Holistic Therapy: How To Create At-Home Routine When It Feels Impossible

November 3, 2020 Brandi Jackson

Holistic Therapy: How To Create At-Home Routine When It Feels Impossible

The current times are packed with tasks that need to get done. Most people are working from home or working in-person during COVID. There’s also a large group of work at home and work in-person parents trying to manage a second and important task of home schooling their children with different ages and different schedules. There’s there’s the laundry, housework, breakfast, lunch and dinner to prepare. There are additionally bills to pay and phone calls to make as well. With everything being in somewhat of a transition it can feel difficult to create any routine from all the moving pieces of the day.

You may feel like your day is beyond control and as though it would be easier to step back and do nothing until everything returns to “normal” and you can finally get back more control of your time again. The news that’s worth remembering is that you can have more control over your time right now. Don’t give up, I have three holistic therapy tools you can use to create more routine in your schedule when it feel absolutely impossible.

Decide To Commit To The Task

There’s often a phase for most life transitions that include adjusting to make room and to practice an altered schedule. When we decide to take on new tasks, it’s great to keep an open mind and to give the new plan a try. However, we often realize as the new task or schedule is introduced and rolling out; that we have some gaps in success or feeling that the plan isn’t going smoothly. It’s important that we continue to look for ways to close the gaps we observe from our practice efforts and one of the first tools is to look at your commitment to the task and next your commitment to the practice required for making things work.

Committing to the task itself is about asking yourself, if the task is important to you in some real and necessary way. For the homeschool example mentioned before there’s a twist. Homeschool may not be easy or your choice but ultimately you want the best for your children and homeschool (at least during COVID) is the best you can provide to your children as they grow and continue to learn. It’s a big picture effect to commit here. Your Children are important and school is necessary. This train of thought may also reflect for working remotely, attending Zoom meeting after Zoom meeting, and any other lifestyle basic day to day responsibilities that will require your ongoing support.

Stay In Strategy Mindset For The Win

Once you commit to the task, you may find that you have mental space freed up to start looking into your plan/strategy to be successful and to make things work better if not smoothly. This is where all the magic happens because you can build your plan with consideration to organize timelines, the flow of the house (housework), the family schedule/ partner schedule and your personal schedule. Committing to your practice and strategy is the part where most people will feel growing pains. It may sound a bit silly but there’s a great opportunity to writing down your schedule with a pen and paper. You may find that you’ll be able to see everything that needs to get done with better clarity. If you can see it, truth be told, you can organize it. Once you have an organized flow to your schedule you can get into the practice of making the schedule routine.

Don’t worry about getting things perfect or having the prefect plan for wild card and unexpected events. In those moments, it’s okay to give yourself grace, take a pat on the back for how hard your working and then keep up your routine. Change can be hard but if you need a bit of a milestone try to aim for 21-66 days of practice and then see how you’re feeling in your practice. Time and space to practice will make things flow much better. Be sure to commit mentally and to show up in practice, from there things can only get better.

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Holistic Therapy Tips For Increasing Your Energy Naturally & Fast

October 26, 2020 Brandi Jackson

Holistic Therapy Tips For Increasing Your Energy Naturally & Fast

It can be a tough time trying to have enough energy while also working with a busy daily schedule. When time flexibility decreases you may find you naturally also feel a lull or decrease of natural energy. When you have several responsibilities it can be difficult to maintain the energy and stamina that will be necessary to get “everything” done. Sometimes having a full schedule will intensify emotions of stress, which also can increase the likelihood of eating comfort food, carbs, or sweets. You may feel more mood swings, brain fog, difficulty with recall and memory. Not to worry I have some great Holistic Therapy Tips to help you increase your energy naturally and fast.

Drinking Nutritious Water

I admit the holistic tip for moderate- complete hydration is not necessarily a new concept for energy recovery or energy management but it’s still important. I recommend you drink half your body weight in ounces in order to get enough hydration daily. This water intake ratio does work best for people weighing less than 200 lbs. and if you are over 200 pounds consider speaking with your Primary Care provider to ensure that you receive medical guidance on proper water intake to match your bodyweight. For people weighing over 200 pounds there may be potential to over hydrate where drinking too much water can be considered harmful.

I also think it depends on the person as there are individuals who weigh less than 200 pounds who drink a gallon of water daily. Ultimately, it’s helpful to consider what works for your body and to assess with practice what will work for your unique mind and body energy response.

But wait, there’s more; it’s also great to consider adding a quarter teaspoon of sea salt to your water to increase your hydration absorption when drinking water. You can also consider drinking herbal teas to get an increase of Polyphenols, which can support cell oxidation and energy recovery.

Eat Energy Foods

Another opportunity for increasing your energy naturally and fast is to fuel up with healthy food options that can nourish your body and help you to feel robust energy. I recommend having green smoothies, salad, sweet potatoes, eggs, apples, coffee, green tea, almonds, oatmeal, and spinach. Also it helps to avoid foods that are processed, fried, simple carbohydrates, and foods with more than 5 grams of sugar per serving.

Walking Outside To Boost Mind Clarity

Getting fresh air and being in a state of moderate movement is a really great way to increase energy recovery. Your circulation increases from walking which extends to your ability to think more clearly and to improve recall and memory. In addition a change of scenery is a great to refocus energy. Try to give yourself at least 10 minutes of walking outside preferably in order to access a change of visual scenery and space for moving your body to increase your clarity of mind, reducing stress, and feeling physically more alert with energy recovery.

