How to increase longevity
How to live longer is the ever lasting question. And this search increases in value the older we get. So as a healthy 57 year old, experiencing all the usual aches, pains, and hormonal...
Category: Positive Psychology
Grief: how to survive and support
In this modern society, we have very poor coping strategies for grief. We can write a letter of condolence, send flowers, drop over a casserole, but face to face, often we freeze. Rather than...
The end of 2021.
Who else has found this year difficult? I am hearing more sense of exhaustion and anxiety this year than last. It’s not that last year wasn’t a challenge, more that this year has been...
Lockdown weight gain, or Middle Aged Spread
A problem which I am hearing a lot right now is “post-lockdown weight gain”. All of us, with the best of intentions, moved a little less, and indulged a little more, and now, we...
Thriving, not surviving
How do you choose the diet that works for you? Not the diet that leaves you feeling tired, bloated, and yet hungry for more of that food which got you feeling so flat in...
The Last Moments of Pre-lockdown Madness
These days, in the days of lockdown, of the fear and inability to make plans, in these days of frustration, there is a sense of urgency attached to many actions. We hear a whiff...
The Calm of 2020.
This year has been the year of turmoil. Of broken plans, and changed dreams. It has been the year of learning to love low key living, to appreciate the availability of time, and to...
Finding Purpose in Smiling at Strangers.
A lack of purpose is linked to a sense of anxiety and will actually affect outcome for long life.
Bleak Outlooks – Winter 2020
So, how is everyone coping with Lockdown Mark II? I am trying to maintain a positive outlook on life, and feel grateful that we are not in Melbourne with stricter lockdown requirements, or indeed...
How to stop clenching your jaw.
“And they gnashed their terrible teeth…” Maurice Sendak. Where The Wild Things Are. Clenching your jaw, or grinding your teeth, is known as “bruxism”. It is commonly accepted as being a response to...