3: How water helps to calm your mind and body with Dr Catherine Kelly

"It's you and the water - this is a place for you to be yourself"

This week’s episode is with Dr Catherine Kelly. Dr Catherine Kelly is an academic, Brighton wellbeing practitioner & mother. She is the author of Blue Spaces: How and Why Water Can Make You Feel Better.

Kate and Catherine talk about:

• How she found the water through grief and how her life has been impacted by water. 
• The differences between green nature and blue space and how it helps our wellbeing. 
• The need for humans to be close to the water, the mindfulness of cold water swimming and the stimulation of the vagus nerve through coldwater swimming
• How cold water can help with a lot of different health issues including depression, anxiety, low mood, menopause, hormones and energy
• The power of breathwork, meditation and gratitude and how they can help ADHD
• The Japanese phrase 'living water', which is the naturally calming and healing powers of water. 

Connect with Dr Catherine Kelly via her Instagram.

Listen to Kate's previous episode on wild swimming over on the Ambitious Mum Podcast with Author and Photographer Anna Deacon look for "Ep4 Discovering the healing powers of swimming wild"

Kate Moryoussef is a women’s ADHD Lifestyle & Wellbeing coach and EFT practitioner helping overwhelmed yet unfulfilled (many with ADHD like her) women find more calm, balance, health, compassion, creativity and clarity in their lives. By using Emotional Freedom Technique (EFT/tapping) in her coaching practice, Kate guides more women to rediscover their inner voice, 'tap' into their expansive wisdom and potential, fulfil their desires and realise themselves outside of the overwhelm, inner pressure and family dynamic. She is also a mum to four children and hopes to write her own book someday!

To download Kate’s free ADHD Women’s Wellbeing toolkit click here. 

Have a read of Kate’s articles in ADDitude magazine here

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