Deep Breathing Or Meditation Breaks

This one is my favorite, deep breathing and meditation breaks are a great way to recover your energy when you feel stressed or overwhelmed. Just try to slow your breathing to a count of 4 seconds for both when you inhale and exhale. Also consider pausing for a count of 4 seconds between your inhale or exhale. You will notice your racing thoughts slowing down with deep breathing or meditation practice. When you are able to slow your thoughts down you’ll naturally feel increased energy and refreshment.

You can consider doing small breaks of meditation throughout your day for a bigger advantage even an episode of just 2 minutes can help create big energy recovery results.

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Holistic Therapy Tips For “Bouncing Back” After Disappointment

October 20, 2020 Brandi Jackson

Holistic Therapy Tips For “Bouncing Back” After Disappointment

So the day turned and morphed before your very eyes, everything was going okay but then disappointment showed up. You were doing great things, you had everything moving and grooving and then things just stopped going as expected.

It can be tough to recover from unexpected disappointments. Even when you expect things to be hard or surprising, you still may find yourself feeling disappointed when things don’t have the best outcome.

There are different ways you can help yourself recover when you experience a debilitating disappointment that causes you to stop in your tracks, question your own decisions, and makes you feel unsure about how to respond. Check out some of my Holistic Therapy tips below to learn how to improve disappointment navigation and recovery.

Take Some Space From Your Disappointment

It can be so difficult to think about what to do in response of a disappointment when you don’t create any space to step back and look at the bigger picture. Everything looks more complex when you’re getting the microscopic view. Consider stepping back to see things from a distance. Consider when you feel disappointment about an outcome, to slowly and gently step back from it however possible. This may mean turning off your phone, not checking email, or going for a walk to allow your mind to create healthy distance while your feeling the initial shock from the disappointment. Take space responsibly, if you have people counting on you please be sure to ask someone to cover for you while you step back. And if you don’t have support that can cover for you, consider letting the people attached to your responsibilities know you are going to take a brief break of sorts. Stepping back with a coverage plan or communicating in advance can work well with exception to children who may require your supervision; in this case consider low activity days like renting a movie and ordering pizza to keep your children occupied while you take a short break to recover.

Refocus Your Attention To Other Areas Of Your Life That Have Value

When you take some space from your disappointment, it’s a great practice to evaluate other areas of your life that have value. Refocus on the other elements of your life that feel important. Maybe this is where you can focus on your fitness and exercise practice, your nutrition plan for the week, or your self-care routine. Consider if there’s something more that you can add or practice that would help you better recover from your disappointment and feel more balance, more energy, or more happiness in the process. Sometimes it’s nice to make a stronger short term commitment in a different area of your life for example to do a 5 day meditation practice, a 7 day mile a day challenge, or a 5 day meal plan to actively focus on your immediate well being in a tangible and engaging way as you create space between you and your disappointment experience.

Find Your Why And Be Gentle

Whatever’s caused the feeling of disappointment may also have the possibility of redemption. Maybe it’s something you can revisit when you created some space to heal and refocus. Consider reconnection if it’s safe and appropriate. One tool that works well is to consider your why as you focus on gentle reconnection. Think about why the disappointment was important to you, why you wanted the experience to be successful. It’s important to consider what your disappointment means in a positive context for your larger goals. Why did you want things to go well on a deeper level? Why is this task important to you, what happens when it goes right? How will your life be more aligned with your purpose? We want to build a habit of thinking deeply and to see the bigger impact of your why in relationship to the disappointment recalibrating into future success.

Don’t Miss The Opportunity To Outsmart Your Disappointments

Be gentle in your practice and know that if your why is significant, you will find that you can return to your goal having learned from and overcoming your disappointments. Use what you’ve learned from each disappointment you experience to keep the practice of using the data with strategy from your past efforts to create success for your future efforts.

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5 Ways To Know If You’re Really Ready For Holistic Therapy

October 19, 2020 Brandi Jackson

5 Ways To Know If You’re Really Ready For Holistic Therapy

In 2020 everyone is talking about going to therapy. Therapy is definitely becoming more normalized socially now than before in Communities Of Color. I’m sure you know people like your friends or family who have “a Therapist” at this point. Maybe your friend so and so has a Therapist and she’s doing better than before. Maybe this friend has been raving about how therapy helps and has been encouraging that you should go and see a Therapist as well. But how do you know if you’re emotionally ready?

Sure, maybe you could use some life improvement or emotional progress but is therapy what you want or need to achieve success to change your life? To be frank not everyone who goes to therapy is ready for therapy. It’s easy to be seduced by the idea of working with a therapist in order to heal current or past pain and trauma but ultimately there’s a lot more happening in a Client-Therapist relationship beyond just having a simple conversation about your current feelings. Consider the 5 signs of readiness below as a self-assessment that can help you know if you’re ready for Holistic Therapy.

Commitment to Be Open And Explore

A part of being ready for therapy is to feel comfortable to be open and explore your emotions. This means that you can actively talk about how you feel. This means you are able to talk about what’s bothering you. This means you are open to self reflect what would help you feel better. This mean you are open to explore behavioral patterns and determine with support if alternative coping methods could be more supportive of your needs.

This means you will attempt to answer questions from your therapy sessions without saying, “I don’t know” as a final answer. It’s important that you move beyond the feeling of not knowing an answer to find an answer in session. It’s important also that if you don’t feel comfortable talking with a Therapist about everything that comes up in session that you be able to share this with your therapist by pinpointing your own comfort level and readiness.

Being open and explorative is a big part of how talk therapy will help you to know where you have opportunities to heal and improve. If you are closed and not feeling comfortable exploring there’s likelihood that you aren’t ready for therapy just yet.

