Tani at Restore

25/07/2025

When the psyche can no longer handle what is taking place for us, the body in its intelligence will reveal symptoms to guide us to where suppressed energy is stored, and requires our attention.

The bladder and kidneys can hold deep conflict around boundaries, territory and injustice. Often when a person leaves the environment where they feel comprised, in danger or threatened in those areas, their bladder issues and UTIs become a thing of the past.

Anxiety, fear and worry are often associated with urinary symptoms, and conditions like an overactive bladder, in particular when there is a need to “hold back” and not “letting go”, expressing oneself, issues around one’s emotional, intimate and physical territories and where personal boundaries have been overstepped and/or violated.

From an autonomic perspective, there is often a need, but no time to, relieve yourself when you are, or feel, in danger, threatened or frozen/stunned with fear.

A person in danger or threat is in flight and fight sympathetic mobilisation and will either hold on until safe (and usually only let go to relieve the burning sensation) or simply let go mid-mobilisation when the threat is too great.

When we consistently hold our urine in for long periods, it can strain the muscle bladder and may lead to incontinence.

The bladder’s partner organ is the kidney. A person who is constantly on the go and cannot sit still even when relaxing (classic flight behaviours) can over time, also experience adrenal fatigue.

The body holds the score. Our autonomic nervous system informs our energy systems and the world around us, resulting in our life experiences.

To facilitate sustainable change, it is our responsibility to listen and address what our body is telling us.


*Restore posts are not medical advice. All statements and viewpoints expressed represent the research, training/education and opinions of the writer.

24/07/2025

I am going to make everything around me beautiful - that will be my life.

~ Elsie de Wolfe ~

23/07/2025

you are autonomically wired for physical and emotional safety

22/07/2025

Your body is a marvel ✨

Research confirms the human body undergoes near-total cellular renewal every 7–10 years, with organs like the liver replacing all cells in 150 days and stomach linings regenerating every 4 days. Exceptions include cerebral neurons and eye lenses, which remain lifelong. This continuous regeneration highlights the body’s resilience but also underscores the long-term impact of lifestyle choices on persistent fat cells and irreplaceable tissues.

22/07/2025

Just some of Dorsal’s fantastic functions!

✔️Starts in the Brainstem … It begins in the brainstem (medulla), part of your nervous system that controls automatic functions.

✔️Part of the Vagus Nerve … It’s the “back branch” of Vagus - your body’s main “rest, digest and recovery” nerve.

✔️Dorsal means it runs behind the organs … It travels down behind the esophagus and helps control organs like the stomach, intestines, and kidneys.

✔️Activates “Freeze” Mode … In extreme sympathetic stress, it can trigger the body’s “shutdown” or freeze response (think: numbness or disconnection).

✔️Slows things down in all kinds of ways …. It lowers heart rate, slows digestion, and conserves energy when the body feels overwhelmed… and also during moments of deep connection like breastfeeding and intimacy

✔️Key to gut-brain connection… It plays a huge role in how the gut and brain talk to each other - important for mood, stress, and health. Vagus is mostly a sensory nerve, and its fibres communicate mostly from the body to the brain!

22/07/2025

not all who wander are lost

21/07/2025

What is a fantasy?

✔️For one, a fairytale relationship. The other party has absolutely no idea the role you have picked out for them.

✔️An expectation that others should sacrifice who they are and live their life according to your intrinsic values. One-way road to resentment, both ways.

✔️Perfection. When you fear imperfection – or of even making mistakes – it can wreak havoc on your nervous system, poison your relationships, and sometimes, sink you into bouts of, or chronic depression.

It’s one thing to feel down but when you have unrealistic expectations (fantasies), life and people are probably going to be deeply disappointing and that is when depression can set in.

Here are two emotion-balancing questions that may support you when this happens:

Write down:

✔️If my fantasy actually came true, how would it be a drawback to me? (Make a list as long as you can).
✔️What is the benefit of my life, as
it is, especially in areas that are actually important to me? List those, too.

Let me know if this practice helped you feel lighter?

My next 6w group Program starts in August at Palmwoods. Join in! 🌀

20/07/2025

Before The Polyvagal Theory (est 1994) we understood the Autonomic Nervous System to consist of Sympathetic Flight & Fight and Parasympathetic Rest & Digest.

The work of Dr Stephen Porges shows us there is a double function to the Parasympathetic Nervous System.

✔️The Parasympathetic Pathway is not only just about relaxation but it is one system with two pathways, called Ventral and Dorsal.

✔️The Ventral Pathway, or Social Engagement System, lets your body connect safely to the world. That’s called the state of Ventral Vagal Safe, Social Connection.

✔️The Dorsal Pathway forces your body to stop moving in the face of extreme danger. That pathway comes online when you have moved through your Sympathetic options of Flight and Fight, and the only way your body deems fit to defend you now, is to immobilise/stop, hide/disconnect, and/or simply collapse - you “play dead”. That is called the state of Dorsal Vagal Shutdown.

✔️Both of these pathways are controlled by the Vagus Nerve. Polyvagal = Many. Vagal = Wandering.

✔️The Vagus Nerve is the longest autonomic nerve and called the ‘wanderer’ as it innervates organs from the brain to the colon.

✔️Polyvagal theory also explains how our nervous system has the ability to ‘read’ the environment for cues of safety and unsafety instinctively chooses to connect with others when safe, activate a fight or flight response when threatened, or shut down when completely overwhelmed.

✔️Polyvagal Theory teaches us to use our Ventral Vagal System to consciously inhibit our defensive and protective systems.

Keen to join Restore’s 6w Program in group? We start Tuesday, August 5, 6.15pm at Palmwoods. For more info please DM, check bio in insta or FB - link to my website:

https://www.therestoremethod.com/service-page/6w-group-befriend-your-nervous-system-3

*Restore posts are not medical advice. All statements and view points expressed represent the research, training/education and opinions of the writer.

20/07/2025

The Vagus Nerve and the thyroid gland are intricately connected. The Vagus Nerve plays a vital role in regulating thyroid hormone production and secretion. It stimulates the release of thyrotropin-releasing hormone (TRH) from the hypothalamus, which in turn triggers the release of thyroid-stimulating hormone (TSH) from the pituitary gland.

It gets us out of flight or fight and turns on rest and digest, social engagement mode.

We can actively work on improving our vagal tone with simple, short daily exercises.

From a psychosomatic perceptive, the thyroid can denote a person’s capacity to express themselves and to make themselves understood.

It is in the thyroid the body shows the person’s calculating attitude, as they learnt when to speak up and when to shut up.

The child who is not allowed to speak up, or who has realised that no one has made (or will make) any effort to understand her, may give up on herself.

The tension the body exposes is: “I cannot create my own space in this adult world. I am powerless. I am not allowed to express myself.”

Thyroid issues are more common in women and the emotional suppression of “everyone gets to do what they want - when is it my turn?!” can be a persistent and unresolved complaint.


*Restore posts are not medical advice. All statements and view points expressed represent the research, training/education and opinions of the writer.

20/07/2025

simple joys

19/07/2025

It’s free and always will be 💎

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