Kinesiopractor (ICPKP): Specialised Kinesiologist: IASK-Board Member: award-winning Author 'Think Outside The Box: Tap Into Your Creative Genius Zone & Solve Problems Fast': Keynote Speaker: Executive Leadership Coach: Trainer www.kathajonesauthor.com
02/04/2026
đĽNOT TO BE MISSED - due for release on Monday, April 6th
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In this special episode of Better Way Today, we uncover and unravel the latest developments around Bioweapons and Biolabs, Exposing WHO's Network of Collaborating Laboratories and the War Over Biological Control...
Featuring leading voices:
đLucinda van Buuren â Independent Researcher, Registered Nurse, WCH Nursing & Midwifery Coordinator & WCH Australia Coordinator
đProfessor Dr. Stephan Hockertz â Immunologist, phamacologist and toxicolgist
đChristian Oesch â Founder and President of the Swiss Association WIR
đDr. Jeanne Rungby, MD â Otorhinolaryngologist from Denmark & Co-founder of World Council for Health Scandinavia
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02/04/2026
28/03/2026
Deborah Levy writes in The Cost of Living as someone who has recently left a marriage and is trying to figure out what a life belonging to herself might look like. The book is a memoir but it reads more like a sustained attempt to think clearly about what women are actually asked to give up, and what happens when they stop giving it. This particular passage stays close to one of the oldest and most ordinary cruelties women live with, which is that a father's independence reads as authority, and a mother's reads as neglect.
There's a reason that's so hard to argue with in the moment, even when you can see it clearly. A father who travels for work, who has a full social life, who has ambitions and moods and days where he's simply unavailable, is understood to be a full person. That's just who he is. The same behaviour in a mother tends to register as something gone wrong. She was supposed to be there but she wasnât and the children noticed.
The children doing the noticing aren't only sons. Daughters are just as capable of holding their mothers to a standard they never apply to their fathers and often do. Adrienne Rich wrote about this in Of Woman Born in 1976, that daughters can be the most exacting judges of their mothers' failures to be fully present, even as they're simultaneously trying to escape the same demand themselves. The contradiction doesn't get resolved because it's not really about logic. It's about who we've decided gets to have needs.
Levy calls these "mixed messages written in society's most poisoned ink," and what she's describing operates below the level of conscious instruction. Nobody sits a child down and explains that fathers are allowed to be complicated people and mothers are not. It just comes in, through a hundred observations, the way absence is talked about, whose career gets mentioned first, and whose name the school calls. By the time it's settled into a child's understanding of the world, it feels like common sense.
What's harder to believe is that these expectations don't disappear once a woman becomes a mother herself. She often carries them forward and over-explains her choices. She apologises for being tired and braces for the look her own mother might give her, or that she imagines her children are already giving her. The monitoring doesn't come only from outside.
Levy's line at the end of the passage is the one that stays- "it is enough to drive her mad." She's making a clinical observation about what sustained, contradictory pressure does to a person over time. You cannot be both fully present and fully yourself and if you try to be both simultaneously and the standard keeps shifting, there's no stable ground to stand on. Women have been called hysterical for less, and the word hysterical itself comes from the Greek for uterus, which tells you something about how far back this goes and how little the basic shape of it has changed.
The miracle Levy mentions isn't rhetorical. Mothers do survive, mostly, but the cost is real and tends to be invisible precisely because it's paid for in private. In the emotional labour that doesn't get recorded anywhere, the ambitions quietly set down and not necessarily picked up again and the ongoing effort of holding a self together while also being everything everyone needs you to be.
What I'm not sure about is whether anything actually changes once you can identify this clearly. Levy can write it down with complete precision and it's still on going everywhere.
Š Echoes of Women - Fiona.F, 2026. All rights reserved
28/03/2026
P5P (Active Vitamin B6) â The Master Coenzyme
P5P (pyridoxal-5-phosphate) is the active form of vitamin B6 â a coenzyme in over 140 biochemical reactions involving neurotransmitters, amino acids, and hormones.
It converts food into serotonin, dopamine, GABA, and melatonin â making it essential for mood stability, sleep, focus, and stress resilience.
When B6 remains in its inactive form (pyridoxine) â as in many supplements or due to genetic variants like MTHFR or ALPL â your brain and liver canât activate it efficiently, leading to widespread dysfunction.
Symptoms of P5P Deficiency
⢠Anxiety, irritability, or depression
⢠PMS, hormonal mood swings, or estrogen dominance
⢠Fatigue and poor dream recall
⢠Numbness, tingling, or carpal tunnelâtype pain
⢠Low immune resilience or histamine intolerance
đ§ Scientific Insight
âPyridoxal phosphate plays a vital role in neurotransmitter biosynthesis, and deficiency is associated with depression, seizures, and cognitive impairment.â
(Shen, et al. Nutrients, 2021)
đ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8305580
Other studies have linked low P5P to:
⢠Elevated homocysteine (increased cardiovascular risk)
⢠Impaired tryptophan metabolism, worsening mood and sleep
⢠Reduced GABA synthesis, heightening anxiety and neural excitability
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đż Why Orthomolecular Medicine Prioritizes It
At the Institute of Integrative Biomedicine, we teach practitioners how to restore P5P balance through nutrient therapy â not symptom suppression.
