Safe & Sound Holistic Nursing Services

12/27/2025

Release the need to control your healing timeline...

12/21/2025

Rest is productive

12/17/2025

You can't rush your healing...

12/14/2025

Long periods of stress weaken the immune system's capacity to fight off illness over time. If stress never subsides, and the body stays in physiological stress response for too long, the body starts to think that the immune system is the thing that is sick, and therefore it begins to target itself.

The immune system is not sick, but is in fact responding appropriately to the stressors in the environment...it's the environment itself that is sick. This is an appropriate response of the body to stress for a moment, not for a lifetime.

If you aren't able to move out of stress response, the body can't heal and the nerves begin to fray and deaden over time like a power cord without a sheath, which in turn causes nervous system dysfunction and, eventually, autoimmune conditions. Once this occurs, the body has identified the source of the stressor: the nervous system itself. And so begins the planning of a coordinated attack inward to eliminate the threat, with the body shutting systems down and taking processes offline, one by one.

Symptom relief is necessary to get to the safety one needs to start doing the heavy lifting of detoxifying one's environment of chronic stress. This is the only way to calm the nervous system enough to allow it to rest so that it can alleviate the effects of autoimmune conditions.

It is IMPERATIVE that patients have enough medical and holistic support during this process to bridge the gap between what the body needs (safety) and ways to get that (interventions for symptoms relief such as meds, emotional support, self-care, social/cultural systems, etc).

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Chronic Stress Linked to Higher Risk of Autoimmune Diseases, Study Finds.

A new large-scale study suggests that people diagnosed with stress-related disorders, including PTSD, may face a significantly increased risk of developing autoimmune diseases. Researchers tracked over 100,000 individuals with stress disorders and found they were more likely to develop conditions such as lupus, Crohn’s disease, and rheumatoid arthritis compared to their siblings and the general population.

The association was particularly strong in younger patients, highlighting that early psychological trauma could contribute to immune system dysfunction later in life. Interestingly, the study also found that patients with PTSD who were treated with SSRIs—a common class of antidepressants—showed a reduced risk of developing autoimmune diseases.

While the research is observational and does not establish direct causation, it underscores the growing understanding that mental and physical health are closely linked. Experts are calling for further studies to determine whether early mental health interventions could help prevent autoimmune conditions.

Source: Song, H., Fang, F., Tomasson, G., et al. (2018). Association of Stress-Related Disorders With Subsequent Autoimmune Disease. JAMA, 319(23), 2388–2400.

12/14/2025

Heart Rate Variability, or HRV, is a clinical indicator of how stressed or relaxed a patient's nervous system is. The more the heart rate fluctuates in beats per minute over time, the more appropriately the nervous system is responding to real or perceived stressors. The longer a patient's heart rate remains too high or too low, the less adaptable their nervous system is to stress.

There are hundreds of biofeedback tools that measure the variability of the heart rate, from wearables like smart watches to machines like holter monitors. These tools empower clinicians with valuable information that will assist them in creating solid care plans for healing, thus empowering the patient to make lasting changes that are necessary to promote safety, balance, and overall wellbeing.

Holistic Nurses help patients learn about HRV and how to strengthen the resilience of their nervous systems by teaching them how to use HRV as a biofeedback tool in conjunction with other interventions within their daily self-care routine!

Call or text Safe + Sound Holistic Nursing Services to learn more 💓🩺🧘‍♂️ 239-880-5401

DOI: 10.1016/j.jad.2025.120558

Link to article in comments.

A study has found a technique for calming your nervous system using a heart rate monitor.

Learn more via the link in the comments!

12/14/2025

💲💲💲MOST “HOLISTIC WELLNESS CARE” ISN’T CARE AT ALL...IT'S BUSINESS, BABY💲💲💲

Ever wonder why the programs and the prescriptions don't work? Why you keep having to go to wellness practitioners and doctors and dropping thousands of dollars on lab tests and body scans but the healing never comes? Why don't you ever get answers to the WHY of WHY DOES MY BODY KEEP ON ACTING LIKE THIS??? 😭😭😭

The Western medical language does not exist (yet) to be able to fully explain the reasons. But the language of Holistic Medicine speaks 🔊📣 in those silent corners...we must look to the entire environment of the patient as a whole for clues, and we must cultivate safe spaces with our patients for those environments to be identified and upgraded. Co-creating and co-regulating is key!

