Heart disease symptoms – early detection and stress management

by Fi Jamieson Folland | Apr 11, 2026 | Articles, Conscious Living, Spirit/Mind

There is something about the word heart that carries both biology and emotion in the same breath. It is the organ that keeps us alive, tirelessly beating more than one hundred thousand times every single day – plus it’s the symbolic centre of love, grief, courage, and...

Chronic stress and heart health – somatic practices for relief

by Fi Jamieson Folland | Mar 13, 2026 | Articles, Conscious Living, Spirit/Mind

There’s something I want to share with you before we talk about techniques, science or daily habits, because this topic is deeply personal to me. When I was twenty-one years old, my father died suddenly from a heart attack at the age of fifty. It happened...

Managing stress and heart disease – HRV monitoring basics

by Fi Jamieson Folland | Feb 12, 2026 | Articles, Conscious Living, Spirit/Mind

Stress and heart disease are often spoken about in the same breath, yet rarely do we slow the conversation down enough to understand how stress actually imprints itself onto the heart in measurable, reversible, and deeply personal ways, because stress is not just...

The reason practicing gratitude for better heart health is a game changer

by Fi Jamieson Folland | Oct 25, 2025 | Articles, Conscious Living, Spirit/Mind

When we talk about heart health, most people immediately think about cholesterol levels, blood pressure numbers, or whether they’re hitting their 10,000 steps a day, and of course whilst all of those things matter enormously, what I’ve found in both my personal...

How can fasting help me?

by Fi Jamieson Folland | Jul 8, 2022 | Articles, Conscious Living, Spirit/Mind

This is one of those questions that’s best suited to our own personal cellular fingerprint, as each of us are unique when it comes to our health needs. It really is simply like anything else… …because one approach might work for me, it doesn’t necessarily mean that it...

Can failure be a teacher?

by Fi Jamieson Folland | Feb 10, 2022 | Articles, Conscious Living, Spirit/Mind

What if failure isn’t?  Yes. It is a bit cryptic. It’s meant to be.  What if those times that we feel like we’ve flunked, we haven’t?  What if what’s happened is simply a big nudge for making an improvement on what we’ve been doing up until now? I...