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Communication 72
How do you Handle a Disagreement… with Love?
What do you do when someone close to you makes a choice that you feel is not true for them, but they are convinced it is? It could be ...
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Parenting 75
My Body, Space & Parenting
During the planning of our first child, my partner and I spent about eight months developing and deepening our relationship with each other and ourselves, observing our behaviours, ...
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Healthy Lifestyle 158
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 182
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 168
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 235
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 241
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 400
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 334
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 579
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 422
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 394
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 500
“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 539
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 ...
