this cycle is a life changing and affordable way to heal.

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Nadia Georgiou

A Simple Snapshot Of Brain Retraining, Nervous System Healing and Mind-Body Skills

5
Min read
July 1, 2024

The return to our natural homeostasis of health can and does happen, no matter how stuck our nervous system is in a chronic stress response. Often it takes a lot, like illness or tremendous difficulty, for us to start paying attention to our physical, emotional and spiritual health.

Nadia Georgiou

What The Adverse Childhood Experience Studies Teach Us About Trauma And Chronic Illness And What They Leave Out.

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Min read
June 9, 2024

The adverse childhood experiences (ACE) studies show the link between childhood stress and trauma, and later life illness and challenge, but they miss out how we have the innate capability to heal and flourish. 

Nadia Georgiou

Self Compassion vs Self Abandonment

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Min read
April 30, 2024

Caring for ourselves instead of judging, shaming and blaming ourselves - allows pain to go down, both physical and emotional, and allows us to grow under the guiding light of kindness.

Nadia Georgiou

Lessons From My Recovery

5
Min read
April 30, 2024

Lessons from my own recovery

Nadia Georgiou

Boundaries After Growing Up In A Dysfunctional Family

10
Min read
April 30, 2024

When parents disrespect a child's boundaries, the child's sense of self—his or her autonomy, self-respect, feelings of effectiveness and of making a difference—are compromised. They will disconnect from their true Self, the present moment and their body in order to self protect their vulnerability. 

Why Children of Narcissistic Parents Get Chronic Illness

10
Min read
April 12, 2024

Understanding the impact of a narcissistic caregiver, and the path home to health. Unlike social media therapy that tells us to just regulate our nervous system or release trauma, the path home to wellbeing for many is much deeper, richer, and more powerful because it is the path home to authenticity. 

Intrinsic Motivation and Discipline - the dream team!

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Min read
April 6, 2024

Humans are creatures of habit, and habit formation takes discipline. What helps us start something and stick to it, is intrinsic motivation, which is motivation that comes from inside of us, from our values, authentic wishes and hopes for our life. 

CFS/ME, Chronic Pain, and Chronic Infections. The Cell Danger Response

10
Min read
April 6, 2024

The biological basis of environmental illnesses. Understand how a long term state of protection in the mind and body leads to illness, and how we can heal.

Nadia Georgiou

Post Exertion Pain and Symptoms - Breaking The Cycle

7
Min read
March 19, 2024

The pain flare that comes after physical exertion but not during is a response to the stress chemicals during the exertion and not the physical exertion. It's a very subtle but important difference to understand.

Nadia Georgiou

The choice to heal

9
Min read
March 5, 2024

“To make free from injury or disease; to make sound or whole; to patch up or correct; to restore to original purity or integrity.“ People can get very defensive about the idea of choosing to heal, or of choosing to be happy after having suffered from trauma or adversity or chronic illness (which is traumatic in itself)

Nadia Georgiou

Normalising Dissociation - There Is No Shame In Successfully Surviving

8
Min read
March 5, 2024

I am incredibly passionate about helping people celebrate their survival and stop demonising the parts of them that helped them do this, even if those parts are now not able to keep up with the needs and demands of the current reality of life.

Nadia Georgiou

Lessons From My Recovery

5
Min read
March 5, 2024

Take what serves you, leave what does not. I am hoping that some or all of the suggestions will become second nature and that your life will thereby become lighter. Then perhaps the light in ourselves may become a light for others.

Nadia Georgiou

How I Healed And What Healing Means To Me

22
Min read
March 5, 2024

I teach tools and practices that utilise neuroplasticity yes, but those tools are not my primary goal of working with people nor the driving force of how I healed myself.

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