Life Of Lymph

14/03/2025

Protecting Your Brain with MS – Small Changes, Big Impact! 🧠

Did you know that your brain has the power to adapt and rewire itself? This is called neuroplasticity, and it plays a key role in managing MS symptoms.

💡 Here’s how you can support your brain health:
✅ Try new things – learning a new skill, like playing an instrument or trying a new hobby, keeps your brain engaged.
✅ Stay social – conversations challenge memory and help with cognitive function.
✅ Practice mindfulness – stress can worsen MS symptoms, so deep breathing and relaxation exercises can be beneficial.
✅ Move your body – physical activity has been shown to stimulate brain function and improve mood.

At the Samson Centre, our Brainfit and Tai Chi sessions are designed to help boost cognitive function, reduce stress, and keep your brain sharp.

💙 This Brain Awareness Week, prioritise your brain health – your future self will thank you!

📩 Join one of our classes today!

14/03/2025

Did you know? 70% of people experiencing chronic pain are women, yet their pain is often overlooked or dismissed. Conditions like migraines, fibromyalgia, and pelvic pain disproportionately affect women—but that doesn’t mean you have to live with it.

This Women’s History Month, let’s change the conversation. Prioritize your well-being and encourage the women in your life to do the same. MELT can help you move, feel, and live better—because your pain matters, and so does your healing. 💙
Learn more at https://meltmethod.com/

14/03/2025

Keeping going can be a tough one especially without support but remember this is for you.

14/03/2025

Movement in groups can be fun and fulfilling, there are also online movement/exercise communities for those not able to get out, even some gaming consoles have fitness apps where you can log your progress against others.

14/03/2025

14/03/2025

Hello Hampshire,
Now you can book sessions with Beata on the coast! Visit a wonderful Stubbington Natural Health Clinic in Fareham soon.

14/03/2025

Recently, our Principal Jan Trewartha wrote a blog about children with scarring and in particular, one little girl that was born with a rare birth defect that required surgery to correct.

In her blog, Jan writes: "Meet ‘Tina’, a toddler I worked with throughout 2024. I have permission from her parents to tell you about her, with a changed name. Here is her story…

Tina was born with oesophageal atresia, a rare birth defect where the upper and lower oesophagus are not connected. Surgery left her with a scar that is obviously causing distension in the navel and to the right of the distorted linear scar where the site of the feeding tube is tethered (stuck down to underlying structures). I was, at first, unable to palpate the abdomen as Tina refused to be touched.

When she first met me, even though it was in her own home, she was highly suspicious of me. Having worked on her parents’ scars in front of her, I encouraged Tina to sit on the couch in her turn, but she was having none of it! Eventually she sat on her Mum’s lap and I managed to work on her second scar, not shown here, on her back, which was part of the same surgery.

Before the next session Tina’s parents, who are very emotionally intelligent and aware, kept dropping in to the chat with Tina how much they liked having a ‘massage’ with Jan, and that Jan was coming back soon, etc. I duly arrived, but Tina again rejected my friendly overtures.

I was finally able to work properly on Tina’s abdominal scar. Afterwards, as I worked on Dad while Mum, Tina and her older sister were upstairs, we could hear quite a racket going on with laughter and the noise of boisterous movement. It turned out that Tina had decided to do ‘roly polys’ for the first time in her life and had been copying her sister’s gymnastic exercises. The changes had started. That evening when I left, Tina waved me off with a big smile.

Learn how you can make a difference in someone like Tina's life by taking part in one of our forthcoming ScarWork courses at the end of March or in July. More details can be found here: https://www.bodyinharmony.org.uk/events

14/03/2025

Day one of our suggestions for including more movement in your daily life is about keeping yourself safe.

14/03/2025

Carol M. Davis speaks on helping our clients find their voice, at The Fascial Voice today, online.
It's been an amazing day, covering all the myriad aspects of the voice. The Chat has been very active with tons of interaction. Every presentation has been different and contribute to a satisfying whole.
Thank you Carol, and Ana Barretxeguren Gil Hedley and Jeremy Ryan Mossman - what a brilliant team!