Your Willing to Commit Your Time Consistently and To Commit Financially

Therapy is often deemed as affordable, moderate, or expensive depending on the different methods of payment and reimbursement that are available. Some individuals who receive therapy will use their insurance and pay a co-payment. Some people will use their employment benefits for reimbursement and receive Super Bills for their therapy sessions to gain reimbursement. Some people pay out of pocket for their therapy sessions.

Therapy isn’t just a financial commitment. Therapy also requires a time commitment. You will benefit from therapy by going to your initial session and follow up sessions. If you don’t attend sessions consistently or play any part of investing financially in your sessions you may feel less connected to the therapy work that is being provided to you. The relationship, connection, and rapport with your therapist are also established with consistency in attendance for your sessions. Going to therapy 1x per month or every other month is ideal as the most distance to keep between sessions with some consistency. If you wish to work a therapist less than every other month, consider that you probably don’t require therapy support.

Commitment to Share How You Feel

In therapy it’s important for you to have space to share how you feel. You may find that you have not shared enough about your feelings overall in life and this may be a key goal you’d like to work on in therapy. I encourage you to bring your feelings to your therapy sessions. Be prepared and comfortable sharing when you don’t feel comfortable or upset. It’s also a great opportunity while working with a therapist to verbalize (not text, thank you) when or if you ever feel frustrated, unheard, disrespected, disregarded or misunderstood in session by your therapist. Your feelings are always valid and it’s best to make sure you and the therapist your working with stay on the same page about your emotions and feelings for best therapy outcomes. Therapy is a key space to talk about emotions including difficult emotions.

You Aren’t Sure What Makes You Feel Stuck

You are ready to move forward in your life but you’re not sure what to do to get some progress going. You might want to feel better emotionally but your not sure what could help you feel differently. If your experiencing discomfort or symptoms for your mental health you may not be clear on what behaviors or coping tools to try. If you already know what makes you feel stuck, then you can work with your therapist to look at different ways to get progress where you would like to experience change.

When you work with a therapist, you can work jointly to look at which coping tools will possibly be most impactful for resolving and reducing your symptoms or emotional discomfort.

You Are Willing to Work On Your Coping Practice With Some Consistency

In therapy a term that is often used for symptom management and behavioral change is the term coping tools. In your therapy session you will be able to jointly work with the therapist to create a coping plan for improving and reducing symptoms. It’s important that you practice your coping outside of the session. It’s completely okay and expected that you may not be perfect but if you are not practicing any coping from session or designing healthy alternative coping practices independently you will not feel the change you want is likely happening. Emotional change is most connected to change in behavior and changing your thinking process to help you feel healthier and comfortable.

When considering therapy, please consider the 5 signs of readiness first. I hope this holistic therapy post feels informative. I’m encouraging you to reach out for therapy if you feel ready and if you find that you aren’t ready, consider the alternatives that you feel more comfortable with.

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Holistic Therapy Tips: What To Eat To Reduce Anxiety Symptoms

October 18, 2020 Brandi Jackson

Holistic Therapy Tips: What To Eat To Reduce Anxiety Symptoms

There’s a lot of conversation going on about how what “you are what you eat”; we’ve all heard that saying before. So yeah, we can understand; what we eat will play a role in how we feel on some level but what does this really mean?

If we eat healthy nutritious foods then we should feel healthy with more energy, have more strength, feel more stamina, and an overall sense of wellness. The other part of the story that doesn’t get as much conversation is the benefits of healthy nutrition implementation for your mental emotional health. It’s so important to consider what you eat as a potential tool to support mood management and emotional wellness as well.

In today’s article were going to look at how holistic nutrition can apply to mental emotional health and wellness in 3 key ways. First we’ll look at your basic rules for increasing general mental emotional health and wellness, then we’ll look more closely at supplements that support and help manage anxiety, then we’ll look at the behavioral support options that are also useful for creating a well-rounded holistic approach to anxiety management and anxiety reduction.

Eat Your Plants, Sprouts, Fruit, Fats, And Seeds

There’s definitely a standard blueprint or set of actions to take to reduce mood overwhelm or symptoms for depression, anxiety, and other mental health diagnosis and mood disorders. Let’s look at the basic rules of food and mood management.

Eat More Veggies: Aim to eat leafy green veggies daily. 4-5 cups is a great start. You can add spinach to smoothies, make sure to eat one salad per day or make soups with veggies as well.
Eat Less Fruit: Consider eating fruit daily as well with moderation of 1-2 servings (or pieces). Consider eating fruit with lower natural sugar content like pears, apples, blueberries, raspberries, blackberries, lemon, lime, and avocado.
Eat Healthy Fats: Try coconut oil, olive oil, avocado oil, and fish oils. Try to eliminate use of vegetable oil and also eating foods with vegetable oil (canola oil, vegetable oil, peanut oil, sunflower oil, sesame oil, safflower oil, linseed oil, and rice bran oil) in the ingredient list.
Eat Sprouted Grains: Look for sprouted grains in the form of cereal, English muffins, bread, and tortillas. There’s also plenty of options for almond, oat, and coconut flour options. Avoid traditional bread and grain options as most have higher levels of sugars, gluten, carbs that ultimately cause higher patterns of glucose spiking, general sugar/ carb addiction.
Eat Spices: Adding spices to your foods have great medicinal value for your mood and emotional health. Eating spices like cinnamon, ginger, turmeric, onion powder, garlic powder, sea salt, black pepper, rosemary, oregano, and the list goes on all play a role in providing nutritional value for your health where your body also gains increased antioxidants.
Eat Nuts And Seeds: Reach for your nut butters over peanut butter to access lower sugar content. You’ll also feel increased satiation via having access to nut butters and seeds like hemp seed, sunflower seeds, chia seeds, sprouted seeds, pumpkin seeds, flax seeds, and sesame seeds.