Understanding coenzymes like B6 is the foundation of functional neurochemistry and true nutrigenomic care.
Each kinesiology balance re-sculpts your brain and rewires your nervous system in profound ways. Your trauma is not your destiny & healing from traumatic experiences takes time, trusting your practitioner & yourself. Kinesiology is a powerful multi-dimensional whole body:mind:nervous & energy system therapy that will set you free & gift you a second chance to start over again.
âThis book will crack you openâand then, piece by piece, help you understand why you were ever closed in the first place.â
There are books you read with your eyes, and then there are books that read youâthat seem to know the shape of your sleepless nights, the tension in your shoulders, the way your chest tightens when a certain memory brushes against the edge of your consciousness. Bessel van der Kolkâs The Body Keeps the Score is the latter. It is not an easy read, but it is an essential one. Itâs the book I pressed into a friendâs hands after she said, âI donât know why Iâm so exhausted all the time. Nothing âbadâ even happened to me.â Itâs the book that made me understand that my body wasnât my enemyâit was my historian.
Van der Kolk, a world-renowned trauma expert, doesnât just present research; he holds up a mirror to the silent ways our pasts live in our present. Reading it feels like a series of seismic âwowâ momentsâthe kind where you have to put the book down, stare at the wall, and whisper, âOh. Thatâs why I do that.â
Here are five lessons from the book that will fundamentally change how you see yourself and the people you love.
1. Trauma Isnât the Story; Itâs the Aftermath
We tend to think trauma is the event itselfâthe accident, the loss, the scream. But van der Kolk flips this on its head. He shows that trauma is what happens inside you when the event is over. Itâs the nervous system getting stuck in âonâ mode. The wow moment here is realizing that you can logically know you are safe in your living room, but if your body is still bracing for impact, you are, in a very real sense, still living in the past. This reframe alone lifts the burden of shame. You arenât âoverreactingâ; your body is just keeping a promise it made to protect you a long time ago.
2. Your Body Literally Keeps the Score
The title isnât a metaphor. One of the most jaw-dropping sections of the book details how trauma affects the brainâs architectureâshutting down the Brocaâs area (the part responsible for speech) and lighting up the amygdala (the alarm system). This is why, when people are in distress, they often canât âfind the words.â Itâs also why talk therapy alone often hits a wall. The wow moment is understanding that you canât reason with a traumatized nervous system any more than you can talk a car alarm into silencing itself. You have to go through the body to heal the mind.
3. The Difference Between âKnowingâ and âFeelingâ
Van der Kolk introduces a painful but liberating distinction: knowing versus feeling. You can intellectually know that your parents loved you, or that the abuse wasnât your fault, or that the war is over. But feeling itâactually experiencing safety and agency in your own skinâis a different neurological process. For so many of us, we live in our heads, narrating our lives, while our bodies are stuck in a loop of fear or numbness. The wow moment is realizing that healing isnât about finding the perfect insight; itâs about finally getting your body to believe what your mind already knows.
4. Healing Happens Through Connection (Including With Yourself)
We live in a culture that prizes independence, but van der Kolk argues that our ability to heal depends entirely on our ability to connect. He explores how trauma destroys the ability to feel safe in relationships, and how recovery requires finding ways to rewire thatâwhether through theater, yoga, EMDR, or simply finding a therapist who makes you feel seen. But the most profound connection, he argues, is with yourself. The wow moment is learning that self-regulation isnât selfish; itâs the foundation. You canât truly show up for others if your own internal alarm system is screaming that youâre in mortal danger while youâre just folding laundry.
5. You Can RewireâItâs Called Neuroplasticity
If there is one word that serves as the bookâs life raft, itâs neuroplasticity. For decades, science believed the brain was fixed after childhood. Van der Kolk shows that itâs not. Through rhythm, movement, and safe relationships, we can actually re-sculpt the neural pathways that keep us stuck. The wow moment is the hope embedded in this fact: your brain is not your destiny. The hypervigilance, the shutdown, the cycles of anxietyâthey are adaptations, not permanent flaws. And if they were learned, they can be unlearned.
The Body Keeps the Score is not a book you finish and set aside. Itâs a book you carry with you. It will make you cry, not just from sadness, but from the relief of finally being understood. If you have ever felt like your reactions donât match your reality, or that your body is betraying you, or that you are âtoo muchâ or âtoo numb,â please read this book. It wonât fix youâyou will fix youâbut it will give you a map, a vocabulary, and most importantly, the radical permission to start your healing journey from exactly where you are: in the body you have.
