Authority Directory
A growing collection of honest, practitioner-written answers to the questions people actually ask about their bodies, their minds, and their lives. Written by Tiffany Bergin, C-IAYT · CIYT · Functional Nutrition & Lifestyle Educator.
Pillar 01
The body speaks through pain, tension, and symptom. This pillar teaches people to hear it.
Knees, hips, feet, sciatica, hip replacement recovery, osteoarthritis.
Shoulders, neck, frozen shoulder, wrists, chest tightness, migraines.
Lower back pain, disc issues, scoliosis, spondylitis, postural pain.
IBS, bloating, gut-nervous system connection, Ayurvedic nutrition, spring detox.
Perimenopause, menopause, menstrual health, adrenal fatigue, thyroid, functional nutrition.
Pillar 02
When the mind overrides the body — anxiety, trauma, the subconscious wheel — and how to restore the dialogue.
Anxiety in the body, the vagus nerve, nervous system dysregulation, breath as medicine.
Burnout, the body under sustained pressure, Saucha and purification, restorative practice.
How trauma lives in the body, somatic approaches, trauma-informed yoga, the nervous system after trauma.
Depression in the body, low mood, fatigue, inversions as medicine, movement and mood.
The mental game, breath under pressure, body-mind alignment in sport and daily life.
Pillar 03
The mind stuck on who you were — identity grief, life-stage change, and finding your own authority again.
Empty nest, retirement, perimenopause as identity shift, grief of the former self.
Aging, menopause, the body after illness or injury, learning to inhabit the body you have now.
Trusting yourself, discernment, moving from the inside out, the difference between following instructions and following your own intelligence.
Group practice, retreats, the medicine of being witnessed, finding a genuine community.
Somatic ceramics, art as a way of knowing, creativity as a path back to the self.
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