An Invitation to Reconnect

I want less!

Kia Porter — Sun, 05 Jul 2026 16:41:04 GMT

I have started to notice a pattern, after a holiday I find my creativity again, my flow, curiosity & life force and you may wonder how or why.

The answer is simple. My nervous system has space for it.

After 12 days in Northern Ibiza, which must I say was the most beautiful place, I returned feeling a sense of detachment.

Wanting less!

As a previous perfectionist, 100mph, chronically dysregulation women - my thoughts were that having more meant I would be “happy” and I had made it in life, but what I have come to realise after deep nervous system regulation and coming home to myself, more doesn’t give you that. I used to find myself chasing things like:

The next Zara or H&M order
The next trend on social media
A new phone case (lol one of my previous obsessions)!
Wanting to buy new home stuff
A bigger car
A new material item!

But you know the truth? I was miserable. I was deeply depressed, burnt out, emotionally disconnected, suppressed, shut down and overwhelmed.

How did that make sense? When I had all the things that many define as bringing happiness?

One thing I didn’t have was a connection with myself that I was enough.

After many revaluations on my holiday, I returned wanting less.

Less clutter
Less stuff
Less rush
Less small talk
Less negative energy
Less self-berating and criticism
Less absorbing
Less busy’ing
Less proving
Less needing!

And that’s not because I don’t care about my happiness, but because these things don’t make me happy anymore - in fact, they drain my energy, pull me down and dysregulate my nervous system.

Instead I want deeper.

Deeper connection, deeper meaning, deeper feeling.

More down time
More time to read
More grounding
More nourishment through food and good relationships
More abundance
More meaning
More meditation
More mooching
More balance
More protecting my energy

I want my life to feel peaceful, harmonious, aligned, and calm. The more I’ve let go of chasing external validation and constantly wanting more, the more I’ve discovered what genuinely makes me happy and who I really am.

And don’t get me wrong, I still love the luxuries that add joy to my life. But now I see them differently. They enhance what’s already there, rather than filling a void or making me feel like I’m missing something.

With love & health

Kia x

Why You Feel Overwhelmed, Tired and Inflamed

Kia Porter — Sat, 06 Jun 2026 05:58:55 GMT

How often do you sit and question why you just can’t seem to get on top of your health? You know what you “should” be doing. You know you should be eating better, moving your body more, getting to bed earlier, drinking more water and taking better care of yourself. You have all the information from social media and researching but somehow, you keep find…

The Best Medicine for your Nervous System!

Kia Porter — Tue, 12 May 2026 19:03:14 GMT

As someone who suffered terribly with a dysregulated nervous system until the age of 29, living constantly in overwhelm, snappy, irritable, emotionally disconnected, doom scrolling, procrastinating and shut down, I have found the power in learning to listen to my nervous system and hearing and seeing the signals as they start to creep up.

These for me look like;

Starting to lose my appetite, specifically at breakfast (a sign my cortisol is running high in the morning)
My heart rate increasing throughout the day for no ‘apparent’ reason
Losing my patience with very small insignificant things
Feeling like everyone is wanting something from me (even though they aren’t!)
Procrastinating, walking around my kitchen about 40 times aimlessly, but not actually getting on with anything useful
Flicking between tabs on my computer
Not wanting to talk to the people closest to me, and going reserved in my emotions

The goal is never to be regulated all the time, this would mean you have no resilience to deal with potentially tough things or situations in life ~ and on the flip side, this also doesn’t mean that you are not going to get knocked off your regulated stool every now and then too.

The perfect balance is knowing that you have a toolbox of regulation tools that you can lean on in those moments. It might not be straight away, but in first case, you can recognise how patterns are changing in your body and you are able to recognise them, even if that just means holding space for them to just be.

We have been led to believe on socials that we must take another supplement, buy a detox plan, get into the gym and push harder, but your nervous system doesn’t want more structure and discipline … it wants safety and security.

This can look like;

This is why you keep going back to old patterns and can't stick to change.

Kia Porter — Fri, 01 May 2026 19:41:52 GMT

When you think about making change, the first thing you get wrong is to assume that you need to overhaul and make a change to absolutely everything, your diet, exercise plan, morning routines, evening routines, phone use habit, working habits etc all tomorrow and be 100% committed or else it’s a failure. But truthfully, this is the quickest way to fail.

Habits first of all take years to build, so equally can take a very long time to break and rebuild. But this isn’t just about habit building, this is about what is keeping you safe in that habit, and this is the golden nugget of information that no one really understands or talks about.

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How not letting go of your emotions are keeping you constipated.

Kia Porter — Sun, 19 Apr 2026 19:29:40 GMT

Yesterday morning I sat down at my desk to get some client work done and as I started going through a client gut test, something pinged in my mind, the old version of me!

This client suffers with chronic constipation. Check point, if you are not going to the toilet once a day, you are constipated in the eyes of naturopathic medicine! But one thing I see …

Oh no, Perioral Dermatitis Came Back. Healing My Skin Flare Naturally!

