Muscular and Joint Health

When we think of trauma, we often picture a mental or emotional experience— a painful memory, grief, fear, or an overwhelming event. But trauma is also a deeply physical, embodied experience. As I recently explored in Bessel van der Kolk’s landmark book -The Body Keeps the Score (van der Kolk, 2014), overwhelming experiences can continue to dictate how our brain, nervous system, and physical tissues respond long after the original event has passed. When stress becomes prolong

You take vitamin D every day. You remember your capsule, follow the instructions and expect your next blood test to show an improvement. Then the result comes back: your vitamin D is still low. It can be frustrating—and in a sunny city like Perth, it can seem particularly confusing. But living somewhere with plenty of sunshine does not automatically mean you will have adequate vitamin D. Time spent indoors, clothing, sun-protection habits, darker skin pigmentation, age, body

Muscle tension often feels like a purely physical strain. But if you’re trapped in a cycle where treatments bring only temporary relief, leaving you exhausted and frustrated, the issue goes much deeper. During my years working as a soft tissue therapist, I saw this constantly: clients received great treatments, but the tension returned days later. The root cause may not be just mechanical—it could be biochemical and emotional. When we carry heavy mental burdens, our nervous s