21/03/2026
Day 6 â IASK Kinesiology Day đ
Today we celebrate IASK Kinesiology Day.
A day to honour our global community of kinesiology practitioners â and the work we do every day to support health, balance and wellbeing.
Around the world, practitioners are meeting clients, sharing knowledge, holding workshops, and creating meaningful change in peopleâs lives.
Today, we celebrate all of it.
Share a moment from your day:
a session, your space, your colleagues â or simply a message from your heart.
Letâs make the global kinesiology community visible today đ
đ Where are you posting from?
19/03/2026
UPDATE: We have seen a number of comments raising concerns about accuracy in the Makis Substack shared in this post.
At WCH, our role is as messengers and to encourage dialogue - including discussion of emerging hypotheses and contested perspectives.
Sharing a piece does not imply endorsement of every claim within it. We recognise that some points raised remain debated.
We welcome constructive critique and encourage readers to review multiple sources, examine primary data, and come to informed conclusions themselves.
We remain committed to highlighting the plight of doctors who report facing professional or regulatory challenges, and believe these perspectives deserve to be heard and examined.
đŁBREAKING NEWS: "Helping Cancer patients is now ILLEGAL in Canada, as Alberta Premier Danielle Smith punishes over 9000 Cancer patients for exercising their "Right to Try" with Ivermectin" https://makisw.substack.com/cp/191137500
đ¨"The persecution of Dr Makis in Alberta, culminating in a permanent injunction against him practising medicine in that province, is a warning shot to the medical community.
Despite the CPSA's assertion that the ruling does not prevent other health practitioners from acting according to their scope and judgement, in reality it sends a clear signal about the consequences of stepping out of line.
Furthermore, ivermectin is caught in a vicious circle: it cannot be authorised as a cancer treatment until there are large randomised trials â yet there is little financial incentive to fund trials into an off-patent therapeutic. Thus the profit-first status quo is maintained, and Canada loses a dedicated doctor."
World Council for Health
âĄď¸See the banned doctor, Dr William Makis, in person at the Better Way Conference in New England | May 30-31: https://www.betterwayconference.org/
19/03/2026
Celebrating 22 years of taking Carotenoid Complex DAILY. The result: noone believes my real age. Best health & anti-ageing investment without the harmful side effects of botox or cosmetic surgery.
Eating the recommended 5 to 9 servings of fruits and vegetables every day is a great goal, but it is often difficult to achieve. Carotenoid Complex is a broad spectrum whole food supplement that helps to bridge this gap.
Each capsule contains nutrients from tomatoes, carrots, spinach, red bell peppers, strawberries, apricots, and peaches. This unique formula is developed to provide a balance of nutrients from fruits and vegetables in a convenient form.
What is your favorite way to include more colorful vegetables in your meals?
Disclaimer: Food supplements must not be used as a substitute for a varied and balanced diet and a healthy lifestyle.
18/03/2026
You can download the detox protocols from the website of World Council For Healtj.
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http://www.iikinesiology.com IIKA is an accredited kinesiology and complementary medicine college offering stimulating and truly life changing qualifications for students and health care professionals who are interested in Specialised (Applied) Kinesiology, Chinese Acupuncture, Energy Medicine, Energy Psychology and Personal Development.
Katha Jones and Mladen Ivosevic founded IIKA in 2000 with the vision of creating a dynamic and multicultural college for Alternative and Functional Medicine, personal development and creative self expression. Our one year practitioner training is accredited with the Australian Kinesiology Association (AKA) and the International Institute of Complementary Therapies (IICT). The course is delivered over 25 days of face to face tuition, 20 supervised student clinic hours and 30 mentored hours by Skype.
We provide you with a rewarding career in the fascinating field of Specialised Kinesiology and teaching the Touch For Health Certificate to your local and international community. Many of our graduates found their true passion and vocation and made a successful career change studying at IIKA part-time. Over the past 20 years Katha had the pleasure to train and mentor a new generation of Touch For Health Graduates, Touch For Health Instructors and Kinesiologists who make a real difference to the Natural Therapies industry and our nationâs preventative health care system.
We are offering these qualifications:
Touch For Health Certificate (8 days), Touch For Health Proficiency ( 2 days). Touch For Health Metaphor Workshop (2 days), Touch For Health Metaphor Teachers Training ( 2 days), Touch For Health Teachers Training (8 days), Anatomy & Physiology (by correspondence) and a one year Kinesiology Practitioner course.
Over the past 20 years Katha has assisted thousands of clients recover from life threatening illness, severe injuries, trauma, post traumatic stress, physical and emotional injuries (RSI, frozen shoulders, whiplash, cranial injuries), depression, addictions, adrenal exhaustion (burn out), dysfunctional generational life patterns and other psychosomatic symptoms specialists were unable to resolve.
We look forward to meeting you at one of our seminars, in our supervised student clinic or for a personal kinesiology balance.