Goodman Holistic Therapies

02/02/2026

Do you feel you are sometimes your own worst enemy?
Do you talk to yourself in a way you'd never talk to your best friend?
For example: "I'm so ugly/fat/useless/pathetic!"
It's worth remembering that YOU are your own best friend and to tread more lightly on your own feelings!

If you feel you are sabotaging yourself in some way, then why not try one of these gentle remedies:

Five Corners Australian Bush Flower Remedy for
- low self esteem
- dislike of self
- crushed, held-in personality
- wears drab and colourless clothing
Creates
- love and acceptance of self
- celebration of own beauty
- joyousness

Bach Flower Remedy Crab Apple
Remedy for
- hates body; poor self image
- feels unclean or 'poisonous'
- obsessive, repetitive behaviour
Creates
- acceptance of self and one's imperfections
- positive self image
- more relaxed outlook on life, self and environment
J 🙋🏼‍♀️

26/01/2026

For those of you (in the Northern Hemisphere) who, like me, get early hayfever, thanks to the Birch tree pollen (and though we can’t see buds yet, Nature is starting to wake up) you might want to:
a) start taking an antihistamine each day from round about now (it really helps to stop it in its tracks) and
b) find yourself a Bowen practitioner (like me!) as Bowen Technique is very effective at dealing with hayfever symptoms. Some people I’ve treated have never had it return, though usually it stops it for that year IF
c) you cut back on dairy as it contributes to the formation of mucus (wheat also, but dairy - especially milk - more so).

19/01/2026

Blood clots
Nattokinase, an enzyme derived from natto, a traditional Japanese food from fermented soybeans, has been shown in studies to help dissolve blood clots. This can help to maintain good blood vessel structure, improve blood flow and lower the risk of heart disease.

Whether you want to:
improve CARDIOVASCULAR HEALTH,
prevent/treat BLOOD CLOTS or NOSE BLEEDS
improve your CIRCULATION
increase your BONE DENSITY
reduce INFLAMMATION, ALLERGIC REACTIONS or OEDEMA
improve your COGNITIVE BRAIN FUNCTION
enhance your IMMUNITY
improve SKIN, RESPIRATORY HEALTH, CHRONIC FATIGUE symptoms, KIDNEY/LIVER FUNCTION and EYE HEALTH
lower BLOOD PRESSURE
improve DENTAL HEALTH
increase LIBIDO
boost MALE FERTILITY
prevent MIGRAINES (possibly also a MAGNESIUM deficiency)
or improve VARICOSE VEINS (Grape Seed Extract also helps)
- read about the health benefits of Nattokinase, below :

https://www.earthclinic.com/mobile/supplements/nattokinase-intro.html

Health Benefits of Nattokinase: Evidence-Based Findings

Discover the potential health benefits of nattokinase, from improved cardiovascular health to skin health and more. Learn about side effects and precautions.

12/01/2026

The best meal to prevent blood clots, heart attacks and strokes:

https://www.facebook.com/share/v/1BR421CPTc/?mibextid=wwXIfr

05/01/2026

Some hope on the horizon for sufferers of pancreatic cancer:

Fermented stevia may hold intriguing anti-cancer properties

31/12/2025

Counting our blessings and expressing gratitude - being thankful - for what we already have, creates more of the same as the Universal Law of Attraction guarantees we always attract that which we give out. To this end, try keeping a Gratitude Diary each day, making a list, at bedtime, of 5 things you’re thankful for each day.
Your partner, children, family, friends, your home, freedom, your warm comfy bed, the food in your cupboards and fridge, the clean water that comes out of your taps, your car and the fuel to put in it, your work, your ability to pay your bills, your pets, the air you breathe, your health, legs that get you about, eyes that see, the beauty of your garden, the miracle that sees the sun rise and set each day, the beauty of the seasons, the smile of a child, their trusting hand in yours, the help given to you by a stranger that day, the funny joke told to you by a friend, chocolate, coffee, the scent of rain on concrete after a hot spell, trees, companionship, the breeze on your skin on a hot day, a warm, cracking log fire……the list is endless. And the more you can list, the more you find you have to be thankful for. It truly is life-changing and will make you happier and more contented.

I wish you all a happy, healthy, abundant and magical New Year. 🌈❤️🙏🏼

29/12/2025

As the great Terry Pratchett said:
“There are times in life when people must know when to let go. Balloons are designed to teach small children this.”

Holding on to past hurts, anger, and grievances is - to paraphrase another great, Edmund Blackadder - like a blunt pencil: pointless!

Chances are, the person who hurt you has no idea what they’ve done, and are clueless that you’re still clinging to the issue after all this time.
Or they simply don’t care.
So who’s hurting here? Certainly not them, they’ve moved on.

