Chronic pain conditions involve pain that lasts 3 months or more. Our actual experience of pain comes from a combination of damage to nerves, tissues and often involves inflammation.

Our mind also has a big role to play in pain. Negative thoughts about health conditions, anxiety and past pain experiences can contribute significantly to increase the level of pain that is experienced.

• Spinal injuries, and degeneration
• Joint pain and inflammation
• Scoliosis
• Muscular pain
• Nerve pain
• Sciatica
• Fibromyalgia
• Arthritis
• Headaches, migraines
• Tinnitus, vertigo
• Jaw tension (TMJ)

BCST can support people to reduce or eliminate the factors that stimulate pain. This often involves healing sensitive nerves, inflammation, tissue injury and resolving stress patterns in the body.

Stress patterns can be caused by past injuries, medical procedures, repressed emotions and unresolved trauma. These are common in people experiencing chronic pain.

If you’re experiencing chronic pain and want to address the possible underlying cause(s) of poor function, BCST may help. A course of treatments can help resolve stress patterns and support the whole-body to return to a healthier, balanced state.

• Reduction in pain
• Increasing body comfort
• Improved functioning
• More ease in movement
• Increased energy levels
• Improved sleep quality
• Stronger immunity
• Feeling calmer and more relaxed

BCST is an integrative therapy that supports emotional, mental and whole-body health. Symptoms and conditions are often interrelated and healing occurs simultaneously for most people.

If you need help with chronic conditions that are limiting you in any way, we would love to assist you to recover your natural ability and vitality to fully engage with life.

Breathing techniques, meditation, mindfulness, exercise, etc… are all useful for managing anxiety and general wellness. However what if a person could be supported to resolve the factor(s) that cause their mind to be anxious in the first place?

BCST can help the brain and nervous system to be less reactive and calmer. Treatments are beneficial on their own and along side talk therapy.

We all experience worry at times but anxiety is a much deeper condition that can interfere with many aspects of a person’s life. Among other things, anxiety can cause a person to feel a sense of dread, overwhelm and stop them from enjoying life.

Experiences from the time we are conceived can shape our brain development. Both conscious and unconscious experiences can program the brain and mind towards producing more anxious thoughts.  Overwhelming emotional and physical experiences can be stored as stress patterns in the body. Unless they are resolved they can contribute to a person having increased levels of anxiety throughout life.

BCST can help resolve the overwhelming experiences that program the mind and body towards anxiety. Therapy also harmonises all vital systems in the body, including the nervous system, to restore wellness.

When a person experiences anxiety the physical body produces a “stress response” where the nervous system is activated. Chronic activation of the nervous system results in other vital systems in the body such as the hormonal, immune and digestive systems being affected.

Hence it is not surprising that chronic anxiety is often associated with headaches, jaw tightness, muscle tension, digestive and sleep issues. BCST treatments support physical conditions to improve alongside the symptoms of anxiety.

At Body Wisdom our goal also includes assisting our clients to develop skills to enable their nervous system to self-regulate, supporting ongoing wellness.

If you experience anxiety, we would love help you restore your ability to feel calm, be present with your life and experience more joy.

Symptoms of depression are different for everyone, but commonly include:

• Deep sadness
• Feeling helpless
• Loss of interest in pleasurable activities
• Feeling disconnected from life
• Total lack of hope

BCST can support children and adults with depression to recover a sense of joy and connection to life. BCST can be done on its own or alongside talk therapies to support a person’s unique requirements.

At Body Wisdom, we understand that a person experiencing depression may not want to talk about it. Respectfully we invite a person to share with us what they choose when they feel ready to.

People experiencing depression often have unresolved emotional pain from past experiences. This commonly contributes to chemical imbalances in the body, as well as programming the nervous system to remain in a ”freeze state”.

People experiencing depression have commonly experienced one or more of the following:

• Emotional hurt
• Loss of a loved one
• Difficult experiences in-utero, during birth and in childhood
• Major relationship stress
• Job or financial stress
• Cultural or societal pressure
• Serious chronic illness

Treatments support a person to gently release emotional pain and other stress patterns. Over time their nervous and hormonal systems return to a more harmonious balance. They naturally become more curious, open and connected to life.

If you're needing help, we would love to support you or a loved one to experience the joys of life again.

To resolve trauma, the “state of shock” caused by the trauma needs to be released in both the body and mind. BCST can gently and effectively support this process in children and people of all ages.

When a threat or stressful event is experienced, the nervous system becomes more active to support the body to fight or escape. It does this by turning on the “fight or flight response”. This quickly makes our heart beat faster and activates a huge amount of energy that prepares our muscles for fighting or running away.

If the threat/stress is overcome and the body uses up the excess energy, then our nervous system returns to normal and we feel relaxed. If we cannot avoid the threat/stress, all of the excess energy has nowhere to go and becomes trapped in the body, causing a state of shock. This can lead to the development of symptoms.

