Healing Spaces Chat: Recent Episodes
Cath & Marlene
We chat about all things Healing Spaces, all things mental health, wellness, wholeness and authentic living. Open, honest conversations on gaining insight, healing practices and the journey to being whole.
Healing Spaces is a supportive community for those traveling the journey of personal growth and mental wellbeing. We find hope through insight, and grounding through doing, through connection we grow.
In this month's episode Cath and Marlene chat together about making connections and being brave in building relationships within the Whole Wide World. Learn more about our unique journey in coming together and forming a very special bond that we each treasure today. We chat about the challenges and discomforts of putting yourself out there and the steps that can be taken to form meaningful bonds.
We'd love to hear your comments or questions about expanding your network and connecting more within this Whole Wide World. Email us at info@healingspaceswellness.co.za.
Healing Spaces is a supportive community for those traveling the journey of personal growth and mental wellbeing. We find hope through insight, and grounding through doing, through connection we grow.
In this episode Marlene chats with guest Mae about being whole and living with a mental health condition. Get insights into the importance of having a team, how to be creative in your approach to living with a mental illness and the gift of having a companion. Whether you or someone you love is newly diagnosed with a mental illness or has been living with it for years, you will find something to take away from this candid interview.
We'd love to hear your comments or questions about living with a mental illness after listening to this episode. Email us at info@healingspaceswellness.co.za.
If you are looking for guidance and support in implementing ongoing practices to sustain your mental health and wellbeing, check out our monthly Connect Membership for an affordable and sustainable mental health program to keep you on track and accountable to maintaining your physical, emotional and mental wellbeing.
Healing Spaces is a supportive community for those traveling the journey of personal growth and mental wellbeing. We find hope through insight, and grounding through doing, through connection we grow.
In this episode Cath chats with guest Marion Nixon who shares her story about processing the loss of her mother, recognising the complexities and different ways that sadness and grief are showing up in her life now. As an Emotional Freedom Technique practitioner, Marion shares her tips and tools on her approach to working with emotions so that we can open our hearts to the wholeness of life and fully live.
If you would like to contact Marion, please find her details below:
https://marionnixon.co.za/ marion@intekom.co.za
Easy ways for self-soothing in the face of overwhelming emotions:
Calm your anxiety in 2 minutes | Rachel Richards
Reset Your Nervous System in 30 Seconds | Dr Alan Mandell, DC
The Butterfly Hug
We suggest that you watch these videos and learn these techniques when in a fairly calm state and don't wait until you are in a high level emotional distress to learn them.
We'd love to hear your questions and comments after listening to this episode. Email us at info@healingspaceswellness.co.za.
If you are looking for guidance and support in implementing ongoing practices to sustain your mental health and wellbeing, check out our monthly Connect Membership for an affordable and sustainable mental health program to keep you on track and accountable to maintaining your physical, emotional and mental wellbeing.
Healing Spaces is a supportive community for those traveling the journey of personal growth and mental wellbeing. We find hope through insight, and grounding through doing, through connection we grow.
In this episode Marlene & Cath chat about the women in our lives who inspire us and what it means to us to be an inspirational women. We consider how the masculine and feminine energies are balanced and expressed in a healthy way through inspirational figures, as well as in our own lives. In unpacking this we uncover a 'call to wholeness' that invites you to consider your own self-care practices. Find out how, with just a slight shift, we can create a more effective and balanced approach that engages both our feminine and masculine sides.
We'd love to hear your questions and comments after listening to this episode. Email us at info@healingspaceswellness.co.za.
If you are looking for guidance and support in implementing ongoing practices to sustain your mental health and wellbeing, check out our monthly Connect Membership for an affordable and sustainable mental health program to keep you on track and accountable to maintaining your physical, emotional and mental wellbeing.
Healing Spaces is a supportive community for those traveling the journey of personal growth and mental wellbeing. We find hope through insight, and grounding through doing, through connection we grow.
In this episode Marlene chats to our guest Holly who is in recovery from an eating disorder. Holly shares her candid insights and most loved practices that help her build her resilience in going the whole way with her recovery.
Do you resonate with Holly's story? Do you have comments, questions and feedback on this episode that you would like to share? Email us at info@healingspaceswellness.co.za. We'd love to hear from you!
If you are looking for guidance and support in implementing ongoing practices to sustain your mental health and wellbeing, check out our monthly Connect Membership for an affordable and sustainable mental health program to keep you on track and accountable to maintaining your physical, emotional and mental wellbeing.
