I don't know about any one else but from time to time I have the odd night of not being able to sleep, usually because the days events are going around in my head and I have trouble switching off. Last week I was having a couple of nights like that it had been a particularly busy week.

The thing about owning a complemntary health clinic is that you do not always take your own advice (daft I know). However Marie one of our therapists persuaded me it would be a really good idea to have a massage with her which she assured me would help me sleep like a baby, I didn't really take much convincing (who would with the offer of a massage).

Marie used a combination of two aromatherapy oils chamomile and lavender in the massage oil that she used, the massage techniques she used were designed to relax the muscles which trust me they did. The oils were designed to calm the mind and relax the body that night I slept very well and woke up calm and relaxed. So  how long did the effects of the aromatherapy massage last I would say a couple of days, Marie advised that it would be a good idea to come back 2 or 3 more times to get a longer lasting effect. I will definitely be taking her up on that advice.

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How many of us feel from time to time we have those female health problems that affect our lives, but we put them to one side and carry on, we are busy with work, children and relatives there never seems to be enough time to sort it out.

Irregular periods
IBS (irritable bowel syndrome)
Bad Sleep Patterns (who hasn't felt this occasionally)

Menopause
Periods Stopping
Hot Flushes
Disturbed Sleep
Low Energy
Weight Gain
Digestion and Bowel Changes

Many more women are now looking for a more natural way to balance their bodies and lives, to relieve their symptoms and create a better sense of wellbeing. Reflexology is a good way to help do this contrary to popular belief Reflexology is not just a nice foot rub by stimulating specific points on the feet the reflexologist is looking to help the body balance it's self.

Reflexology is well known for its benefits to women’s health and has been well researched but don't just take our word for it.

http://reflexology.suite101.com/article.cfm/reflexology_and_womens_health

Our Reflexologists Sharon Cooper has many years of experience of Reflexology dealing with all aspects of women’s health. When we asked Sharon what conditions she enjoyed working the most with.

" In the last year or so I have been working with women who have been experiencing menopausal symptoms, so I decided to undertake some further training in reflexology for the menopause this training has enabled me to enhance my treatment sessions, my clients tell me that they feel much more relaxed after a session and are experiencing less symptoms, this gives me a great deal of satisfaction and pleasure to help these women"

Whether you want to give reflexology a try for the menopause or any other female issue that would benefit from a course of reflexology please feel free to do some more research or ask us some more questions it is important to us that you feel happy in your choice of treatment.

We would recommend that you come and give Reflexology a try if after having one session you feel that this treatment could benefit you we would suggest a course of four to six sessions once a week to then gradually decreasing the sessions to a maintenance program of around once a month. This suggested treatment programme is only a guideline as everyone responds at different rates we suggest that you discuss it with your therapist and come up with a treatment plan that suits you.

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 The results from these tests showed that acupuncture when compared with drug therapy may have longer lasting results for reducing night sweats and hot flashes for those women receiving hormone therapy treatment. 

A large part of the Wellbeing Clinic work is helping business and organisations deal with stress in the workplace. At the clinic we deal with many organisations who offer services to their employees to help deal with stress.

These can range from:

• Counselling
• Mediation
• Stress awareness training for employees~managers
• Mini sessions of massage and reflexology
• Chiropractic assessments for muscular skeletal problems
• Nutritional sessions

The overall aim of these services is to enable employers to help employees deal with what is causing them stress in their lives whether the stress is coming from work or home. All the services on offer are designed to help the individual gain a deeper understanding of what stress is and how it is effecting them in there lives, then giving them the tools to deal with these situations in a more productive way. 

The sort of issues that people may need help with may be a dispute with a colleague about new working arrangements, or being over worked by a manger/supervisor and not being able to express these concerns in an appropriate way due to poor self esteem, a stressful period at work due to a heavy work load or colleagues being off sick meaning there are less staff available to do the same job. Although stress affects a persons performance at work it may be nothing to do with work but what is going on at home such as a change in family circumstances, a bereavment or illness.   

In our experience an employer often wants to help but is not sure how to do this or were there responsibility begins and ends or what stress really is.

