Kinesiology by Annie White

24/09/2025

✨ “Your body is always whispering. But when your nervous system is dysregulated, it starts shouting. Do you know how to listen?”

If your nervous system is shouting at you and you’re looking for calm and resilience, why not pop into the clinic in Bellingen and start finding your calm again?

22/09/2025

🌿 From Survival to Safety 🌿

A theme I have been noticing in clinic lately is that many clients arrive in a survival based nervous system state. It is not that there is something wrong with them, it is simply that their body does not feel safe.

When the nervous system is stuck in survival, you may notice:
• Heart palpitations or a racing heart
• Feeling anxious or restless
• Brain fog or trouble focusing
• Tight chest or shallow breathing
• Trouble sleeping
• Digestive issues or nausea
• Feeling constantly on edge or hypervigilant

This survival state is the body’s way of protecting you. But it can leave you feeling stuck and disconnected from yourself.

When we help the body feel safe again, everything changes. The nervous system shifts out of survival, your mind clears, your breath deepens, and you feel more grounded in your body instead of lost in your head.

This is the work we do in session, helping your body feel safe enough to let go, reset, and return to calm.

✨ Safety is the foundation for healing, balance, and resilience.

19/09/2025

🌿 Find Calm in a Simple Practice 🌿

Place your hand gently on your heart. Close your eyes and take three slow, deep breaths.

In that moment, your parasympathetic nervous system, your rest and digest state, begins to switch on. Feel-good hormones are released, your body softens, and a message is sent to your brain, “You are safe.”

Sometimes the simplest practices are the most powerful. This one only takes a few seconds, yet it can bring you back to balance whenever you need it.

✨ Try it now and notice how your body feels.

16/09/2025

The Gut Brain Mood Highway

Your gut and brain are linked by the vagus nerve, a highway of constant communication.

When you are under chronic stress, gut function slows. This can lead to bloating, gas, pain, or IBS type symptoms. The gut becomes more acidic, the balance of bacteria shifts, and the microbiome is disrupted.

About 90 percent of your serotonin, your feel good hormone, is produced in the gut. When balance is lost, serotonin drops, and mood is affected. Low mood, anxiety, and poor motivation are often the result.

Kinesiology can help by calming the nervous system and activating the vagus nerve. This supports better gut function, restores balance, and allows your body to naturally produce the serotonin you need to feel calm, clear, and resilient.

15/09/2025

🌿 Sitting With Your Emotions Can Feel Scary 🌿

Something I hear from time to time is, “I felt really nervous to come in, part of me didn’t want to.” And that makes complete sense.

Coming into a kinesiology session means opening the door to your emotions. In the world we live in, we are taught to push them away, to keep going, to stay strong. Vulnerability is not something we are often supported in, so sitting with your feelings can feel unfamiliar and even scary.

But here’s the truth: those emotions don’t disappear when we ignore them. They sit in the body, in the nervous system, waiting to be acknowledged.

Kinesiology offers a safe space to do that gently. Together, we give those emotions the space they need, so they can be released rather than suppressed. What happens on the other side is often a deep sense of relief, lightness and calm.

It is okay to feel nervous before a session. That nervousness is just your body letting you know you are about to do something powerful, something that can truly change the way you feel.

10/09/2025

Cortisol and Your Nervous System

Cortisol is often called the stress hormone. It’s released when your body activates the HPA axis, the communication loop between your hypothalamus, pituitary gland, and adrenal glands. This system is designed to keep you safe in short bursts, but when stress is ongoing, cortisol stays elevated, and that’s when it starts to work against you.

💡 What too much cortisol can feel like:
   •   Feeling agitated, uneasy, or on edge
   •   Fatigue or that “wired but tired” state
   •   Trouble sleeping or poor-quality rest
   •   Brain fog and difficulty focusing
   •   Weight gain around the midsection or face

Your body is not meant to live in constant stress mode. When cortisol keeps firing, your nervous system stays in fight-or-flight, and balance is lost.

