Smart Health Isle of Wight

28/09/2025

This is why we should exercise!!

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01/08/2025

Here at SmartHealth, we prefer all our staff to demonstrate a certain commitment to fitness and flexibility.

Ernie here is no exception!

Thanks to our consultant trauma therapist for giving him a firmer foundation and the confidence to stretch to his full potential!

Let him be an example to us all!

12/11/2024

As a runner I absolutely connected with this perception, however, I think it’s also true for all of the challenges we face in life. It’s not the situation, but the way we think about it that determines our response to it and how we get through the difficult time ❤️‍🩹👊🏼

09/09/2024

Looking for private GP services in the Isle of Wight? Lantern Clinic provides private GP services in-person, online and offers home visits. We offer rapid testing services for a range of different needs. Want to know more? Book in for a complimentary 15 minute discovery call with Dr. Margarita.

05/08/2024

Highly recommend 😁

Hi, my name is Kelly and I'm a Root-Cause Therapy practitioner working with clients to get to the root cause of their current presenting symptoms, allowing them to achieve positive life changes with long term results. ❤️‍🩹

So let me explain further....

What is Root-Cause Therapy and how might it help?

If you're feeling stuck in life, like you’re experiencing the same patterns of behaviour or thought day-in, day-out without any real sense of resolution then Root-Cause Therapy was created for you!

It aims to release negative self-talk, unhelpful habits, behaviours, addictions, anxiety, procrastination, PTSD, low self-esteem, depression and patterns of chronic physical conditions, such as fibromyalgia, chronic pain, IBS, ME, CFS and autoimmune conditions. As well as helping you understand any symptoms of neurodiversity that you may have struggled with throughout your life.

This approach uses regression and progression practices which result in the completion of unprocessed emotions leftover from past traumatic/stressful events. It allows the unprocessed to finally process and no longer cause unwanted thoughts, behaviours and symptoms.

Most debilitating conditions that we experience in modern society have their root cause in unresolved stress/trauma, which remains stuck, as emotions, inside the body and this impacts our unconscious limiting beliefs, such as: I am not heard, I fear failure, I fear success, I am not important or I am responsible. These limiting beliefs then determine the way we live our lives and the attachment styles of the relationships we have with partners, children, parents, colleagues, friends, but ultimately, ourselves and we can become confused as to why we struggle to feel complete.

Root-Cause Therapy works by identifying and addressing the root cause of any physical or emotional blockage. It looks beyond the surface symptoms, to get to the deeper subconscious source of your patterns and once there identifies and releases the emotions that are attached. Through a combination of somatic healing and talk therapy the client is then supported and guided as they release the underlying narrative that was attached and build a new belief from a higher perspective.

The goal of Root-Cause Therapy is not only for clients to gain an understanding of why they are behaving a certain way but also for them to release the emotional baggage in order to heal and grow from those experiences - moving forward with more confidence and resilience.

For more information don't hesitate to send me a message

17/06/2024

Should I push through the pain?
I get asked this a lot, usually in relation to physical activity/exercise, but it can apply to any trigger. My answer is that you want to try and find the sweet spot between pushing too hard, and not challenging yourself at all.

Pain is a warning signal. So when you get pain around exercise there is a part of you that perceives exercise as dangerous to you in some way. This danger may be due to a physical injury. But in the case of chronic pain, there is no injury. So the symptoms are more likely to be due to one of two things (or a combination of the two)

Neuroplastic pain: conditioned pain because the brain has come to associate exercise with symptoms, kept going by the pain-fear cycle.
And/or
A part in your system that is creating pain for protection. For example, the symptoms may be your body saying NO in response to a shaming critic that forces you to exercise hard, and has caused burnout in the past - if this is the case, you will need to do some emotional work around this issue alongside graded exposure to exercise.

If you push through intense pain, you’re likely to just make yourself feel even more fearful, and any part creating pain is only going to try harder to stop you from exercising. This is more likely to cause you a setback than help you make progress.

But if you always let any pain stop you from doing things that expand your comfort zone, then you will stay stuck. Your brain needs to learn that the sensations in your body are safe, and it won’t learn this unless you let yourself do things that bring on those sensations.

So, what you want is gradual exposure. Start small and build up gradually. Give yourself lots of reassurance that the pain isn’t due to an injury – it’s just being created by your brain.

14/06/2024

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09/05/2024

Pain that sticks around or keeps recurring is almost always a mindbody issue.

My physio couldn’t explain why my shoulder persisted for months after what was thought to be a minor injury. I did all the exercises diligently, but the pain only got worse. Then it started spreading into my neck and upper back. When it finally settled down, I got the same pain in the other shoulder for no apparent reason. Of course I tried to find explanations. “Maybe I slept on it wrong?” “Maybe I overdid it when I was gardening?” But now I understand that none of that makes sense from a functional perspective.

The piece of the puzzle I was missing, is that chronic stress was keeping my muscles constantly tight. And my oversensitized nervous system was interpreting the feeling of tightness and translating it into pain.

Pain is an output of the brain, not an experience in your body. Our brains create pain when they believe we are in danger. The pain is a signal for us to hide away somewhere and give ourselves time to heal.

These symptoms occurred during a very difficult time in my life, and my brain was trying to protect me by giving me pain to keep me ‘safe’. Once I understood this process and started to address my anxiety, internal stress, and began to allow myself to process my emotions, my pain started to fade.

02/05/2024

SmartHealth are proud to have become a member of the Isle of Wight Chamber of Commerce.

13/03/2024

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17/03/2023

Amazing technology! It demonstrated that even after 30 years of study, there’s always more to learn.