Rewired Psychology & Integrative Health

11/09/2025

When you’re work day is interesting and meaningful it is joyful. Love neuropsychological work to help advocate for clients with complex needs for better living 💜🦓

10/09/2025

Today is a powerful reminder that behind every smile, every "I'm fine," and every silent moment — there might be someone carrying more than you know.

For many there is more going on behind the surface, and those with stress, worry, mental health, invisible conditions, fatigue, trauma, or chronic stress... being asked “Are you OK?” could be the lifeline that helps them feel seen, heard, and supported.

This R U OK? Day, we invite you to go beyond the surface:
✨ Ask with genuine care.
✨ Listen without judgment.
✨ Hold space without fixing.
✨ Check in again, and again.

You don’t need perfect words. Just presence.

💛 Today, and on any day — check in with your mates, your team, your family, your community. You never know who’s waiting for someone to notice.

09/09/2025

Experienced Spontaneous Coronary Artery Dissection? 🙋‍♀️Here's a simple way to get involved.

This study is investigating how autonomic-nervous-system changes may underlie “non-cardiac” symptoms such as migraine, dizziness and fatigue that often accompany along SCAD.
Who can take part?
• Adults 18+ with a clinician-confirmed SCAD diagnosis
• Able to read and respond in English
What’s involved?
• One ethics-approved online survey (≈ 10–20 min)
Your answers will clarify how nervous-system symptoms intersect with heart disease and, we hope, drive better care pathways for people whose concerns are too often dismissed.

This is a University of Adelaide study. Data stored securely on Australian servers and reported only in aggregate. Take the survey now at https://redcap.link/CALM-NOCA

01/09/2025

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Too often symptoms are dismissed, misrecognised or labelled as anxiety. This workshop aims to close the critical gap in women's health care, focusing on conditions that often overlap with neurodevelopmental conditions, trauma, and disordered eating/gut issues, and are often hidden in plain sight. The training equips professionals with the knowledge, tools, and trauma-informed approaches needed to recognise, validate, and effectively respond to complex conditions that are too often overlooked or misdiagnosed, and is suitable for all health providers.

Training is delivered online on Wednesday 22nd October 2025
Time: 9:30am to 3:00pm AEST
Investment: $347 AUD

Nichi is a clinical psychologist, credentialed eating disorder clinician, board-approved supervisor, author and podcast host. Nichi has been featured on A Current Affair and Brainz Magazine. Nichi brings years of research, clinical experience and personal experience with chronic, invisible health in women.

Learn more about this workshop here: https://www.invisiblehealthnetwork.com/sustainable-health-blueprint-copy-3

12/08/2025

Due to demand, and the fact that so many people in our rural and regional communities are struggling with health, money, and connection, I’m looking at starting something new and accessible. I am keen to help build stronger, happier, and connected communities.

The facts are unignorable:
✅ 1 in 5 Australians experience a mental health challenge each year
✅ Rural areas have less than half the mental health professionals per person compared to cities
✅ Loneliness can be as harmful to your health as smoking 15 ci******es a day

✅ Financial stress is one of the top 3 causes of stress in Australia
✅ Cost-of-living pressures hit rural areas harder
✅ Feeling connected reduces stress hormones and boosts resilience

✅ Chronic stress raises the risk of heart disease, diabetes, and depression
✅ Small daily changes can significantly improve your wellbeing
✅ You don’t need to wait months or travel hours to get support

And, not everyone wants or needs therapy. And access can be difficult. That's where this support and educational group fits in.

WHISE Choices – An online group designed for rural and regional Aussies who want to feel happier, upskilled, calmer, more connected, more in control, and learn to get back being too busy livin' rather than stressing. We meet twice a month online for support and skills around the top stressors:

🌿 Health & Happiness – feel better in your body, mind & with your mates
💰 Wise Money Skills – manage financial stress with more confidence
💆‍♀️ Stress Reduction Skills – practical tools you can use every day
🎯 Goal Setting – create a clear plan and stay on track
🤝 Support & Connection – a community that understands & motivates you

On top of the twice monthly live group mentoring calls, practical resources, monthly challenges, and a supportive community that understands life out of the city areas.

Nichi is a clinical psychologist with qualifications and decades of experience in business and entrepreneurship. Nichi has experience across diverse sectors including health, manufacturing, landscaping, beauty, and education. Nichi is also a growth-oriented rural business woman, mum, wife, author, and lover of fun, freedom and family time.

