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From self-abuse – to self-care
A personal trainer’s experience of how working out hard and pushing the limits of strength, stamina and flexibility is actually more harming than healthy.
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Unplanned Caesarean birth – failure or opportunity?
Feelings of failure may be present after an unplanned caesarean birth and this ‘silent suffering’ is openly addressed here with a fresh and open perspective.
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How alcohol had influenced my life
I never knew the full extent of how alcohol had influenced my life, until I made the choice to stop drinking it.
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Drinking time – what is our measure of acceptable drinking?
What defines a moment as being acceptable to drink alcohol?
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Hairdressing revisited after fibromyalgia
Nicole explains how she has successfully returned to hairdressing after suffering with Fibromyalgia
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Sugar, exercise and obesity: Let’s get real
This article looks at the cause of being overweight and obese. Is sugar a factor? Is lack of exercise a factor?
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Stars and Astrology and Us
Astrology – does it really define what we are like? Is it our true relationship with the stars and constellations?
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Self-Care: The quality in which we move
Everyday life can be a part of self-care when we introduce and focus on the quality of our movements.
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The joy of gentle exercise
Gill explores the joy that can be found in gentle exercise.
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From denying smoking to giving up smoking without trying
As an adult, I came to learn the truth about smoking cigarettes and ended up giving up smoking without trying.
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Exercise for weight loss – a myth?
This article explores whether exercise is the answer to losing weight or if that is indeed a myth.
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Evolution – a revolution in the way we see it
We have been raised to think of evolution as a straight line... we are born, we grow up, we live and die... but is this the truth? Or is it a process in which growth and development is unfolded out, from within, in a gradual way.
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The body IS intelligent
What if the mind is not that intelligent – what if it were only the receiver of energy, like a radio that picks up a signal, and it wasn’t actually capable of thinking?
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A woman’s worth at work
Job interviews, salary negotiations, pay, promotion, women taking up leadership positions – when it comes to all this, how come so many women in the workplace suffer external disadvantage hinged by internal lack of self-worth?
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Wasted
‘Wasted’ is a term we would use when we got stoned. We could sit around for hours smoking pot and doing nothing. ‘Wasted’ couldn’t be a better word to use.
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Breakfast lunch and dinner: uncovering beliefs around food
Breakfast Lunch and Dinner: a naturopath challenges her beliefs around food and how her relationship with eating has changed.
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Choosing a relationship with alcohol or me
My relationship with alcohol started when I was very young…
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Everything in moderation – how we fake being alright
Everything in moderation, what is that? A ‘truth’ we live by or a cunning deception to shut down our awareness?
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Every job has purpose
Having had many jobs, Mariette has found that every job has a purpose. Every job matters in life.
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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.