So if you’re going to make a New Year’s Resolution this year, why not make it this: to free yourself from the chains of the past by forgiving yourself, and forgiving those who have wronged you.

Hmmm....Forgiveness: one of the hardest things to do! Which is why so many of us carry unnecessary emotional burdens for much of our lives! And make no mistake: I can promise you that holding on to resentment, anger, guilt, hurt pride, sorrow and grief will, sooner or later, have a negative impact on your physical wellbeing as well as your emotional and mental health.

So it’s high time you laid down that load once and for all.

This is a technique I find useful when I’m struggling to forgive someone:

Separate the PERSON from the DEED.
Forgive the PERSON, if not the DEED.

When I first thought of this, it was a bit of a Eureka! moment. It’s so simple!

Another way is to close your eyes and imagine your ‘enemy’ as a tiny child or baby. See them in distress, crying, cold, hungry, needing help, shelter and comfort. See them reaching out their arms to you.
(I know you wouldn’t turn away from a child in need!)
Visualise yourself picking them up and sitting them on your knee, cuddling and rocking them, soothing their fears, drying their tears.
Let the compassion you feel for this helpless child grow, and the love will follow.....as will forgiveness.
And when we forgive others, we set ourselves free and our healing begins.

When you’re feeling overwhelmed by anything, try this visualisation:
Imagine you’re holding a balloon. (If you have a fear of balloons, as my mother did, then visualise a bubble.)
See the colour of the balloon and imagine the feel of it.
Now conjure up all your worries, pain, rage, anxiety - stress of any kind - and blow it all into the balloon.
See the balloon start to expand, growing bigger and bigger the more you blow your cares into it. Feel them start to leave you as they fill the balloon.
Now tie off the mouth of the balloon with some string or a ribbon.
Take your balloon and see yourself walking to the top of a high hill. Feel the breeze blowing your hair about your face. You’re feeling lighter and more carefree already.
Hold out your arm and feel the breeze start to tug at the balloon. As the string grows taut, LET IT GO!!
See the balloon taken by the wind. Stand and watch it grow smaller and smaller as it disappears off into the distance, carrying all your troubles with it.
Sit for a few moments, noticing how you feel now.
Take a few deep breaths, open your eyes and smile!

Let this coming New Year be the year you just LET IT ALL GO.......and really start your healing journey.
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25/12/2025

Merry Christmas to all my clients, past and present, and to all of you who Like and follow this page! Thank-you!
I hope you find the weekly health and well-being posts useful and informative.
Please spread the word to anyone in need of some holistic, natural TLC.
I wish you a wonderful, peaceful, joyous Christmas! 🎄🌟🎉
And here’s to healthy, happy, prosperous brand New Year. 🍾🥂
With Love and Light,
Jane xx
🎅🏼🎈🎄🌟

22/12/2025

With Christmas fast approaching, here is some well-timed advice for relief from indigestion, heartburn and acid reflux:

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15/12/2025

Hangovers

As we approach Christmas and New Year, a time of celebration, lots of socialising, overindulgence and merriment, you might want to make a note of these acupressure/acupuncture points (see below) that are effective in counteracting HANGOVER symptoms!

No needles necessary, just press on each point for a few moments for relief from nausea, upset stomach and headache!
🤮🍾🍸🎉🎈

I also find a good protein breakfast (eggs, bacon etc) helps the recovery process, as does honey on toast.

Avoid caffeine and hair-of-the-dog! These will only overload your poor liver further, as will any medication such as paracetamol or ibuprofen, though if you’re really suffering, go ahead.

The herbal remedy Milk Thistle helps to detoxify the liver, so aids recovery.

Take an Epsom Salts bath to help detox your body, and to relax you. Use 2 big mugfuls in a bath, or a couple of tablespoons of the salts in a foot soak.
Drink lots of water, get some fresh air if you can, be kind to yourself, rest, and have an early night!

To AVOID a hangover altogether (other than not drinking alcohol at all) have a cup of tea before leaving the house, and one when you come in. Scientists found that this is especially effective for women.

My personal favourite is Slippery Elm, a herbal preparation that really helps to prevent not only alcoholic hangovers, but also food hangovers - you know that feeling when you’ve eaten too much rich food? Who doesn’t do that at Christmastime?! Roast dinners, rich puddings, chocolates, mince pies, and that’s without the wine, Baileys, port etc........😳
Take 2 Slippery Elm capsules BEFORE indulging, and - this is important, so leave them out where you’ll see them when you come home - take 4 AFTER.

I’ve tried the detox patches too; the ones you place on the soles of your feet overnight. I found those to be surprisingly effective too! Of course, there was much giggling as we tried to position them correctly, after a night out!

