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.

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.

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

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.

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

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

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.

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

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 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.