I’m currently looking for expressions of interest from people who might like to be part of this new group. Please note, this is NOT therapy nor replaces it. It is not suitable for the needs of complex mental health.

If you are interested, message me for more info and I’ll send you the details :)

04/07/2025

Sharing this from another page. Help needed for much needed resesrch 🦓

Do you have a suspected or confirmed diagnosis of HSD, hEDS, or EDS?
Researchers at the University of Adelaide are inviting individuals to participate in an important study. Your experiences could help improve understanding, diagnosis, and care for people living with these conditions in Australia.
Participants need to be:
· Over 18 years old, and
· Reside in Australia, and
· Have a suspected or confirmed diagnosis of Hypermobile Spectrum disorder (HSD), hypermobile Ehlers-Danlos Syndrome (hEDS) or Ehlers-Danlos Syndrome (EDS).
· Participation is via an online, anonymous, ethics-approved survey (H-2025-038).
To learn more or get involved, read the information below and follow the link to the Participant Information Sheet and the survey:
https://adelaideuniwide.qualtrics.com/.../SV_0v3hnndS2j3PWRg

You will be able to complete the survey in multiple sittings to help you feel comfortable and decrease your fatigue.
The survey automatically saves your progress and you can return at any time to your "spot" in the survey using the original link.

Yours sincerely and with much gratitude,

Hypermobility Research
University of Adelaide
hypermobility@adelaide.edu.au

28/06/2025

🔥 Breaking the Trauma Cycle - A must listen for anyone with invisible health, trauma or burnout 🔥

I had so much fun doing this podcast episode where I’m joined by the incredible Dr. Nat Green — trauma breakthrough coach, bestselling author, and creator of the Seven Archetypes of Transformation.

We go deep into what it really takes to heal after trauma — beyond just talking about it.

🎙 Inside this episode:
* Why trauma isn’t only in your head — it lives in your nervous system
* How vicarious trauma and burnout quietly erode our wellbeing, long before we even realise it
* The power of holistic healing approaches that reconnect your head, heart, and gut
* What it means to discover your trauma archetype
* How post-traumatic growth is possible, no matter how long you’ve struggled

If you’ve ever been dismissed, gaslit, or told you’ll “never get better,” this is your reminder: Healing is possible!

💛 This is a must-listen for anyone living with invisible conditions, trauma, burnout, working in the health professions, or searching for hope after life’s hardest chapters.

🎧 Available on all popular platforms or listen here: https://www.buzzsprout.com/2244292/episodes/17407237

24/06/2025

An introductory guide for GPs on hypermobile Ehlers-Danlos syndrome – a clinical diagnosis that can be made in the primary setting

20/06/2025

Our latest research reveals key differences in how affects adolescents vs adults — and how far we still have to go.

📍 Australians with POTS face an average diagnostic delay of nearly 7 years — over two years longer than the 4.9-year global average reported in international studies (Shaw et al., 2019).

📍 Adolescents report more severe orthostatic intolerance

📍 Adults experience more bladder & gut symptoms

📍 But quality of life is equally poor across both groups.

Some good news?

In South Australia, diagnostic delays have improved in recent years — from an average of 12.9 years to just 1.6 years for those diagnosed since 2019.

But across Australia, too many are still being misdiagnosed, dismissed, or left without care.

65% of patients were told their symptoms were "just anxiety"

Over half had presented to an emergency department before diagnosis
Patients saw an average of 5 doctors before receiving a correct diagnosis.

"Our findings reflect a cohort who could access a specialist clinic — not equitable access across Australia."

We need urgent investment in early recognition, access to care, and treatment tailored to young Australians, especially women and girls.

Symptom burden, quality of life, and diagnostic journey of people with postural orthostatic tachycardia syndrome, Australia, 2021–24: a descriptive patient registry data study (2025-06-19)

You can access the full study details here:
https://doi.org/10.5694/mja2.52710

17/06/2025

Over the last few years I have been working in the background to build sustainable solutions for complex, invisible conditions to try and make systemic change. I have been working with other professionals and thought leaders to integrate my skills and knowledge into my work.
I am excited and proud to combine lived-experience with my clinical, professional skills to launch The Invisible Health Network.