What to Avoid Eating

Please reduce your simple carbohydrates (like white bread, white potatoes, chips etc.) and sugar intake (sweet foods made with high amounts of sugar over 5 grams per serving) because both sugars and carbohydrates cause a glucose spike in your body, which equates to your body feeling increased deregulation. This bodily deregulation also occurs for our mental emotional wellness.

Supplements That Help Reduce Anxiety

All right let’s look at anxiety supplements more specifically. Although anxiety is a disorder that has a great response to behavioral efforts for increased mindfulness, there are supplements that can help as well. All of the listed suggestions below are natural herbs or Adaptogens that have proven to be beneficial for anxiety maintenance.

Holy Basil Tea
Hemp Oil
CBD Oil
Lemon Balm Herb
Ashwagandha Herb
Kava Kava

It’s Your Mindfulness That Matters

I know this answer is not a favorite for clients experiencing anxiety but mindfulness and stimulus reduction does matter when it comes to anxiety. I want to encourage you to reduce screen time before bed and first thing in the morning. Carve out time for self-care and meditation if you want to see reduction of your anxiety symptoms. There are tons of free guided-meditations that are available if you feel like independent meditation is difficult or distractible.

Ultimately all of the suggestions combined will work best with implemented together but even starting with just one small effort can be just as useful for your holistic therapy approach to anxiety management through your nutrition practice.

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Holistic Therapy Tips: How to Feel Less Emotionally Sensitive Or Reactive

October 17, 2020 Brandi Jackson

Holistic Therapy Tips: How to Feel Less Emotionally Sensitive Or Reactive

Feeling emotionally sensitive or reactive is not much fun. One minute your mood is good and then the smallest of unexpected events can change the rest of your entire day. For example you go to Starbucks and the Barista doesn’t greet you or get your name spelled right. You may feel slighted and “in your head” for hours thinking of different reasons why the interaction went the way it did. You might even decide to not go back to Starbucks for a while because the anxiety of having to deal with the Barista makes you feel like you’ll have to bat away potentially more negative energy. Maybe this example reminds you of an interaction with a co-worker, or a partner, or maybe this example reminds you of a friend.

The feeling however is the same. The feeling is one where you feel your emotional resilience being swept from under your feet by an unexpected interaction, conversation, or behavior. The person on the other end could be someone you care about or love, or it could also be an interaction with a complete stranger and it still feels just as painful. When you feel emotionally sensitive or reactive consider the tips I will be sharing below in order to feel more grounded and steady.

Connect More With Your Needs

Did you know you are more likely to have emotional reactivity if you are not taking time and space for your own personal needs consistently? One of the superpowers of self-care and feeling grounded is that when we spend time and attention connected to our own needs we feel emotionally nurtured and cared for. If we aren’t spending time connecting with our personal needs you may begin to feel emotional overwhelm more quickly as your needs begin to pile up and compete which makes it easier to become emotionally reactive and focused on external experiences, behaviors, and conversations.

It’s important that we carve of space and time daily to take care of our personal needs to do basic acts of self-care consistently. Some basic self care practices that help you include eating meals regularly, hydrating, showering daily, getting dressed daily, seeking out daily inspiration, laughing, and practicing affirmation daily all matters in how you will feel emotionally and how you will react to others.

Think About Why You Feel Emotionally Sensitive Or Reactive

What is it about the interaction that causes you to feel reactive? What makes you feel triggered emotionally? In repeat interactions or experiences where you find yourself feeling more and more triggered consider what it is about the interaction that makes you feel upset. Consider using a curious and neutral process where you can look at the interaction that happened without blame or reaction to look deeper at what about the interaction makes you feel your personal expectations were not considered or respected. In the case of the Starbucks Barista, maybe your expectation is that they would be kind and say good morning as a standard pattern. When store clerks don’t greet you it triggers old feelings of being ignored or mistreated from other areas of your personal past.

Once you can pinpoint your link to the emotional reactivity, you can also dismantle the impact by asking yourself an alternative question of:

“What if this has nothing to do with any of those experiences”
“What if I isolate this experience from my past or similar experiences”

These questions are meant to help our logical brain connect with the present and to separate our emotional reactivity into one experience rather than grouping our experience with all of our similar past emotional experiences that causes the emotional overload aka emotional pile up. Ideally separating and isolating your interactions to make them singular vs. collective also helps your emotional mind rest and you step away from being “in your head” for hours and days at a time.

Recover With Independent Creative Learning And Expression

Your emotional recovery can speed up when you make time to recover by taking time where you focus on doing actions that make you feel happy and recharged. Consider your favorite past times or hobbies. Consider learning a new hobby as well. Spending your time learning a new skill takes time and attention where your brain actively engages in the process, which makes it easier to stop thinking about your emotions, interactions, and relationships. Consider activities like painting, coloring, doodling, reading, Listening to upbeat positive music and cleaning, cooking, organizing your home or office, or going for a long walk to change your environment.

Applying the practice of increased self-care daily and doing personal reflection of why you feel emotionally reactive can help you feel more grounded and emotionally strong. Also consider writing down the 2 emotional organization questions listed above and seeking space for independent creative learning or expression. You’ll notice your reactivity decreasing and a feeling of being more in control of your emotions.

