Update - Personalised Online Well Being Sessions - the ideal format for now.

I have yet to be given the go ahead to practice hands-on sessions by my governing bodies so my clinics remain temporarily closed. In the meantime I continue to offer my Personalised Online Well Being sessions which are safe, nurturing and empowering. Yes, they are different to a hands-on session and that essence has its own unique benefits - they can be very powerful.

“I was initially sceptical when Charlotte offered online sessions (as I like the face to face sessions), but thought I’d give them a go! I was completely shocked at how helpful the online sessions were.”

You may like some help to reduce pain, tightness and stiffness, release stresses and anxiety, promote feeling good, or focus on a particular issue. I have been offering Online Personalised Wellbeing Sessions since lockdown began and am so grateful to all those who have been willing to go them a whirl. I am very happy to say I will continue to offer online sessions when hands-on sessions are back on. As well as my regular clients who have carried on their sessions online - I have been able to work with clients hundreds of miles away, young mothers who have small children at home, those on furlough, and clients who are shielding. There are some considerable practical bonuses:

• no driving to a clinic - you are in your own home

• fit in sessions around young children/parents/pets

• no social contact if you are worried about the virus or are vulnerable/have vulnerable people around you

• continued care if there are local lockdowns

• you live miles away

• you can go straight to bed for a little rest after the session!

“I’ve been seeing Charlotte since August 2019 for Kinesiology. She got me through the most difficult and stressful period of my life (which actually resulted in physical pain in my shoulder - I had tried various physios but with no improvement in a year). I’d walk into her sessions tearful, stressed and very highly strung, but would walk out transformed into tranquil, calm and healed.

When lockdown hit, I was gutted that I wouldn’t be able to continue the sessions. I was initially sceptical when Charlotte offered online sessions (as I like the face to face sessions), but thought I’d give them a go! I was completely shocked at how helpful the online sessions were. I have no idea how she does it but Charlotte seemed to know exactly what emotions I was having and how to help me let them go and relax! My shoulder is now completely pain free (purely from Charlotte’s sessions), and I feel much calmer and able to cope with the general stresses of life.”
- Rachel Knott

Pressing Pause on Hands-on Treatments... BUT offering Online Personalised Well Being Sessions

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Due to the current corona virus social distancing advice and government guidelines I have decided to temporarily stop my hands-on treatments in my clinics. Like many other self-employed practitioners this is not an easy time for us and we will miss you as much as you will miss us. When this time has passed I will look forward to welcoming you back for some much needed healing touch. In the meantime I am excited to say that I will be replacing hands-on appointments with much needed Online Personalised Wellbeing Sessions to continue to support you. This will be a wonderful chance to work together using a unique blend of all my practices. I will also be posting more in my Taking Care of Ourselves Series here on this blog. I look forward to seeing you on the screen!

Taking Care of Ourselves - here is a little something you CAN do!

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I am going to be posting a little more frequently to help support you (and me) through this time. I am naturally more of hands-on person so this is a bit of a change for me. Understandably there is a lot of fear of the known and unknown around at the moment. This makes us very feel uncertain, unsettled, unbalanced and worried - so this is a very important time to keep ourselves emotionally balanced in anyway we can.

So my first little tip is to make a Daily Taking Care Manifesto, call it what you like, something that resonates with you. This is to help you cope with what is going on at the moment in your daily lives. Little actions that will make up your day. Think about what is important to you to keep you emotionally balanced and calm, what you need and what you don’t need. Keep it simple, over achievable and fun and focus on the good stuff. It is not a giant to do list! Whatever your circumstances, whether you live alone, have now got a household full, your work has paused, you are self-isolating - make your manifesto and do it while you are feeling good and positive. Make a poster, write on it, draw on it, add to it and change it when you need to. Stick it on a wall where you can see it everyday and check in with it for those times when you are having a wobble and do one of the things on it. You will be helping yourself. Here a few examples

• smile

• be grateful for 3 things on waking

• dance whenever a good song comes onto the radio, stretch, bend, exercise

• look in the mirror and tell yourself out loud you love you multiple times a day (huge for the immune system) and noone will see!

• do/watch things that make you laugh

• listen to your favourite radio programme/podcast

• limit energy zapping behaviour - set your own boundaries eg limit how many times you listen/watch the news per day/spend online..

• do something productive/creative/helpful

• stop and actively rest -this is mentally tiring time - so if you need to - lie down for 10 minutes, do deep belly breaths and visualise tension dropping away and do absolutely nothing

• have a coffee outside in nature

• sign up to a personalised online wellbeing session (with me! very exciting - details in next post) or a yoga/meditation/singing/what you want to learn class

• connect

• think of three nice things that happened today

• check in with your feelings and express them - write them down in a diary, tell your friends/family/pets. And importantly be a conscious listener when they are telling you their feelings. This means just really listen to them so they feel heard and validated.

Get creative! Make it really personal. Keep balanced and sending you a virtual hug.

Please be kind to yourself and others and do the right thing XX

Many thanks to Cornish illustrator Becky Thorns for use of her lovely illustration.

Flower Remedies - Our emotional helpers

In Systematic Kinesiology - as part of the treatment we look at how our emotions are effecting us. Sometimes we need help in dissolving some emotions or triggers that effect us negatively so we can move forward in positive way. Sometimes we know what these emotions/triggers are and sometimes we don’t. It doesn’t matter - the body/subconscious will show us as we muscle test. Flower remedies are very useful in kinesiology as they aid us to access our emotions. Flower remedies are our emotional helpers.

Rescue Remedy is well known to be very helpful in emergencies and crises. It can be used to help us get through any stressful moment, egs; giving a speech, immediately after an injury, moving house or for exam nerves.

In Systematic Kinesiology we use flower remedies to help on an emotional level so we feel more balanced about things, thus helping to allow your body to find its own natural state of health. You will receive a bespoke flower remedy blend as part of your Kinesiology treatment to support you after your session if appropriate.

There are many flower remedies, one example is Wild Rose. This may come up if you are feeling a bit stuck and just plodding along. It can help reawaken our interest in life. In a positive Wild Rose state we are happy-go-lucky. Instead of apathy we feel a sense of purpose that brings increased happiness and enjoyment.

Check-in with your hormones

Our hormones work behind the scenes affecting all our systems.  They can easily get out of balance due to stresses and strains, pregnancy, life events, lifestyle and not getting the right nutrition.  Would you like some natural health help with your hormonal issues?

• pre + menopause

• pmt + pregnancy + post pregnancy

• prostrate issues

• mood swings

• skin imbalances

• just not feeling right

• weight gain

• disturbed sleep

• low energy and tiredness

If so, Kinesiology is great for rebalancing our hormonal power houses.

Vitamin of the month - Vitamin D

Sunlight is necessary to make Vit D3, which is produced under the skin.   Small amounts of Vit D are found in oily fish, eggs, sweet potato, vegetable oils, milk, beef and liver and Swiss cheese.   Herbs that contain Vit D are nettles, alfalfa and parsley.

We need sufficient sunlight to synthesise Vit D and it is a common deficiency particularly as we lose more daylight hours as we move into winter.   In kinesiology we can test to see if you need Vit D.

Why do we need enough VIT D?  It maintains strong bones and teeth, helps support the immune system (therefore prevents many diseases), maintains normal muscle function and is needed for healthy thyroid function.