Better Bowen

23/12/2025

Take some time to rest this festive season.

In a season that asks us to do more, remember this:

We can’t heal stress by pushing harder.
Rest is not a reward — it’s a requirement.

Bowen Therapy supports the nervous system to slow down and reset, as best it's able.

23/12/2025

I just love #8 Nat Mur. It's the first one I have every morning!

COMMON PROBLEMS SOLVED WITH MINERALS
The “Persistent Chapped Lips & Cracked Corners” Problem

You know that person who ALWAYS has:
• dry, tight lips
• cracking at the corners of the mouth (angular cheilitis)
• constant need for lip balm
• that habit of licking their lips because they “never feel hydrated”
• and somehow… they still feel thirsty no matter how much water they drink?

This is not a lip balm problem.
This is textbook Nat mur deficiency.

💧 WHAT’S REALLY GOING ON?
Schuessler (and later Chapman, Carey, and more) all describe the same pattern:
When Nat mur is low, the body can’t distribute water properly.
You drink it… but you don’t hold it.
The cells stay dry.
The surface tissues shrivel and crack.

This shows up in the places where water balance is most visible:
• lips
• corners of the mouth
• eyelids
• nasal membranes
• fingertips

And if you look back through the older texts:
→ Mouth corner cracking = “Natrum muriaticum is indicated whenever fissures appear at mucocutaneous borders.”
→ Dry lips + desire for salt = a “Nat mur picture”.

💧 OTHER CLUES
Nat mur deficiency often walks hand-in-hand with:
• headaches from the sun
• a tight band feeling around the forehead
• irritability + emotional sensitivity
• a tendency to withdraw when upset
• nose that drips like a tap
• thirst + dryness at the SAME time

💧 THE MINERAL FIX
Nat mur — the body’s water regulator.
It restores the normal distribution of moisture throughout the tissues.
Correct the deficiency →
the cracking resolves →
lips stay hydrated naturally →
and the constant lip-licking cycle finally breaks.

Lip balm can’t do that — only minerals can.

22/12/2025

Did you know that Bowen Therapy can help with the neurological & nervous system conditions, such as:

🟢Headaches and migraines
🟢Neuralgia or nerve pain
🟢Fibromyalgia and Chronic fatigue syndrome
🟢Stress and anxiety-related tension

19/12/2025

Boundaries are so kind to self. I set mine in place very morning. Only unconditional love is allowed in and out.

17/12/2025

Absolutely!!🙌

16/12/2025

Beautiful #11 mineral salt Silica. I love using mine at least once a day.🤍

🏹 Silica: The Pathfinder. The Truth Seeker. The Sagittarius Salt.

Some salts stabilise. Some cleanse. Silica remembers.

Known in the biochemic system as the “rejuvenator,” Silica (Silicic Oxide) is the salt of structure, endurance, and elimination — quietly working in the background to uphold the integrity of the body’s tissues, and to eject anything that doesn’t belong.

It’s the guardian of vitality in the skin, hair, nails, bones, and connective tissue — and yet, Silica's greatest gift may be in what it removes.

Just like the Sagittarius archetype, Silica is a seeker of truth and purity:
🪶 It’s the mineral of inner direction — pushing out what’s false, foreign, or stagnant, and restoring clarity from the inside out.

🧠 What Silica does biologically:
🧬 Builds connective tissue and restores skin elasticity
🧼 Expels foreign matter and toxins through the skin (excellent for boils, styes, abscesses, infections)
🌬️ Improves memory, focus, and nervous energy when exhaustion sets in
🦴 Strengthens brittle nails, thinning hair, fragile bones, and aging skin
🌙 Regulates perspiration, helping release acids and odours via the skin
🧃 Helps with the detox of uric acid (useful in gout, joint stiffness, arthritis)

♐ Born under Sagittarius?
According to Dr. George W. Carey, Silica is your constitutional cell salt.

