Wellness Journey Center NZ

09/02/2026

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09/02/2026

Family estrangement triggers deep grief with wide-ranging health effects, from mental strain to physical decline, but naturopathic care offers gentle restoration. Adaptogenic herbs like ashwagandha help lower cortisol, while mindfulness and anti-inflammatory foods combat stress-induced inflammation.

Mental Health Support:
Grief from estrangement often brings anxiety, depression, and isolation, alongside effects like low self-esteem and trust issues. Herbal nervines such as lemon balm or passionflower calm the nervous system naturally; incorporate the Aroma Freedom Technique (AFT) by applying uplifting essential oils like citrus or lavender while tapping emotional release points for rapid grief processing.
Pair journaling with brain boosting omega-3s from chia or flaxseeds, plus yoga, to rebuild emotional resilience.

Physical Recovery Tips:
This grief can weaken immunity, cause fatigue, sleep issues, headaches, gut problems, and even raise heart disease risks via chronic inflammation. Boost with vitamin C-rich kiwifruit and elderberry syrup; try magnesium/ Epsom salt baths for tension and ginger tea for digestion. Hydrate and take nature walks to heal holistically.
Homeopathic remedies are amazing and adding in flower essences like Bach flowers too.

For personalized naturopathic service tailored to your estrangement recovery—considering your location and wellness interests—comment nrs007 below! 🌿

09/02/2026

🌙 Struggling with sleep, pain, or tummy troubles in our busy NZ lives?
Melatonin, your body's natural sleep hormone, regulates your sleep-wake cycle, cuts time to fall asleep, and boosts sleep quality—ideal for jet lag or shift work.

Bonus perks: Emerging research highlights pain relief for migraines and chronic issues, antioxidant protection (including gut lining repair to soothe inflammation and permeability), immune support, and even help for Alzheimer's sundowning or heart health.

Quick tips: Start low at 0.5-3mg 30-60 mins before bed; chat with a naturopath if autoimmune concerns. Mild side effects like headache are rare.

Sweet dreams & less pain! 💤

Comment or NRS007 for personalised advice.

09/02/2026

Powerful. We never know what others are going through. Always be mindful and caring.
Please reach out

09/02/2026

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09/02/2026

The power of words

04/02/2026

Shared:
Why Trauma Survivors Slowly Disappear From Society

One of the least understood consequences of prolonged trauma is this:

Trauma survivors don’t just feel afraid — they shrink their world.

They stop traveling.
They stop socializing.
They stop trying new places.
They avoid unfamiliar people, environments, and situations.
They limit variables wherever possible.

From the outside, this gets mislabeled as isolation, depression, laziness, antisocial behavior, or “giving up.”

That interpretation is wrong.

What’s actually happening is nervous system risk management.

When someone has lived through repeated harm, betrayal, false accusations, instability, or unpredictable punishment, the brain learns a brutal equation:

Unknown = danger.

Not intellectually — biologically.

The nervous system adapts by reducing exposure. Fewer environments means fewer surprises. Fewer people means fewer chances of misinterpretation. Fewer movements mean fewer threats.

So the body chooses containment over participation.

This is why trauma survivors often:
• avoid travel, even if they used to love it
• stick to rigid routines
• stay close to home
• avoid crowds and institutions
• decline invitations without explanation
• feel exhausted by “normal” social expectations

It isn’t fear in the dramatic sense.
It’s learned conservation.

When your system has been overwhelmed repeatedly, safety becomes synonymous with predictability. Freedom becomes secondary to survival.

This is especially true for people whose trauma came from systems — courts, institutions, authority figures, medical systems, employers, or family structures — where harm was prolonged, procedural, and unavoidable.

In those cases, the nervous system doesn’t look for comfort.
It looks for control of variables.

That’s why telling trauma survivors to “just get out more,” “travel,” “have fun,” or “stop living in fear” doesn’t help.

To the nervous system, expansion without safety feels like walking into traffic without brakes.

What looks like withdrawal is often intelligence.
What looks like avoidance is often adaptation.
What looks like a small life is often a protected one.

And until society understands this, trauma survivors will continue to be pressured to perform normalcy instead of being allowed to restore safety at their own pace.

Healing doesn’t start with participation.
It starts with stability.

