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Taha Tinana Physical health
10 articlesLiving with Concussion
Eight concussions over thirty years. What actually happens in your brain, why the neck matters, and what I learned the hard way about recovery. The most important article on this site.
Read moreTBI and Women's Hormones
After eight concussions and years living with adenomyosis and PMDD, I discovered how TBI can disrupt the pituitary gland, throwing hormones off balance and intensifying women's health conditions.
Read moreSleep Hygiene
Sleep is essential to living a good, happy life, and one of the first things concussion disrupts. There's a lot you can do to improve sleep quality. Here's what actually made a difference for me.
Read moreNutrition
Everything you eat becomes part of you, even temporarily. What you consume has a direct relationship to how you feel and interpret the world, especially with a recovering brain.
Read moreExercise
I've been into sports and fitness all my life, until my concussion changed that significantly. How I rebuilt the habit without aggravating my injury, and why gentle movement matters.
Read moreBreath
The power of your breath is so underrated. An important, powerful tool to harness. Here are a few different breathing patterns to practise, simple, free, and always available.
Read moreThe Vagus Nerve
Learning about the vagus nerve was a revelation. Once you understand the systems that regulate stress, sleep, and trauma in your body, you start to see why and how things can shift.
Read moreCraniosacral Therapy
CST helps connect and align the signals between your cranium and sacrum. A gentle, hands-on therapy that works with the body's natural rhythms, and one I keep coming back to.
Read morePhysio, Chiro and Osteo
Physical therapists can be incredibly helpful for working out injuries, kinks, and tension. As someone who carries a lot of pain, they've all had a part to play in my rehab.
Read moreAcupuncture
A traditional Chinese health treatment to unblock qi, your life force, and reduce pain and dis-ease. What I found most surprising is how much it helped with brain fog.
Read moreTaha Hinengaro Mental and emotional health
12 articlesGrief and Identity
Losing who you were is one of the least talked about and most devastating parts of serious concussion recovery. This is about the grief that comes with it, and what rebuilding actually looks like.
Read moreLiving with Anxiety
For a long time I denied I had anxiety, until I hit a wall. What anxiety actually is, how to interrupt it including the T.I.P technique, and how to live with it as a signal rather than a threat.
Read moreUnderstanding Your Emotions
Emotions are not good or bad. They are signals. How to use the emotion wheel, why there are no bad emotions, and why anger is sometimes exactly the right response.
Read moreThe Inner Critic and Affirmations
How you talk to yourself matters enormously. A DBT exercise for meeting your inner critic, building your compassionate self, and using affirmations to rewire the voice in your head.
Read moreTalk Therapy
I'm all for asking for help. An overview of CBT, ACT, and EMDR from personal experience: what each one offered, how they differ, and how to find the right fit.
Read moreMeditation
The biggest game changer for me. A chance to connect mind, body, and soul. I start every day with a meditation to set the tone. Here's how to build a practice that actually sticks.
Read moreJournaling
I've been an inconsistent journaller, but I've found a five-minute routine that actually sticks. It's making a huge difference to getting off to sleep and waking up clearer.
Read moreGratitude
Not just a buzzword. There is real science behind how a regular gratitude practice rewires the brain toward the positive. Here are the approaches that actually work for me.
Read moreBoundaries
Questions to help you think through your boundaries so you can live within your limits. Understanding what you are responsible for, and what you are not, changed everything for me.
Read moreSparketypes
A framework for understanding what genuinely drives you at your core. Especially useful in a recovery identity crisis. Since finding my Sparketype I've let go of doing all the things I don't love.
Read moreYoga
Getting your body moving after an injury isn't always easy. After years of football and bush walks, I found yoga helped me rebuild gently when heart rate regulation was still a challenge.
Read moreWhat's Bothering You?
Sometimes life is so overwhelming it's hard to figure out what the actual problem is. Tools for when you're stuck in the fog and can't name what's wrong — now folded into the anxiety article.
Read moreTaha Wairua Spiritual health
8 articlesSpirituality in Recovery
Not about religion. About connecting to something greater than yourself, whatever form that takes. Why it matters in recovery, and how to find your own version of it.
Read moreDiscovering Your Values
Our values guide our decisions and actions throughout life. Hold them lightly or tightly, but first know what they are. Three interactive tools to help you find yours.
Read moreThe How Questions
Four questions that go somewhere most questions don't. How do I want to feel? How do I want to show up? How do I want to be remembered? How do I want to live?
Read moreSoul Signs
Based on Rosemary Altea's book, the premise that our soul has certain traits constant across lifetimes. A way to understand who you are at a soul level, with five energy groups.
Read moreNumerology and Life Paths
Not an expert, just someone who found it useful. The map analogy, nine-year cycles, and what your birth date might tell you about the themes running through your life.
Read moreThe Culture Iceberg
What lies beneath our actions? We judge others by their behaviour and ourselves by our intent. Understanding the hidden layers below the waterline changes how you see yourself and others.
Read moreThe Chakras
An ancient map of the body's energy centres, each linked to specific emotions, organs, and ways of being. A plain-language guide to all seven, and what they mean for recovery.
Read moreMeaning and Purpose
Finding meaning in what happened is one of the most distinctly spiritual tasks in recovery. Why post-traumatic growth is real, and how the wound and the gift can turn out to be the same thing.
Read moreTaha Whānau Social health
3 articlesCommunicating Your Injury
Getting people to understand concussion is genuinely hard. What you can and cannot control, why communicating your needs matters more than making people understand, and how to ask for help.
Read moreRelationships Under Pressure
A brain injury doesn't happen to one person. What it does to partnerships, friendships, and family dynamics, and why self-awareness from both sides is the most important thing you can cultivate.
Read moreYour Social World
I went from being super vibrant and social to not being able to be in a cafe. How social capacity shrinks, the introvert and extrovert difference, and how to rebuild on your own terms.
Read moreTaha Whenua Connection to land
3 articlesGrounding and Earthing
Skin to earth. Grounding is one of the simplest nervous system practices available. Bare feet on grass, hands in soil, and the science of why direct contact with the earth actually matters.
Read moreForest Bathing
Shinrin-yoku is not hiking. It is slow, deliberate time in the forest using all your senses. Cortisol drops, the nervous system shifts, and the immune system responds. Here's the research.
Read moreOcean Swimming and Wild Water
I never liked cold water until an anxiety class changed everything. The dive reflex, vagus nerve activation, and why the ocean has become both a nervous system reset and a metaphor for life.
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