Sagittarius rules the hips, thighs, and sciatic nerves — the muscles and highways that help us move forward, physically and metaphorically. Ruled by Jupiter, the Great Expander, Sag energy is outward-seeking, optimistic, but prone to burnout if vitality is lost.

When Silica is low?
🦠 Toxins accumulate
🌫️ Memory fades
🧎‍♀️ Posture slumps
🧃 The body retains waste
🪫 And the Sag spirit? It dims — unable to move freely, energetically, or joyfully. A 'lack of grit' is a clinical sign of low silica, in tissue integrity or in emotional resilience.

✨ When Silica is replenished?
💡 Memory sharpens
🧘‍♀️ The nervous system quiets
🌿 The skin, bones, and tissue grow stronger (as does the will)
🛤️ And the Sagittarian spark — that drive to explore, expand, and uplift — returns

🔮 Expanded Correlations: Silica & Sagittarius
Zodiac Sign: Sagittarius ♐
Modality: Mutable → Adaptable, always seeking
Element: Fire → Energy, enthusiasm, movement
Planet: Jupiter → Growth, philosophy, optimism
Body Zone: Hips, thighs, sciatic nerve, locomotion
Theme: Direction, purification, persistence, higher truth

🧪 Biochemic & Physiological Insights
▪ Silica is the salt of persistence. It helps push out what the body struggles to release — like an arrow reaching its mark.
▪ Sagittarius rules travel and motion. Silica supports the movement of waste through tissues, lymph, and the bowel.
▪ Jupiter governs excess. When too much has been taken in (food, sensation, experience), Silica helps eliminate the residue.

🌿 Skin, bone, and nerve vitality all reflect Silica levels — making it ideal for recovering strength after illness, surgery, or burnout.

🧘 Emotional-Spiritual Parallels
▪ Mental collapse, shyness, and lack of grit are all signs of Silica depletion in biochemic texts
▪ When restored, Silica confers “moral courage,” clarity of purpose, and spiritual direction
▪ Sagittarius seeks truth beyond appearance — and Silica, quite literally, purifies the lens.

“Silica is the salt of the thinker, the dreamer, the seeker of distant paths — but only when the vessel is clean and strong enough to carry them.” – Adapted from Carey & Schuessler

🧂 Silica — The Detoxifier. The Tissue Builder. The Sagittarius Salt.

15/12/2025

09/12/2025

Life and spiritual coaching is a compassionate, collaborative space where you’re supported in stepping into a more aligned, empowered, and fulfilling version of yourself. It’s a gentle partnership that offers guidance, encouragement, and heartfelt accountability as you explore what you truly want for your life and how to move toward it with clarity and confidence.

Unlike therapy, coaching looks toward the future — focusing on growth, expansion, and the possibilities ahead rather than the past. It’s a supportive, holistic process designed to help you thrive.

What a Life & Spiritual Coach Brings to Your Journey
🟢Loving guidance for your goals: Helping you gently clarify what you desire and create grounded, practical steps that feel achievable and true to you.
🟢Support & soulful accountability: Encouraging you every step of the way while holding space for you to stay connected to your intentions and progress.
🟢Softening obstacles: Assisting you in recognising limiting beliefs, patterns, or stories that may be dimming your light — and supporting you in releasing them.
🟢Heart-led self-discovery: Creating space for you to uncover your strengths, values, and inner wisdom, reconnecting you with the truth of who you are.
🟢Spiritual alignment & inner connection: Guiding you into deeper presence, intuition, and purpose so your decisions and actions feel centred and authentic.
🟢Holistic life support: Whether it’s relationships, career, emotional well-being, physical vitality, or balance, you’re supported in creating harmony across your whole life.

In Essence
Life and spiritual coaching is for those who are doing well — but feel called to grow, evolve, and create a life that feels more meaningful, intentional, and aligned with their heart and soul.