Kia Porter — Mon, 06 Apr 2026 07:50:38 GMT

If you haven’t seen my SubStack sent out on 1st April on how and why my skin flared after being clear for over 18 months, please go check it out here. I speak about the bucket overflow of why my skin flared in the first place and I feel it is always good to understand what impacts the skin as all inflammation always starts from within.

This post is going to be the step by step approach of how I have gone from flare to 98% clear in less than 2 months!

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Before I get into the detail, if you are looking to reduce your inflammation and not sure where to start - you can join my 6 Week Spring Reset, starting Tuesday 7th April at 7.30pm.

Join me for weekly calls (recorded and shared) with a small group of likeminded women all learning about their bodies to reduce their inflammation, whilst having the support from a practitioner on hand. And join the community WhatsApp for daily motivation and general chitchat too, plus so much more!

The doors close on Monday 6th April, and there are only 6 SPACES LEFT.

This group programme is the last programme I will be running until Autumn/Winter 2026, so if you want to reduce your inflammation before Summer, then this is the perfect space for you to do so!

Find out more information here

I want to rewind really quickly and show you a picture of how my skin used to be back in 2024 when I had my 3rd and final huge flare of perioral dermatitis!

This has to be mentioned because it simply is ONE of the biggest needle movers you will ever experience when reducing inflammation ….

How my meltdown in December led me to giving up alcohol for 3 months ...

Kia Porter — Wed, 01 Apr 2026 19:30:59 GMT

Back in December, we packed our bags and shipped off to Australia for a month to travel West & East of the country, and to be honest it was absolutely beautiful, despite the weather being pretty cold, it was wonderful to switch off for a month. Something I definitely needed after the year I had. 2025 was a year of burnout, exhaustion, time off work, set…

Are they harmless, or are they dysregulating you more than you realise?

Kia Porter — Sun, 22 Mar 2026 20:05:39 GMT

When we think about what affects our health, we are so quick to jump straight to food. What we’re eating, what we should be avoiding, what the “best” diet is.

But the nervous system doesn’t only respond to what you are eating .. it’s responding to your environment, your pace of life, the amount of stimulation you’re exposed to each day, and the pressure you’re putting on yourself, often without you even realising it.

Many of the things that keep you in a constant state of low-grade stress have become so normal that you barely even notice or question them anymore.

Can you guess what any of them are?

Well … let’s get into it.

The Best Foods for Lowering Inflammation & Regulating Your Nervous System

Kia Porter — Wed, 18 Mar 2026 19:55:15 GMT

When it comes to reducing inflammation and regulate your nervous system, we have to pay attention to what we are putting in and on our body (more coming on this soon!). When I say in our body, this mainly consists of our food, but also liquid. We know that ultra-processed foods are incredibly inflammatory and are now being proved to be as such, but the biggest question I get asked over on Instagram, is “What can I eat instead?”

Anything that disrupts the natural processes in the body is automatically going to send signals to our nervous system that you are unsafe and is going to lean you towards the ‘fight or flight’ pattern.

I wrote a Substack on 13th March 2026 where I gave you my 8 top tips on where to start when reducing your inflammation (read here), so this week I wanted to expand on one of those topics! Food!! Because if you are anything like me, a complete foodie, you want to know what deliciousness you can buy each week whilst also working with your body and supporting your health.

So here are my top foods that I would suggest you buy every single week …

I'm speaking at a Festival - come and see me!

Kia Porter — Sun, 15 Mar 2026 20:05:49 GMT

I’m so excited to share that I’ll be speaking at the Harmonise Wellness Festival this summer, a beautiful one-day wellbeing event set in the stunning grounds of Stonor Park in Henley-on-Thames.

This festival brings together an incredible mix of wellness experts, workshops, live music, nourishing food, and restorative experiences designed to help you slo…

How I would reduce inflammation if I was starting my journey again.

Kia Porter — Fri, 13 Mar 2026 07:37:14 GMT

Coming up to 6 years on my health journey, I love to sit and reflect back on the old version of me. Back then, socials wasn’t how it is now. We had google and intuition, that was about it. We couldn’t search in the search bar on social media and be given 1000 different perspectives and a tonne of information, and in a way, I feel like I preferred it that way, because the overwhelm wasn’t there.
Something I see so commonly in my clinic, women overwhelmed with information but still no idea where to start.

The constant contradicting health advice, the healthcare professional saying one thing, the natural practitioner saying another and an influencer throwing something else in the mix. It’s a lot and I hear it so often in my DM’s too. So I thought I would take the opportunity to reflect back on the old version of me and give you exactly what I would start with if I wanted to reduce my inflammation and start regulating my nervous system.

So… if I was going to start my journey all over again, this is where I would start …

No one talks about this part of regulating your nervous system.

Kia Porter — Mon, 09 Mar 2026 12:19:15 GMT

This post is coming in hot from having this exact experience this morning.

