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We all have our favourite season and I am definitely a summer person. The light warm mornings we spent sitting outside with our coffee in one hand and a book in the other. The warmth of the summer breeze against our skin every day and the many evenings spent walking...
Are you someone that doesn’t feel so good in the winter months? Do you dread the shorter days of autumn and winter every year as you know that the dark days affect your mood? It is not uncommon for people to experience seasonal fluctuation in moods. You may have noticed...
The Secret to a Good Night’s Sleep Are you one of the enormous number of people who struggle with poor sleep? There is nothing that undermines our quality of life so comprehensively.For some people it’s not being able to get off to sleep - a busy mind, tossing and turning,...
Happiness is a complex issue I feel. We often say of our children “As long as they’re happy and healthy…” and I wonder what that means. Or if it is a realistic expectation. How often are we truly happy - as in euphoric - in our lives?
Burn out is one of those phrases that we have probably heard of but maybe don’t really know enough about to know if we might be experiencing it. Traditionally it has been applied to work (job burn out), but more recently it has been referred to with parenting, lockdown or exercise...
Do you feel like… You are smiling on the outside and breaking on the inside? Day-to-day you fulfil all your responsibilities despite the challenges, so everyone thinks you are fine but you’re not? Your invisible illness means others don’t understand you, and it is difficult for you to ask for...
“Hope this finds you well?” + “Hope you’re safe and well?” are the questions that every email, Zoom or message seem to start with right now and then “Stay Safe” at the end. I’m finding them difficult to answer as someone recovering from a ‘mild' case of Covid-19. Of...
On my mind…something I have been thinking about this last month as we move from lockdown to release is how we all need to take responsibility for our own wellbeing. Everybody has their own rules around socially distancing, risk assessment + regulation adherence. This virus will be with us for...
The first step to recovering your mental health... I think we are all getting slightly better at recognising when we are struggling with our mental health. We know when we are stressed or anxious or overwhelmed or feeling low. Maybe we only realise things need to change when we can...
Vitamin D, the sunshine vitamin, is well known to help with bone density but did you know that it is also linked with immunity, mood and brain health? Many studies have found a link between depression and anxiety and low levels of Vitamin D3 but with the use of sunscreen...
Feeling Anxious? Add these 5 nutrients to help ease your Anxiety, naturally... How have you been coping with all the changes lately? We have all had to adapt to a new normal, a new way of living, new threats and new challenges for us all which we will have to...
This week I wanted to share 5 quick, simple things you can do before you've even got out of bed that will start your day mindfully and with intention. Have a go tomorrow morning and see how you feel afterwards... 1 Breathe Lie flat on your back, legs long +...
With the lockdown extended it can be increasingly difficult to stay positive so I wanted to write about some ways to help boost your mood to help start your week off. It’s completely ok to be feeling low, weird + exhausted whatever your circumstances. We are all coping with loss,...
Sunlight is the battery for our biological clocks (our Chronobiology). Our circadian (daily) rhythm is affected by early morning daylight helping us, among other things, to produce melatonin which helps us to sleep when it gets dark. We have special sensors in our eyes that feed back the intensity of...
At times like this, when so many plans are interrupted + we face so much uncertainty it’s only natural that we feel out of control, angry and frustrated and just want to shout - but how can we level out, readjust and begin again? 1 Permission to find it difficult...
Do I have anxiety? It’s no surprise that many of us are finding that the uncertainty and threat of the current situation is escalating our anxiety levels and that it feels bad for our mental health. For people already living with high levels of general anxiety or, specifically, have health...
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