Ivy Chan Wellness

16/10/2026

How I ACTUALLY honour the women who came before me:

By not accepting to endure the way they had to.
By demanding what they couldn’t.
And by demanding more.

Sometimes “more” looks like rest instead of striving.

Sometimes it looks like asking my doctor to listen, not just prescribe.

It’s believing my body when it tells me something’s off.

That’s the whole point of what my ancestors survived for.

xx Ivy

PS: Come sit with women asking the same questions. The Circle is free, and it’s exactly where these conversations live. Link in bio.

14/10/2026

In 2006, a neuroscientist told 16 women they might get an electric shock.

What calmed their brains most wasn’t a breathing technique.

It was a hand to hold. Their husbands calmed them most, and a stranger’s helped too.

--> The happier the marriage, the calmer the brain.

Your nervous system was built to settle in company.

For so many women over 40, it’s been braced for years: exhausted but unable to rest, doing everything right and still feeling unwell. Often that isn’t a willpower problem. It’s a nervous system that has never been given the chance to feel safe.

In my new article, I share the study, what changes in the nervous system after 40, and simple practices with ancient roots and modern proof: the long exhale, warm oil, humming, and each other.

Read it here: https://ivychanwellness.com/this-eye-opening-study-shows-what-actually-heals-your-nervous-system/

If you’d like to practise together, my free 21-day Nervous System Reset runs in The Circle from 2 to 23 November. Download the app before 2 November to join us.

Whose presence calms you fastest? Tell me in the comments 🤍

xx Ivy

Nervous system regulation for women is a prerequisite for hormonal balance, gut health, and genuine healing. Here's what you need to know and how to start.

13/10/2026

Today is Metastatic Breast Cancer Awareness Day.

Let’s do more than raise awareness.
Please share Miya’s story. Please help fund the research.

13/10/2026

Why 3 specialists still haven't made you feel whole…

"Everyone had part of the answer. No one looked at the whole of me."

I keep coming back to that line.

A nutritionist for the gut.
A therapist for the anxiety.
A retreat for the spirit.

And you, left holding the pieces.

Dis-ease is fragmentation. Split care deepens it.

The m.a.n.t.r.a method puts body, mind and soul in the same room: Ayurvedic nutrition, modern psychology and Sufi healing, woven into one path.

One room. 90 days.

By the end, you'll understand what your hormones, gut and sleep have been trying to tell you, catch old patterns before they run the show, and wake up in a body that feels like yours again.

Next cohort: November 1.
Book your seat: ivychanwellness.com/the-mantra-method

Tell me below: which specialist have you seen the most, and did they ever ask about the rest of you?

xx Ivy

Restore your energy, rewrite old patterns, and support your nervous system in 90 days with The Mantra Method using The Birthright Method.

06/10/2026

A psychologist explained in 1954 why scrolling makes you feel behind.

More than 70 years later, your phone proves him right before breakfast.

His name was Leon Festinger.

He called it social comparison. We have an innate need to know how we measure up, so we judge ourselves against others.

That part is human.

The problem is whom we measure against.

Your feed shows you people who seem further ahead. All day.

A 2014 study found that frequent Facebook users had lower self-esteem, largely because of those upward comparisons.

So change the reference point. Measure yourself against whom you used to be.

Ask yourself 3 questions about the last 12 months:

Am I calmer?
Do I recover faster when something knocks me off balance?
Do I know what I need, and ask for it?

One yes counts.

You can admire other people’s progress. Your own you have to notice.

P.S. Have you joined my community yet? We have a nervous system reset coming soon. And it's free! The link in bio.

06/10/2026

"I am in tears writing this. I have never felt this confident in my body. No more binging, no more self-doubt, no more nagging thoughts from my past." That's Selene, describing her 90 days inside the m.a.n.t.r.a method.

Not a diet. Not another plan to white-knuckle through. A real reckoning with the pattern underneath the behaviour — the body, mind, and soul work that made the difference this time.

In 90 days, you'll move through six stages — Map, Align, Nourish, Tend, Release, Activate — that build on each other until the change isn't something you're maintaining. It's just who you are now.

The next cohort opens November 1. https://ivychanwellness.com/the-mantra-method

Restore your energy, rewrite old patterns, and support your nervous system in 90 days with The Mantra Method using The Birthright Method.

