Sam Andreadis Craniosacral Therapy & Counselling

09/06/2025

Dysautonomias can be primary such as POTs or Mast Cell Activation syndrome, or secondary due to Ehlers-Danlos hyper mobility syndrome. There are also many correlations with CFS/ME and some with ASD.

Stress, Trauma and post viral immune activation can also contribute to the development of a Dysautonomia.

Associated mood and behaviour disturbances, such as panic, depression and anxiety can be physiological in origin because the body is sending out signals that relate to a lack of safety internally even if there is none externally.

This is very destabilising and confusing experience. Because the symptoms are so broad and seemingly unconnected it can be very difficult to get a medical diagnosis unless the symptoms are at the more extreme end of the spectrum.

The degrees to which this might affect you can vary enormously but awareness of the ways in which it is effecting you both psychologically and physiologically is really important.

Having it understood that you aren’t making it up or ‘simply’ anxious and depressed can also be really helpful. You are not imagining your racing heart, dizziness, fatigue, pain and digestive issues because you are depressed or anxious. You are experiencing a permanent loss of a sense of safety which is very hard to live with.

Mind Body / Somatic Therapy can be part of an approach to restoring function but also and importantly in reframing your experience of yourself in the world to create a better sense of safety.

24/04/2025

04/12/2024

STILL POINTS are a central cranial concept. This point of stillness is not a place of absence, it is a place of enormous potency and potential - it is a place from which everything begins, heals, grows and is created.

Like the space between inhale and exhale or the mystery of the moment between egg and s***m fusion before the zygote and ultimately the embryo develop - they occur at different rhythms of time and space in all areas of our development and homeostasis and in the environment.

From the macro to the micro they represent a point of balance before transformation or transmutation. In meteorology we understand the lull before the storm as the conditions that create the environment for the storm to come. Stillness as a preface to action.

To live in constant storm is unsustainable and leads to burnout and the sense of living out of control.

Therapy offers a still point in your week: the space and containment of the therapeutic environment as a place for you to gather your potential energies and allow them to settle before returning to function and action.

CranioSacral Therapy goes a step further by promoting the conditions for your physiology to drop into its own still point and organise itself around health and healing rather than stress and trauma.

In these times of strain, whether seasonal or geopolitical - may we employ whatever resources we need embody healing potential on every level of Self, Family, Community, Country and Planet 🌏 ✨

With thanks to .keepers for the reminder of the relevance of still points across disciplines and cultures 🌏🍃

07/11/2024

05/11/2024

CranioSacral Therapy has always worked with the fields of wellness above that are now so familiar in the mainstream. There are few therapies that have the flexibility, gentleness and holism of this approach. With its roots influenced by indigenous wisdom: If your goal is to live in harmony with yourself and the world around you, then you might be interested to add it to your tool kit of supports and resources ✨

08/10/2024

How many of us approach life as if in a dream? Never quite fully present? Distracted from ourselves and each other by the dream of TV, social media and the life we’ve been told we should want?

Do you want to wake up? What fear exists in doing so? What would change? What would you let go? What would feel and see as if for the first time?

This is a space for deep contemplation of that which lurks in the shadow of our Self. Our limiting beliefs and decisions. Our living from a death instinct for fear of stepping fully into our life instinct?

If you think this sounds familiar, ask yourself how it is showing up in your body, your pain and your choices.

16/09/2024

Fear is such a powerful primitive life saving emotion. It is such a root experience we may not even notice the way it pervades our choices, our nervous system or our bodies. It is present in our birth process and our death process. To truly meet our fear is in itself pretty terrifying… and yet when we can bring real clarity to the shadow it casts we can begin to release its quite literal hold on our psyche, our ego, our organs and our nervous system. This is full BodyMind work 🤯🫀✨





Quote: John O’Donohue - Anam Cara

12/07/2024

EMOTIONAL PSYCHOLOGICAL SPIRITUAL PHYSIOLOGICAL EMBODIED

The fragmented Self can only reconnect in wholeness ✨🌎

20/02/2024

19/02/2024

Have you actively chosen your life course based on an in depth knowledge of Self, or have you passively lived a life you were prescribed?

Exploring Self and personal freedom can start at any stage - and doesn’t have to mean blowing everything up along the way.

Playing not to lose is not the same as playing to win.

02/12/2023

I speak of the turbulence of life that obscures our reality - our innate self - the primitive streak of ‘us-ness’ that necessarily adapts the moment it is born into the context of our lives, families, social-political status, race, war zone and so on and so forth.

We form layers of adaptive characteristics to our reality which can be viewed as ‘personality’.

Sometimes these protective survival personalities (which were vital and should always be honoured) obscure our function in the present. They stop being necessary or useful. They get in the way of many things that ultimately might allow us to be happy.

So ultimately the search for happiness is actually a search for your SELF. This is the heart of what we do in the therapy I offer.

Self work at a physical and psychological level most simply put, clears the turbulence and allows a deep return, a remembering of YOU.