MindfulWell Collective

11/10/2025

🌿🌿 Our Goals – MindfulWell Collective, Wāhine Hauora
We’re here to uplift the health and wellbeing of wāhine and rangatahi through:
- Counselling, workshops & retreats
- Education & practical wellbeing tools
- Community & connection
- Professional excellence
- Cultural awareness
- Accessible services across Aotearoa
Together, we’re building stronger, healthier futuresone step at a time. 💚

10/10/2025

🌱Our Values
At MindfulWell Collective | Wāhine Hauora, our mahi is guided by principles that honour both individual healing and collective wellbeing.

✨ Manaakitanga / Compassionate Support
We uphold the dignity, mana, and safety of women through care that is empathetic, respectful, and grounded in compassion.

🌱 Trauma-Informed and Healing-Centred Practice
Our work is shaped by trauma-informed principles, prioritising safety, choice, trust, collaboration, and empowerment to support long-term healing and resilience.

💫 Whakaora Tinana, Hinengaro, Wairua /Holistic Wellbeing
We nurture whole-person wellbeing, recognising the deep connection between emotional, physical, spiritual, and psychological health.

🌈 Tika, Ōritetanga me te Whakaurunga / Justice, Equity, and Inclusion
We are committed to accessible, inclusive, and culturally responsive care that honours diversity and challenges systemic barriers.

🤍 Whanaungatanga / Community Connection and Advocacy
We believe in the power of community, fostering connection, advocacy, and collaboration to build systems that are just, responsive, and safe.

04/10/2025

At MindfulWell, our mission is to support women, teens, and youth on their healing journey through trauma-informed, compassionate, and accessible mental health care. We exist to provide safe spaces where individuals can process their experiences, understand their emotions, and rebuild their sense of self.

We will provide support for a wide range of challenges, including*:

Sexual and physical abuse

Trauma and complex PTSD

Depression, anxiety, and stress

Addiction and recovery

Body image and disordered eating

Life transitions, grief, and loss

Through workshops, retreats, counselling, and community programs, we combine evidence-based therapies with whole-person approaches that honour the whole person.

Our goal is to help every person we work with reclaim their strength, build resilience, and move forward with confidence and self-compassion.

02/10/2025

Offering trauma support for women through counselling, retreats, workshops, advocacy, resources, and community.

Our kaupapa is to provide a safe, compassionate space where women can process trauma, reclaim their voice, and grow in strength and resilience.

You don’t have to walk this path alone we are here to support your healing journey.

02/10/2025

We’re stepping into a new chapter at MindfulWell, We’re proud to be growing as a community-based NGO, standing alongside women in Aotearoa who’ve experienced trauma.
🌱 To create safe, trauma-informed spaces where women can rest, recover, and rebuild.
🌱 To offer evidence-based tools that support emotional regulation, healing, and resilience.
🌱 To walk alongside women with compassion, dignity, and respect.

This means:
🤝 We collaborate with local groups, organisations and health providers to extend our reach for better outcomes.
💜 We work to create systemic change, so every woman can access safety, dignity, and healing.

For the women who turn to us we see you, we honour your journey, and we’re here with gentle, practical support.
For organisations and funders our new direction strengthens our ability to deliver research-based programmes and partnerships that truly change lives, we are looking forward to 2026.

02/08/2025

Welcome to In This Body For Teens | Body Image, Self-Esteem & Identity event! Join us at KULA Retreat, for an exciting in-person gathering where we'll dive into important topics like body image, self-esteem, and identity. This event is designed specifically for teenagers looking to explore and embrace their true selves. Get ready to engage in meaningful discussions, interactive workshops, and connect with like-minded peers. Don't miss out on this empowering and enlightening experience! BOOK NOW. Spaces are limited.

Join us for an empowering event where we'll dive deep into body image, self-esteem, and identity - it's all about embracing who you are!

01/06/2025

Ever pull away just as someone gets close even when they mean well? That reflex isn’t rejection. It’s protection.
When early relationships were inconsistent, conditional, or unsafe, the brain adapted by treating vulnerability as a threat. Over time, your nervous system learns: closeness can hurt. This survival strategy becomes automatic your brain’s way of keeping you safe by anticipating loss or betrayal, even in genuinely caring relationships.
Neuroplasticity means your brain can rewire. With safe, consistent relationships and inner work, those old defences can soften. Connection can begin to feel safer little by little.

ShadowCognition: What feels like fear of intimacy is often a fear of the pain that once came with it.

24/05/2025

FREE CLASS 🚨

😥 Feeling burnt out, on edge, or like your body just won’t switch off?
You’re not broken your nervous system is asking for support.

Join us for Regulate & Restore, a free trauma-informed class designed to help you understand your stress response, reconnect with your body, and begin the process of real, nervous system regulation.

🌀 Learn what’s really going on beneath stress, anxiety, and exhaustion
🌸 Discover gentle tools to calm your system (without forcing yourself to “relax”)
💭 Ground in body-led awareness using our signature ShadowCognition™ framework

This is not about hustle or hacks it’s about softening survival mode and creating space for your body to feel safe again.

