Come to Your Senses
Your senses shape your mind, mood and energy.
In a world of relentless noise, screens and stress, they hold the key to your clarity, calm and resilience.
If you’ve ever felt drained, distracted, or disconnected, you're not alone. In a world of relentless noise, digital demands and high-stimulus environments, it’s no wonder so many of us feel depleted.
What’s often overlooked is how our senses process this overload. The pace of modern life clashes with the ancient biological systems we rely on to feel and function well.
Through my own experience of fatigue and disconnection — and a need to understand what truly restores clarity and energy — I began exploring sensory wellbeing.
In Come to Your Senses, I introduce Total Sensory Wellbeing — a unique, practical and evidence-backed approach that integrates biology, behaviour and the senses to restore your vitality.
You will uncover how to work with your senses, not against them.
Blending scientific insight with lived experience and cultural perspectives, this book reveals how sight, sound, scent, touch and taste profoundly influence mood, motivation and mental stamina.
You’ll learn how to:
• Use light and colour to energise or unwind
• Create soundscapes for focus, flow or rest
• Eat and move to support a sharp, stable mind
• Transform your surroundings with texture, scent and thoughtful design
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Whether you’re feeling wired, foggy, or simply curious about how sensory changes can improve your focus and energy, Come to Your Senses offers achievable, sustainable changes with big returns.
In a world that overwhelms the very systems meant to guide and ground you, it’s time to stop doing more and start doing what works.
It’s time to press reset.
It’s time to Come to Your Senses.
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About the Book
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Ngahina Richards is the founder of Nriched Living and creator of Total Sensory Wellbeing, a practical framework blending health science and lived experience to help people restore clarity, energy and focus.
With a background in health science and over two decades in pharmaceutical leadership, Ngahina blends research with real-life insight to create solutions that support everyday wellbeing.
Her focus on sensory wellbeing emerged from a period of feeling disconnected and a persistent desire to understand how environments influence mental clarity and energy. After years of feeling ‘tired but wired’, she undertook practitioner training in aromatherapy and explored existing clinical and academic research on light, colour, sound, movement and more. She sought insights from experts across psychology, nutrition, audiology, exercise science and environmental design.
This informed an approach that weaves together science, history, cultural perspectives and lived experience. It became the foundation of Total Sensory Wellbeing.
At its core, her work highlights how our senses deeply influence our energy, focus and resilience.
Born in Canada to a German mother and New Zealand father, Ngahina has lived and worked across the Pacific, Southeast Asia, Australia, Europe and the UK. These experiences gave her a lasting appreciation for the cultural nuances of sensory environments.
Now based in Sydney, Ngahina enjoys hiking and exploring new pockets of the city. She is carving a path in the emerging field of sensory strategy, working with individuals and businesses to improve how people feel and function. Her work is grounded, intelligent, practical and human-centred. It is crafted to help people calm the chaos and move through life with confidence, focus and ease.
