The Healing Times Blog

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.

5 Signs You're Ready for a Career Change Into Holistic Health

5 Signs You're Ready for a Career Change Into Holistic Health

The signs of a career change rarely arrive all at once. If your work has started to feel hollow, misaligned, or like it no longer belongs to you - this post is for you. Here are five signs you might be ready to make the move into holistic health.

A holistic counsellor smiling warmly while seated in a light-filled therapy room with indoor plants, engaged in a counselling session with clients.

What does a Holistic Counsellor actually do?

Holistic counselling works with the whole person; mind, body, emotions and spirit. It doesn't isolate a single symptom or behaviour. Instead it looks at the full picture of your life, the patterns beneath the surface, and the connections between how you think, feel, and experience the world physically.

If you've ever left a counselling session feeling like something important wasn't quite reached, holistic counselling offers a different way in.

How to Manage Stress Naturally

How to Manage Stress Naturally

Stress rarely arrives all at once. It builds slowly until tension starts to feel normal. Here are five evidence-informed, natural approaches to bring your nervous system back to a place of genuine rest.

What is Numerology?

What is Numerology?

What if the numbers connected to your birth date and name weren't random? Numerology is one of the oldest systems of self-understanding in the world, and this introduction covers where it came from, how it works, and what your core numbers actually mean.

A cluster of raw healing crystals including clear quartz, citrine and green stones arranged on a white surface in natural light

Beginner's Guide to Crystal Healing

Curious about crystal healing but not sure where to start? This beginner's guide explores the history of the practice, how crystals connect to the chakra system, and simple ways to begin working with them in your everyday life.

Art As Therapy

Art As Therapy

There are things inside us that words simply can't hold. Grief that sits too deep to explain. Anxiety that has no clear origin. Trauma that lives in the body long before it makes it to the tongue. Art therapy sits at the intersection of psychology and creativity, and it's a lot more powerful than most people realise.

What is Holistic Health and Why Are So Many People Turning to It?

What is Holistic Health and Why Are So Many People Turning to It?

There's a quiet shift happening in the way Australians think about their health, and it goes far beyond diet and exercise. Holistic health looks at the whole person: mind, body, emotions, and spirit. In a wellness market growing everyday, more people than ever are seeking deeper, more personalised approaches to wellbeing.

In this beginner's guide, we explore what holistic health actually means, why so many people are turning to it, and what a career in this rapidly expanding field can look like.

What's New at Health & Harmony?

What's New at Health & Harmony?

From the return of The Healing Times newsletter to premium printed certificates and smarter course management tools, there's a lot that's new at Health & Harmony. Here's a look at everything we've been working on for you.