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Are you sabotaging your own health and wellbeing?
HOW IS YOUR NEW YEAR'S RESOLUTION TO DO MORE EXERCISE GOING? If you have pretty much given up, then you are not alone. It's the 1st March today and your new year enthusiasm for a new fit and healthy you, has given way to the old you. Don’t blame yourself, well, not...
New Year, New Habits?
Happy New Year lovely readers. I hope you are well and have arrived in 2023 with gratitude and positivity for what the year holds in store for you. It's January so I thought I'd write a blog about habit change. Habit change is hard! I wrote a good blog on New Years's...
Five benefits of walking more.
About a year ago, I contributed a chapter to a book called the The Healing Power of Nature - Your Environment and Foods. My chapter was called How Walking Out In Nature Can Lift Your Mood. The research I did for my chapter lead me to the realisation that there is much...
Five ways to manage stress and reduce its impact on your health.
April is Stress Awareness month but it seems to me that stress is everywhere all the time. Stress shows up in different ways. Sometimes it sneaks up on us, sometimes it hits us in the face and other times it is just part of of life, barely noticeable but always there....
My Top Ten Sleep Tips
I consider myself to be something of a sleep expert, not because I’m a Health Coach but because I have struggled with sleep all my adult life. I have experienced first-hand how it impacts health and over the years I’ve tried pretty much every new trick to improve my...
Seven ways we can manage our blood sugar levels
We know that managing our blood sugar levels is important for our health. Chronically high blood sugar is associated with chronic lifestyle diseases such as type 2 diabetes, obesity, dementia and heart disease. So what can we do to help manage our blood sugar levels...
Three reasons why managing your blood sugar levels is important.
Firstly, let me explain blood sugar. Blood sugar or blood glucose, as it is also known, is literally the amount of glucose in your blood. It is one the 5 markers of metabolic health. Metabolic health is, in the simplest terms, the state of balance the body maintains...
3 WAYS EXERCISE SUPPORTS YOUR BRAIN HEALTH
We all know that exercise is good for us. However, we tend to associate exercise with our heart health, which, whilst true, is not the only thing exercise is good for. It is seriously important for our brain health. Lack of activity is a known risk factor for...
MY THOUGHTS ON NEW YEAR RESOLUTIONS
So it's the first week of January and I am wondering how your New Year resolutions are going? I'm not a big fan of NY resolutions because they don't tend to work; in fact they are invariably counter-productive. Why? Well, usually the goal (resolution, dream,...
Healthy Habits for a Happy Gut! Part 2!
So here is the second part of my healthy habits for a happy gut post. In part 1, I talked about the importance of drinking enough drinking water, of eating a plant centric diet with lots of fibre, managing your stress and slowing down around eating. I also mentioned...
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