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Holistic Therapy Anxiety Treatment: How to Use CBD And Hemp Oil For Anxiety and Stress Management

October 15, 2020 Brandi Jackson

Holistic Therapy Anxiety Treatment: How to Use CBD And Hemp Oil For Anxiety and Stress Management

Hemp oil and CBD both have a long-standing record of effective outcomes for anti-anxiety management and anxiety reduction. Hemp Oil and CBD closely related as hemp oil and CBD oil is harvested from the same flower; Hemp flowers. Neither use of CBD or Hemp Oil will cause you to feel high or mentally altered. CBD and Hemp Oil are both known to increase relaxation, increase pain relief, and reducing inflammation.

We’re in a collective season at this time where stress and anxiety are more consistent and daily occurrences. We feel anxious about getting “it all done” managing our personal lives, personal responsibilities, the larger state of the world and the unknown.

It’s reasonable and important to look for different ways to create healthy coping practices and to consider functional supplementation for mood and mind support. Yes we are capable of treating anxiety and stress without hemp oil or supplementation potentially, but sometime dynamic approach will get the job done much faster. Dynamic approach is using coping tools to change behaviors that may increase anxiety or stress reaction while also considering healthy functional supplementation with food and movement to help support your mind and body to heal and recover at a faster or increased impact.

What is Hemp Oil/ CBD Oil?

Both Hemp Oil and CBD Oils are derived from the Hemp Plant/ Hemp Flower. The hemp Flower or Hemp Plant also seems to be referred to as the Cannabis Plant. Hemp is used in many ways; natural medicine, lotions, soaps, salves, food, clothing, building materials. The extraction method for Hemp Oil and CBD Oil Phytocannabinoids do not allow for THC (psychoactive) properties to be harvested collectively. CBD Oil is also harvested from the Hemp Plant and has similar benefits of hemp as it is used as medicine, infused into lotions, soaps, salves, and foods. CBD oils may also be combined with THC in order to support therapeutic relaxation, pain relief, and appetite stimulus for cancer patients and recreational use in states where THC use is legal.

How Does Hemp Oil Supplementation Work

Taking CBD or Hemp Oil is very easy and similar in method. Both CBD and Hemp Oil come in tincture form where you can take a serving of the oil after sharing the contents of the bottle. Place the CBD Oil or Hemp Oil under your tongue and hold or swish the oil under your tongue for 60-90 seconds. You can take more than 1 dose per day if you’d like however it’s ideal that you begin with the recommended dosage. If you feel minimal results after at least 14 days of consistent use consider increasing your dose to a higher amount.

Hemp Oil is also notable for it’s nutritional content of omega 3 fatty acids, vitamin e, protein, carotene, Vitamin A, calcium, magnesium, potassium, sulfur, phosphorus, chlorophyll, Sulfur, and small amounts of zinc and iron.

Hemp Oil Extended Benefits List

Not only does Hemp Oil and CBD Oil aid in anxiety support and pain management and reducing muscle tension and stress. Hemp Oil and CBD Oil also have extended benefits beyond anxiety and stress. Check out the list below to see the full range of what hemp supplementation can help with.

Reduce Inflammation
Lower Blood Cholesterol Levels
Lower Blood Pressure
Improve cardiovascular function
Improve organ function
Treat and Reduce Dry Skin and Hair Conditions
Reduce PMS Symptoms and Pain
Improved muscle recovery post workout recovery
Increase energy levels

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Holistic Therapy Anxiety Treatment: How To Use An Acupressure Mat And Pillow + More Benefits

October 12, 2020 Brandi Jackson

Holistic Therapy Anxiety Treatment: How To Use An Acupressure Mat And Pillow + More Benefits

Anxiety can be immobilizing and distracting so much that it’s hard to think with clarity or any sense of direction. When we feel anxious, it’s a great reminder that we need to be able to access different tools to slow our racing mind down to return to a healthy state. Acupressure therapy is a great tool to treat anxiety holistically. It’s a simple and self governed process of simply getting your acupressure mat and pillow, then spending time lying on your mat and pillow to receive the therapeutic benefits, then storing your mat and pillow to returning to your day with improved refreshment.

What is Acupressure?

Acupressure is an ancient form of massage practiced in Chinese Medicine. The goal of acupressure massage has been to increase and encourage balanced flow of Qi (energy) through the meridian channels of the body.

In current history acupressure mats and pillows have also been created and utilized for the same purpose and practice. Now acupressure therapy can be achieved by lying on an acupressure mat and pillow minus the masseuse, which is helpful with everyone currently spending more time at home to prevent and reduce COVID risks.

Acupressure mats can be found online at holistic health stores and amazon.com. Some people will simply buy the acupressure mat without the pillow. I personally find the pillow and the mat combined to be most beneficial for therapeutic response for anxiety and stress management.

How Does Using An Acupressure Mat Feel?

Using an acupressure mat does take a little time to acclimate to as the pillow and the mat is covered in small plastic “needle like” points. When you lay on the mat it’s ideal to move slowly and gently while wearing as little layers between your skin and the mat for maximum application.

Once you find a comfortable position on the mat it’s ideal to stay in a resting position on the acupressure mat and pillow for 10-20 minutes for best anxiety and stress relief. Usually within the first 5 minutes of your acupressure session, you will feel an endorphin release of calm and soothing energy. This feeling is often maintained throughout the remaining time in your acupressure session.

How to Use Acupressure When Anxious Or Stressed

When you’re feeling anxious or stressed, using an acupressure mat can be helpful to calm yourself effectively. It may be harder to think clearly when anxious but planning ahead helps. Anxiety is an emotional experience that happens more than once and ideally you may even know the times and locations that your anxiety or stress may peak.

If you find yourself anxious at home, consider keeping your mat in a space where you can practice for example your bedroom may be ideal or near the living room couch. If you are working in an office space, consider keeping your acupressure mat at your desk or in your car to be used during your break. If you happen to have an office with a quiet room, consider using your acupressure mat while in the quiet room space.

