People who abuse drugs or alcohol often don’t realise the impact on those around them. The family may witness the user fly into drunken rages, experience rapid weight loss, or discover that their missing loved one is living on the street or has fatally overdosed. Such shocks can cause severe family trauma. Family environment [...]
Your heart beats for you. This hard-working muscle at the centre of your circulation system, pumps blood around your body, distributing essential oxygen and nutrients, and disposes of unwanted carbon dioxide and waste products; all to keep you alive. Under pressure High blood pressure (HBP or hypertension), often caused by poor lifestyle choices or [...]
4 Steps to Creating a New Money Story Many of us have wished at some point in life that we could rewrite history. While we can’t change what happened in the past, we can certainly change how we interpret our history. This can be achieved by changing the story we tell, and by making [...]
Health and wellness is important to us all. In today’s post-COVID-pandemic world there is a great deal of interest in boosting immunity. In today’s business world companies are eager to latch onto any trend that may help sell product. For these reasons there are hundreds of products being marketed under the claim that they [...]
Most of us abandoned diaries (paper diaries) years or decades ago, in favour of computer and or smart-phone calendars. Indeed, many of you have grown up this way. Many have never used diaries or calendars in any format. It is likely that today’s generation see social media as having replaced the personal diary. Most [...]
What words of wisdom would you tell your younger self? Here are some examples for you to ponder. Be you There’s one person that you have to live with for the rest of your life, and that’s you. Be your own best friend. Spend time listening to what your body, mind, and soul [...]
You may think of sleep as the time when your brain shuts down and nothing on your to-do list gets done. However, your brain is actually very active during sleep doing important things — it’s not just resting. Learning and memory While you sleep, your brain is busy sorting and storing information from the [...]
Donating blood is a great way to help others. Donated blood is used (as whole blood or as just the red blood cells, or just the plasma, or just the platelets) to save lives. In some instances, like trauma and major surgery, transfusing blood is the ONLY way to keep a person alive. There [...]
Most of us are familiar with the idea of (financial) investment. Financial advisors sometimes call this “investing in your future” or “investing in yourself”. Living a healthy balanced lifestyle can be seen in similar ways so let’s discuss some similarities between financial investing and wellness investing… Long term. Financial investing, or saving, is a [...]
Winter can be a challenging time for many reasons. The colder weather and the shorter darker days just seem to be a bit demotivating in general. Winter is also, for most of us, when we do NOT go on holidays, which may tend to add to the negativity we associate with this time of [...]
