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Hello, and welcome to my blog….

Since I was born I have always had numerous health challenges.  These had progressively worsened into my teens and early adulthood, when whilst I was at university I had decided to try and find my own solutions to my problems, that made lasting effects.

When I was just three months old I had suffered numerous bouts of chronic constipation, which was there for a long period of time and then subsided.  It reared its head again when I was 8 years old, when I had severe pain in my lower right abdomen and was rushed to hospital with suspected appendicitis but as it turned out, I had indeed got severe constipation and my large colon was in fact full.  The medical solution was to give me suppositories which “in my opinion” is a short term solution and doesnt even come close to finding out the real cause of why my body was behaving in this way. 

It wasnt until I was 14 years old and all of a sudden I had stomach cramps and intestinal cramps that were really prolonged, and I could only go to the toilet once every month at best, and it was a terrible affair, and a very emotional time centered around the toilet and whether I would be able to pass or not.  I tried to stay away from suppositories, but sometimes I would have no other solution.  We did also try natural laxatives, such as linseed and ortisan cubes (which are packed full of dates and figs, and other natural fibres).  This lasted mostly into my early twenties.  

When I was seventeen I was diagnosed with Poly Cystic Ovarian Syndrome (PCOS), where are patient suffers cysts on the ovaries, and the menstrual cycle is very irregular, even to the point where you wouldn’t have a period and also at worst when you dont even ovulate.  After an ultrasound, it was discovered that both my ovaries had many many cysts on both sides, my periods where irregular, and when I did ovulate, it was so painful I couldnt bend my hip, and had difficultly walking down the street due to the pain on the side I was ovulating.  

When I started university, I decided to try lots of diet alternatives, irradication such things, as soya, gluten, diary, wheat, meat, even to the point I was only eating fresh fruit and vegetables, with some grains and beans and legumes.  I remember a period of time that I did this for 3 months, but whilst my constpiation wasn’t as bad, my PCOS, had not altered much, and emotionally I was finding it very difficult to sustain.  I incorparted a few things back into my diet and carried on hiding things for a few years, until my constipation really flared up again.

When I left university, I went to go and visit a lady that carried out colonic irrigation.  It was facinating to me when she told me that she could only fill my colon up half full, that there must have been so much tension in my intestines that they just werent allowing the water in.  It took 6 visits before she could fill my bowels up all the way.  During the sessions I could feel my bowels becoming more and more open, and to my surprise I started to become a lot more regular as well!  I finally felt like I was getting somewhere.  After I had stopped going to see her, the constipation started to come back and I had felt that something was keeping my bowels tight, and making them tense and not want to work.  

There was definately a link missing that was keeping my bowels tight, so I started to look at the way I behaved, and whether or not that made me tense my stomach and abdomen.  I realised that when I am with other people I find it very difficult to be myself, and I notice that I suck my tummy whilst talking to them.  This was a very interesting thing to become aware of, as it told me that I was tensing that part of my body myself.  Whenever I get nervous around other people I hold my tummy in (as a way to protect myself).

I set about working on becoming more at ease with others, whilst I was with them and talking with them, and helping myself physically to be more relaxed in that part of my body, whilst in that situation. It did take a lot of effort initially, as I had assumed that I had developed this pattern over years, and I was having to undo years of learning, and create a new pattern in my life.  I was quite interested when I started to reaslise that I was a lot more bubbly and fun, not so serious and scary, and generally I felt more myself when I was becoming more relaxed.  

Even now I do occasionally catch myself tensing it that area, but I am very aware of it now, and I have the choice to change it or not.  

As a result, I started to get feedback about the foods I was eating, and that some particular foods really gave me a lot of bloating.  This made it so easy to cut foods out, as when I ate diary, I would spend the next 3 hours in pain, so it made sense to me not to eat it.  I now not longer eat red meats, and diary.  The next thing I am working on cutting out is gluten, and then working up to wheat (although these food groups definately have less effect on me, although I do have a lot more energy when I dont eat them).

It has definately been a journey, and I am still making progress all the time, getting healthier, fitter and stronger.  

