Empowering beautiful souls to align with trueself - physically, emotionally, mentally & spiritually
01/10/2025
🌬️ The Diaphragm: Your Hidden Superpower 🌬️
We often think of the heart as the engine of life — but the diaphragm is just as essential. This dome-shaped muscle beneath your lungs works tirelessly, drawing in breath and fueling every cell of your body.
✨ Why it matters:
It’s the primary muscle of breathing.
Deep diaphragmatic breathing calms the nervous system, lowers stress, and improves digestion.
It boosts oxygen flow, supporting energy, focus, and healing.
🌀 How to connect with your diaphragm:
1. Belly Breathing → Place one hand on your chest, one on your belly. Inhale through your nose and let your belly gently rise, exhale slowly.
2. Box Breathing → Inhale for 4, hold for 4, exhale for 4, hold for 4. Repeat.
3. Extended Exhale → Inhale for 4, exhale for 6–8. This signals safety to the nervous system.
đź’« Each conscious breath is a reminder: your body holds the wisdom to heal, calm, and renew.
27/09/2025
YES 🫶💞
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26/09/2025
🌬️✨What if your breath could be the key to deep healing, inner calm, and expanded awareness? 🌬️✨
Researchers at Brighton and Sussex Medical School recently explored the effects of music-driven, high ventilation breathwork — and the results were profound:
🧠Shifts in brain activity that support emotional processing
đź’« Increased activity in the amygdala + hippocampus (linked to emotional memory & release)
🌊 Participants reported feelings of bliss, unity, and reduced fear
These states, described by scientists as “oceanic boundlessness,” mirror some of the benefits seen in psychedelic research — but were achieved naturally, through breath alone.
⚠️ Important note: This style of breathwork isn’t for everyone. Contraindications include heart conditions, epilepsy, pregnancy, and some mental health concerns. Always seek the guidance of an experienced breathwork facilitator before engaging in high-intensity practices.
Breathwork isn’t just about calming the mind — it’s a doorway to presence, healing, and awakening. With every intentional inhale and exhale, you reconnect to your body’s innate wisdom.
✨ When was the last time you truly breathed with awareness?
📖 Reference: “Neurobiological substrates of altered states of consciousness induced by high ventilation breathwork accompanied by music” by Amy Amla Kartar et al., PLOS ONE, August 27, 2025.
13/09/2025
🤍 A hug is more than just an embrace — it’s medicine for the soul.
Science shows that hugs release oxytocin, the “bonding hormone,” which lowers stress, slows the heart rate, and boosts feelings of safety and connection. They literally calm the nervous system and strengthen immunity. ✨
So next time you wrap someone in your arms, know you’re not just sharing comfort — you’re sharing healing. 🌿
Who else is a fan of the quiet magic of a hug?
08/09/2025
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🌿✨ The 360 Healing Method: Healing from Cell to Soul ✨🌿
6-week online journey • Starts Wed 15th Oct | 6:30–8:30pm
This isn’t just a course—it’s a transformational journey to clear old patterns, beliefs, and emotional imprints stored in your body and nervous system, so you can return to balance, freedom, and lightness.
Over six weeks, we’ll explore a method that supports body, mind, and soul:
🌱 Healing the gut, liver, hormones, energy pathways, and even your genes through food, lifestyle, and environment.
🌱 Releasing tension and trauma in the nervous system, and emotions held in the organs—fear in the kidneys, grief in the lungs, anger in the liver, and more.
🌱 Immersing in Breathwork, Spinal Energetics, and Meditation to clear heaviness, integrate change, and awaken your highest self.
🌱 Blending Eastern wisdom with Western science—drawing on Traditional Chinese Medicine, nutritional therapy, and functional healing.
đź’« Each 2-hour session:
🌀 Hour 1 – Learning: Nutrition, detox, hormone balance, nervous system repair, gut healing, and the role of genes + epigenetics.
🌀 Hour 2 – Immersion: Breath, energetics, and meditation to release emotional blocks, soothe the inner child, and restore harmony.
✨ By the end of 6 weeks you’ll feel:
âś” Lighter in body + clearer in mind
âś” Balanced in energy, blood sugar, and hormones
âś” Deeply regulated in your nervous system
âś” Free from old emotional patterns + limiting beliefs
âś” Connected to your authentic self and inner calm
✔ Equipped with a healing toolkit for life—for yourself, your family, or clients
⚡ Limited to 20 places (11 places left)
đź“… Wednesday evenings @6.30pm - 8.30pm
đź’» Includes: sample meal plan, recipes, cleansing protocols, and nervous system tools to weave into daily life.
This is a journey of deep clearing and true transformation—healing from cell to soul, where East meets West in a powerful integration of science and spirit.
DM if this sings to your heart ❤️ and for more information 🫶💞
Glenda ✨️
06/09/2025
The mind-body connection refers to the ongoing, two-way communication between your thoughts, emotions, and your physical body. This connection is central to health, healing, and overall well-being. Here’s how it works:
1. Nervous System Communication
Your brain communicates with your body via the nervous system.
Example: Stress triggers the sympathetic nervous system (“fight or flight”), increasing heart rate, tightening muscles, and slowing digestion.
2. Body Feedback to Mind
Signals from your body influence your mental state.
Example: Pain or poor posture can affect mood, concentration, and energy. Gut health, heart rate variability, and hormones also send messages that shape thoughts and emotions.
3. Emotional and Physiological Integration
Emotions are stored in the body. Trauma, grief, or chronic stress can create tension, restricted movement, or disease.
Practices like breathwork, movement, meditation, or energy healing strengthen the mind-body connection, allowing better regulation of stress, healing, and emotional balance.