📍Free to attend. Open to all women anywhere. LIMITED SPACES
22nd June 10:00am NZT
DM us “RESTORE” or tap the link in bio to save your spot.

24/05/2025

This isn’t just a feeling, chronic stress has real, measurable impacts on women’s mental, emotional, and physical health:

🔸 Disrupted sleep
🔸 Hormonal imbalances (especially cortisol and estrogen)
🔸 Increased risk of anxiety, depression, and burnout
🔸 Gut-brain axis dysregulation
🔸 Autoimmune and inflammatory responses

🧠 Why it matters!!
Women’s nervous systems are deeply impacted by ongoing stress, especially during key hormonal transitions (e.g. postpartum, perimenopause). When stress becomes chronic, it affects everything from mood to memory, immune health, digestion, and emotional resilience.

We approach stress through a trauma-informed, nervous system lens because healing isn’t about pushing through. It’s about understanding what your body is holding onto.

Worldwide, women are nearly twice as likely as men to experience anxiety and depression.
– World Health Organization (WHO, 2023)

Cleveland Clinic Women’s Health & Stress Report (2022) Confirms the rise in stress-related hormone disruption and the compounding effect on women’s mental and physical wellbeing.

24/05/2025

🚩When life is go-go-go, your nervous system turns on survival mode and cortisol takes the lead.

But the problem?
Cortisol is designed for short bursts.
Not 24/7.
And when it’s always “on,” your body starts waving red flags. 🚩

🧠 Signs Cortisol Is Taking Over Your System:
You wake up feeling anxious or on edge

✔️Afternoon energy crash hits hard

✔️Wired at night, can’t fall asleep

✔️Craving salty or sugary snacks constantly

✔️Mood swings or irritability (especially pre-period)

✔️Skin flares, gut issues, or hormonal breakouts

✔️Trouble concentrating or remembering things

✔️Feeling emotionally “reactive” or disconnected

🌿 What Your Body Might Be Asking For:
Slowness, not more stimulation

✔️Protein and whole foods, not quick caffeine fixes

✔️Nervous system regulation (breathwork, grounding, rest)

✔️Magnesium and minerals to support recovery

✔️Gentle movement, not high-intensity training

💬 Coaching Insight:

You’re likely burnt out, depleted, or dysregulated and your cortisol is sounding the alarm.

At MindfulWell, we teach women how to downshift the nervous system, work with their hormones, and rebuild from burnout.

📍 Want support coming out of cortisol overdrive?
Drop a 🔄 below or DM us “CORTISOL” for tools, guidance & nervous system-safe strategies.

19/05/2025

NeuroLeadership Lab: For Women in Business!

Where nervous system intelligence meets conscious, embodied leadership.

You’ve read the leadership books.
You’ve done the mindset work.
So why do you still freeze in meetings, overthink every email, or feel like you’re “too much” and “not enough”—sometimes in the same moment?

Because the nervous system leads before the brain does.

And many women in business are still leading from over-adapted states not from grounded confidence.

This intensive workshop is for women who want more than strategy.
They want self-trust, clarity, and embodied leadership that starts within.

🔍 In This Lab, You’ll Learn:
✔️ The neurobiology of leadership: Why you default to over-giving, over-explaining, or over-performing under pressure
✔️ ShadowCognition in leadership: How early experiences shaped your beliefs about visibility, worth, and authority
✔️ The “good girl” nervous system: Understanding fawn/freeze responses masked as professionalism
✔️ How to embody PACE-aligned leadership that builds trust, co-regulation, and sustainable impact The PACE model in action building workplaces rooted in Playfulness, Acceptance, Curiosity, and Empathy

💡 What Makes This Different:
This isn’t about “fake it ‘til you make it.”
This is nervous system literacy for business so you can stop performing leadership, and start feeling it.

When you understand how your body remembers past dynamics (and how those patterns get projected onto your team, clients, and vision) you start to lead with more confidence, compassion, and congruence.

🌿 “This work helps you understand yourself and your staff on a biological level so you can build a business that feels safer, clearer, and more human.”

Because regulated women build regulated systems.
And a grounded leader creates more than profits they create psychological safety and lasting impact.

16/05/2025

🚩you’ve probably heard it:
“Just say it until you believe it.”
“Choose to feel safe.”
“Rewire your brain in 5 seconds.” The list goes on…

But here’s the truth:
🧠 Your nervous system doesn’t respond to slogans.
It responds to safety, consistency, and co-regulation.

Telling someone to “just think differently” when their body is stuck in survival isn’t just ineffective
It’s damaging.
Because when it doesn’t work, they think they’re the problem.

ShadowCognition offers a different lens:
Your body isn’t broken it’s protective.
It remembers patterns, not words.
It’s not that you’re resistant to healing — it’s that your system is wired for survival, not self-talk.

🖤 Insight without embodiment can become another form of self-gaslighting.
Real healing requires felt safety, not forced positivity.

Let’s stop blaming people for what their nervous systems were wired to do.