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Fiona Franklin Acupuncture

Deeply Restorative Integrated Acupuncture. A somatic whole body approach to nervous system support. Now Based in Byron Bay & Kingscliff.

Utilising Acupuncture, Bodywork, Reiki, Holistic Lifestyle Coaching, Vagus Nerve, Lymphatic and Visceral Release.

21/04/2026

There’s a level of exhaustion that doesn’t come from doing too much… It comes from constantly managing how you’re perceived.

From shaping yourself to be liked. To be understood. To be accepted.

And over time, that creates a lot of tension in the body.
Because parts of you aren’t being fully expressed.

It’s not your fault either. At some point, your system learnt it wasn’t safe to fully be yourself. So you adapted, you filtered and you held things in.

But what we suppress doesn’t just disappear.
It gets held in the body.
 And often… expressed as anxiety.
The racing thoughts. The tight chest. The feeling of unease.

It builds.
Until your body expresses what you won’t.

Real peace isn’t found in being understood by everyone. It’s found in no longer abandoning yourself to be understood.

If this landed for you… sit with it. 
Where in your life are you still holding back who you truly are?

🤍

16/04/2026

Breathwork can be an incredible tool.

It can help regulate your system in the moment, bring you back into your body, support emotional release, and create more presence.

But here’s what most people miss:

Not all nervous systems are the same.
There’s a difference between dysregulation and sensitisation.

Dysregulation is when your body is under stress and struggling to come back to baseline. Breathwork, meditation, and regulation tools can be incredibly supportive here.

Sensitisation runs deeper.

A sensitised nervous system has often learnt over time that it is not safe to feel. So instead of processing emotion, the body adapts by suppressing, numbing, staying busy, overthinking, or shutting down.

This is why so many people feel better after breathwork, meditation, supplements, or all the “right” tools… but then life happens, they get triggered, and they’re right back where they started.

Not because the tools are bad. But because temporary relief is not always the same as healing.

For many people, repressed emotions are sitting underneath the symptoms. Not because emotions are dangerous, but because at some point, it didn’t feel safe to feel them.

Real healing begins when the body no longer has to protect you from what it once couldn’t safely feel.

Breathwork can support that process. But it is not the healing itself.

Feeling what you’ve spent your life avoiding is often where healing truly begins. ✨

14/04/2026

A little reminder to come back to what matters 🌞

12/04/2026

Yang Sheng (養生), meaning “nourishing life,” is a Chinese Medicine and Daoist philosophy that has guided health and longevity for over 2,500 years.

Long before circadian biology, wearable trackers, and optimisation / biohacking culture, Chinese Medicine understood something we’ve forgotten: health is built through rhythm.

Morning light. Warm, nourishing food. Joyful Movement.  Deep rest.
Slow meals.  Seasonal awareness. Emotional expression.

These are not wellness trends. They are the conditions your body evolved for.

Modern life has pulled us further from what keeps us well. Endless screen time, artificial light, chronic stimulation, late meals, stress as a badge of honour… and then we wonder why so many people feel exhausted, anxious, inflamed, and disconnected.

You cannot out-supplement chronic misalignment.

No amount of tracking, biohacking, or symptom management can replace the foundations your body has always needed.

Yang Sheng represents true preventative medicine by protecting, promoting, and sustaining health before imbalance arises.

Before you optimise, align. Before you push, regulate. Before you biohaack, return to natural rhythm.

This is the way nature intended us to live.

08/04/2026

In a world full of Instagram highlights, I really endeavour to show up here in a way that’s real.

This week has been a tough one.

I’ve found myself sitting with a grief I didn’t realise I’d been avoiding… and also sitting with a friend who came very close to death.

And it does something to you… being that close to the fragility of life.

It strips everything back.
 The noise, the roles, the things we think matter.

And what’s left is very simple.

What we feel. Who we love. What we wish we had said.

It made me realise..  We don’t hold back because it’s not there
we hold back because it feels vulnerable to say it. Because it means being seen.
 Because we assume there will be more time.
But there isn’t always more time.

So maybe it’s not about having it all together. Maybe it’s about not leaving the important things unsaid.

Tell people you love them. Say what you actually feel.
Even if it feels a little uncomfortable.
It will always mean more than you think 🤍

22/03/2026

People pleasing isn’t kindness.
 It’s self abandonment dressed up as being “nice”.

