Better Bowen

09/12/2025

Life and spiritual coaching is a compassionate, collaborative space where you’re supported in stepping into a more aligned, empowered, and fulfilling version of yourself. It’s a gentle partnership that offers guidance, encouragement, and heartfelt accountability as you explore what you truly want for your life and how to move toward it with clarity and confidence.

Unlike therapy, coaching looks toward the future — focusing on growth, expansion, and the possibilities ahead rather than the past. It’s a supportive, holistic process designed to help you thrive.

What a Life & Spiritual Coach Brings to Your Journey
🟢Loving guidance for your goals: Helping you gently clarify what you desire and create grounded, practical steps that feel achievable and true to you.
🟢Support & soulful accountability: Encouraging you every step of the way while holding space for you to stay connected to your intentions and progress.
🟢Softening obstacles: Assisting you in recognising limiting beliefs, patterns, or stories that may be dimming your light — and supporting you in releasing them.
🟢Heart-led self-discovery: Creating space for you to uncover your strengths, values, and inner wisdom, reconnecting you with the truth of who you are.
🟢Spiritual alignment & inner connection: Guiding you into deeper presence, intuition, and purpose so your decisions and actions feel centred and authentic.
🟢Holistic life support: Whether it’s relationships, career, emotional well-being, physical vitality, or balance, you’re supported in creating harmony across your whole life.

In Essence
Life and spiritual coaching is for those who are doing well — but feel called to grow, evolve, and create a life that feels more meaningful, intentional, and aligned with their heart and soul.

08/12/2025

"A trigger point in the neck might send pain into the jaw or temple. A trigger point in the glute might imitate sciatica. A point in the diaphragm might reshape breath and ripple into the lower back. These are not accidents. These are the fascial lines speaking their language, sending signals through the body’s interconnected map. What happens in one place is felt everywhere.

And hidden beneath all of this is something more subtle, something more tender. Trigger points often form not only from physical strain but also from emotional tightening. The jaw clenches around unspoken words. The diaphragm holds back tears. The belly tightens around fear. The hips brace for imagined impact. Over time, these emotional reflexes crystallize into physical ones. The body remembers its history in the places where it stops moving." - The Body Artisans

Today I want to bring you into the quiet interior world of the body, a place where science and sensation coexist, and where even the smallest structures hold stories. Before we explore the deeper art of myofascial trigger point therapy in my next post, I want to lay a foundation that feels both beautiful and true.

Many bodyworkers were never entirely taught the science behind trigger points, and many clients know them only as “knots.” But the truth is far more elegant, far more human, and far more poetic than that. When we understand them correctly, the body's whole landscape begins to make sense.

Inside every muscle are tiny contractile threads called sarcomeres. I often imagine them as thousands of delicate accordion folds lined up end to end, expanding and contracting in a rhythm that mirrors breath. In a healthy state, these folds open and close with ease, like the petals of a flower responding to light. But life doesn’t always keep its softness. A moment of stress, a pattern of overuse, a season of guarding, or the quiet residue of something emotionally overwhelming can cause a cluster of these little folds to clamp down and refuse to release. They hold tight, far tighter than the body ever intended. This is the beginning of a trigger point, a small place in the body's fabric where movement stops, and holding begins.

When these sarcomeres remain contracted, blood flow cannot fully enter the area. The tissue becomes a tiny pocket of drought. The body calls this ischemia, but you can imagine it as a river narrowing until only a trickle can pass through. Without fresh blood, oxygen cannot arrive, nourishment cannot circulate, and the natural byproducts of muscle activity begin to collect instead of being washed away.

These metabolites, harmless in motion, become irritating when trapped. They gather like stagnant water behind a dam, slowly altering the tissue's chemistry until the nerves around them begin to react. This is why a trigger point aches, burns, radiates, or surprises us with sharpness. It is not just tension; it is nature trying to move again.

Fascia, the body’s great communicator, becomes part of this story too. Because fascia is one continuous web, a single small obstruction can create distant echoes. A trigger point in the neck might send pain into the jaw or temple. A trigger point in the glute might imitate sciatica. A point in the diaphragm might reshape breath and ripple into the lower back. These are not accidents. These are the fascial lines speaking their language, sending signals through the body’s interconnected map. What happens in one place is felt everywhere.

And hidden beneath all of this is something more subtle, something more tender. Trigger points often form not only from physical strain but also from emotional tightening. The jaw clenches around unspoken words. The diaphragm holds back tears. The belly tightens around fear. The hips brace for imagined impact. Over time, these emotional reflexes crystallize into physical ones. The body remembers its history in the places where it stops moving.

This is why understanding trigger points is so important. They are not random knots; they are small dams in a river that longs to flow. When we release a trigger point, we are not just softening tension; we are restoring circulation to a starved pocket of tissue. We are dissolving chemical stagnation. We are freeing a section of fascia so the whole body can move with more grace. We are interrupting a protective pattern the nervous system has been holding onto, sometimes for years.

