Come to Your Senses
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About the Book
I was done with feeling fatigued and lacklustre as the norm. I’m a realist, so didn’t aspire to frolicking through sunflower fields with sunlight glinting off my long hair. For starters, I live in a city, and I have short hair.
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.
Ngahina Richards, a health science professional, began exploring sensory wellbeing through her own experience of constant fatigue and disconnection and a need to understand what truly restores clarity and energy.
In Come to Your Senses, she introduces 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 using texture, scent and thoughtful design
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.
Ngahina Richards is the founder of Nriched Living and the creator of Total Sensory Wellbeing — a practical, evidence-informed framework designed to help people restore clarity, energy and focus in today’s overstimulating world.
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.
