Jo Brownlow Holistic Health

Jo Brownlow Holistic Health Certified Functional Medicine Health Coach, Personal Trainer and NLP Practitioner. Helping people find their path to a healthier, happier life

If you’re tired of feeling tired, bloated, hormonally off or overwhelmed by health advice, Body in Balance is back. 🥳🌿Th...
02/06/2026

If you’re tired of feeling tired, bloated, hormonally off or overwhelmed by health advice, Body in Balance is back. 🥳🌿

The next programme starts Friday 11th September.

This is a 9-week functional health programme for women who want to understand what is actually going on beneath the surface. 🧠🔍

Not another quick fix.
Not a magic supplement list.
Not generic Instagram advice.

We look at how your body is working as a whole — digestion, blood sugar, hormones, sleep, stress, energy, nutrition, movement and inflammation — so you can start making changes that make sense for you.

The testimonials from the last groups say it better than I can:
✅ Women felt more energised.
✅ More confident.
✅ Less overwhelmed.
✅ Clearer on what their body needed.
✅ And supported by a group of women going through the same process.

After the programme you have ongoing support through the community WhatsApp, walks and events.

Plus, yes, there will be delicious healthy food to try each session, because changing your health should not feel miserable.

Starts Friday 11th September. 😊💌
DM me BALANCE for details or to join the next group.

30/05/2026

I think most of us know this already: living longer and living well are not the same thing. 😌

A 2024 global study across 183 WHO member states found that the gap between lifespan and healthspan has widened to 9.6 years. Women had a gap 2.4 years wider than men.

A newer 2025 paper found the same pattern across regions, and suggests that gap is likely to keep widening. 📚📈

The women I speak to are not looking for extra years for the sake of it. They want more years with energy, clarity, strength, independence, and a body that still feels like theirs.

That’s why I care so much about the foundations.
Gut health.
Hormones.
Inflammation.
Brain health.
Nervous system load.

These things shape how we feel now, and they shape how we age. None of it is random.

If you’d like to hear more about my group programme, Body in Balance, I’ve launched the new dates in September — send me a message and I’ll share the details. 😊💬

Healthspan is something I think about a lot more these days.At birth I was diagnosed with coeliac and was told at 8 that...
27/05/2026

Healthspan is something I think about a lot more these days.

At birth I was diagnosed with coeliac and was told at 8 that I no longer had it, but when gluten came back in, psoriasis showed up instead.

Then came the allergies — dust, bed mites, cats, horses. So inflammation has been part of my picture for a long time.

And although supporting Archie through his challenges 12 years ago was incredibly stressful, I’m also glad it pushed me to make changes, because I probably wouldn’t have done the deeper work otherwise.

Looking back, I’m very glad I started dealing with the inflammation and autoimmunity side of things before menopause properly kicked in. Once oestrogen starts falling, the body can become a lot less resilient if there is already inflammation simmering away underneath.

What I’ve realised more recently is that nervous system calming has been another important piece for me, alongside the gut and detox work.

Because if the body is spending too much time in a stress response, it is not in the best state for repair. Digestion is affected. Hormones are affected. Inflammation is more easily amplified. The body becomes better at protection and survival than it is at healing and thriving.

That matters more as we get older.

I’m interested in doing what I can now to support better energy, better brain health, better resilience and a body that still functions well later on.

Does this way of thinking about health make sense to you, or is healthspan a new concept for you?

Nervous system calming doesn’t need to be deep, mystical or take an hour you don’t have. It just needs to work. 🧠🌿That’s...
22/05/2026

Nervous system calming doesn’t need to be deep, mystical or take an hour you don’t have. It just needs to work. 🧠🌿

That’s the bit that matters to me most.

I’m not that interested in tools that only work when life is quiet, the room smells nice and no one needs anything from you. 😅

I care about the ones that help when the day is chaos, your brain is still whirring at 10pm, or you can feel yourself getting snappy, wired or overwhelmed.

That’s why I was drawn to the facilitator training in Energy Flow®️ and why I’m offering group sessions alongside my functional medicine work. 🤝✨

Not because it’s a “nice extra” but because it helps the body stop responding as if every day is a low-level emergency.

PM me if you’d like to join a session. 🙏

I basically made myself worse trying to be healthy. 😮‍💨During Covid, I was overdoing the very things that looked good on...
19/05/2026

I basically made myself worse trying to be healthy. 😮‍💨

During Covid, I was overdoing the very things that looked good on paper. Working out daily. Fasting to lunchtime. Leaning into habits that were seen as disciplined and healthy. 🥗💪

But my body was already stressed with supporting my kids with homeschooling and my husband was in another country.

So instead of building resilience, I was draining myself even more.

That is the piece people miss with hormesis.