This is a social impact initiative to revolutionise health care for those living with invisible illness, particularly with regards to the often dismissed and more misunderstood conditions, while also supporting the health providers working within the complex health space. It also has a stream for supporting lived-experience leaders with business and professional growth.

I would be super appreciative for you to please like, follow along and share. Particularly if you or a loved one is impacted by invisible conditions, you are a health provider wanting to enhance your knowledge or skills, or you're a visionary lived-experience leader 🦓

🧭 Welcome to The Invisible Health Network
Sustainable solutions for complex, invisible conditions

We’re so glad you’ve found us.

The Invisible Health Network exists to revolutionise health care and create a new future for those living with complex, invisible conditions — and the professionals who provide care for them.

For too long, invisible symptoms have been misunderstood. Delayed diagnoses, misrecognition, and a lack of awareness have left many feeling unseen and unsupported. People experience trauma on their health journey, have symptoms managed in fragments, and health providers become worn down or experience burn out due to complexity. We’re here to change that.

Through sustainable, evidence-based, and lived-experience-informed professional programs, we work to:

✅ Support people with complex conditions with physical and psychological overlap, for example, hypermobility and associated conditions, dysautonomia, fatigue, pain conditions, neurodivergence & trauma-related conditions.
✅ Educate, empower, and support health service providers to deliver trauma-informed, whole-person care, affirming care to improve recognition, diagnosis and management of complex conditions.
✅ Bridge the gap between medical, psychological & real-world experiences.
✅ Raise visibility, improve outcomes, and create systemic change.
✅ Support lived-experience leaders — including entrepreneurs, business owners, professionals, coaches, and advocates — with business and professional growth.

Because care shouldn’t depend on whether your condition is visible.
Because you and your patients deserve gold standard treatment.
Because healing — and helping — needs a new model.
With the significant increase in complex health conditions a new system is urgently needed to provide better care.

Whether you’re a clinician, a health professional or service provider, a practitioner, a coach, or someone living with an invisible condition — you belong here.

Follow us, tag a friend who needs this, and stay tuned for updates on:

🧭 Our Clinical Compass evidenced-based education program for health providers based on our COMPASS-FIVE model: Interdisciplinary Framework for Complex Care (C5-IFCC).
👩‍💻 The Invisible CEO: support for professionals, entrepreneurs, and leaders with lived experience of invisible illness.
🎙 Our podcast - Shine the Spotlight: Unseen, Unspoken & Unstoppable
🧡 Movement stories
📚 Resources, research and events

Let’s build a world where invisible conditions are met with sustainable care - for both the individual and the professional.

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08/06/2025

🩺 Cranial Cervical Instability (CCI) is a medical condition that occurs when the ligaments and connective tissues that support the head and neck become weakened or damaged. This can lead to excessive movement between the skull and the upper cervical spine which can cause a variety of symptoms.

𝐒𝐲𝐦𝐩𝐭𝐨𝐦𝐬 𝐜𝐚𝐧 𝐢𝐧𝐜𝐥𝐮𝐝𝐞:
🔷 Headache
🔷 Brain Fog
🔷 Lightheadedness
🔷 Dizziness
🔷 Abnormal Sweating
🔷 Trouble Swallowing
🔷 Trouble Speaking / Slurred Speech
🔷 Problems with Hearing / Ringing in the Ear
🔷 Issues Regulating Heart Rate / Rapid Heart Rate
🔷 Fatigue
🔷 Abnormal Digestive Issues
🔷 Problems with Vision
and even more

🔎 CCI is often seen in individuals with conditions such as EDS (Ehlers-Danlos Syndrome) but can also be caused by trauma or degenerative changes in the spine. Treatment for CCI may include physical therapy, medication, or in severe cases, surgery.

👨‍⚕️ Dr. David Saperstein has the expertise to read the medical imaging to determine if someone has CCI and which treatment would be best.

If you suspect you may be suffering from CCI, contact our office. 📲
https://bit.ly/CranialCervicalInstability

06/06/2025

Had a heart attack recently? You might feel like you’re on an emotional roller coaster, but that's completely normal 🎢

😟 Shock, 😠 anger, 😢 sadness, 😊 relief… there’s no “right” way to feel.

💬 Learn more about the emotional side of recovery and how to manage it: https://www.heartfoundation.org.au/your-heart/support/feelings-and-emotions-after-a-heart-attack

You’re not alone ❤️