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12/25/2025

12/23/2025

3 Signs Your Nervous System Is Stuck in Fight-or-Flight Mode
(…and why your body is begging for a reset)

1️⃣ You wake up already tired
If your body never fully switches into ‘rest + recover,’ even a full night’s sleep won’t feel like enough.

2️⃣ Your shoulders, jaw, or back are constantly tight
Stress doesn’t just live in your head — it settles into your fascia, locking your body into protection mode.

3️⃣ You feel on edge, overwhelmed, or easily triggered
When the nervous system is overloaded, even small things feel big.

🌿 The good news?
You don’t have to stay stuck there.
Bowen Therapy gently guide your nervous system out of survival mode and back into balance — so you can breathe deeper, move freer, and finally feel like you again.

💚 Your calm isn’t a luxury… it’s your foundation.

📍 Body Remedies, Plymouth
Your nervous system will thank you.
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12/20/2025

Last minute stocking stuffer for the one that you love!

12/18/2025

This Christmas, gift something that supports both well-being AND your local practitioner. Bowen Therapy is the gift that blesses the body long after the holidays are over. 💚

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12/16/2025

Everyone is starting to realize how important fascia is when it comes to training the body, but most people still underestimate how deeply it influences movement.

Hydrated fascia behaves very differently, down to the cellular level. Not only does it participate in bioelectric signaling, it also plays a major role in how much range of motion your body can access during exercise. When this tissue is loaded correctly, it becomes elastic and responsive. Your muscles coordinate better, your posture improves, and energy becomes more stable because your body isn’t fighting itself to move.

When this tissue loses its elasticity and structural organization, your body begins moving in ways that increase tension, stiffness, and joint stress in the wrong areas. This is when people start experiencing the movement degradation that eventually leads to pain. Hydration in the body isn’t just about drinking more water. It depends on restoring the mechanical conditions that allow fluid to move through your tissue with minimal friction.

The visual on the left is exactly what we help you overcome through our training. This is what you see in the transformations we help people achieve, where their bodies begin to look more viscoelastic and full.

If you want to improve your movement, you not only need to strengthen the muscles that are weak, you also need to build the mechanics that distribute tension efficiently throughout your fascial system. The quality of your movement determines the quality of your tissue.

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12/13/2025

Your symptoms are signals — but they’re not the whole picture.

What feels like a local issue (tight calves, sore shoulders, stiff neck) may actually be part of a larger pattern your body has been managing quietly for years.

Bowen Therapy aims to address the deeper systems:
• fascia
• muscle tension
• joint alignment
• nervous system balance
• compensation patterns

Because lasting change can happen when the whole body gets the memo — not just one part.

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12/09/2025

Bowen Therapy works with the body, not against it.

This approach isn’t about fixing or forcing — it’s about offering the body space, time, and support to respond in its own way.

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12/06/2025

This is so well written:

The Lymphatic System of a Griever 🌿
The Body Remembers What the Mind Tries to Forget

There are wounds the world cannot see.
The ones you never speak about.
The ones you try to bury under strength, responsibility and routine.

You tell yourself you’re fine.
You tell yourself you’ve moved on.
You tell yourself that “time heals.”

But your body knows the truth.

Because your body remembers everything your mind tries so hard to forget.

Grief doesn’t disappear just because you silence it.
Trauma doesn’t dissolve simply because you refuse to look at it.
Pain doesn’t leave the body because you decided to “be strong.”

The body stores what the heart cannot carry.

It hides in the fascia, the deepest connective tissue holding your life stories.
It sits in the tightness of your shoulders, the lump in your throat, the heaviness behind your sternum.
It wraps itself around the diaphragm, stealing the breath you need to heal.
It settles in the abdomen, slowing digestion and filling the lymphatic system with inflammation.

This is not weakness.
This is physiology.
This is a nervous system that has had to protect you for too long.

When grief goes unspoken, the lymphatic system becomes overloaded.
Stress hormones thicken lymph.
The fascia tightens and restricts drainage.
The vagus nerve retreats.
The body shifts into a long-term protective state.

And then you start to feel it.

Your body is not betraying you.
It is communicating.
It is whispering, “There is something here that needs your compassion.”

Healing begins when you allow your body to exhale.
When you soften the areas that have been holding the hardest.
When you release the lymphatic pathways that froze in moments of fear, loss or shock.
When you finally give yourself permission to feel what you avoided just to survive.

You do not heal by pretending the pain isn’t there.
You heal by creating safety for your body to let go.

Because here is the truth:
Your body has always remembered you.
It held the parts of you your mind could not face.
And it is ready to release — the moment you are ready to listen.

By Bianca Botha, CLT, RLD, MLDT & CDS
Lymphatica – Lymphatic Therapy & Body Detox Facility
PROPERTY OF LYMPHATICA

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🩵 This article is for informational purposes only and is not a substitute for professional medical advice, diagnosis, or treatment. Always consult your healthcare provider before making changes to your diet, exercise, or health regimen.

12/02/2025

We’re taught to push through — to ignore the whispers until they become shouts.

But the body’s quiet messages are where true awareness begins.

Bowen Therapy teaches us to pause, to listen, and to trust the body’s own intelligence to guide the way.

Whether you’re learning Bowen or receiving it (or both!) — start by tuning in.

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11/28/2025

Our systems work like a well tuned car, all depend on all the other parts. Bowen helps to promote homeostasis in the body, which creates a place for healing. Stress and life takes a toll on the body and the body can get stuck in fight/flight/freeze or fawn. Bowen helps to remedy that so that you can be in rest/repair. Have you tried Bowen Therapy? www.TrueRootsHolistics.ca

11/25/2025

WOW, 5 weeks to Christmas and 6 weeks till near the end of 2025. Have you booked your Bowen or Massage Treatment to use your benefits?

11/22/2025

Food for thought… 🤔. www.TrueRootsHolistics.ca