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Healthy Lifestyle 145
My Journey with Alcohol
My parents rarely drank alcohol – I cannot recall seeing either of them drunk. I do recall my father being very ‘tired’ on some days, but this was ...
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Healthy Lifestyle 175
R.I.P. Speedy Gonzales
Speedy Gonzales is dead. Or at least my inner Speedy Gonzales is. His death was no accident, although the way I used to tear up and down the ...
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Couples 165
I’d Rather Lose my Arm than my Man
Whilst at a friend’s house recently for dinner, we decided to relax for a while on the couch before eating, to catch up and talk about how life ...
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Couples 227
Blaming Women
Today in a conversation with my partner I finally realised that I had been living in blame for most of my life: blaming people, circumstances, and especially women. ...
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Global Issues 239
Waste
Whilst thinking about writing this blog, I was pondering for how long I have had a problem with waste, and I would say that it has been for ...
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Healthy diet 398
Our Perception of Health
Recently I attended a professional development workshop on mental health. The presenters studied and work in the field of psychology and within education and training. For me, a ...
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Healthy Lifestyle 469
Why I Hate Alcohol
Recently I was pondering on why I hate alcohol. I realised there were personal, societal and religious reasons for this hate and that they all stemmed from how ...
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Exercise & Sport 331
Me and Sport
My Introduction to Sport Where do I start? My first introduction to sport was as a small child watching my mother play tennis. She was very competitive. I ...
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Healthy diet 577
The Banana Sandwich
I’ve always been interested in food, in fact it has dominated my adult life. In my 20’s I started overeating and as a result put on weight year ...
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Sexism 421
What Does it Mean to Be a Man?
I sat on the train ride through the snowy mountains of eastern Switzerland, deeply occupied in my observation of all the curves that the snowfall had left, and ...
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Couples 393
The Break-Up I’d Rather Have
Almost a year ago, as I write this, I split up with my girlfriend of nearly 2 years. Prior to that we had been friends for 3 years, ...
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Colleagues 499
“It’s Only a Test….”
I was unexpectedly placed in the position of being forced to take a timed test quite recently. The surprise test was part of a professional development day – ...
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Healthy diet 537
Renouncing Sex, And, Eating for Vitality!
I’ve been doing quite a bit of pondering on food and my relationship with it lately, as I have just committed to applying an autoimmune diet protocol for ...
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Couples 591
Reflecting Love on Valentine’s Day
It was Valentine’s Day yesterday. In the eyes of the world, it may be considered that I have had the worst day of my life. I had a ...
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Family 491
The Magic of Childhood – Explored
I have been growing up with my children for the last nine years and they have shared so much ‘magic’ with me and they are part of the ...