Enjoy yourselves! X
🙋🏼‍♀️. 🎉🍸🍾🎄🎈

1.
LI4 (Large Intestine 4) is a very effective pain-relief point for anywhere in the body, but it particularly relates to anything head-or face-related: headaches, migraines, eye, teeth or sinus problems, plus colds and skin problems. It is found on the fleshy mount of both hands when you draw the thumb in towards the hand. As it’s also part of the Large Intestine meridian energy, it will also help the bowels.
Note: this point is CONTRAINDICATED in PREGNANCY.

2.
BL40 (Bladder 40) helps to stop vomiting and diarrhoea.
It is found on the back of both knees, on the crease, between the two tendons. It’s a major point used to help lumbar back pain, and weakness or paralysis of the lower limbs.
As it is also part of the Bladder meridian energy, it also helps with any urinary issues.

3.
PC 6 (Pericardium 6) is a great point to use if you’re feeling nauseous - whether it be due to a hangover, travel-sickness or morning sickness in pregnancy.
To locate it, place 3 fingers from the crease of the wrist, palm side up. Where the fingers end, between the tendons, is PC6. You may be familiar with the popular "Seabands," Seabands use magnets to activate PC6 and help fight motion sickness
Press firmly for a couple of minutes, and then switch to the other wrist.

Another use for Pericardium 6 is to "calm the Shen." In more common language, this translates to calming the mind and reducing anxiety. PC6 also "opens and unbinds the chest." This refers to some of the types of physical symptoms that can be experienced with anxiety such as tightness in the chest and palpitations. Sometimes anxiety can produce nausea as well, in which case PC6 can help on both fronts.
The next time you are feeling anxious or nauseous, try massaging Pericardium 6 to feel better.

4.
ST8 (Stomach 8)
Just within the hairline at the corners of the temples, you may find a natural indentation each side of the head. This is the location of ST8. Soothes headaches, and because it’s part of the stomach meridian energy, will help settle your stomach.
It also helps with dizziness, eye tics (twitching) excessive tearing, poor vision, eye pain, and hair loss.

08/12/2025

Approaching Christmas

With Christmas fast approaching, probably the last thing on your mind is the thought of sitting around and not doing very much! But I would like to convince you, with the help of Chinese medicine, why you should do exactly that. And how it is the key to staying healthy & happy this Christmas. 🎄

Christmas requires a lot of frantic rushing about, stress and worry - wrestling with other Christmas shoppers in crowded shopping centres, worrying about food, and feeling anxious about family politics. Those M&S and John Lewis adverts somehow convince us that the ‘perfect’ Christmas does exist and that it’s going to take a lot of money and time to achieve it. But it doesn’t have to be like that!
So here are my top tips:

🌟 Balance all the ‘doing’ with some ‘being’.
After all, we are human BEings, not human DOings!
When Chinese Medicine was being developed thousands of years ago, people lived in harmony with Nature. They rose with sun, ate what grew each season, dressed appropriately and engaged in activities that fitted with the time of year.
Chinese Medicine teaches us that this is the key to health and well-ness. Christmas falls when the nights are longest and the ground is coldest (in the Northern Hemisphere).
It made sense, in the old days, to get everyone together when it just wasn’t possible to work outside. Christmas would last for 15 days - no one would work, candles were lit and a huge piece of wood (called a Yule log) was thrown on a open fire and would burn for days. It was a time for hospitality, charity and rest. It was perfectly in keeping with the Chinese view that winter is a time to slow down, go inwards and reflect. This doesn’t mean that all Christmas socialising and party-going should be avoided, but that it’s important to balance out the celebration and activity with some stillness. Some gentle yoga in the mornings, a simple meditation - just sitting still for a few minutes and watching your breath, writing in a journal, sitting next to a fire with a cup of tea. All activities we naturally crave over the winter but often don't make the time to do, in all the busy-ness.

🌟 Look after your kidneys.
As an acupuncturist, when I talk about Kidneys, or Liver, or any other bodily organ, I’m not only talking about the anatomical organ but a far wider set of attributes - its function, its emotional features and its corresponding body part. Each major organ system is also related to a season as Chinese philosophy sees us as an inseparable part of Nature. The organ associated with Winter is the Kidneys and the emotion associated with the Kidneys is fear, or a heightened sense of anxiety. The emotion tends to show up more prominently in its corresponding season, so if you tend to feel more anxious over Christmas time, you’re not alone, and actually, from a Traditional Chinese Medicine perspective, it makes sense that you would.

So how can you look after your Kidneys? The Kidneys are the source of all energy in our body, like our own battery pack. So rest is vital. The cold, dark days urge us to slow down and conserve our energy, rebuilding our strength for the Spring. Try taking a bath with Epsom salts and lavender oil and having an early night. Even half an hour earlier, twice a week and the odd afternoon nap will give both your energy levels and immune system a boost.
Book acupuncture treatments. These will address your current illness, deeper imbalances and also attune you to the season.