More than anything I would like to try and demonstrate that sometimes its the patterns we have in society that dictate how we hold and build tension in our bodies, and that when you become aware of these patterns, its easy to discover what effect this has on your body, and how to create something different for yourselves.  That will then lead on to making other healthy changes for yourself, like changing which food groups your eat, and how much fittness you take, putting your focus into where you have a lot of energy, and doing more of the things you love, and as a result getting back the life you want, and the life you deserve to live!

I graduated from Welsh Insitutue of Chiropractic in 2011, and have since opened three chiropractic clinics specialising in a unique work called Network Spinal Analysis.  Whilst I love this work, and it has helped my tremendously on my jounrey, I want to be able to provide strategies for others, even though you may not financially have the means to have alternate treatments, and just provide an insight into your own body that could highlight important information about how you present physically, so you can create and make the shifts you need to get the life and body you want!

Have a great, glourious day,

Yours in good health!

Fran

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😫Do you SUFFER with health challenges? Whether 😫Do you SUFFER with health challenges?  Whether pain or a problem you have had for years, that just never seems to go away? 😫⠀
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I know that I did when I was younger and whilst I had tried everything under the sun to improve my health, nothing seemed to work. 🧐⠀
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Why?? 🤨 because I was trying to fix my problems, and I saw all my problems as external to myself. ⠀
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But the reality is that they are a part of me, when I reclaim them as something that I have created, I take responsibility for creating them.⠀
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I can then ask myself what I need to change in order to become something or create something different. 💡💡💡⠀
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When I asked a different question and saw my health problems in a different way, it was easy to become more aware of what I was doing to myself on a daily basis.⠀
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👉👉what actually needed to happen??⠀
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I needed to let go of control, create more flexibility, Become more adaptable to changing circumstances. Also trust more in the process, surrender to the universes plan for me.. Connect more with feminine flow and allow that energy to come through and express more fully... ❤️❤️⠀
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These are just a few patterns I have been working on over the past 10 years. ⠀
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Let me know what you feel like you need to work on that could improve your health... ⠀
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If you want to know more check out my blog posts 👉link in bio.⠀
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How is your HEALTH Overall?? 🤔⠀ ⠀ Most peop How is your HEALTH Overall?? 🤔⠀
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Most people know they have poor or average health and they also know where they want to be, but having the solution to get from point A to B is often missing. ⠀
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There is information all over the Internet about health. But many people still stay stuck 🧐🧐⠀
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😫When I was a teenager I had terrible health, badly balanced hormones, chronic constipation and polycystic ovarian syndrome. Along with a bunch of weight that I never seemed to be able to loose. 😫 ⠀
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I had tried everything from diet changes, exercises, medication, Bowen technique, chiropractors & abdominal massages, but nothing seem to have any long term effects🤨 ⠀
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💖Until one day I stumbled upon the realisation that there maybe something more, and that what was needed wasn’t just a quick fix, but an up haul of my perspective on my own health. 🙌🙌⠀
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I began to realise that what I was doing (how my body and mind was responding to my environment) was responsible for building tensions in certain parts of my body (stomach area mainly)⠀
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I began to gain awareness of what I was doing to myself on a daily basis. I questioned whether if I began to make changes and responded to situations/people differently whether that would make a difference to how my body was?? How my health was?? 🧐⠀
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And guess what? over years of creating new patterns and behaviours, I am pleased to say, my constipation resolved about 5 years ago now, and I haven’t had any symptoms from my PCOS either for about 6-7 years.  I lost a tone a weight (approx10kg) and I have never felt better 💪⠀
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Two years a ago my hubby and I walked across America from Mexico to Canada, and we now are blessed with a beautiful boy Jack 🤩🤩🤩⠀
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I believe my symptoms where manifested due to behaviour patterns affecting the way I was holding my body. Once I had figured out what I needed to change, the hard work started, boy did it pay off 😁 ⠀
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If you would like answers to ur own health problems for a limited time I have a Health & Body Wellness Check, if you fill this out Then u could be selected to have a 1:1 with me, at absolutely NO CHARGE, to discuss your health concerns and how u can move forwards.
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Feeling STRESSED 😩 about something or someone ? Feeling STRESSED 😩 about something or someone ?? ⁣
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There are really only two ways of looking at things that stress us out and how to work around it. ⁣
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Either you change or your change the external environment.⁣
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👉leave that job⁣
👉give up that friendship⁣
👉move house/country⁣
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Sorry to sound harsh, but STRESS is not good for your health ✖️ PERIOD⁣
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If your getting stressed 😫 even over the smallest things you need to analyse what your going to do about it. ⁣
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It’s OK to get stressed 😩 about something’s/ sometimes, but if your getting stressed about the same thing... over and over then something needs to change and you have 1 of 2 options. 🧐⁣
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Take a good look at lightening your load and where you can lighten it. 💜💜💜⁣
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Sometimes in order to move forwards we need to leave other things behind.  It’s the natural part of things, otherwise we stay exactly the same. As humans we like growth 👆 ⁣
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Where could you grow next in your life and what should you be leaving behind ?? ⁣
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Double tap if you agree 💚💚💚⁣
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👉PS if your looking for ways to clear your mind so you can figure out what isn’t serving you anymore then check out my YOUTUBE on how to clear your mind 💪💪
💖 How do you PERCEIVE others?? 💖 👉are yo 💖 How do you PERCEIVE others?? 💖