Even as a qualified coach that works with women to regulate their nervous system, as a previous perfectionist and a typical Type A girl, it still gets me sometimes. But thankfully, I now have tools in my box to regulate.

As some of you may know, I have enrolled back to a 2 year Nutritional Therapy, Physiological Life Coaching and Rapid Relief Homeopathy diploma and once a month we go into college for the weekend, which I LOVE by the way, but come Sunday night and Monday morning, my energy is tanked. My body feels tired and I just want to rest.

So the following Monday mornings are always about taking it slow and doing what feels good. Except sometimes, those “do the things that make you feel good” moments, send me into sheer panic.

Having woken up, taken a slow morning and yep sat on my phone in bed! Something I don’t do very often because I don’t believe inviting the whole entire world into your bedroom before you’ve even seen daylight is helpful, especially in the world right now, but there I was doing the exact thing I know isn’t good for my nervous system.

Automatically, I felt my nervous system start to heighten and my heart start to race. Thankfully, saved by the Ocado delivery I was up and out of bed. After putting away the shopping, making my breakfast and putting the coffee on to boil for my enema, I took the chance to catch up on Instagram messages and WhatsApps.

I knew this morning I wanted to take a slow one, I cancelled on my friend for a ‘get out the house’ work day and have chosen to do what feels good for me.

A slow breakfast, a little tidy up of the kitchen, coffee enema reading my book followed by a hot epsom salt essential oil bath, hair wash and full body moisturise. Stunning!

Except in the midst of what seem to be very calming practices, my nervous system felt like it was being chased by a tiger.

And this is what no one tells you about regulating a dysregulated nervous system and reducing your cortisol.

These methods I am also teaching in my Spring Reset, Educate, Empower, Embody; starting 7th April.

22nd February 2026 | She Who Walks, The Start Of Something Special ♥️

Kia Porter — Sun, 08 Mar 2026 20:13:38 GMT

I am currently sat on the sofa with two sausage dogs reflecting on what was just the most special day ✨

On Sunday 22nd February, a bunch of complete strangers met at Hylands Park in Chelmsford to come together to start something which I believe is going to be incredible.

Women who stepped outside their comfort zone, who decided to show up for themselves …

There is power in "Falling off the Wagon'

Kia Porter — Sun, 01 Mar 2026 19:53:18 GMT

When you are making a change to your lifestyle, you always assume that you have got to be perfect all the time, but let me share that there is actually so much power in ‘falling off the wagon’.

People often assume that falling off the wagon is failure, and that’s absolutely not true.

There is a difference between falling off the wagon all the time and the…

Spring Reset is live; Educate, Empower, Embody; 6 Week Group Programme

Kia Porter — Wed, 25 Feb 2026 19:45:41 GMT

Having just completed the 6 Week January Reset, I knew after the first week that this was something I needed to bring back. Not only because of the feedback and how it has changed these women’s lives but because of the community of women that have come together to help and support one another has been nothing short of magical ✨

So here it is, with a new …

The starting point of my deeper healing journey.

Kia Porter — Sun, 22 Feb 2026 19:56:16 GMT

Since sharing my deeper healing journey on my instagram, I have had a lot of questions about where to start and what to do, so I thought I would take the opportunity to share the exact thing I done when I first started.

My sister in law is a counselling therapist and during a very high level conversation over a year ago, she recommended if I wanted to st…

Blood Test results coming back "normal", despite feeling awful?

Kia Porter — Mon, 16 Feb 2026 19:24:24 GMT

I remember it so clearly, going to the Doctors inflamed and crippled with pain, feeling so tired all the time just to be told all my bloods are fine", and that I need to take iron supplementation because my Ferritin and Iron was low!

Except, that never solved the problem and it hasn’t solved any of the women’s issues who come through my clinic.

It’s the s…

'She Who Walks' - The Community ♥️

Kia Porter — Sat, 31 Jan 2026 10:42:49 GMT

I’ve been saying I wanted to do this for SO long… and it’s finally here. ❤️

Your new community.
Your new space with like-minded women.

When I first started to understand about food, changing my lifestyle, upgrading my health which naturally then turned into lear…

How to beat Blue Monday! 19th January 2026.

Kia Porter — Sun, 18 Jan 2026 20:05:24 GMT

OMG!

So I just found out it is Blue Monday tomorrow! You might ask, what the hell is that?

Well, by all accounts it’s the most miserable Monday of the year! It was created in the mid-2000s by a PR company, claiming that the third Monday in January is the “most depressing day of the year,” based on a so-called formula involving weather, debt, motivation, …

LAST CHANCE TO JOIN THE 6 WEEK RESET!

Kia Porter — Wed, 14 Jan 2026 20:28:23 GMT

Hey guys!

FINAL DAYS TO JOIN THE 6 WEEK RESET PROGRAMME.

I am closing the doors on 18th January! IN JUST FOUR DAYS TIME ….

If you are feeling flat, overwhelmed and unsure where to start this January but you KNOW that this year is the year you want to make change, then I might have the answer for you.

Rooted in womens health education, we are spending 6 wee…