And I say this with so much compassion, because for many of us this is a pattern which was learned as a way to feel safe, loved, and accepted.

But over time, it creates the opposite of what we actually want.

Resentment. Disconnection. And relationships where we are never truly seen.

True intimacy is built on honesty.

On being able to say: “This is what I need.” “This is what I don’t have capacity for.”

Without guilt. Without over-explaining.

This is the work.

Learning to stay connected to yourself, even if it risks not being liked.

18/03/2026

put words to something that has been sitting in my field for a long time.

Social media is changing our world.
And if we’re honest… it can feel a little scary.

These dopamine loops, the pull for likes, validation, attention.

It’s subtle, but it’s powerful.

Which is why I keep coming back to radical honesty in this space.

Am I sharing to serve, to support, for creative expression, storytelling, to offer something meaningful to others…

Or am I posting to be seen, validated, to feel a sense of achievement?

There is a fine line here.

Even service can be unconsciously driven.
A kind of quiet over-giving, where helping others becomes a way to fill a space within ourselves.

The wounded healer showing up not from fullness,
but from a place that still feels like it’s not enough.

There is no judgement here. Just bringing awareness.

Because one comes from the ego,
and one comes from the soul.

And the difference between the two is everything.

11/03/2026

Running - from a Chinese Medicine lens 🏃🏽‍♀️

The human body was not designed to live in a constant state of urgency. One of the quickest ways to stagnate our life force is to constantly rush.

From a Chinese medicine perspective, the body is designed for natural movement that supports the flow of Qi without exhausting it. Walking, squatting, stretching, climbing, carrying, jumping. Movement that rises and falls like breath.

Yes Running is available to the body, but it is physically expensive. Historically it was reserved for emergencies. To escape danger, chase food, or survive. That is why it activates adrenaline and the body’s stress response.

It was never meant to be our primary form of daily movement.

It is not that running is bad. It simply has its place.

But what I often see in clinic are women who are already depleted, already burnt out, already running on empty who are daily runners.

In Chinese medicine we say you must move Qi in order to generate Qi. Movement is essential for health and we are absolutely living in a time of mass under movement in society. I am not at all promoting a lack of movement.

But I do not think running is the answer.

For many women whose systems are already taxed, whose Blood and Yin are depleted, more intensity is not what the body is asking for.

Sometimes the medicine is slower. Walking. Strength training. Gentle cyclical movement. Time in nature.

And perhaps the deeper question is this.

What are you running from?

Movement is medicine. But more intensity is not always the answer.

22/12/2025

This quote by Sylvia Boorstein has always stayed with me:
Meditation doesn’t change life.
Life remains fragile and unpredictable.
Meditation changes our capacity to sit with it.

Today, on World Meditation Day, I feel deeply grateful for this practice.

I found meditation early in my life after moving through some deeply challenging seasons. At that time stillness didn’t feel peaceful. Sitting with my thoughts felt unsafe. There was a lot of inner noise and very little sense of ground.

But slowly, gently, with guidance, mentors and consistent practice, meditation became something I couldn’t live without.

Meditation did not remove the difficulty. What it offered instead was something far more important. A sense of safety in the stillness. A way to meet what was present without being overwhelmed by it.

Meditation has changed the way I meet life. With more awareness. More softness. More trust.
Stillness is no longer something I fear. It is where I return to remember who I am.

🤍

I would love to hear how meditation has supported you.

16/12/2025

IYKYK.
 Not sure my nervous system will ever be healed enough for this 😂

For anyone who gets it - loud, sudden or constant noise can be deeply triggering when your nervous system is already in fight or flight.

When the system is running in high alert, the brain is scanning for threat. Noise gets interpreted as danger, not information. The body tightens, the breath shortens, cortisol rises - and even something as ordinary as an extractor fan can feel overwhelming.

This is a huge one for muma’s dealing with screaming or loud kids all day.

This isn’t weakness or sensitivity.
 It’s a nervous system that’s been protecting you for a long time.

Regulation doesn’t mean you’ll never get irritated.
 It means your system can stay present, grounded, and recover more quickly - even when life gets loud.

Regulation isn’t about tolerance.

It’s about capacity, safety and recovery.

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9/35 Currumbin Creek Road
Gold Coast, QLD
4223

Telephone

+61403504628

Website

http://www.fionafranklin.com.au/

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