The Healing Times Blog

September Student of the Month: Sharon Le Fort

September Student of the Month: Sharon Le Fort

Sharon Le Fort has spent years learning how to live beyond survival, and now she helps others do the same. Speaker, author, advocate and Peer Practice Lead, Sharon shares how her studies in counselling, grief and bereavement, and intuitive spiritual healing gave language to what she had lived and shaped her framework, Survival Intelligence.
Your Brain Becomes What You Pay Attention To

Your Brain Becomes What You Pay Attention To

Why focus feels harder than it used to, what neuroplasticity means for your attention, and a five-minute noticing practice for people who can't sit still.
Feng Shui and the Five Elements: Reading Your Space for the Season Ahead

Feng Shui and the Five Elements: Reading Your Space for the Season Ahead

Feng shui gets reduced to "declutter and feel better," but the real system is older and more precise than that. Here's where it actually comes from, what the five elements mean, and one adjustment you can make to your entryway today.
August Student Of The Month: Fotini Koklas

August Student Of The Month: Fotini Koklas

Founder of Aethera Healing, intuitive guide, holistic counsellor. Meet Fotini, our August Student of the Month, and discover how the Master Holistic Counsellor Certification Course helped give her intuitive work a structure to grow from
Tapping and the Vagus Nerve: How EFT Calms Fight-or-Flight

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)

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

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

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

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?

The Five Holistic Health Archetypes: Which one are you?

The Nurturer, the Healer, the Seeker, the Alchemist, the Creator. Five distinct ways of helping others heal, each with its own gifts and its own blind spots. See which one sounds like you then take the quiz to find out out for sure. 

June Student of the Month: Tanya Hempson

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.
May Student of the Month: Amanda Joyce

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.
Your Nervous System Was Never Designed for This Much Input

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.
Adults participating in a group art therapy session at a community centre, using creative expression to support emotional wellbeing and connection.

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.
From Learning to Earning: IICT Webinar with Health & Harmony

From Learning to Earning: IICT Webinar with Health & Harmony

Everything you missed from our live webinar with the International Institute for Complementary Therapists. Watch the recording, download the free eBook, and access your exclusive IICT membership discount.
April Student of the Month: Amne Mustapha

April Student of the Month: Amne Mustapha

Amne Mustapha came to our Art Therapy Practitioner course already deeply connected to art. What she didn't expect was how profoundly it would connect her to herself. This is her story.