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Before and after: Sandra Schneider, on uncovering her true beauty
Sandra Schneider’s inspiring story of how she went from feeling unhappy and overweight, to being slim and feeling great.
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Our relationship with sleep
Is it possible to have a great relationship with sleep and truly value what it brings to our body and daily life? Explore these simple tips to make your sleep restful and rejuvenating.
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Our body is our guide
Have we ever stopped to wonder why there is so much emphasis on the way our body looks, when it is only one small aspect of ourselves?
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How to care for yourself during the Coronavirus pandemic
We are living in unprecedented times during the Coronavirus pandemic. Fear of catching Coronavirus COVID-19 or SARS-CoV-2, has changed the world, the way it is run and how we live in it.
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The future of dentistry
Never before has it been so simple to take care of our own teeth. Yet, given some very alarming statistics, how do we reconcile the enormous gap between what is technically possible and the level of actual dental health of the people?
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Almond and brazil nut balls
Highly nutritious, these tasty sweet nut balls are a treat for any occasion and they are free of refined sugar. They can be made as a batch and kept in the fridge for your visitors, if the family doesn’t find them first!
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Eating when we are anxious: is anxiety making me fat?
Read how one person stopped overeating and eating unhealthy foods when she was feeling anxious
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Your source of energy as a key to diet and weight loss
Do we choose the source of energy we are choosing to run our body? What if this energy source was the key to weight loss?
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I thought alcohol would give me confidence…
This is not your usual before and after story about alcohol; it is not about being an alcoholic and coming back from it, but it shares about my use of alcohol as a teenager…
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Bringing self-worth out of hiding
My true self-worth is now out of hiding; I’ve come a long way in silencing my harsh inner critic, and I love that who I am now is so authentic and real.
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Love is Love: Gender and the truth in Shakespeare’s Twelfth Night
Twelfth Night is a dark, bittersweet comedy about Love. Shakespeare pulls the plug on the folly of human behaviour that we subscribe to when it comes to gender, love, and desire . . . all of which we have imagined love to be but which actually sets us up to keep love at bay.
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I’m late, I’m late for a very important date…
The car accident on the way to work, heavy traffic, a flat tyre, the alarm that didn’t go off, the keys that got lost — people have a million excuses for being late. So, the big question is; why are so many people running late and how does this affect us?
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Is self-care more than taking physical care of our bodies?
Want to know the secret to self-care? ... it’s more than taking care of our body.
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Marijuana – not as harmful as alcohol?
When I realised how alcohol was affecting me, I started to look for another drug. Marijuana was readily available, cheap and did not impact on my behaviour in the same way alcohol did, or so I thought at the time.
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Coffee: Do I love it, or do I need it?
I used to love coffee. Drinking coffee was the only way I thought I could get through each day, as I was working too hard, on not enough sleep.
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From being a good mother to true mothering
Mothering from a place of comfort, while seemingly ‘comfortable’, is not comfortable. So what does this even mean?
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My Addiction to Marijuana
How did this woman stop smoking marijuana after being addicted to it for 33 years? When even the diagnosis of breast cancer and having two young children was not enough to get her to stop?
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Spotlight on sugar
Giving up sugar; from the impossible to the possible – it can be done, as we begin to love our own natural sweetness and graceful beauty.
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How I quit drinking and felt more confident
Alcohol has been a part of my life for a good 13 years, until I quit drinking 2 years ago. And in that time, I don’t think I’ve ever really enjoyed the taste; it has always been about how it has made me feel – or not feel.
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My understanding of abuse
Could it be that by limiting our understanding of abuse we fail to see that we are all being abused constantly?