👉are you able to fully understand another’s perspective? 
👉do you know where they are coming from? 
👉can you listen without the want to change someone?? 

Since jack is now a toddler I have been in a reflection period on my actions as his mum. 

🧐🧐I have come to the realisation that I keep referring to my toddler as “naughty”. I will say phrases like, “he’s really pushing my boundaries” or “he’s getting his naughty streak” 

I realised I have been conditioned by others and there own experience of toddlers, as we hear 👂 all too often that toddlers =naughty. And parents saying... oh you wait until the “Terrible two’s”.

❇️ I have been looking into my reaction when I see Jack do something that I don’t think is acceptable. He likes to throw the plum slate from our garden in the back door.  He thinks it’s the best thing in the world. 😂

At first my response was to say “no” rather sternly. In reflection I couldn’t understand why he just laughed in my face. After a time this wasn’t working. 

✅✅I came to my own conclusion that I shouldn’t focus on what I DONT want but what I DO want. 

I don’t mind him throwing but he must throw outside.  So I worked to change my language. He is starting to understand 🥳 

If I put myself in his shoes, it’s clear that he thinks throwing stones in the house is great, because it’s makes a funny noise on the kitchen tiles, he can throw quite hard, and he was getting my attention. What more could a little boy want 😍

REALITY 👉 he isn’t actually being naughty.  He just doesn’t know any different. So it’s up to me to teach him. 

How often can you fully step into another’s shoes and understand why they do the things they do?? 💖 Can you understand?? 💖 Do you want to understand??

The more you can do this the more ease you will have in life and less resistance you will get from others. 🙌 

In my example, jack learnt a good lesson and it was relatively easy once I was able to step into his shoes and view his world 🌍 

We are all doing the best we can with the tools we have, and if we can understand another’s actions we can adjust our language and response, which could be much more supportive 💖
Do you SUFFER with lower neck tension, stiffness o Do you SUFFER with lower neck tension, stiffness or discomfort?? 🧐🧐 ⁣
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Have a read through and see if any of these emotional links resonate for you??⁣
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➡️When we build tension in the lower neck or have stiffness in the lower cervical vertebrae often it is related to the emotion frustration and anger. ⁣
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👉If anger hasn’t been fully expressed we have the potential to build tension here. 🔆 ⁣
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🙄🙄As a society nowadays it’s become unacceptable to show anger, as it’s deemed as wrong or inappropriate... so loads of us keep it to ourselves. ⁣
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Anger is still an emotion that is designed to protect us, and in modern life it’s related to standing up for yourself and saying what you think and what’s on your mind. ⁣
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🌟🌟Especially us English, this goes against our culture, we were told speak when spoken to.  In result it silences us and our true feelings.  Which makes us feel less than, or that our opinion doesn’t matter. ⁣
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👆👆this is a pattern culturally we must overcome... as our opinion does matter and must matter, just like everyone else’s. ⁣
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❌Don’t keep the tension within. It’s not good for you.  And if you have so much anger then you must create a safe outlet for that anger first, before confronting the situation. ⁣
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➡️Check out my new YouTube video for exercises how to release tension and frustration that may be stored around your lower neck and shoulders. Link in bio ✴️✴️

