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Rewiring Your Wellness Blog
A Growing Resource for Community, Connection & Inspiration
Welcome! We are blessed to have so many talented writers and retrainers here whom are so generously sharing their insights, stories and inspirations with us. Below you will find the the themes that our writers have posted their series of posts on. Within each them are 2-4 posts on that topic. ENJOY!
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Dear Candy: Q & A
Q: Can you address how to decrease rushing? Or incrementally train on it? A: Rushing is a part of your nervous system being stuck in...
Candy Widdifield
Jun 14, 20216 min read
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Hiking My Way to Freedom
I have always enjoyed being in nature, but I did not recognize the healing qualities of it until the past few years. There is something...
Susan McCormick Winslow
Jun 10, 20214 min read
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Exploring Emotions through Art
Art is amazingly therapeutic and healing, providing a tactility and tangibility to the mysteries of the psych and the depth of experiences.
Alina Bachmann
Jun 9, 20213 min read
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Dear Candy Q & A: Taking Stock
There's a soup company on Granville Island in Vancouver, BC called The Stock Market. The first time I saw their sign I laughed and...
Candy Widdifield
Jun 7, 20212 min read
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Singing for Healing
The act of singing has many health benefits, because it activates the parasympathetic nervous system through vagus nerve stimulation.
Alina Bachmann
May 26, 20214 min read
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Dear Candy Q & A: Pacing
Pacing is an important aspect to recovery, and yet often a challenging one. How do we find that middle ground between doing too much or...
Candy Widdifield
May 10, 20214 min read
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The Power of Dopamine Dressing
We can prompt shifts in our mental/emotional states through visual tools, including the clothing we choose to wear.
Alina Bachmann
Apr 28, 20215 min read
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The Flowering of a Beautiful Brain
"A thing of beauty is a joy forever" John Keats, from Edymion, Book I It is remarkable to experience how rewiring can turn your brain...
Verónica R. Blanco
Apr 16, 20213 min read
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Dear Candy Q & A - Core Beliefs
Q: Where in your opinion do core beliefs about being unlovable, unworthy, not good enough, or cast aside by others come from? Do they...
Candy Widdifield
Apr 12, 20215 min read
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Dear Candy Q & A - Tips & tools for those new to rewiring
1) Be clear on the underlying principles of what you are doing. Neuro-rehabilitation, or brain retraining, regardless of what program or...
Candy Widdifield
Apr 6, 20213 min read
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Create Rainbows after the Storm
I transformed an off-limits space literally with rainbows to build new associations and cultivate more joy + neuroplasticity!
Alina Bachmann
Mar 31, 20214 min read
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Dear Candy Q & A - Triggers for Rounds, Decreasing Adrenalin, & Morning Routine
Q: Can you review what we are to use as triggers for rounds? A: There a many different ways to trigger yourself before retraining your...
Candy Widdifield
Mar 30, 20215 min read
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Dear Candy Q & A - Your Nervous System
The nervous system plays a key role in our wellbeing. More research is coming out about how our nervous system impacts our experience of...
Candy Widdifield
Mar 22, 20214 min read
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True Self vs. False Identity Orientation
Part 1- Who You Are Not… We often hear the phrase “Become Your True Self” to heal your body-- but we are often resistant to change. Why...
Cathleen King
Mar 17, 20219 min read
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My Journey with the Birds
My Journey with the Birds I had never been a fan of birds and did not understand why people would have them as pets. They seemed two...
Susan McCormick Winslow
Mar 11, 20213 min read
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Reprocessing Phobias through Photography
Photography is a great tool for shifting or capturing a different perspective. It can be an enhancer of new thought or shifts in experience.
Alina Bachmann
Mar 10, 20214 min read
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Dear Candy Q & A - Expressive Writing
Expressive writing has been studied since the 1970's when Dr James Pennebaker used this method to see if there were any reported benefits...
Candy Widdifield
Mar 8, 20213 min read
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Dear Candy Q & A - Forgiveness (Part 2)
Remember that what we don't forgive we hold as something that is an ongoing threat to us in our nervous system. One of our life tasks is...
Candy Widdifield
Mar 1, 20213 min read
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Dear Candy Q & A - Forgiveness (Part 1)
I had the opportunity last month to attend a medical summit on resolving chronic pain. The underlying message from all of the doctors,...
Candy Widdifield
Feb 22, 20213 min read
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Dear Candy Q & A - Growth Mindset
Adopting a growth mindset can be very helpful as we engage in rewiring the brain. There is ample research that shows the view we adopt...
Candy Widdifield
Feb 15, 20213 min read
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