Employers often feel that although they are sympathetic to issues an employee is experiencing at home it is not there responsibilty to pay to sort out these issues.  

Or they may say I don't have anyone off with stress.

I want to do something but I don't have the budget it's going to cost me a lot of money.

I am always reluctant to pay for something that is not going to make me money.

My business is not very big I cant' afford to pay for something like this.

These are all valid statements but the reality is that there are solutions to all of them.

Although as an employer you may feel reluctant to pay for an employees home troubles but they are often unable to leave those troubles at home when they come into work. Although there may not be many people away from work, who have been labeled by there doctor as having "stress" there will be people who are taking more than the average amount of sick days, with colds, IBS, or just feeling under the weather, these people may be suffering with stress. Not many people will admit to feeling truly stressed. (95% of the people we see a the Wellbeing Clinic are still in work). We work hard to keep people in the work place and functioning to the best of their ability.

As a business owner myself I am always aware of my budgets and laying out money for something that is not in theory going to generate income. But the reality is that if an employee is taking more than the average amount of sick days they are costing you money, if they are not functioning as well as they should they are costing you money. If you have to take on agency staff to cover sick days they are costing you money. Employers are often surprised when they are told of the cost to themselves, there are no retainer fees you only pay when you use Wellbeing Clinic services and as a employer you would only be reasonably expected to pay for six sessions in the vast majority of cases this will fix the problem. Were ever possible an an employer you will be given feed back on how you can assist the employee at work. (This won't include any personal details as that is all confidential between counsellor and employee)

As an organisation we have a huge variety of services to offer to business to fit any size and industry, the question of employee Health and Wellbeing is one that is here to stay stress is a subject that we are not going to be able to keep sweeping under the carpet.

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Love this quote found it on another site

Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure. It is our light, not our darkness that most frightens us. We ask ourselves, Who am I to be brilliant, gorgeous, talented, fabulous? Actually, who are you not to be? You are a child of God. Your playing small does not serve the world. There is nothing enlightened about shrinking so that other people won’t feel insecure around you. We are all meant to shine, as children do. We were born to make manifest the glory of God that is within us. It’s not just in some of us; it’s in everyone. And as we let our own light shine, we unconsciously give other people permission to do the same. As we are liberated from our own fear, our presence automatically liberates others.”

Marianne Williamson ~ A Return to Love

Today with so many people getting back to basics and going green you are starting to hear a lot about holistic medicine.  But have you ever wondered what that means and what it can mean to the health and well being of you and your family?

The term holistic simply means to take a ‘whole′ approach.  In medicine today your doctor tends to only focus on one small area of your health and only tries to relieve the symptoms, very often completely overlooking the cause. 

For example, if you’ve been diagnosed with high blood pressure your doctor will no doubt prescribe a blood pressure lowering prescription drug.  More often than not this medicine will have moderate to severe side effects.

Since the medicine only treats the symptoms, and not the cause, you will have to continue to take it for an extended period of time.  Sometimes taking a medication for a long period of time can make the side effects worse, which will often lead to the need to take medication to cure the side effects!

Holistic methods, on the other hand, will not just focus on your high blood pressure.  Instead it will look at all aspects of your lifestyle: nutrition, physical, emotional, spiritual, environmental, etc.  It will try to solve the root cause of your problem instead of just help you deal with the symptoms.

The holistic approach doesn’t rule out the use of prescription drugs but it does encourage trying natural methods first.  Harsh drugs are only used as a last resort.

Those who practice holistic methods of health care, also encourage full participation and responsibility for their own health care by their patients.  They don’t condone a bad lifestyle by their patient and then just giving the patient a drug to help alleviate the symptoms of an ailment directly related to those poor lifestyle choices.

Usually a holistic practitioner will try to help their patients achieve more balance between their physical, emotional, environmental, and spiritual lives to promote better overall health.  It’s about integrating the mind and body and how they can become balanced for better overall health.

Many different approaches are grouped together under the holistic name, you’ve no doubt heard of many of them: acupuncture, yoga, massage, meditation, and aromatherapy are some of the most well known.