Additional Benefits of Acupressure

We talked about the benefits of using an acupressure mat and pillow for anxiety and stress management and there’s a extended list of additional benefits you will gain from using acupressure therapy. Some additional benefits from using acupressure therapy include increased pain management, reduced neck and pack pain, reduced insomnia symptoms, fibromyalgia pain, and headache reduction.

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Holistic Therapy Tools For Stressful AF Days At Work

October 9, 2020 Brandi Jackson

Holistic Therapy Tools For Stressful AF Days At Work

Work can be a busy place. Even now while most people report working from home, there’s still other responsibilities that need to get done. While you work you may also be considering the housework, laundry, and home school. You are home after all and that means that you may find distractions and stress surfacing more easily at the home office than the work office. What about your partner, children, or roommates if you have them? What about your parents if you’ve returned home? What about your pets?

Then, you have the zoom meetings that you need to attend and then the other parts of your work commitments that are important as well. Stress at work could also primarily be coming from the pace of your work and the type of work you do. It varies person to person. The first and best thing you can do when your feeling stressed at work is to stop and acknowledge that you are feeling stressed in that moment. I have some tips to help you deescalate your stress while at work.

Holistic Mindful Breathing

Let remember the power of your breath. You can take a simple and intentional inhale, pause briefly and then exhale slowly to allow you body and mind to reduce stress symptoms like racing mind, speeding heart rate, high blood pressure, tight muscles, and feelings of emotional overwhelm. When you practice mindful deep breathing you want to aim for breathing in through your nose, down through your chest and allowing your inhales and exhales to reach the base of your stomach. Deep breathing in this way is also known as belly breathing. When your breathing is deep and able to access the base of your stomach you can trigger the full oxygen exchange in your body. When you practice diaphragmatic breathing you can also reduce symptoms for depression, anxiety, PTSD symptoms, and Irritable Bowel Syndrome.

Change Your Environment: Go Outside

When you are feeling stress during the workday it’s important to consider your environment and how long you have been working. Have you had your break today? It’s a great practice to spend time away from your desk when you take breaks instead of surfing the net and staying in your seat. Your mind and body recognize the benefits of change of environment and this creates recovery and increased productivity for the workday. Think of it as going on a small vacation daily when you step away from your desk. When you return to your work after stepping away you will likely notice a feeling of improved energy and stronger concentration.

Meditate For Re-Centering

Meditation is a great tool when your feeling stressed, even when you’re at work. You can take a moment while seated at your desk, dim your screen, and complete a brief meditation when you feel stress coming in. You can put on ear buds if you’d like and if you share a work space just put up your “do not disturb -available in 5 minutes” sign so people can see it and take some time to just close your eyes, breathe deeply and think of relaxing the muscles throughout your body starting with your scalp and going all the way down to the tips of your toes. When you return from your meditation break you will likely feel much calmer and have improved clarity in your efforts.

Listen to Positive Uplifting Music While You Work

Something that always seems to work and work quickly no less is to listen to upbeat and encouraging music while you are working. There are many great productivity music stations that you can listen to on YouTube while you work which help you to keep a productive pace while you work. You can also consider listening to productive binaural beats, Lo-fi Chill Hop or Gospel music to keep your mind and actions feeling upbeat and relaxing at the same time.

Take Water And Walk Breaks

It’s important to stay hydrated and get a little walking done during the workday. You may even enjoy going for 1-3 walks throughout your workday. Consider going for a walk and water break before you begin your work shift, even if it’s just around the home office or your work office. Next, try to complete a midday walk and water break as well. Your midday walk and water break is the most important chance you’ll have to rest your energy for the second half of the workday. Also if possible, try to conclude the workday with a brief walk and water break to transition from work mindset to home and relaxation mindset. The walks can be as little as a couple minutes. Every little bit of stress management practice counts for your stress reduction process and over time you may notice your tools become more efficient because your mind and body is more accustomed to the tools you’re using. It’s a win-win for healthy stress management recovery.

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Holistic Therapy For Black Women: How Holistic Therapy Can Help Women Of Color

October 8, 2020 Brandi Jackson

What is Holistic Therapy for Black Women and how is it different or the same as holistic therapy for any other gender and race experience?

As a Holistic Therapist, I see Holistic Therapy as a best practice and concept to create harm-free, dynamic, and intuitive approach to mind body and spiritual healing that is, well; holistic. This is a valuable conversation to have regarding the black woman experience to achieve wellness with mental emotional health.

If this article interests you, chances may be higher that you are a Black Woman interested in Holistic Therapy, or perhaps someone interested in supporting a Black Woman to achieve mental emotional health.

How Holistic Therapy Can Help Black Women

Holistic Therapy is a great mental health and wellness support for Black Women, historically speaking Black Women are more likely to go without support for emotional needs, space for emotional safety, non-biased medical care, and non-biased mental health support. There’s been a breech of trust in the field of medical care and limited support in therapy services historically in the Black community. Please look up the Tuskegee Study or ask the family of Henrietta Lacks. Let’s not even get into the historical past where Black Women were sterilized without consent in order to reduce personal rights for family planning due to racism. I’m sharing these historical traumas to demonstrate the lack of trust when working with helping professionals as Black Women. This is an undercurrent of what feels safe or not safe when working with a health professional. Considering the social unrest of current day America, this energy has not dissipated for many, but to be fair; I can’t speak for all Black Women.