4. Holistic Health Implication
A strong mind-body connection helps your body recover faster, improves emotional resilience, enhances focus, and boosts overall vitality.
Therapies like yoga, tai chi, mindfulness, spinal energetics, and somatic healing explicitly work to harmonize this connection.
So, in short...
Your mind and body are like best friends who constantly talk to each other:
When your mind is stressed, your body feels it — tense shoulders, upset stomach, racing heart.
When your body is tired or sick, your mind feels it — foggy brain, low mood, irritability.
The mind-body connection is this two-way street: caring for your thoughts and emotions helps your body, and caring for your body helps your mind.
If you strengthen this connection — through movement, breath, relaxation, or energy work — you feel balanced, healthy, and more alive.
06/09/2025
✨ True radiance begins within ✨
We can spend hours fixing up the outside, but if our gut is sluggish, inflamed, or imbalanced, it shows up in our skin, our energy, our mood, and even our confidence.
Your whole GI tract is the root of your vitality — it’s where nutrients are absorbed, where 70% of your immune system lives, and where your “second brain” communicates with your emotions.
When we keep our inner world clean, nourished, and balanced, the outside naturally shines. 🌿💫
Beauty really is an inside job.
🌿 Gut Health in Real Life 🌿
Keeping our GI tract healthy isn’t just about one thing — it’s a daily practice of tending to the roots of our well-being:
✨ Clear the path — sometimes that means supporting gentle detox and parasite cleansing so the gut isn’t burdened by what doesn’t belong.
✨ Feed the good guys — nourish the microbiome & mycobiome with whole foods, fiber, ferments, and diversity on the plate. These little organisms are like gardeners keeping the inner ecosystem balanced.
✨ Repair the foundation — replenish and restore the gut lining with minerals, amino acids, and healing foods that soothe inflammation and strengthen our inner walls.
✨ Regulate the inner weather — the gut and nervous system are in constant conversation. Practices like breathwork, mindfulness, and nervous system regulation are as important as food — because stress alone can unravel gut health.
✨ Emotional nourishment — joy, connection, rest, and creativity feed the gut just as much as nutrition. A happy heart = a happy gut.
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💫 In short: cleanse what doesn’t serve, nourish what does, repair what’s fragile, and keep the inner environment calm and loving. That’s how the body radiates health from the inside out.
05/09/2025
Your body is an energetic system.
Every cell communicates through electrical and biochemical signals, creating rhythms and patterns much like an orchestra.
When we experience elevated states such as love, gratitude, and joy, the nervous system and heart become coherent, cellular communication is efficient, and the body resonates with vitality.
When we remain in prolonged states of fear, shame, or resentment, these signals become dissonant, leading to stress, dysregulation, and the early seeds of imbalance.
The takeaway: cultivating higher states of vibration isn’t just “spiritual” — it’s biological. It supports coherence, resilience, and long-term health.
30/08/2025
Healing isn’t just about doing—it’s about allowing. 🌿
Give your body rest, your mind stillness, and your heart the gentle care it craves. Every small act of kindness toward yourself is a step toward wholeness. đź’›
Breathe deeply. Trust the process. You are healing, right here, right now. 🌸
30/08/2025
Some days you’ll feel expansive and unstoppable. Other days, you’ll need stillness and rest. Both are sacred.
Both are part of the rhythm of being human. đź’›
Thank you Natasha for capturing our special people at Dean's big day 🫶
28/05/2025
To my incredible clients—🫶
You show up. You feel the fear and face it anyway.
You lean into the discomfort, meet your inner critics eye to eye, and do the deep, soul work most people run from.
That takes courage. That takes heart. That takes you.
I see you. I honor your journey. And I’m endlessly inspired by the way you keep choosing healing over hiding.
Keep going. You're not alone—and the version of you on the other side is already so proud.
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Founded by Glenda Dowling Dip Nutritional Therapist and Billy Dowling Fitness Expert
We make it simple for you to eat healthy, move more and feel fantastic. With nourishing recipes, meal plans & shopping lists, weekly check in’s, online fitness videos - Incl, HIIT, Strength & Conditioning, cardio & core, online membership, workshops, events and more — all to help you live lighter, healthy and happier!
We carry out weekly check in’s and weigh in’s in Buncrana that focus on weight loss but also hormone balance, gut health, mood, energy and sleep.
We also run an Online Only program see more about our 30 Day FREE Trial
Our mission is to help you achieve your health goals in a realistic way, through real whole food, exercise, hydration and rest! No pressure, no fad diets, just by giving you the tools you need and sharing our real passion we have to help you become the best version of yourself!
Learn more here about our programs
About Glenda...
Glenda has helped hundreds of people over the past few years who have struggled with common challenges, such as weight, energy, mood, gut health, hormone balance and mindset.
Her passion is supporting people on their health journeys and she truly understands from her own personal experience that weight and health issues are a constant daily struggle for many people.
“I’ve experienced first hand the power of food and the positive medicinal effects that it can have on the body and mind”
Glenda has battled with weight, and was diagnosed with Crohn’s Disease in her 20’s. She has been inspired by her own journey, and has a desire to help others become the best version of themselves
After completing an Advanced Diploma in Nutritional Therapy Glenda went on and trained with Dr Natasha McBride as a GAPS (Gut and Psychology Protocol) Practitioner, and is now an active member of the Institute for Functional Medicine.
For a full biography,See bio here on Linkedin.
Gutsy World has been born from a foundation of insight and understanding of her clients needs over the last 4 years. It addresses fixing the food, fitness and health challenges both mental and physical of real people and aims at empowering and encouraging them to be their best self.
“I have a burning hunger to make the world a better place just by empowering people to live healthier and happier lives!