In the next post, we will step into the artistry of how I approach myofascial trigger point work, the breaking of the dam, and the waves of release that can change an entire region of the body. For now, let this be your gateway.

Trigger points are small, but the story they tell is vast. And once you understand them, you begin to understand the deep intelligence of the body that carries them.

08/12/2025

05/12/2025

I love these flyers. It is so helpful to know which mineral might be helpful for your day. I have them all in the kitchen for easy access for the family. The kids can just grab what they feel they need.

04/12/2025

Here is a wonderful reminder from Louise Hay.💖

04/12/2025

What does Bowen Therapy offer you? Have a look.🤗

Bowen Therapy is a simple, gentle, and holistic technique that works in harmony with the body to support natural balance and wellbeing. Developed by Tom Bowe...

03/12/2025

#5 Kali phos - works great for animals and people

🐱 Animals Get Stressed Too — And Their Nerves Run on Minerals

If you’ve ever watched a rescue dog tremble in a corner…
or a cat pace the hallway after a household change… you already know this truth.

The nervous system doesn’t care whether you’re human or furry —
it runs on the same biochemistry.

The chemistry of stress is universal.

And when an animal burns through its nerve minerals faster than it can replenish them, you’ll see it written all over their behaviour:
• trembling or shaking
• pacing or restlessness
• sudden jumpiness
• separation anxiety
• “clingy, then avoidant” emotional swings
• hyper-vigilance after trauma or rehoming

These aren’t just “behavioural problems.”
They’re nerve depletion signs.

So what do nerve cells actually need to stabilise?

⚡ Kali phos — the mind and nerve nutrient.
The mineral that restores the electrical balance inside every nerve cell.

It doesn’t sedate. It doesn’t fog the brain.
It simply gives the nervous system the mineral fuel it has run out of — and the difference can be profound.

When nerve cells have what they need, animals settle:
their bodies soften, their reactions ease, and their personalities re-emerge. The emotional tolerance and resilience increases, and the animal is given some emotional breathing room.

It’s not magic.
It’s basic biology — and one of the most gentle ways to help stressed animals (or people) feel safe again.

02/12/2025

I'll be placing an Essential oil order by Thursday evening. Please let me know if you would like something?

02/12/2025

26/11/2025

"The Fascia Speaks

As bodyworkers, we touch a system far more intelligent and responsive than most people realize....
When we help clients reconnect to their fascial landscape, we are guiding them back to the body’s original language, the language beneath thought, beneath story, beneath habit—the language of emotional truth.

We, the ones who listen in silence, can hear what the fascia has carried through lineage, memory, and time." - The Body Artisans

The Fascia Speaks

As bodyworkers, we touch a system far more intelligent and responsive than most people realize. It is a living memory field, a sensory fabric that holds the echoes of every emotional contraction, every bracing pattern, and every unspoken moment the nervous system didn’t know how to resolve.

We explore these imprints every day. We feel the places where the tissue thickened in response to a moment of fear, the areas where breath stopped during heartbreak, or the subtle density of someone carrying a responsibility too heavy for their age. These are not just restrictions. They are records.

Science is beginning to describe what practitioners have long sensed with their hands. Fascia is densely woven with interoceptors, proprioceptors, mechanoreceptors, and nociceptors, creating one of the most information-rich sensory networks in the body. These receptors do not just relay physical sensations; they respond to emotional states, autonomic shifts, and subtle changes in internal chemistry. When someone is afraid, lonely, overworked, grieving, or carrying unresolved tension, fascia receives that information before the conscious mind can interpret it.

Over time, these repeated emotional signals alter the collagen matrix itself. The ground substance thickens. Elasticity decreases. Glide diminishes. The tissue becomes a physical representation of an emotional history. What began as a moment of bracing becomes a pattern. Eventually, the pattern becomes posture, and posture becomes identity. This is how fascia stores emotional imprints that influence how a person walks, rests, reacts, and protects themselves. What clients feel as stiffness is often the residue of old vigilance. What they call tightness is often the body’s attempt to hold a story that never had a chance to be expressed.

When we work with fascia, we are not simply lengthening tissue or improving mobility. We are entering the emotional architecture of a person’s life. Gentle compression rehydrates the ground substance and makes the dense places permeable again. Slow stretching reorganizes collagen fibers that have been shaped by years of guarding. Pacinian and Ruffini receptors detect the warmth of our touch and signal safety along the vagus nerve. Interoceptors begin to update the brain’s perception of the body, allowing long-muted emotional signals to come into conscious awareness. As the layers soften, the nervous system begins to trust, and trust is the first doorway to release.

This is why clients often experience tears, trembling, laughter, heat, or a sudden memory during a session. The fascia is not only releasing; it is reorganizing the information it once held tightly. Electrical coherence returns. Circulation improves. Sensory accuracy sharpens. The body stops running old protective commands and starts rewriting its operating system. What once felt like a lifelong pattern begins to dissolve in the warmth of contact and presence.