08/12/2025

"A trigger point in the neck might send pain into the jaw or temple. A trigger point in the glute might imitate sciatica. A point in the diaphragm might reshape breath and ripple into the lower back. These are not accidents. These are the fascial lines speaking their language, sending signals through the body’s interconnected map. What happens in one place is felt everywhere.

And hidden beneath all of this is something more subtle, something more tender. Trigger points often form not only from physical strain but also from emotional tightening. The jaw clenches around unspoken words. The diaphragm holds back tears. The belly tightens around fear. The hips brace for imagined impact. Over time, these emotional reflexes crystallize into physical ones. The body remembers its history in the places where it stops moving." - The Body Artisans

Today I want to bring you into the quiet interior world of the body, a place where science and sensation coexist, and where even the smallest structures hold stories. Before we explore the deeper art of myofascial trigger point therapy in my next post, I want to lay a foundation that feels both beautiful and true.

Many bodyworkers were never entirely taught the science behind trigger points, and many clients know them only as “knots.” But the truth is far more elegant, far more human, and far more poetic than that. When we understand them correctly, the body's whole landscape begins to make sense.

Inside every muscle are tiny contractile threads called sarcomeres. I often imagine them as thousands of delicate accordion folds lined up end to end, expanding and contracting in a rhythm that mirrors breath. In a healthy state, these folds open and close with ease, like the petals of a flower responding to light. But life doesn’t always keep its softness. A moment of stress, a pattern of overuse, a season of guarding, or the quiet residue of something emotionally overwhelming can cause a cluster of these little folds to clamp down and refuse to release. They hold tight, far tighter than the body ever intended. This is the beginning of a trigger point, a small place in the body's fabric where movement stops, and holding begins.

When these sarcomeres remain contracted, blood flow cannot fully enter the area. The tissue becomes a tiny pocket of drought. The body calls this ischemia, but you can imagine it as a river narrowing until only a trickle can pass through. Without fresh blood, oxygen cannot arrive, nourishment cannot circulate, and the natural byproducts of muscle activity begin to collect instead of being washed away.

These metabolites, harmless in motion, become irritating when trapped. They gather like stagnant water behind a dam, slowly altering the tissue's chemistry until the nerves around them begin to react. This is why a trigger point aches, burns, radiates, or surprises us with sharpness. It is not just tension; it is nature trying to move again.

Fascia, the body’s great communicator, becomes part of this story too. Because fascia is one continuous web, a single small obstruction can create distant echoes. A trigger point in the neck might send pain into the jaw or temple. A trigger point in the glute might imitate sciatica. A point in the diaphragm might reshape breath and ripple into the lower back. These are not accidents. These are the fascial lines speaking their language, sending signals through the body’s interconnected map. What happens in one place is felt everywhere.

And hidden beneath all of this is something more subtle, something more tender. Trigger points often form not only from physical strain but also from emotional tightening. The jaw clenches around unspoken words. The diaphragm holds back tears. The belly tightens around fear. The hips brace for imagined impact. Over time, these emotional reflexes crystallize into physical ones. The body remembers its history in the places where it stops moving.

This is why understanding trigger points is so important. They are not random knots; they are small dams in a river that longs to flow. When we release a trigger point, we are not just softening tension; we are restoring circulation to a starved pocket of tissue. We are dissolving chemical stagnation. We are freeing a section of fascia so the whole body can move with more grace. We are interrupting a protective pattern the nervous system has been holding onto, sometimes for years.

In the next post, we will step into the artistry of how I approach myofascial trigger point work, the breaking of the dam, and the waves of release that can change an entire region of the body. For now, let this be your gateway.

Trigger points are small, but the story they tell is vast. And once you understand them, you begin to understand the deep intelligence of the body that carries them.

08/12/2025

05/12/2025

I love these flyers. It is so helpful to know which mineral might be helpful for your day. I have them all in the kitchen for easy access for the family. The kids can just grab what they feel they need.

04/12/2025

Here is a wonderful reminder from Louise Hay.💖