The Diversity Factor Is Important

There is more diversity in the mental health field than ever before and there’s still more experiences of unmet emotional needs for Black Women. Most Black Women have personal experiences where their expectation to have mindful and present support for medical and therapeutic services were underwhelmed. The good news is there are more positive experiences than in the past. That doesn’t mean everything in the system of health and wellness support for Black Women is in perfect order just yet.

Changes Are Happening: Let’s Keep It Going

As a Black Woman Holistic Health Therapy Provider, I’m excited to see and personally work with Black Women for Holistic Therapy support services. I see a great increase of Black Female Therapy Provider’s existing, which is helpful for Women of Color to feel safe in therapy to explore their feelings with a certain familiarity of the lived experience of being a Black Woman without having to stop and explain that when you’d much rather stay focused on your emotional needs. Some women don’t mind at all, and some find this to be helpful as a feature of emotional safety.

Is it Different At All? Is it The Same?

I would say that Holistic Therapy can be provided by a whoever you ultimately feel most comfortable with and it’s worthy to think about what factors of your support team feel useful to have when choosing your holistic support team. Each Holistic Therapy Provider will likely have a varying background of expertise. Find what feels right for your emotional wellness needs.

I’m personally trained in Fitness and nutrition as supplemental support for emotional wellness. But there are other Holistic Therapists trained in Reiki therapy, yoga, acupuncture, massage, and so on. All of it’s useful but you’ll get to decide what is most useful to you.

You essentially will get to work a provider you feel comfortable and safe with who is also qualified to support you holistically in the areas of your life that will be an asset to your emotional health and wellness journey. I hope this post inspires you and feels like good food for thought.

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Holistic Therapy For Sober October: Natural Stress and Anxiety Recovery (Alternatives For Alcohol & Drug Use)

October 7, 2020 Brandi Jackson

It’s October and it’s a time of year when many people are choosing to practice social behaviors to for alcohol and drug reduction and recovery. I love that Sober October has become a movement of it’s own where more and more people participate each year.

Sober October is A Movement

In support of all the great people choosing to focus having a Sober October and resetting their habits in the month of October and beyond, I’m excited to share Holistic Therapy tools that can support the journey. Natural stress and anxiety recovery alternatives for alcohol & drug use exists and can help you reduce unwanted use patterns. I’m excited to share my favorite holistic alternatives for stress and anxiety reduction with you in this post!

Kava Kava Powder Instead Of Alcohol

Kava Kava is a herbal remedy made of root found in the islands of the pacific ocean. Pacific Island and Tongan culture have used the medicinal root for gatherings and ceremonies for hundreds of years. In more recent times, Kava Kava has been gaining popularity in the US for its medicinal value for anxiety and stress reduction. Kava Kava also helps improve sleep consistency for deeper restful sleep. Kava Kava is available in capsule form or in powder form. Kava powder is great in a bedtime smoothie just an hour prior to bedtime. Consider blending Kava Kava powder with almond milk, cocoa powder and monk fruit sweetener for a bedtime treat.

CBD Oil Instead of THC

Cannabidiol is another great alternative to substance or alcohol use. Some will find CBD to be of minimal impact if THC is normative. However if you want to consider long-term alternatives to THC CBD can be great for regular use. CBD is great because it has no THC which may cause increase of depression and anxiety symptoms for 72-hours after use. CBD Oil is reported to improve pain management and pain relief, anxiety relief, reduction of anxiety and depression, increase heart health, reduce Cancer related symptoms and drug craving reduction.

Damiana Herb For Stress And Anxiety

Damiana Herb is primarily known for increasing and balancing out libido for both men and women. Damiana is a known aphrodisiac originating from Mexico, Central America, and West Indies. Damiana also has a great side effect of also improving stress reduction and anxiety reduction. Some report use of Damiana Herb as producing a slight high affect after drinking loose teas and tinctures. Additional benefits of Damiana Herb include libido support which helps increase sexual health, which also has a correlated positive effect on stress and anxiety health.

SAM-e Supplementation

SAM-e is a synthetic form of a chemical our bodies naturally produce called ademetionine and s-adenosylmethionine. SAM-e has been noteworthy for decrease of depression symptoms and can be used as an anti-depressant, anxiety, PMS, Osteoarthritis and Fibromyalgia medication.

Acupressure Mat Therapy

What about when you don’t want to take medications or supplements at all? Consider starting or maintaining a daily acupressure mat therapy practice. Acupressure mats and pillows are great for immediate stress and anxiety release. Acupressure mat therapy is so effective that some users report reduction of stress and anxiety in as little as 10 minutes. Imagine if you could end or transition your day with stress and anxiety reduction only taking 10 minutes to give you back more energy, will power and attention.

Stop Stress: Try New Things

I hope these tips help you feel hopeful and prepared with natural and helpful alternatives to achieve your Sober October goals and honestly, it’s worth having many holistic tools available in case you choose to make other months of the year sober ones or to simply increase your stress management practice.

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Holistic Therapy For Seasonal Affective Disorder: How To Stay Emotionally Resilient

October 6, 2020 Brandi Jackson

Welcome to the most wonderful time of the year. In many places the weather is becoming cooler, the holidays are coming, the time of daylight hours will be shifting, the foods we eat are even within a transition. There’s a lot changes that come into play for most during the fall and winter months.

What About Your Mood?

Your mood is often more vulnerable during the fall and winter as the transition of time, season, daylight, sleep, holidays, and interpersonal relationship is all called into transition for most people. Your mood is likely to have more highs and lows with a great season of transition. We also must consider the current and real experience of COVID 19, Quarantine, Home Schooling, Election Season, and how that also impacts this fall and winter.

This is a big thought and question to ponder? How can you best stay healthy and safe? How can you thrive through this winter and minimize/ prevent your risk of Seasonal Affective Disorder?