Being told "everything looks normal" while you feel ANYTHING BUT is a symptom of the bigger clinical picture. Medicine isn't diving deep enough (yet) to diagnose the typical root cause of the problem: a nervous system that is "overworked💪🏻 and underpaid💸" cannot continue to fully protect against physical manifestations of environmental stressors. Let's put it this way:

🏃‍♂️🏃‍♀️When an athlete does not sleep or meet their nutritional demands before a match, do they not anticipate to suffer the consequences in agility and athleticism? Now, imagine the brain 🧠 and spinal cord and all its little nerve branches and fibers and neurotransmitters 🔬🦠 as the athlete and the heart🫀, lungs🫁, gut💩, musculature💪🏻 and fascia🔩 as "the match." 🎾🏓
See the correlation?

The nervous system 🧠⚡️ transmits the energy for all bodily processes. When there's an energy drain or imbalance, those processes suffer. You get the picture... THIS IS WHAT MEDICINE ISN'T EQUIPPED TO MANAGE AT THIS TIME. The medical model needs the patient in, diagnosed, prescribed, and out the door in 30 minutes or less like 1990's Pizza!!🍕

This is why we all need to work together in order to treat patients as whole beings who are deserving of HEALING⚕️.
This is what happens when nursing slows down enough to actually see you.

If your body feels wired, exhausted, or unsafe
and the system keeps offering prescriptions, referrals, or breathing apps…

Stop scrolling...........

🩺Safe + Sound Holistic Nursing Services RNs work with you or your loved one in alignment with your existing primary healthcare providers. We empower patients toward healing through holistic, concierge nursing care plans that are focused on root-causes, sensory integration, and nervous system regulation. We partner with your trusted medical professionals because we are also medical professionals. We nurture trust and foster respect in our work with patients while concurrently giving the power of wellness back to the patients themselves.

Not coaching.
Not therapy.
Not aesthetics, not spas, not centers.
Not influencer-driven or appropriated "holistic wellness" for likes and shares...

This is REAL NURSING for people who fell through the cracks. 🩺

What that looks like:

• Deep, whole-person Integral Nursing Assessments
• Nervous system & vagal tone regulation
• Chronic stress, chronic illness, perimenopause & pain support
• Burnout, grief, and life-transition care
• Evidence-informed, science-based, nurse-led, physiology-first practice

This care is not for everyone. It IS for people who:

Are done being minimized.

Know that “managing symptoms” isn’t enough.

Want a nurse-partner, teacher, and motivator who actually listens and helps.

Need safety before solutions and prefer trauma-informed interventions.

If this post made you pause or feel seen, you’re not imagining it...
That’s your nervous system recognizing something DIFFERENT but FAMILIAR...

Message us. Or stay awhile. Either way, we've left the light on for you... 🔦⚓🌊

𝘛𝘳𝘢𝘯𝘴𝘧𝘰𝘳𝘮𝘢𝘵𝘪𝘰𝘯 𝘛𝘩𝘳𝘰𝘶𝘨𝘩 𝘐𝘭𝘭𝘶𝘮𝘪𝘯𝘢𝘵𝘪𝘰𝘯💙💛🖤

08/12/2024

Well if it's not the consequences of my own actions...😅

This is me this morning 100%, I don't know what position I slept in, but I'm guessing it was something like this or at least that's what it feels like...

08/12/2024

IG
Via Sarah R. Moore, Dandelion Seeds Positive Parenting

Phew! Good work, humans. 🙌
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08/08/2024

Fill your tank ⛽️

08/03/2024

SōlGood.....2.0.?!! 🌟🌠

06/16/2024

12/31/2023

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