Feather your own nest

15/01/2026

Simple, yet profound wisdom for those in need of practising self love. ❤️

30/12/2025

https://tinybuddha.com/blog/why-the-breath-is-more-powerful-than-willpower-in-addiction-recovery/?fbclid=IwZnRzaAPAJYtleHRuA2FlbQIxMQBzcnRjBmFwcF9pZAo2NjI4NTY4Mzc5AAEeZdrPut64bRGRAlCb2V-Ntr-OU_jGbFe8FCuTQ0RsY6dZoRYczRMcexlLz_k_aem_3i39SyS2iB6_bEi88AKKNA

How breathwork, yoga, presence, and somatic healing can help heal addiction by calming the nervous system.

30/12/2025

Beautiful words by Pema Chodrun. As you usher in the New Year, may you be kind to yourself.

“Times are difficult globally;
awakening is no longer a luxury or an ideal. It's becoming critical. We don't need to add more depression, more discouragement, or more anger to what's already here. It's becoming essential that we learn how to relate sanely with difficult times. The earth seems to be beseeching us to connect with joy and discover our innermost essence. This is the best way that we can benefit others."

29/12/2025

Great news to have access to free mental health services.

Starting 1 January, Australians will have access to free mental health support without needing a GP referral or worrying about gap fees. As a nurse, I know how important this is.

Our new free digital mental health service, Medicare Mental Health Check In, will offer digital self-help tools, and from March you will be able to access Low-Intensity CBT with trained professionals by phone or video. It's mental health care when you need it, without the wait.

Available to anyone over 16. No referral needed. No cost. Because getting help shouldn't be hard.

18/12/2025

15/12/2025

For those feeling the effects of the Bondi shooting yesterday. Help is available: https://www.lifeline.org.au/get-help/support-toolkit/techniques-and-guides/bondi-beach-incident-wellbeing-support-guide?fbclid=IwdGRleAOseOtleHRuA2FlbQIxMQBzcnRjBmFwcF9pZAwzNTA2ODU1MzE3MjgAAR6m_0L62s6H5rBBIqHogC-hIPli40pfQSMhpKrOlN-TbHBd_bs0GU603jcWEQ_aem_1ZMVZxjjcWZLbFga8h7BfQ

Guidance for those impacted by the Bondi Beach attack on 14 December 2025. Understand common reactions, find coping strategies, and access help.

28/11/2025

17/11/2025

What’s fascinating is not just that somatics and polyvagal theory echo Indigenous Knowledge it’s the unexpected places where science is finally catching up.

Here are some lesser-known intersections:

🌿 The nervous system responds to micro-movements, not only big rhythms.
Somatic research shows that tiny, repetitive hand movements, weaving, knot-tying, beading, rolling fibres activate fine motor pathways linked to ventral vagal calm.
Our old people have known this forever weaving pandanus, twining plant fibres, tying fishing nets, carving message sticks, threading shells, mapping stories in sand.
Indigenous fibre arts are not just craft they are regulation, memory and medicine.

🔥 Heat is a vagal regulator.
Warmth on the skin is one of the strongest signals of safety, it lifts vagal tone and softens defensive states.
Indigenous practice has always held this truth...fire ceremony, sun-warmed sand, warm ochre on the body, smoking ceremony and sitting close in story.
Warmth is medicine. Country knows how to settle the nervous system long before science named it.

🌬️The vagus nerve is about 80% sensory, it listens far more than it speaks.
Science shows it carries the body’s stories up to the brain.
Indigenous Knowledge has always known this...wisdom rises from gut, heart, feet and Country, not just from the thinking mind.

🌱 Plants speak directly to the nervous system.
Scent travels straight into the limbic system...the emotional brain without passing through thought.
This is why lemon myrtle, eucalyptus smoke, wattle blossom, native mint, crushed gum leaves, warm resins and flowering plants (and other scented plants) are so regulating.
Our old people have always known that plant kin calm the body before the mind even catches up.

🌊 Water sound tunes the nervous system.
The low, rhythmic frequencies of flowing water sit in the same range as alpha brainwaves...the patterns of calm presence and creative insight.
Our people have always known this...sitting at creeks, rivers, rockholes, billabongs and ocean edges to listen, to cleanse, to let Country regulate the body.
Water changes the brain before the mind even realises it.

👣 Walking on soft terrain changes the whole stress response.
Sand, soil and leaf litter increase proprioceptive input.... the deep-body sense that calms the limbic system and steadies mood.
Our people have always known this...healing happens barefoot, in motion, on earth that yields gently beneath you...dunes, bush tracks, riverbanks, mangroves, desert soils and the soft ground around fire.
Country regulates the body with every step.

✨ These aren’t just beautiful overlaps they’re reminders.

The body remembers.
Country speaks.
And science, slowly, is learning the language our Ancestors never forgot.

12/11/2025

12/11/2025

“One of the hardest things to admit is that we are sometimes addicted to suffering that feels familiar. That we prefer the ache we know to the freedom we don’t. That pain becomes an identity. That endurance feels noble. That people-pleasing gets coded as virtue. That ‘doing the work’ becomes a performance of spiritual masochism, and we are applauded for how gracefully we tolerate the intolerable”. —museguided, Why We Stay In Rooms We Should Leave

Artwork by Hilma Af Klint

02/11/2025

Shame doesn’t help foster change.

28/10/2025

I think about this quote at least once a day:

"Whatever you think the world is withholding from you, you are withholding from the world."
—Eckhart Tolle

Artwork by Lui Mort