Marisol worked as a support worker with different groups, such as people with learning disabilities, immigrants or drug-abusers, after she graduated as a Technical Expert in Social Integration. For several years she worked as general manager, this was perhaps her first training as a coach.
While she was doing the BA (Hons) in Sociology, she decided to turn her interest in human sexuality into a career. During her final year, she specialised in sexuality and gender. Her final project was titled Discovering Oneself: Heteronormativityand women's desire, which not only gave her access to a large amount of literature, but also to develop her own research. Later, she studied a MSc in Gender, Sexuality & Society. In this opportunity the dissertation was focused onThe Impact of Impotence on Male Identity.
She holds a diploma in Life Coaching, and has also completed different courses such as Sexuality and Its Disorders, or Social Mediator in Emotional andSexual Education in Spain.
In May 2010, she started the blog La Sexualidad de Lilith (Lilith's Sexuality), where expresses her ideas about gender and sexuality. The blog also contains a 'gallery of vulvas and penises' to vindicate the diversity and the beauty of genitalia. She collaborates sporadically with various Spanish news media, such as Periodico Diagonal or Una Buena Barba.
SUMMARY OF THERAPIES
Life Coaching
In coaching, you lead the process, and you decide the speed of the progress. You determine the outcomes, you decide how many sessions you want to take, and how often the sessions will take place.
Sex Coaching
Sex coaching is a way to share sex positivity and to celebrate our sexual energy. It offers a safe place to heal your pain, to reclaim your right to enjoy sex, and to recuperate sexual power.
Every year, World Health Day is celebrated on 7 April to mark the anniversary of the founding of WHO in 1948. Each year a theme is selected for World Health Day that highlights a priority area of concern for WHO. World Health Day is a global campaign, inviting everyone – from global leaders to the public in all countries – to focus on a single health challenge with global impact. Focusing on new and emerging health issues, World Health Day provides an opportunity to start collective action to protect people's health and well-being. The topic of World Health Day in 2012 is Ageing and health with the theme "Good health adds life to years". The focus is how good health throughout life can help older men and women lead full and productive lives and be a resource for their families and communities. Ageing concerns each and every one of us – whether young or old, male or female, rich or poor – no matter where we live.
Ageing and health - to which each and every one of us can relate - is the theme of this year's World Health Day. Using the slogan "Good health adds life to years", campaign activities and materials will focus on how good health throughout life can help older men and women lead full and productive lives and be a resource for their families and communities. Over the past century life expectancy has increased dramatically and the world will soon have more older people than children. This social transformation represents both challenges and opportunities. In particular, countries may only have a single generation to prepare their health and social systems for an ageing world.
The Global brief for World Health Day 2012 takes a fresh look at health data on ageing to help us better understand the needs of older people. Sections include key points, the demographics of ageing and the epidemiology of population ageing. The document also outlines four key actions that governments and societies can take now for healthier and more active ageing.
For more information visit the World Health Organization - http://www.who.int/mediacentre/news/releases/2012/whd_20120403/en/index.html
Throughout April it will be National Autism Awareness Month, a chance to highlight autism, a condition which is thought to affect a staggering 1 in 110 children.
The month was first established in the 1970s to keep the public informed about autism and how to help sufferers within the community.
The easiest way to mark this special month is to wear one of the Autism Society's Autism Awareness Puzzle Ribbons, showing your support.
By using websites such as facebook or twitter you can also update your status to raise awareness and spread the word.
By making a donation or volunteering to help out in your local area, you can really make a difference and shine a light on an issue which many people feel uncomfortable talking about.
Visit The National Autistic Society website to find out more information about how you can involved in National Autism Awareness Month.
There are lots of tips on how to raise money and awareness to help people with autism and aspergers, so why not get involved today and help out with a fantastic cause!
http://www.autism.org.uk/
To find out how The Therapy Room can help you with Autism for example through the use of Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT) please call us to book your free consultation. 01223 315400
Sleeping Less - you're not alone
Most modern sleep experts agree that the average amount of sleep Westerners get nowadays is significantly less than it was one hundred years ago. Prior to the invention of the electric light, around 1879, we probably spent nine to twelve hours a day in bed. The exact figure would have been a little higher in the winter and a little lower in the summer. Back in those days we were still obliged to synchronize our sleep/wake cycle (circadian rhythms) with the rise and fall of the sun much like we had for thousands of years. This is without considering those who have trouble getting to sleep or waking during the night.
Circadian rhythms are regular changes in mental and physical characteristics that occur in the course of a day (circadian is Latin for “around a day”). Most circadian rhythms are controlled by the body’s biological “clock.” This clock, called the suprachiasmatic nucleus or SCN, is actually a pair of pinhead-sized brain structures that together contain about 20,000 neurons. The SCN rests in a part of the brain called the hypothalamus, just above the point where the optic nerves cross. Light that reaches photoreceptors in the retina (a tissue at the back of the eye) creates signals that travel along the optic nerve to the SCN. This creates a release of all your awakening hormones for the day.
Signals from the SCN travel to several brain regions, including the pineal gland, which responds to light-induced signals by switching off production of the hormone melatonin. The body’s level of melatonin (and other repair and regeneration hormones) normally increases after darkness falls, making people feel drowsy. The SCN also governs functions that are synchronized with the sleep/wake cycle, including body temperature, hormone secretion, urine production, and changes in blood pressure.
