The Healing Times Blog

Tapping and the Vagus Nerve: How EFT Calms Fight-or-Flight

When anxiety hits, your vagus nerve is what pulls you back to calm. Discover how EFT tapping works with your nervous system, what the research actually shows, and a simple 5-minute routine you can try today.

What Is a Shaman? A Beginner's Guide (Plus One Ritual You Can Try Today)

You've probably heard the word "shaman" somewhere in a film, on a wellness account, or the name of a retreat. But the real practice is older and more specific than most people realise. Here's what a shaman actually is, where the word comes from, and one simple ritual you can try today. 

How to Follow and Trust Your Intuition

That gut feeling before your mind catches up isn't random, it's intuition, and it's a skill you can strengthen. Here's how to tell real intuitive signals from anxiety, and simple daily habits to start trusting your inner voice again.

July Student of the Month: Nerissa Reynolds

Counsellor, interior designer, horse-centred guide, Nerissa Reynolds doesn't see these as separate jobs. Fresh from completing her Master Holistic Counsellor Certification, she shares how the course became one more thread in a life already devoted to helping people slow down and reconnect with themselves.

Hand Acupressure for People Who Type All Day

Been typing, reading, or clicking through course modules all day? Your hands have earned a break. This 5-minute desk acupressure routine walks through five simple pressure points, no oils, no equipment, just your own two hands and a few minutes to release the tension that builds up during a long day of study.

What Your Iris Colour Might Reveal About Your Constitution

No two irises are quite the same. Beyond colour, they carry a landscape of fibres, markings, and patterns that iridologists read as a map to your underlying constitution. Here's what blue, brown, green, and mixed eyes are traditionally believed to reveal, and how this ancient practice fits into a wider holistic picture.

What Is Flower Essence Therapy? A Beginner's Guide to Healing With Flowers

Long before Dr. Bach formalised it in the 1930s, flower essence therapy already had deep roots in plant wisdom. This beginner's guide explores what flower essences are, how the 38 Bach remedies work, and why this gentle, energetic practice is finding a new generation of practitioners.

The Five Holistic Health Archetypes: Which one are you?

June Student of the Month: Tanya Hempson

Meet Tanya, a graduate of our Art Therapy Practitioner Course, whose journey through colour, symbolism, and creative process became just as much about healing herself as learning to help others. Discover her story, her artwork, and what's next as she moves into clinical art therapy.

5 Benefits of Holistic Beauty Therapy

Beauty has always been treated as something you do to the outside of the body. But anyone who's had a stressful month show up on their skin already knows the truth: holistic beauty therapy looks much deeper than that.

What Is Herbal Medicine? A Beginner's Guide to How Plants Actually Heal

Plants were the first medicine. Long before clinical trials and pharmaceutical patents, healers across the ancient world were cataloguing the properties of plants and passing that knowledge down through generations. This post explores what herbal medicine is, how it works in the body, and what serious herbal study really involves.

Why Stress Gets Stuck in the Body

Most stress advice starts after the nervous system has already been running hot for months. This piece looks at what's actually happening in the body, the physiology behind chronic stress, why 'just relax' doesn't work, and what a trained Professional Stress Consultant does that goes deeper than standard coping tools.

May Student of the Month: Amanda Joyce

From nursing to numbers: meet Amanda, our May Student of the Month. What began as a one-year course became a three-year journey through some of life's harder turns, and a graduation she fought for. Here's how numerology helped her find her path, and why she's only just getting started.

What Is Intuitive Spiritual Healing? Plus a 30-second test to try

Intuitive spiritual healing is the practice of learning to truly listen to the signals your body, mind, and spirit are constantly sending. In this guide we walk you through what it involves, why so many people are drawn to it, and how you can take your first step today.

Your Nervous System Was Never Designed for This Much Input

Modern life was never designed to be this loud and your nervous system is feeling it. Meditation coach and counsellor Angie Hilton shares why so many people feel exhausted but unable to switch off, and the simple nervous system regulation practices that can help you find your way back to calm.

What Is Art Therapy and Who Is It For?

Discover what art therapy is, who it helps, and how creativity can become a meaningful career. Explore the healing power of art therapy and find your pathway with Health & Harmony.