Healing Spaces is a supportive community for those traveling the journey of personal growth and mental wellbeing. We find hope through insight, and grounding through doing, through connection we grow.
In this episode we tackle the topic of sleep from our personal perspectives. What makes sleep important to us, how sleep sleep affects our function and how we ensure we get a good night's rest. We have also created an awesome free download as a companion to this episode. You can grab your free downloadable worksheet right here.
We'd love to hear your questions and comments after listening to this episode. Email us at info@healingspaceswellness.co.za.
If you are looking for guidance and support in implementing ongoing practices to sustain your mental health and wellbeing, check out our monthly Connect Membership for an affordable and sustainable mental health program to keep you on track and accountable to maintaining your physical, emotional and mental wellbeing.
Healing Spaces is a supportive community for those traveling the journey of personal growth and mental wellbeing. We find hope through insight, and grounding through doing, through connection we grow.
In this episode Marlene & Cath chat about optimising function, wellbeing and happiness through developing awareness of your energetic systems, rhythms and cycles. They share their own personal experiences and practices as an example of how you can build on your own alignment and live a lifestyle that supports your wholeness.
We'd love to hear your questions and comments after listening to this episode. Email us at info@healingspaceswellness.co.za.
If you are looking for guidance and support in implementing ongoing practices to sustain your mental health and wellbeing, check out our monthly Connect Membership for an affordable and sustainable mental health program to keep you on track and accountable to maintaining your physical, emotional and mental wellbeing.
Healing Spaces is a supportive community for those traveling the journey of personal growth and mental wellbeing. We find hope through insight, and grounding through doing, through connection we grow. In this episode Marlene & Cath chat to Heather Harmsen, a dietician specialising in gut health about the interplay between physical and emotional wellbeing and how we can integrate nutrition into a more 'Wholegrain' lifestyle for improved mental health and wellbeing.
In this episode we reference the following Elizabeth Gilbert quote:
"Holding yourself together through all the phases of creation is where the real work lies."
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We'd love to hear your questions and comments living a Wholegrain lifestyle, gut health and nutrition and the interplay between nourishment and mental health. Email us at info@healingspaceswellness.co.za.
If you are looking for guidance and support in implementing ongoing practices to sustain your mental health and wellbeing, check out our monthly Connect Membership for an affordable and sustainable mental health program to keep you on track and accountable to maintaining your physical, emotional and mental wellbeing.
Healing Spaces is a supportive community for those traveling the journey of personal growth and mental wellbeing. We find hope through insight, and grounding through doing, through connection we grow. In this episode Cath chats with Dorita Redelinghuys, a kinesiologist and founder of Skinesiology vibrational skincare about Habits of Wholeness in our every day lives.
In this episode we reference the following Elizabeth Gilbert quote:
"To find the balance you want, this is what you must become. You must keep your feet grounded firmly on the earth that it's like you have four legs instead of two. That way you stay in the world. But you must stop looking at the world through your head. You must look through your heart, instead."
Links from this episode:
https://hswellness-shop.co.za - Skinesiology products
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Healing Spaces is a supportive community for those traveling the journey of personal growth and mental wellbeing. We find hope through insight, and grounding through doing, through connection we grow. In this episode Marlene and Cath chat with a fellow OT and Healing Spaces Community Member Lauren Burn about our monthly theme: Loving yourself Wholeheartedly.
In this episode we reference the following Elizabeth Gilbert quote:
"I'm here. I love you. Don't care if you need to stay up crying all night long. I will stay with you. There's nothing you can do to ever lose my love. I will protect you until you die and after your death I will still protect you. I am stronger than depression and braver than loneliness and nothing will ever exhaust me."
Resources mentioned in this episode:
The Boy, the Mole, the Fox and the Horse by Charlie Mackesy
The Ruthless Elimination of Hurry by John Mark Comer
https://www.instagram.com/lettersby_la/
Healing Rituals 4 part video series (Free)
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Healing Spaces is a supportive community for those traveling the journey of personal growth and mental wellbeing. We find hope through insight and grounding through doing, through connection we grow. In this episode Marlene and Cath welcome in the new year and unpack every angle of our monthly theme: A Whole New Beginning.
In this episode we reference the following Elizabeth Gilbert quote:
"When the past has passed from you at last, let go. And then climb down and begin the rest of your life with great joy."
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Healing Spaces is a supportive community for those traveling the journey of personal growth and mental wellbeing. We find hope through insight and grounding through doing, through connection we grow. In this episode we introduce ourselves and Healing Spaces to you - Welcome!
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