What Is Seasonal Affective Disorder?

Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD) is a form of Depression that is related to change of season and daylight, which effects mood and energy. You may find that you generally feel higher levels of depression and sadness during the window of SAD. The window where seasonal Affective Disorder is most prominent is during the months of November and ongoing through February depending on the person, stressors sleep patterns, nutrition patterns, and available support network.

Seasonal Affective Disorder Symptoms

Seasonal Affective Disorder has a distinct set of symptoms that usually overlap with Depression symptoms as well. Some of the symptoms that may be easier to self-monitor are listed below.

Increased experience of low energy and feeling tired often
Low interest to do the activities you previously enjoyed
Social Isolation and avoidance
Irritable mood and emotional sensitivity
Feeling hopeless or guilty
Difficulty concentrating
Low sex drive
Brain fog

Holistic Therapies For Seasonal Affective Disorder

Light Therapy: Seasonal Affective Disorder has been treated with light therapy in 2 primary ways, the first way is to open the blinds to allow natural light exposure to occur daily for natural vitamin D support which correlates back to mood management. You can also find light therapy lamps for daily light therapy practice indoors while at home or at your workspace.

Vitamin D Supplementation: Also taking Vitamin D in supplement form can be very helpful for maintaining a certain amount of vitamin D in your blood system as a baseline through the winter months. This helps maintain a preventative approach to keeping your vitamin D established at a certain level during the fall and winter season.

Exercise: Try to keep your fitness practice in good shape. Consider going for daily wellness walks, doing daily yoga or indoor cardio. Your body will naturally produce cortisol, serotonin, and additional endorphins that will naturally support your mood management and potentially prevent SAD or reduce impact of Seasonal Affective Disorder.

Support Circle: Reach out to friends, family during, and your natural supports during the SAD Season as much as feels appropriate for you to feel that your practicing healthy and supportive social interactions. Isolation is vulnerability when it comes to likely increase of depression symptoms. Humans are social creatures and without enough social interactions there is a posed risk for your sense of wellness.

Self Care: Having a winter self care practice is priceless! Be sure to look forward to updating your self-care routine as the seasons change and your routine is likely to change. You want to keep your self care practice as relevant to your present needs versus doing what may have been practical for the previous season.

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Natural Methods To Consider Before Seeing A Psychiatrist: Holistic Mental Health

September 2, 2020 Taylor Hornbeck

Why should you consider natural methods before medication? There are many factors that can affect our bodies and moods and they should be evaluated before you seek out medication to manage symptoms. Prescribed medication certainly has its place however it may not be helpful for every diagnosis. There can be side effects from medication as well as issues with not being able to access your full range of emotion. In my experience a lot of my clients have stated that they would prefer not to use medication and explore natural methods. Read on to find out what things to rule out when establishing if you have a mental health diagnosis that requires medication management.

Visit your primary care provider

This should be your first step to ensure that there are no physical health issues that could be affecting your mental health. When you visit your health care provider you can state that you would like to test numerous things in order to rule out any potential health problems. The first test that you can request would be a thyroid function test. An improper functioning thyroid is likely to produce symptoms of depression and/or anxiety. Another area of testing that should be considered is your vitamin and protein deficiency. If your body is not able to properly absorb necessary nutrients then you will display symptoms like fatigue, brain fog, moodiness etc. You should explore what foods you are consuming as well and make sure you are eating a healthy and balanced diet. The final area of testing that you should inquire about is adrenal fatigue. There is a specific blood test that enables doctors to test your adrenal fatigue levels which would help narrow down a treatment plan.

Sleep

If you aren’t getting enough sleep your brain is not able to recover or respond well to day to day activities. Pay attention to your body and honor your unique sleeping patterns. Lack of sleep can cause the body to mimic symptoms of a mental health diagnosis. Explore sleep hygiene options that work best with your schedule and body type. Strive to be consistent with your sleep schedule as this will help you better determine if you have health concerns or if you just need to prioritize your sleep more.

Situational Anxiety/Depression

Before establishing if you have a mental health diagnosis you should first take a look at your current life situation and see if there is anything that could be provoking symptoms. Are you currently stressed out because you’re moving, changing jobs, homeschooling your kids, adjusting to quarantine etc? Then you can decide to bring in support either from family and friends or an outside source to help you manage your current situation. That may look like delegating tasks to them to relieve some pressure off of yourself or asking for help in a way that would be beneficial to you.

Active Coping

In my experience when my clients practice routine coping they are better able to manage their symptoms. My recommendation would be to use a three a day approach. Choose whatever coping mechanism works best for you that may be walking, doing yoga, meditating or another tool and do that three times per day for at least ten minutes each.

To wrap this up, you shouldn’t feel a stigma around taking medications to manage your mental health there are times where medications are needed and necessary however going through everything I have outlined above will allow you to determine if medications are something you need in your current state.

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Deep Relaxation & Stress Management Hypnosis- Healing Hypnotherapy Session

July 25, 2016 Brandi Jackson

Welcome to deep relaxation.

I created this stress relief and relaxation session to cater to anyone who feels they may be struggling with letting go of stressful behaviors. Some stress is of course good and necessary but other stressors can actually be quite harmful for reaching goals, being efficient, feeling connected to others and feeling appreciation for the present.

If you struggle with feeling:

overwhelmed

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annoyed

aggressive

tired

panicked

distracted

avoidance

stressed

Give this Deep Relaxation and Stress Management Hypnosis a try a few times a week. Allow yourself to invest in what inspiration or ideas are uncovered from each session and make effort to incorporate that inspiration into actions of daily practice.

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