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Rewiring Your Wellness Blog
A Growing Resource for Community, Connection & Inspiration
Welcome! We are blessed to have so many talented writers and retrainers here whom are so generously sharing their insights, stories and inspirations with us. Below you will find the the themes that our writers have posted their series of posts on. Within each them are 2-4 posts on that topic. ENJOY!
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Dear Candy Q & A : Resilience
I was listening to a podcast the other day where a very successful coach was being interviewed about how he helps his players really...
Candy Widdifield
May 31, 20213 min read
Dear Candy Q & A: Creating Quality of Life
A number of my coaching conversations recently have centered around creating a better quality of life despite one's current state or...
Candy Widdifield
May 24, 20213 min read
Dear Candy Q & A: When to consider adding in other modalities
I have had a lot of retrainers questioning and wondering if there is a time and a place to consider adding in other modalities to support...
Candy Widdifield
May 17, 20212 min read
Dear Candy Q & A: Pacing
Pacing is an important aspect to recovery, and yet often a challenging one. How do we find that middle ground between doing too much or...
Candy Widdifield
May 10, 20214 min read
Dear Candy Q & A: Feeling the zest in life without the CAN chemistry
Q: The main thing (I experience) is still feeling that burnt/fried/overstimulated feeling and it coming on without much warning in a way....
Candy Widdifield
May 3, 20214 min read
Dear Candy Q & A: Emotional Releases & Dissociation
Q: I was wondering if you had any thoughts on emotional release of trauma vs negating it and always keeping in the positive to break that...
Candy Widdifield
Apr 19, 20213 min read
Dear Candy Q & A - Core Beliefs
Q: Where in your opinion do core beliefs about being unlovable, unworthy, not good enough, or cast aside by others come from? Do they...
Candy Widdifield
Apr 12, 20215 min read
Dear Candy Q & A - Tips & tools for those new to rewiring
1) Be clear on the underlying principles of what you are doing. Neuro-rehabilitation, or brain retraining, regardless of what program or...
Candy Widdifield
Apr 6, 20213 min read
Dear Candy Q & A - Triggers for Rounds, Decreasing Adrenalin, & Morning Routine
Q: Can you review what we are to use as triggers for rounds? A: There a many different ways to trigger yourself before retraining your...
Candy Widdifield
Mar 30, 20215 min read
Dear Candy Q & A - Your Nervous System
The nervous system plays a key role in our wellbeing. More research is coming out about how our nervous system impacts our experience of...
Candy Widdifield
Mar 22, 20214 min read
Dear Candy Q & A - Expressive Writing
Expressive writing has been studied since the 1970's when Dr James Pennebaker used this method to see if there were any reported benefits...
Candy Widdifield
Mar 8, 20213 min read
Dear Candy Q & A - Forgiveness (Part 2)
Remember that what we don't forgive we hold as something that is an ongoing threat to us in our nervous system. One of our life tasks is...
Candy Widdifield
Mar 1, 20213 min read
Dear Candy Q & A - Forgiveness (Part 1)
I had the opportunity last month to attend a medical summit on resolving chronic pain. The underlying message from all of the doctors,...
Candy Widdifield
Feb 22, 20213 min read
Dear Candy Q & A - Growth Mindset
Adopting a growth mindset can be very helpful as we engage in rewiring the brain. There is ample research that shows the view we adopt...
Candy Widdifield
Feb 15, 20213 min read
Dear Candy Q&A - Over-efforting: Part 2
For some of you, you may have read my last post and asked, "How do I change my limbic system then? Aren't I supposed to be stopping my...
Candy Widdifield
Feb 8, 20213 min read
Dear Candy Q & A - Over-efforting & Frustration
Is it possible to be doing too much of the right things? Is our attitude and relationship to all we are doing to rewire just as important...
Candy Widdifield
Feb 1, 20213 min read
Dear Candy Q&A - What to do when you hit a wall
Today's post is about how to move forward and overcome resistance when it feels like you've hit a wall with retraining. There are...
Candy Widdifield
Jan 25, 20213 min read
Dear Candy Q & A - Complementary Modalities
Today's question: What brain-rewiring-friendly complementary modalities can be used during retraining? A: First off, for those who are...
Candy Widdifield
Jan 18, 20213 min read
Dear Candy Q & A
Q: Can you speak to the use of mind body exercises while rewiring/working with limbic system impairment? For example yoga nidra, body...
Candy Widdifield
Jan 11, 20214 min read
Dear Candy - Looking for the silver lining or deeper meaning in our experiences
Today's blog isn't so much about a question as it is about something I wish to share with you. When we have difficult experiences, it is...
Candy Widdifield
Dec 28, 20203 min read
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