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Is there a healthy way to be ill?
None of us are immune from ever being ill and we have many phrases that reflect that this is an everyday part of life. We cannot always prevent ourselves from getting sick, but is there a healthy way to be ill?
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The micro puppeteers – microbes and food cravings
Are our food cravings caused by microbes? Are we responsible for inviting the microbes into our bodies, and if so how?
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Coffee, cake and charities?
This article exposes the wilful blindness of some charities that seek to raise money, whilst living a life of neglect and lack of self-care.
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Alzheimer’s and dementia: do we have a part to play?
Soon to be costing the global health system over a trillion dollars, Alzheimer’s and Dementia are costing families immeasurable expense as relationships and lives are impacted earlier and more widely than ever before. This article explores the enormous link between how we live and Alzheimer’s Dementia.
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The Roseto Effect – A lesson on the true cause of heart disease
The Roseto Effect was a study conducted in the 1950s that has the potential to blow the lid on the true cause of heart disease. Yet the question remains, why has this study not changed the way we think about heart disease?
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Before and after giving up alcohol - Introduction
Everyone loves a drink, right? Drinking alcohol is fun, social, normal, even good for you… or so we have been told. But studies in recent years have shown what our bodies have always known… that there is no safe level of alcohol consumption.
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It is never about alcohol
Most drinkers believe a little of alcohol is OK, but is it OK to not be who you truly are?
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"The highest form of intelligence is love"
What is true intelligence? This article looks at love being the highest form of intelligence and the potential positive outcomes of this revelation.
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Good real estate… It’s hard to find
Our human real estate – our body – is depreciating, with no end in sight to this cycle. When and how will this cycle turn around?
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The taxing problems of diabetes
Diabetes and other lifestyle related disorders are reaching epidemic proportions with massive cost and health consequences. It comes down to dealing with our hurts.
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Slavery under a new name – evil reinvents itself
When did slavery officially end? From the billion-dollar sex trade industry to child labour and domestic violence we have more slavery today than we have ever had, it’s got a new name – people trafficking.
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Gluten, dairy, corn ......... are the root of all evil
Sugar, gluten and dairy are combining with devastating effect on humanity.
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The rising tide raises all vessels
The high tide might raise all vessels, but what tension does that put on the moorings? Sometimes it’s our own beliefs that hold us back.
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Judith and Ingrid – the record of a beautiful friendship
Judith McIntyre passed over from terminal cancer 2 years ago last June. It took me 2 years to start writing about the deep and inspiring connection we had . . .
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Shakespeare’s King Lear: King Liar and the tyranny of ‘elsewhere conscious presence’
Shakespeare’s King Lear exposes the extent of our society’s daily brutality, to which most of us have elected to turn a blind eye. And he honours the presence in those few who consistently live the truth we all know but have largely abandoned. Why do we do it?
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The visible trace of #ghosting
Ghosting has become so normalised in current relationship practice it feels important to understand why this occurs and to explore what’s going on with our communication in relationships, and what’s underneath this increasing trend.
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Boys don’t cry: men in crisis
Why does it take so long for a man to see a doctor? Men are in crisis, dying before their time and the trend is increasing. Dean Pirera explores why men are so poor at looking after themselves.
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Developing self-care as part of health and well-being at work
We regularly see in the media, the HR press that well-being at work matters. This article introduces an aspect that is seldom written about in health and well-being at work - self-care at work.
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Hamlet – ‘To be or not to be?’ That is not the question – outing the plot of ‘thinking’
In Hamlet, Shakespeare exposes the true nature of the Hamlet’s dilemma, and yet this has never been written about before. Discover the nature of the appalling lie that has been trapping humanity for aeons.
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The confusion of the food industry
Confused by all the contradictions of what healthy food is? We delve into nutrition facts and how to eat healthy.