03/10/2026

I'm hearing way too many stories like this: "If one doctor had listened, I'd have those years back."

But these women aren't avoiding doctors. They've seen plenty.

Early, and more than once.

So why do so many still leave care unheard?

1. Underfunding. Women's conditions remain among the least-funded areas of medical research.
2. Training gaps. Up to 70% of primary care doctors lack training in common women's health conditions.
3. Bias. Women's pain is routinely written off as psychological.

The result:
→ 1 in 3 women with endometriosis is told her pain is normal.
→ Over half of women with PMOS (formerly PCOS) remain undiagnosed.
→ 1 in 5 women with an autoimmune condition sees up to five providers over ten years before diagnosis.

Maybe you're one of them.

But the numbers aren't what keep me up at night.

It's one sentence: "It's probably emotional."

As a social psychologist, that's the dismissal I find hardest to sit with.

Emotion is felt in the body. In the gut, the nervous system, the cycle.

That should be where the inquiry begins.

Too often, it ends there.

Medication and surgery have their place. What's missing is care that listens to the whole woman.

That's the foundation of the m.a.n.t.r.a method, my 90-day programme that brings together Ayurveda, modern psychology, and Sufi healing.

We work with the root-level patterns a 10-minute appointment rarely has room for.

Alongside your medical care, never instead of it.

So let me ask the question someone should have asked you sooner: what's the one thing you wish a doctor had asked you?

One line in the comments is enough.

xx Ivy

PS: If you'd like support with your own patterns, the m.a.n.t.r.a method is here: https://ivychanwellness.com/the-mantra-method The new cohort starts on Nov 1.

Restore your energy, rewrite old patterns, and support your nervous system in 90 days with The Mantra Method using The Birthright Method.

30/09/2026

You'll never believe how I found out my client had PCOS.

She was 28, newly married, full of life, and frustrated:
Jawline acne,
Irregular periods,
Hair thinning at her crown,
Weight that wouldn't budge,
Her fertility in question.

She'd had this for years. No diagnosis. Ever.

As you'd expect, I asked about her mom's history. Regular cycles, healthy blood sugar, smooth pregnancies, no red flags. Then I asked about her dad.

I learned this from a beloved teacher years ago: "Don't forget about the dad".

Everyone remembers to ask about mothers. Almost nobody asks about dads.

Turns out he went bald in his 20s. So did her much younger brother.

The diagnosis was in the question nobody had asked.

This year, PCOS got a new name: polyendocrine metabolic ovarian syndrome. I let my community members know right away, because I was really happy about this change.

It's the result of a global consensus process backed by tens of medical and patient organisations, published in The Lancet last May. The old name centred on cysts and missed the real story: an endocrine, metabolic condition that gets overlooked for years.

It affects at least 1 in 8 women. Up to 70% never get diagnosed because their ultrasound and labs look "normal." But normal scans don't rule it out. Visible signs like excess hair growth or hair loss, paired with irregular cycles, can be enough on their own.

And it runs in families, including male relatives. Early hair loss in a dad or brother can be a clue to what's going on with the woman in front of them.

If something in your body has felt unexplained for a while, the Wellness Pack is where we go looking for the whole picture. Not just what fits on a lab report.

https://ivychanwellness.com/wellness-packages

xx Ivy

PS: The Wellness Pack pricing is changing tomorrow, Oct 1. If you've been wanting to book, now is the right time, before the price increase.

Personalised 1:1 wellness packages for gut, hormone, and mental clarity with The Birthright Method.

29/09/2026

Most programs give you a plan. The m.a.n.t.r.a method gives you a practice. A plan is a list of rules you follow until life gets in the way and you fall off. A practice is something you carry with you — built through six stages (Map, Align, Nourish, Tend, Release, Activate) that compound instead of piling up.

That's the real difference between programs that work for three weeks and ones that change how you move through your life.

In 90 days, you won't just check a box. You'll have a new relationship with your body, your mind, and yourself — one that actually holds.

Next cohort opens November 1. https://ivychanwellness.com/the-mantra-method

Restore your energy, rewrite old patterns, and support your nervous system in 90 days with The Mantra Method using The Birthright Method.