Fascia is a sensory intelligence that interprets experience. The mind does not lead this process. It follows it. The mind interprets what the fascia feels and explains it long after the body has already changed. When we help clients reconnect to their fascial landscape, we are guiding them back to the body’s original language, the language beneath thought, beneath story, beneath habit—the language of emotional truth.

We, the ones who listen in silence, can hear what the fascia has carried through lineage, memory, and time.

26/11/2025

It's a miracle how the human body works!

"Mechanoreceptors are a remarkable part of the fascial system....

So when we work with fascia, we’re not just stretching tissue. We’re communicating with an enormous sensory network that shapes how someone moves, feels, and inhabits their body. Mechanoreceptors are part of the reason fascia is both biomechanical and deeply emotional."

Mechanoreceptors are a remarkable part of the fascial system. They are the microscopic sensory “listening stations” embedded throughout fascia that constantly read pressure, stretch, tension, vibration, and movement. They allow the body to feel itself from the inside. Without mechanoreceptors, movement would be clumsy, uncoordinated, and disconnected. With them, movement becomes fluid, responsive, and intelligent.

Fascia is loaded with various types of mechanoreceptors, each communicating with the nervous system in its own unique way. Ruffini endings respond to slow, sustained pressure and create a parasympathetic calming effect. Pacinian corpuscles respond to vibration and rapid changes in pressure, helping the body coordinate sudden movements. Interstitial receptors monitor subtle stretches, tensions, and internal shifts; they comprise nearly eighty percent of fascial sensory input and directly influence pain perception. Golgi receptors, found near ligaments and tendon insertions, respond to deep stretch and help down-regulate muscular tension.

When a bodyworker touches fascia, these receptors are the very first structures to respond. Slow, sustained contact helps melt hypertonicity because Ruffini endings signal to the nervous system, “It’s safe to soften.” Deep or directional stretch activates Golgi receptors, signaling muscles to lengthen. Gentle vibration or oscillation stimulates Pacinian receptors, enhancing proprioception and enabling joints to move with greater confidence. Even the quietest technique, a still fascial hold, stimulates interstitial receptors, which can modulate pain and reduce sympathetic overdrive.

Altogether, mechanoreceptors weave the sensory intelligence of fascia. They are the reason the body can adapt, coordinate, stabilize, and move with fluid grace rather than mechanical force. They turn every subtle change in tension into information the brain uses to refine posture, balance, and movement patterns.

So when we work with fascia, we’re not just stretching tissue. We’re communicating with an enormous sensory network that shapes how someone moves, feels, and inhabits their body. Mechanoreceptors are part of the reason fascia is both biomechanical and deeply emotional.

26/11/2025

This is a great reminder that our pers, especially the older ones, can also benefit from some tissue salts. 😻🐶🐎

🐶 Senior Pets & the Mineral Decline No One Talks About

Aging animals aren’t actually falling apart.
They’re running low on the same structural minerals that keep our bodies moving, repairing, and rebuilding.

And when those reserves drop, it shows:

• stiffness getting worse each month
• slow healing after small sprains or knocks
• repeated soft-tissue injuries
• low vitality or “grumpy old pet” behaviour
• thinning coat, dull fur, brittle nails/claws
• joint instability — especially after rest

Here’s the biological truth:

👉 Bones, tendons, ligaments, fur, nerves — they’re all built from the same minerals whether you’re human or furry.
Animals rely on the same 12 cell salts, and their tissues suffer the same consequences when the supply runs low.

So what helps most as pets age?

1️⃣ Calc fluor — the elasticity mineral
Supports:
• tendons, ligaments, joint capsules
• spinal stability
• tissues that sag, stretch, weaken or stiffen
• keeping the eyes healthy, preventing cataracts

Senior animals often lose the “spring” in their step because the elastic fibres are depleted.
Calc fluor simply gives the body the raw material to strengthen and tighten those fibres again.

2️⃣ Silica — the connective-tissue + coat mineral
Supports:
• strong fur, hoof, claw and nail growth
• healthy skin barrier
• robust connective tissue
• immune resilience

If your older pet’s coat has lost its shine or they’re shedding more than usual, Silica is the behind-the-scenes nutrient that rebuilds quality from the follicle outward.

3️⃣ Calc phos — the foundational builder
Supports:
• bone density
• cell reproduction
• general vitality
• recovery after illness, injury or stress

This is the mineral that keeps growth, rebuilding and repair switched on.
For senior pets, it helps restore vitality, appetite, and overall constitutional strength.

Why it works

As Schuessler’s biochemistry teaches, when tissues weaken, stiffen or fail, the body is sending a simple message:
❗ A specific mineral is running low.

Replenish the deficit → function improves.
It’s not magic. It’s cell biology.

Give the tissue what it’s missing, and their natural repair mechanisms switch back on.
If your senior pet is slowing down…
Try supporting their mineral base — gently, safely, and biologically.

Senior years don’t have to mean suffering.
Sometimes they just mean “please refill the building blocks.”

📌 Save this for your furry family’s wellness toolkit