Causes of Sleep Dysfunction:
1. Being Overweight: This creates the rib cage and the sternum to drop, putting more weight on the lungs. This increased pressure makes one breath more often and more shallow.
2. Sleep Apnea: One of the main causes of sleep apnea is serotonin deficiency. Studies using AA tryptophan and 5HTP have shown them to be helpful. Why? First, serotonin directly affects the lungs (my assumption is that is causing more of a parasympathetic response). Second, lots of O2 is required for serotonin production, so if physical obstructions block O2 flow, serotonin production is diminished. Third, if a pre-existing low-serotonin condition caused characteristic afternoon and evening carb craving, increased weight could easily result, contributing to obstructed breathing.
3. Drinking too much caffeine during the day: Caffeine has a half life of 6 hrs. So if you drink it later than noon, it is still coursing through your blood at 6pm.
4. Bright lights at night: TV, computer, etc all create a flickering light. This stimulates your body to release awakening hormones, secondary to the light. This can create difficulty falling asleep. As well, most people watch the news at night, which can be quite stressful.
5. Hormonal Imbalances: If you have adrenal gland problems, in the beginning stages you will be releasing more cortisol later in the day (when it should be going down). This will create disturbed sleep.
6. Sugar: Sugar inhibits your immune system, is a large stress to the body (which in turn makes the body release cortisol, which keeps you awake) as well as creates a roller coaster ride of insulin dips and spikes during the day. This can create highs and lows, which create highs and lows at night.
7. Dehydration: The first place the body steals water from when you are dehydrated is the central nervous system (brain and spinal cord) and colon. If the central nervous system looses water, one might feel anxious and wired.
8. Overthinking and worrying: For one, you are what you think! So if you can’t shut your mind off at night and it is still working, well the body will not shut off as well. Overthinking is typically a sign of not staying present with oneself and always focusing on the what was and what could be. Stillness is created with being present.
Tips:
3. Drink 1 cup of coffee in the morning with no sugar or sweetener. Do not drink any caffeine after 12 noon.
4. Eliminate bright lights one hour prior to bed.
5. Learn adaptive stress techniques (Qi gong, Tai Chi, etc) that you can adapt into your life, take time out during the day for you, start picking up some hobbies and remember time is something we create so we think we are in control! You could also consult with our mind body specialist at The TherapyRoom Cambridge
6. Eliminate all sugar!
7. Work up to drinking 0.033% of your weight in kgs in litres of water per day.
We all have a body and in most cases we can move. It has tremendous benefit, if we tune into what movement is right for us. It helps the heart work better, it helps to detoxify the body, it aids digestion, repair, it helps keep us moving!
Movement helps -
Breathing - If you are seated most of the day the tendency is to breath with your shoulders and chest predominately, and you will be getting only a fraction of the oxygen you need for your to cells to work optimally. Moving regularly can help your abdominal diaphragm (main muscle for breathing and stability) work better, which aids with digestion, detoxification, and blood flow.
The biological oscillators – Brain, heart, small intestine. These vital organs work like 3 pendulums, entraining each other and when all are in good order they work in synchronicity. Exercise helps to balance the use of the brain (working)with the pumping of the heart (moving), and the small intestine (digestion and breathing).
The pumps – pelvic floor, abdominal muscles, diaphragm. Exercise also helps to keep these 3 pumps working, allowing the flow of message down your spine and around our nervous system, stabilising and allowing intense heavy lifting, and helping with the control of elimination.
Types of exercise fall into two categories
Working in exercises - These help to redistribute energy from tight muscles, overactive organs to areas of low energy in the body. They help us feel energised and balanced. Examples of exercise that uses working in exercise - Yoga, slow walking, tai chi, qi gong, stretching. Use these type of exercises when you feel tired are stressed, and to aid digestion immediately after a meal.
Working out exercises - These are exercises that break the body down, in order that it can rebuild itself stronger to move more powerfully, quickly or efficiently. They include sporting activities, weight training, running, cycling.
If you overdo the working out exercises you will not feel the benefits of movement as I have discussed above, although you may look good, you won't feel that way.
Take time each morning to take your waking heart rate (whilst still in bed) for 1 week to get an average. If your waking heart rate is 5 or above its average on any day, only perform working in exercise on that day. By performing this simple daily check, you will get all the benefits and non of the pain of exercise.
Well, no we aren't - We are what we eat, digest, absorb, assimilate (make things), and don't excrete.
This may sound pedantic, but one of the most common problems are those associated with the Gut, and this is where most of these things occur (we assimilate once the food has gone through the gut wall, and passed through the liver, and into the blood stream).
The gut is designed to be a huge long protective, and absorptive organ, that keeps out the bad and absorbs only what is usable to the body (with the help of the liver). If at any stage along the gut there is a dysfunction, then no matter how good our diet is, it won't go to produce energy, rebuild, repair, or produce good function in our body.
Common symptoms of gut dysfunction, are-
Heartburn
rumbling tummy
bad breath
bloating
excess gas
burping
and many more.
My top tips for better Gut function are -
-Chew your food more than you think necessary
-Don't drink with your meal
-If you know a food irritates you even only in a small way (eg. a runny nose), eat it only 1 or 2 times per week.
-Pick food that grows in the ground or on trees, and limit those that have labels on their packaging that you can't understand!
-Dairy, and gluten containing grains are the most commonly reactive foods in the UK, and also the most popular!
For a free 15 min no obligation consultation - please call 01223 315400.
Damien Clements - Integrated Health Practitioner
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