🌟 Drink bone broth - rich in nutrients, it heals and soothes the digestive system - it is energising ‘liquid gold’, and so easy and cheap to make. Just cover bones with water and simmer for as long as you can. You can add bay leaves, peppercorns and onions if you like, or save any vegetable scraps throughout the week and pop them into the pot. Use a chicken carcass or beef bones. Beef is better as the marrow is closer to our own. Try to source bones from grass-fed beef (you can buy them online) as they won’t contain any chemical ‘nasties’ from the cattle feed that will compromise your health.
Drink it as it is, or use it as a base for soups, stews and risottos. Add warming ingredients, like ginger and garlic, for their flavour and health benefits. Eating seasonally means saving raw foods, salads and juices for the summer. Instead go for squashes, potatoes, root vegetables, winter greens, carrots and cabbages.
Try to avoid excessive sugar intake as by lowering your immunity, sugar issues an open invitation to infections and illnesses!
Christmas is a time of excessive eating and drinking so try to balance with days of simple, nourishing, slow cooked foods. Your digestive system will thank you for it.

🌟 Go with the flow.
In a perfect world, we would all have 15 days off work to sleep, eat and rest when we felt like it. But today’s Christmas doesn’t allow for this, so instead of trying to resist the chaos of Christmas, go with the flow. In Chinese Medicine the smooth, free flow of qi ( “chee”; energy) results in a happy, healthy mind and body. When it stagnates, you develop pain and weakened immune health. So when you're stuck in Christmas traffic, the turkey is overcooked and the last latest toy ‘must-have’ has been bought........stop. Breathe through the craziness, recognise the changing nature of life and inwardly repeat to yourself: “This too shall pass”.

🎄🌟 🙋🏼‍♀️

01/12/2025

Are you suffering with toothache, gum disease, a sore throat, mouth ulcers, sinus congestion or bad breath?
These are just some of the health problems that may be helped by Oil Pulling (or Gundusha), an age-old remedy rooted in Indian Ayurvedic medicine.
Oil Pulling naturally cleans, whitens and detoxifies the teeth, gums and mouth by removing staining and harmful bacteria and toxins. But it has health benefits that reach much further....read on:

How to Oil Pull:
On waking, before eating, drinking or brushing the teeth, whilst you still have 'morning mouth', put 1-3 teaspoons (3 teaspoons = 1 tablespoon) of oil in the mouth and swish and draw ('pull') it through the teeth and around the mouth for 20 minutes. Perhaps start with 1-2 teaspoons and work up to a tablespoon. If you struggle to make the full 20 minutes at first, don't worry; swish for 5-10 minutes and work up to 20 minutes, perhaps whilst showering. You're going to oil pull every morning until the condition improves!
After a few minutes the oil will thin as it mixes with the saliva. Keep swishing!
After 20 minutes SPIT the oil out into the toilet or rubbish bin. Don't spit into the sink as it may clog the pipes.
DO NOT SWALLOW THE OIL!!! It is now full of toxins and oil from the mouth (and the immediate area, which is why it can help with sore throats too).
Thoroughly rinse your mouth with water (warm water seems to clear the oil residue more effectively) and then brush your teeth.

Which oil to use?
Sesame oil was traditionally used, but you can use almond, sunflower, olive or grape seed oil. Some olive oil can have quite a strong taste but as it mixes with the saliva the taste becomes milder.
Avoid using any high Omega-6 or chemically created oils like vegetable oil, canola oil, soya bean oil or corn oil etc.
Coconut oil is perfect as studies show it is slightly more effective at removing the Streptococcus mutans bacteria known to cause dental caries.
Coconut oil is also the best oil to use if teeth WHITENING is your primary goal.
Bear in mind that in cool conditions, coconut oil is a solid, so you'll have to chew it initially, until the warmth of the mouth melts it. It's mild and pleasant tasting though, as long as you like coconut flavour!
I’d advise spitting coconut oil into a lined bin rather than into the sink or toilet as it could potentially block the pipes if it solidifies again!
Bear in mind any NUT ALLERGIES you may have when deciding on your oil of choice.

Anecdotal evidence shows that the benefits of Oil Pulling may go far beyond the oral area when practised for extended periods of time. It seems that many people have found it has helped with ACNE, ARTHRITIS, HEADACHES, HORMONE IMBALANCES (eg PMS), INFECTIONS, LIVER PROBLEMS and more.
A comprehensive read on the subject is "Oil Pulling Therapy" by Dr Bruce Fife.
😀 xx