VIDEO: Learn to Self Soothe naturally to avoid Secondary Issues

Jan Normanton • July 21, 2023

If we can self regulate, self soothe, all the better; and that can be through any number of ways - through belly breathing, deep breathing, through sports, nature, through natural means.


This means we don’t have secondary issues going on, say from a tendency to self soothe through food for instance and then we have weight gain to deal with and then we have the health issues to deal with. 

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