This is where kinesiology can help. By working with your nervous system and activating the vagus nerve, we help your body switch off the stress response, reset the HPA axis, and return to calm. The result is more energy, clearer thinking, better sleep, and a nervous system that can handle life with resilience.

✨ Your body knows how to find balance — sometimes it just needs a reminder.

07/09/2025

✨ What is Kinesiology? ✨

For me, kinesiology is so much more than a therapy session. It’s education. It’s about helping you truly understand your nervous system and the impact stress has on your body, mind, and health.

When stress builds up over time, it doesn’t just affect how you feel. It changes how your body functions. Through kinesiology, I help you connect the dots: why you feel the way you feel, what’s happening physically in your body, and why you react the way you do.

Most importantly, it’s about giving you the tools to self-regulate. My goal isn’t for you to keep coming back to me forever. It’s to empower you with the mindset, skills, and practices that allow you to calm your own system every day in real life.

Kinesiology is about awareness, resilience, and teaching your body how to return to balance so you can live with more calm, more energy, and more freedom.

05/09/2025

☀️ My favourite morning biohack: sunshine + walking

Every morning I make time to get outside for a walk in the sunlight. It’s simple, free, and one of the most powerful ways to reset your circadian rhythm (your body’s natural clock).

✨ Morning light tells your brain “it’s time to wake up” → boosting energy and focus.
✨ Movement gets your blood flowing, supporting a calm + resilient nervous system.
✨ Consistent exposure to natural light helps your body know when it’s time to rest → better, deeper sleep at night.

Sometimes the best biohacks aren’t fancy gadgets — they’re the things nature already gave us. 🌿

02/09/2025

Steady glucose, steady nervous system = steady you.

I’ve read The Glucose Revolution, and it was a total game-changer for me and my body. It helped me understand just how vital stabilising your insulin is, not only for boosting energy but also for calming your nervous system. Balancing blood sugar transforms how we feel, think, sleep, and show up for life.

Start your day with protein, healthy fats, and fiber—not sugar. A savory breakfast sets you up for steady energy and a calmer, more regulated nervous system.

01/09/2025

⚡️ Did you know you can biohack your nervous system?

When people hear biohacking, they often think of gadgets, apps, or supplements. But here’s the truth — your most powerful biohack is already inside you: your nervous system.

This is where my work comes in.
As a nervous system specialist , I use kinesiology to help you switch off your stress switch and regulate your vagus nerve, the superhighway that tells your body whether it’s safe or not.

And the work doesn’t stop in the clinic. I equip you with the knowledge and tools you need to keep regulating at home. Practical biohacks you can start using straight away, such as:
✨ Breath techniques to regulate your state
✨ Magnesium for nervous system support
✨ Joint squeezes + simple movements to calm your stress response

This is about helping you reset in session and giving you the skills to continue self-biohacking your nervous system daily. 🌿

Because when you know how to regulate your nervous system, you can handle stress differently, sleep better, and step into life with more energy, clarity, and calm.

19/08/2025

✨ Stress & Anxiety Workshop This Thursday Night!

✨Are you feeling stressed, overwhelmed, or stuck in a constant cycle of anxiety? This Thursday evening we’re bringing together an amazing room of women to learn how to gently reset the nervous system, find calm, and reconnect with themselves. 💫You’ll be guided by myself, Rebecca Snelling, and the wonderful Martine Robinson as we share powerful tools, knowledge, and practices to help you shift from stress to resilience.

🌿 What to expect:
✔️ Practical tools to calm and reset your nervous system
✔️ Insights into how stress and anxiety affect your body and mind
✔️ A warm, supportive space with like-minded women
✔️ Beautiful connection, learning, and inspiration🎟️

Tickets are available now click the link below.

https://www.eventbrite.com/e/live-better-the-holistic-way-tickets-1555366165069?aff=oddtdtcreator

Don’t miss this opportunity to step away from the noise and reconnect with your calm. We can’t wait to see you there! 💛

Nervous System Reset: Learn ways to improve your well-being through a holistic approach to health and happiness