It's All In Your Body
The debut non-fiction book "It's All In Your Body" is a 9 chapter guide to nurturing the mind-body connection for better physical and mental health.
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This page contains the interactive resources referenced in the book, which you are free to download and use for your own exploration.
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Resources
Practical activities and audios for each chapter can be downloaded here
Chapter 3
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Chapter 4
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Chapter 2
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Chapter 5
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Chapter 6
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Chapter 9
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Chapter 7
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Chapter 8
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Chapter 1
This activity is designed to help you identify different biological, psychological and social experiences that may have added to the demands or disruptions of your regulatory systems and nervous system. To make sense of how, read chapters 1 and 2.
You may also find this booklet helpful to explore biological, psychological and social influences of your health and emotional wellbeing and how they interact with each other.
Chapter 3
Use the symptom spiral framework (page 111) to capture three to five of your own examples from the past and from situations arising across the coming week or two.
at the end of the week, note the themes of thoughts, emotions, physical experiences and responses. consider these questions:
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What do you notice?
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What relationship do you notice between the different parts of your
spiral?
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Did noticing the spirals change your experience of it? How?
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Do you have any initial thoughts about what small changes you
might make to help you meet your goals (introduction)?
• You can download a worksheet at www.healthpsychologist.co.uk/ itsallinyourbody
Chapter 4
You can download the nervous system barometer chart, introduced in chapter 4 of It's All In Your Body. This is a foundational practice for 'biology balancing behaviour'.
Use this to build your interoceptive awareness to support your regulatory systems' ability to rebalance and come back to homeostasis.
You can download the nervous system informed pacing diary to track how you feel across a number of domains including mood, symptoms and your nervous system state. The diary is set up so that you can also track how this varies across activity and situations and patterns that may be occurring.
Page 164 introduces you to a practice to help retrain your attentional focus. You can download a booklet to practice this and observe what changes over time, here.
Chapter 5
Learning to feel your emotions - the good, the bad and the in-between - calmly is a skill you can improve. It takes practice and intentionality. There are a variety of practices you can try here.
This audio guides you through negotiating with resistant parts of yourself.
This audio guides you to savour
Chapter 6
You can download the worksheet to help you identify and create separation from thoughts that are upsetting or dysregulating. Use the information and guidance in chapter 6 of It's All In Your Body.
This workbook helps you apply the principles up retraining the mental habit of worry explored in chapter 6. It guides you through the process of spotting worry, categorising and responding to it.
Chapter 9
This workbook guides you through the exercise in chapter 9 of It's All In Your body of living aligned with your multidimensional values.