If you have some of the following symptoms, it could be that you are experiencing the effects of shock stored in the body, resulting from unresolved trauma:

• Not feeling like your “usual self”
• Getting easily overwhelmed
• Feeling nervous, anxious, or fearful
• Having mood swings
• Getting flashbacks
• Having panic attacks

• Muscle tension
• Digestive disturbances
• Headaches, migraines
• Jaw tension
• Chronic fatigue
• Asthma or rapid breathing
• Chronic pain
• Anxiety
• Depression
• Intense emotions of fear, rage, grief and despair
• Not feeling safe
• Self-limiting beliefs

Trauma can arise from a single major experience or a gradual buildup of overwhelming experiences. Both conscious and unconscious experiences can contribute to trauma, these include:

• Challenges experienced in-utero
• Stress patterns formed during the birthing process
• Childhood experiences of loneliness, fright, grief and despair
• Injuries
• Accidents
• Severe illness
• Medical procedures
• Abuse
• Exposure to major threats
• Long periods of feeling under-resourced and overwhelmed

Accumulation of stored trauma affects every cell and system in the body.  This can lock the body in a “fight, flight or freeze state”.  Trauma often significantly contributes to the root cause of chronic illness. It not only affects the nervous system but every other body system.

Healing unresolved trauma is essential to restoring the body's ability to self-heal, experience joy and be present with life.  At Body Wisdom, we support people to heal from trauma gently, safely and compassionately.

Often if the experience(s) that caused the trauma occurred a long time ago, new incidents become super-imposed over previous ones. A series of treatments will often be needed to unpack the various stress patterns stored in the body. The body can then return to a healthier balance and the mind is “reprogrammed” to feel greater safety.

Following treatments, a person often feels they are becoming more like “their usual self”. They gain the ability to move forward with life with renewed energy, presence and joy. It is common for physical health issues to significantly improve or resolve alongside the emotional and mental symptoms of trauma.

If you need help healing from trauma or PTSD, we would love to support you to reclaim your natural ability to experience freedom and joy.

We really love working with children, to help bring out the best in each child.  At Body Wisdom, we support children to come back into greater balance by working on the health of every system of their body, optimising a child’s vital energy and promoting health conditions to improve and often resolve naturally.

• Worry, anxiety
• Sleeping difficulties / nightmares / bedwetting
• Digestive symptoms
• Frequent sinus and chest infections
• Asthma / ear infections / hayfever / eczema
• Headaches / migraines
• Recovery from injuries / concussion
• Concentration or learning difficulties
• Challenging behavior
• Depression
• High sensory sensitivity
• Scoliosis
• Coordination difficulties
• Recovery from operations

Some children experience health conditions early on in life. Factors that can contribute to this include:

• Prebirth stress patterns that formed in-utero
• Stress patterns that formed during the birthing process
• Medical procedures
• A long period of separation from a parent soon after birth

Children may also develop health conditions following overwhelming experiences. Some parents and caregivers notice changes in their children after an incident that has affected them physically or emotionally.  These may include:

• Following an illness
• Being in an accident or witnessing an accident
• Experiencing a serious injury
• Following a medical procedure
• After a concussion or injury to the head
• Experiencing or witnessing physical or emotional abuse
• Being in a natural disaster
• Losing a pet or loved one
• Following a big change in their life

Children and teens are often unable to or don’t want to talk about how they are feeling, or what’s troubling them. They often show us something is out of balance within them by developing physical symptoms, becoming withdrawn, having physical and emotional outbursts or not coping with life.

At Body Wisdom, we encourage children to have control of what they want to share and how they wish to be treated. BCST is powerful at supporting children to physically express and process what they find difficult to verbalise.

Therapy supports children to resolve patterns of stress within and promote greater emotional, mental and whole-body health. This can hugely benefit a child’s physical and sensory development, behavior, learning and happiness.

At Body Wisdom, we understand that when a child is expressing health challenges stress can often be shared by the whole family. It is amazing to work with the whole family to support each member to experience their optimal emotional, mental and physical wellness.

If you have any questions regarding how BCST can assist your loved one’s to feel and be their best, we would love the opportunity to discuss this with you.

Every woman is unique and deserves to be supported to feel and be their best. BCST is a wonderful therapy for healing and self-care. BCST is so much more than managing or resolving symptoms. This natural therapy works deeply to address the inner causes of poor health and restore harmony to the mind and body.

Many things contribute to how a person feels and functions. Our food choices, movement, breathing, beliefs and other factors are all important. Having a strong inner healing force is also vitally essential for both our ability to heal as well as physical, mental and spiritual wellness.

When our bodies hold stored patterns of stress, this can weaken our inner healing force, increasing the likelihood of symptoms and conditions developing, along with making it more difficult to heal from existing issues.

BCST can support a woman to unpack stored stress patterns and harmonise all the systems of her body. A healthy nervous and hormonal system is essential for the natural biological rhythms and cycles in women, at different stages of her life.

Emotional, mental, and physical symptoms are often interconnected. BCST can powerfully support women to heal simultaneously at all these levels.

• Gynaecological health
• Chronic fatigue syndrome
• Fibromyalgia
• Urinary tract conditions
• Optimising fertility
• Restoring vitality and optimal functioning following childbirth
• Anxiety
• Depression
• Feeling depleted, both emotionally and physically
• Embracing menopause with strength and ease

When people are supported to feel their best, it’s much easier for them to make healthy lifestyle choices. Additionally, everyone around them benefits too.

At Body Wisdom, we also spend time helping a woman to connect deeply with her inner being to support her ongoing wellness and resiliency. Clients learn to experience their bodies in a more powerful and accepting way.

If you need help recovering from health conditions that are limiting you in any way, we would love to support you to optimise your health and wellness, making it easier to live your best life.