From Carey Ann George
Trauma Expert & Independent Investigator On Family Court Corruption & Failures

04/02/2026

In 1973, eight perfectly healthy people walked into psychiatric hospitals across the United States.
None of them were ill.
No one inside realized it. 🧠
This was not an accident.
It was an experiment designed by psychologist David Rosenhan to answer a disturbing question.
Can professionals reliably tell the difference between mental health and mental illness?
To find out, Rosenhan recruited eight ordinary people. A painter. A housewife. A pediatrician. A graduate student.
They lied about only one thing. They said they heard voices. Just three words. “Empty.” “Hollow.” “Thud.”
That was enough.
All eight were admitted.
The moment they entered the hospitals, they stopped pretending. They behaved normally. They cooperated. They asked to be discharged. 🚪
It never worked.
Every normal action was reinterpreted as a symptom.
Writing notes became obsessive behavior.
Waiting quietly became pathological attention seeking.
Politeness became controlled behavior consistent with illness.
Seven were diagnosed with schizophrenia.
One with manic depression.
Not a single staff member identified them as healthy.
But the patients did.
Real patients approached them and whispered, “You’re not like the others. You don’t belong here.”
Those considered ill saw what trained professionals could not.
The average stay was 19 days.
One person remained hospitalized for 52 days. ⏳
Each day reinforced the same truth. Once labeled, reality stopped mattering.
When Rosenhan published On Being Sane in Insane Places, the psychiatric world erupted. One hospital challenged him to send new pseudopatients, confident they would catch them.
Rosenhan agreed.
Over the next months, that hospital identified 41 supposed impostors.
Rosenhan had sent no one. Not a single person.
The conclusion was unavoidable.
Diagnosis was not always based on facts. It was shaped by context and expectation.
This experiment shattered blind trust in clinical labels and forced major changes in how mental illness is diagnosed and treated. But its deeper lesson still unsettles today.
Perception can distort reality more than madness itself.
And sometimes, the most dangerous illusion belongs to those who believe they cannot be wrong.

01/02/2026

Therapy and social media culture encourages "no-contact" as self-care, framing normal conflicts as toxic without abuse. Social media amplifies victim narratives, normalizing estrangement as empowerment amid declining kin support . Result: Parents face rejection despite non-abusive intent.
1 in 4 parents are being cancelled and not all of those parents are toxic or abusive.
Cancel culture is being used to destroy the family unit too.

04/01/2026

03/01/2026

We here a lot about forgiveness and turning over a new leaf with the New Year.
We are told to 'Forgive this' and ' forgive that person or act' and if we don't then we are the ones that suffer....blah blah blah... Here's my take on that:

When forgiveness is weaponized, it stops being a pathway to healing and becomes a tool of control. Instead of allowing space for truth, accountability, and repair, forgiveness is demanded prematurely — often before harm is even acknowledged. In these situations, the focus shifts away from what happened and onto how quickly the victim can “let it go.” This isn’t spiritual maturity; it’s emotional bypassing.
One of the most damaging aspects is how accountability is reframed as bitterness. When a survivor asks for responsibility, change, or safety, they are accused of being unforgiving, divisive, or stuck in the past. This tactic protects the person who caused harm while isolating the person who was hurt. Over time, victims learn that speaking honestly costs them community, while silence keeps them accepted.
Scripture is often used to rush a process that cannot be rushed. Verses about forgiveness are quoted without context, while passages about repentance, restitution, and fruit worthy of change are ignored. Apologies are replaced with spiritual language, and reconciliation is pushed without evidence of transformed behaviour. What is presented as grace is actually avoidance — avoidance of discomfort, confrontation, and responsibility.
The psychological impact is heavy. Victims begin to doubt their own pain, wondering if they are sinful for still hurting. Boundaries feel selfish. Anger feels dangerous. The nervous system remains stuck because safety was never restored. Forgiveness, when forced, doesn’t bring peace — it deepens confusion and self-blame.
The hard truth is this: forgiveness without accountability does not heal relationships, protect victims, or reflect justice. It preserves systems that benefit from silence and resets harm instead of ending it. True forgiveness is a personal process, not a public performance. And it was never meant to replace accountability — it was meant to follow truth, not erase it.

18/10/2025

Your body is a blessing 🙌