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Do your NEGATIVE EMOTIONS seem to linger and keep Do your NEGATIVE EMOTIONS seem to linger and keep you feeling low? They just never seem to move on to something else?? 🧐🧐⁣
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💟Do you always feel like they hold you back? and you can’t seem to figure how to help yourself when you get like that? ⁣
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I have a story for you. Yesterday I was having one of those moments.  The pressure was mounting, and I felt like I was swamped. My son is going through a transition and our rhythm together has been completely out. I haven’t been sleeping well, not easily falling asleep, and I was struggling to keep up with all the things everyone was wanting from me, and I felt like I was dropping ball and feeling a failure. 😢😢⁣
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📞 I called my husband and told him this, and asked if we could postpone our plans for the weekend because I just couldn’t face doing anything else.  I also said.... ⁣
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AND THIS IS BIG...🙌🙌🙌🙌⁣
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That If he would come home after his week away instead of going to his folks. He of course said yes, but I also said that I wasn’t sure if that was what I wanted and that I was feeling low, and making a decision from this place might not be the best thing.⁣
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👉👉The thing is that you will do anything to get yourself out of this horrid negative place, because it SUCKS !! But I didn’t want to do this... I was quite happy sitting with these feelings because it’s a natural part of BEING A HUMAN. 💖💖💖⁣
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💜I said that I would make a decision when these feelings had passed, as I would then be making them from an energy rich place and seeing the bigger picture. ⁣
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Today I felt like I was starting to emerge from the chaos.  I was in a much better place to see and think clearly. 🙃🙃🙃⁣
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💜The moral is don’t make a decision from a low energy place, be present with these feelings. Make sure you have someone to share with that will just listen, and not try to fix. ⁣
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➡️There is nothing to DO here but be. Fully embrace all your emotions and they pass so much more readily ❤️❤️❤️⁣
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🌟🌟🌟Visit my website and get my free guide on how to connect and transform. Link in bio 🌟🌟🌟🌟⁣
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Do you SUFFER with ANXIETY or being over cautious? Do you SUFFER with ANXIETY or being over cautious?? Listen 👂 up 👆⁣
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There is so much to be fearful of right now, but you don’t need the extra stress. ⁣
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When we are fearful and anxious we aren’t going to be thinking clearly, our system is in defence. We are in survival mode. ⁣
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Perhaps your feeling like your just about making it through each day and just have enough energy to get to bedtime before having to start all over again tomorrow. ⁣
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If this is YOU then double tap ❤️❤️⁣
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Quite often when we have anxiety we don’t know what to do with it. It’s overwhelming us and we can’t seem to create a different emotion.  I’m telling you it doesn’t have to be that way. ⁣
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When you feel this emotion I want you to be present with the feelings that come up.  We all feel anxiety, it’s part of the human experience, it protects us. It’s important. 🌟However when you feel it all the time it’s become a pattern and a habit that you need to shift. ⁣
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I suggest starting with setting an intention and allowing your mind to think about TRUST ❇️❇️ ⁣
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When we completely TRUST there is no place to be anxious.  We come from a place of surrender, which will bring different perceptions and behaviours to a situation. 💟💟 ⁣
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Next time you feel anxiety come up I urge you to allow your mind to think about trust, and ask YOURSELF.... ⁣
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🤜How can I be more trusting in this situation? ⁣
🤜How can I surrender to the bigger plan for me? ⁣
🤜How could i bring more surrender to my body right now and release any tension I might be holding.⁣
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This is a higher intention and vision I have for you right now.  Ultimately when we completely trust, anxiety has no place and does not take hold of us. ⁣
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If you would like to learn more head to my YouTube for a great video on 3 ways on how to release anxiety from your body, and what to do with the emotion when it comes up. Link in bio.⁣
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Wishing you a trusting day ✊✊💖💖

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Are you feeling anxious and emotionally drained?? Are you feeling anxious and emotionally drained?? 🤪🤪 Lots to do, lots to think about and seem tense and uptight? 😩⁣
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👉Swipe to learn a major lesson about how to connect with your body to stay grounded, and keep your mind clear.⁣
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If your someone who’s feeling overworked and your mind is constantly racing you NEED to read this.⁣
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❤️ Double tap if you liked this, and tag a friend who needs to hear this today. 👂 ⁣
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PS. Staying calm and grounded is not that difficult if you know how. Why not head to my YouTube for my latest video, so you can find out my process to stay out of your head and Present with your body. Link is in the bio!

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