Hi, I’m Karen Woods.

For many years I've been a practitioner of natural therapies,
finding what works best to help clients heal what they're struggling with.

Mental and emotional trauma can really stop you in your tracks.
I've had my share of it growing up and recently experienced an extremely traumatic event that left me with severe PTSD. 
 

I found that severe trauma puts your system into such a mess that it
puts blinkers on you where you just can't see how to heal yourself or
even the next step to take.
It's like there's an alarm sounding and flashing and that's all you're able to hear - your system screaming that it's in overload but you don't know what to do to help yourself.

For me, I eased myself out of it by being creative, just enough over time that it decreased my symptoms enough that I started to realise
I had a healing tool box I wasn't even using to heal myself. 
I couldn't even fathom how this was possible when the spiritual side of life was my whole life - I breathed it day and night.
I had meditated every day for over 30 years yet trauma put me into such a spin, I didn't think to use the healing tools I had learnt many years earlier. 

After months of coming back to myself and feeling that I had my head above emotional waters, I started to incorporate the gentlest healing I knew and this dissolved so much of the build up of emotions I was carrying that I began to heal significantly. 

During my way back to myself, I learned about triggers and was so surprised that salt and sugar expands your thought centre like any other stimulant, legal or illegal that it causes those difficult thoughts to surge, as the salt and sugar spike in your body. 
They bring up the wave of challenging feelings you have in your nervous system and then the trauma that has been absorbed there starts to seep out and you feel like you're having another extreme attack of panic or fear.

It can set you back a lot until you figure out what's actually happening, that you're causing those reactions by what you're ingesting and because of metabolism the reaction can be delayed
so you might not link what you've eaten, to the sudden rise in your thoughts and emotions.
No doctor ever warned me of this and it would have made a huge difference to my recovery.

I learnt a lot from my trauma and have now healed myself back to normal, if you can call it that, cause you'll never be the same again after you've experienced a huge trauma.
So let's just say, I've healed myself back to the new me. 

I know that the key to recovering from PTSD is working with the invisible layers of the body and psyche.
Dissolving built up emotions to settle your system down so you can then start working with the intelligence of your own natural inbuilt healing system.
In session I show you how to connect with that and how you can 
heal yourself at home.

It pains me to hear of people, especially Veterans and Emergency Service Workers, not getting the help they need to recover from the experiences they go through that causes their PTSD. The natural effect from the build up of what they witness and experience on the job, doing such special work. Where would we be without them.

If you have any trauma or issues affecting you, please reach out to discuss how I can help you and your symptoms. 
Confidentiality is assured, with no judgement.