Dianna Moroney's Courses

The Nourish Your Nervous System online course was born out of a need for peace. Becoming more aware of unhelpful thoughts, past conditioned thought patterns and habitual internal reactions, increasing physical and muscular tension, back pain, facial tension and a persistent feeling of being on edge, hyper-alert, can’t quite relax as I might have to jump up any second as a mother to two young children, I decided that I didn’t want to be this way anymore.

Over years I intermittently sought relief for my discomforts – massage, chiropractic, osteopathy, physio, energy healing. All these modalities played their own role in helping, but nothing helped to relieve my tension, discomfort, even physical pain at times, for too long.

I would always return to my usual way of life, primary carer of two young children, must be on top of everything, feeling like life is a struggle in my own mind- yes my way of thinking. Eventually I realised that no one modality/practitioner, no matter how expert and knowledgeable they were, had the solution. I needed to change in each moment. The way I thought, what I did, how I responded and reacted to stimuli (life).

The only constant in my life was me. My thoughts, my attitudes, my personality, the way I interpreted life around me. If I wanted to feel different I was the only one with me all the time, it was up to me to change how I was feeling. To first notice my thoughts and out of my own curiosity, to understand why I thought that way. Conditioning. Unconscious programming. I could become more conscious about what I was thinking, how I perceived my life and how I responded.

When I noticed a stress reaction, feel my muscles tense up and catch my self wishing for this point in time to be other than what it was, I could consciously intervene and choose to respond differently. I trained myself to connect in with my physical body, to consciously release physical tension, and change my train of conditioned negative, helpless, frustrated thoughts to observe the moment as purely as I could without an added overlay of unnecessary stress. This was key to reducing stress in my body and changing how I was feeling. No amount of massages or physical therapies would change my conscious awareness on a day to day, moment to moment basis, this was up to me. And this is where true change exists.

I was gradually decreasing the amount of time that I was living in the fight or flight response of stress. Slowly, the physical tension reduced, I spent less time feeling helpless and trying to figure out who could help me or what the problem was. I helped myself, every time I needed it.

In order to connect with my deeper self, this was much easier to do when I was less clouded by stress, reactivity and hyper-alertness. Hence the importance and value of a Nourishing Nervous System Practice. A Nourishing Nervous System Practice incorporates stress reducing practices that reduce stress hormones in the body and allow you to see and feel more clearly. Here I could easily access my deeper self, what I was truly feeling, needing, or to simply just be.

A Nourishing Nervous System Practice also puts a halt to the drain on the nervous system that adrenaline and cortisol can lead to. You may even enter the Relaxation Response, a restorative physical state to be in that supports recovery from stress.

I organically began to create this course, as I could see how stress was and is affecting many of us in the way we live today. I believe that these ideas, practices and methods can really help people. Not only with stress reduction, but also to support you to connect with your deeper self, your true inner self, where your wisdom lies, and can be a guide for one’s own life, a connection with your intuition. To support you to consciously begin to reduce stress, check in with your life and help yourself. To understand the value of a Nourishing Nervous System Practice, what this is and how to create one for yourself.

With my background in Naturopathy, I incorporated the Nutrition aspect to nourish the nervous system. I have included information on the key critical nutrients required for the body to produce hormones, process stress and calm the nervous system, which can all impact on how one feels. Our physical bodies require nutrition to survive and thrive, and people are at varying levels of understanding of what their bodies need nutritionally, so with a basic understanding this can make a difference for a lot of people.

I have learnt in person from the leading expert in adrenal fatigue, the 21^st century stress syndrome, Dr. James L. Wilson. I have worked with many clients in my clinical practice over the years to support their recovery from adrenal fatigue, a condition that chronic stress can lead to.

I have studied meditation, Buddhism, yoga, breath-work. I am a certified coach. I have invested many hours in studying the scientific literature to find methods that have been observed to reduce stress hormones.

To know your true self, to live your life on purpose, to give yourself the best chance of living in the present- the only time life is happening; to connect in with your body, to bring your mind home, to feel the vibration of life, the living energy that is within you all of the time but can become overlaid with stress and distraction; this is what I wish for you. When you are ready, you will find your way.