Yes, the body can benefit from the right amount of challenge. But only when it has enough recovery, nourishment and capacity to respond well. 🌿😴

If you are stressed all day, not sleeping properly, juggling too much, already wired and depleted… then fasting, skipping breakfast, ice baths or hard cardio may not be helping the way you think. ⚠️

Sometimes the healthiest thing is not more stress it’s breathing, calming the nervous system and letting go of perfection!

Join me for my next Energy Flow®️ session! DM me to find out more. 💌

One lovely class a week is not going to outvote six days of stress. 😮‍💨I say that as someone who loves all the wellness ...
16/05/2026

One lovely class a week is not going to outvote six days of stress. 😮‍💨

I say that as someone who loves all the wellness things.

But what I have learned — both personally and through my own adrenal fatigue picture — is that the body changes through repetition. 🧠✨

Not through one beautiful hour a week.
Through the little moments in between.

How you breathe when you are rushing.
Whether you ever unclench your jaw.
Whether you give your body a chance to come down before sleep.
Whether you know how to interrupt the stress pattern before it runs the whole day.

That is why I care so much about practical nervous system calming tools. 🍃

Not because they are glamorous.
Because they actually fit into real life.

Please join my energy flow class to learn about strategies to activate your parasympathetic nervous system throughout the week. Please PMme if keen ☺️

Ever noticed how stress makes you act like the version of yourself you least enjoy? 🤯Less patient.
More reactive.
Worse ...
12/05/2026

Ever noticed how stress makes you act like the version of yourself you least enjoy? 🤯

Less patient.
More reactive.
Worse choices.
Harder to follow through.

That is not imaginary.

When stress is high, alarm gets louder and clear thinking gets quieter. The amygdala is involved in threat responses, while the prefrontal cortex helps with self-control, decision-making and perspective. Chronic stress can disrupt that balance. ⚖️⚡

This is one of the reasons I care so much about nervous system calming — because it is not just about feeling relaxed. It helps you function more like yourself again.

Some studies on mindfulness-based stress reduction also report reduced amygdala reactivity and improved prefrontal-amygdala connectivity. 🧠🌿

07/05/2026

If anyone still thinks nervous system work is a bit hippy, the science would like a word. 😅📚

This review looks at chronic stress, inflammation and the gut-immune-brain axis.

And it matters because it shows stress is not just sitting on top of symptoms. It can affect body chemistry, immunity, inflammation and the gut microbiome — and in people who are predisposed, that can contribute to autoimmune patterns too. 🧬⚠️

Which is exactly why I care so much about calming the nervous system.

Get in touch to join an Energy Flow ®️ class to support calming the stress response. Easy exercises you can try whenever you feel the need. ☺️🌿

05/05/2026

Beyond behaviour: when we look deeper, children’s challenges often make more sense. 🧠🌿

Last week, Hsiao and I hosted this event after pulling it together in just over 3 weeks.

What I really appreciated was how smoothly the whole process felt. We were very aligned in how we think about children’s challenges and the importance of looking beyond the surface.

So often, what we see externally is only part of the picture.

Focus issues, meltdowns, sensory overwhelm, sleep struggles, picky eating and anxiety can all have deeper drivers underneath. 😣⚡

A root cause perspective helps us look beyond the behaviour and better understand what may be contributing underneath.

If you’d like help puzzle-piecing your child’s dynamics further, get in touch. 🧩😊

I used to think this was just my personality.Capable. Productive. Good under pressure. Always juggling.Go go go.Do do do...
30/04/2026

I used to think this was just my personality.
Capable. Productive. Good under pressure. Always juggling.
Go go go.
Do do do.
Keep it moving.
Keep everyone else afloat.

And because I was functioning, I didn’t realise my body was permanently switched on. 😮‍💨

I wasn’t having some dramatic breakdown. I was just always “on”. Always thinking. Always planning. Always holding the next thing in mind. It looked fine from the outside, but underneath it was making me sicker and pulling me further away from feeling well.

That is the thing about this kind of stress. It can look like being a high-functioning adult. But over time, it chips away at thriving. 😔📉

And I really see that now when I look back at my own adrenal fatigue and thyroid issues. I was trying to be healthy. Trying to keep going. Trying to do everything well. But my body was spending too much time in alert mode, and that comes at a cost.

For some of us, that pattern starts early too. Childhood stress, tension or unpredictability can teach the brain and body that staying on is safer than fully relaxing.

Having been born celiac and nearly dying at 1 year old with failure to thrive, I think I am the classic example of this.

Cleveland Clinic notes that adverse childhood experiences can affect areas involved in emotion processing and logical thinking, including the amygdala and prefrontal cortex. 🧠📚

This is why nervous system calming matters so much to me now.

Not because I want life to be slower or smaller.
Because I want women to have more access to support their long-term health at a deeper level.

If you resonate with this, please PM me and we can set up an Energy Flow ®️ session. 💛✨

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