From Hawaiian Lomi Lomi massage to Ayurvedic therapies in India, each culture has developed its own way of promoting balance and wellbeing.
Retreat to Recovery
Coming into a rehab can be a very confronting time
The Retreat NZ, one of the country’s only residential treatment centres solely for alcohol, has a programme with a difference.
I was sipping champagne at the Viaduct when the phone rang, interrupting the pretend lone celebration I was gushing to a restaurant manager about, at 9am.
Several years ago, my then partner (now wife) and I attended some couple’s counselling sessions, and for a few Christmases afterwards I made sure to send our therapist a card to let her know that we were still hanging in there.
Margarita Politis uses mind-based therapy to help women who are experiencing anxiety, post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD), emotional abuse, and trauma.