fact or fiction
Is it a fact or is it merely fiction? Fact or Fiction explores the lesser known truths in the health and wellness world of Longevity.
False Sunflower Insists on Uncovering Your Hidden Truth
Welcome to the September 1st edition of my Monday Morning Huddle. Today's message comes from the False Sunflower. For those unfamiliar, my huddle has absolutely nothing to do with work, but instead focuses on nature paired with spiritual notes, channelled and delivered by yours truly.
By Marilyn Glover6 months ago in Longevity
How to Be a Calm in the Storm: Recognising a Panic Attack in Public and Offering Help
You’re in a queue at the supermarket, waiting for a train, or simply walking through a park. Suddenly, the person next to you seems to be in profound distress. They might be clutching their chest, breathing rapidly, or looking around with sheer terror in their eyes. Your first instinct might be concern, but it’s often followed by uncertainty. What’s happening? Is it a medical emergency? What should I do?
By Epic Vibes6 months ago in Longevity
Understanding the Posterior Annular Tear: Your Path to Pain Relief and Healing
If you’ve ever felt a sharp, persistent pain in your lower back, perhaps shooting down your leg, you know how debilitating it can be. It can turn simple tasks like tying your shoes or getting out of a car into monumental challenges. Often, this kind of pain is brushed off as a simple "bad back," but sometimes, the culprit is something more specific: a posterior annular tear.
By Epic Vibes6 months ago in Longevity
Eyes Soft, Mind Soft: Relaxing the Gaze to Enter Presence
In a world where our eyes are constantly overloaded with screens, advertisements, and rapid movement, it’s easy to forget that vision is not only a way of seeing but also a way of being. The way we use our eyes shapes our nervous system, our emotional state, and even our patterns of thought. Most of us go through life with a “hard gaze”—focused, narrow, and tense—because we’re trained to seek, consume, and analyze.
By Victoria Marse6 months ago in Longevity
From Numbness to Noticing: Reawakening the Body’s Forgotten Signals
In modern life, many of us walk around half-present, not because we want to but because we’ve unconsciously tuned out our bodies. Hours in front of screens, endless mental chatter, and stress that never fully releases can lead to a quiet numbing of sensation. We still breathe, we still move, but we stop feeling. Subtle messages from the body—tightness in the chest, heaviness in the stomach, restlessness in the hands—fade into background static. Over time, this disconnection can create fatigue, irritability, and even a sense of being a stranger inside our own skin.
By Black Mark6 months ago in Longevity
The Weight We Carry: Noticing Subtle Tensions of Daily Life
We often think of stress as something dramatic — a pounding heart before a presentation, an all-nighter fueled by caffeine, or the surge of panic when deadlines collide. Yet for most of us, the real burden of stress is quieter. It hides in the body like a shadow: the jaw that stays clenched even when no one is arguing, the shoulders that inch upward throughout the day, the belly that never fully relaxes. These subtle tensions accumulate silently, becoming the weight we carry through ordinary life.
By Marina Gomez6 months ago in Longevity
Listening to Silence Within: Nervous System Regulation Through Stillness
In the noise of modern life, silence is often dismissed as emptiness, as absence, as nothing of value. Yet those who practice meditation know that silence is not an absence at all — it is a presence. It is the quiet hum beneath the chaos, a rhythm of the nervous system that can guide us back to balance when overstimulation becomes the norm.
By Victoria Marse6 months ago in Longevity