Many people use these methods even when they don′t have an illness.  The idea is to prevent illness and not just cure one.  That is another aspect of holistic methods of treatment that sets it apart from ‘mainstream’ medicine which only worries about curing a problem and not nearly as much about prevention.

If you are concerned about the health and well being of you and your family you owe it to yourself to consider implementing holistic medicine practices into your life today.  Don’t wait until there is a problem, by starting now you may very well be able to prevent any illnesses from occurring in the first place.

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There are around 2,500 chiropractors in the UK at the moment although the figure is constantly rising. Many people will often turn to a chiropractor when they are experiencing back pain rather than their GP as chiropractors are specialists in their field and are highly regulated. Chiropractors have to belong to the General Chiropractic Association to be able to call themselves chiropractors.

So what should you expect from a Chiropractic visit chiropracitc Nottingham will aim..

Somthing that people often experience when they have a chiropractic ajustment and are never quite sure about is a 'pop' or a 'crack' this is nothing to worry about (it is due to a release of gas bubbles from the fluid within the joint.)

Many people say that after receiving chiropractic treatment they can resume their lives and that their symptoms disappear quickly without the necessity for medication or surgery.

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At the Wellbeing Clinic Nottingham we recognise the importance of getting the correct ccounselling for you. I can be at best confusing and daunting especially when you are feeling vulnerable. At worst the wrong kind of ccounselling can do more damage than good. So when we were asked to put up this post by the ccounselling directory we were glad to do so.

www.counselling-directory.org.uk

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A few years ago, a friend of ours found herself in a very daunting situation. After struggling with a number of issues and problems, she decided that counselling was a good option for her to help get her life back track. Her initial decision to go for c

counselling was undoubtedly one of the hardest parts of her entire therapy process, and a very brave one.

However, once she’d decided this, a whole new set of questions arose, and it became apparent that choosing the right counsellor, whilst perhaps not the hardest part of counselling, is undoubtedly one of the most important parts.

There are numerous issues to consider - practical and otherwise. What about, for example, location? Despite counsellors’assured complete confidentiality people may prefer to see a counsellor that is perhaps outside their local area, but still in surroundings they are comfortable in. Our friend certainly didn't’t want to run into anyone she knew, but at the same time needed to know where she was going.

As we were students at the time, money was a paramount issue. There are counsellors that offer reduced rates for students, and the unemployed or those seeking benefits, but how do you find them? No one wants to end up bartering with a counsellor over the price of their mental well being.

And what guarantees that the counsellor is the real deal? There are no laws in the UK that govern counselling, so what’s to stop anyone setting up shop to listen to people’s problems? There are qualifications and professional bodies, but these can often be confusing and over-whelming.

Counselling can take many different approaches - from person-based to psychoanalytic, and it’s important to choose a counsellor with an approach the person will be comfortable with and respond to well.

A daunting situation indeed, and it made us think. What if there was a website that collected all this information, so you could search for your where you live and the surrounding area and find a list of counsellors, with all their information, qualifications, and what areas they cover? Of course, a website like this didn’t exist. So we made one Counselling Directory was set up to provide a simple, easy, and most importantly un-daunting way of connecting people that need help with the people that provide it. A comprehensive searching tool, the site allows postcode, town and country searches, and produces a list of counsellors registered in this area. Each counsellor has a profile, listing a bit about themselves, their approaches, what areas they deal with, and all their training, qualification and experience and fees.

The site shows which counsellors are registered/accredited with a professional body, and full profiles are only displayed after insurance and qualification documents are checked

or membership with a professional body has been verified.

We hope the site can solve the situation like our friend had. It’s hard enough deciding to undertake counselling, and who wants extra hassle of trying to find a counsellor? The site has also become a huge information bank - there are articles written by the counsellors, as well as comprehensive information on all kinds of distress - from depression to eating disorders to abuse, to help people identify their problems and become informed, not scared.

We’ve heard from many people who have found the site invaluable, reducing the amount of stress and worrying that can contribute to an already difficult enough process.