Latest Articles
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Couples
On Marriage and Commitment
Never did I realise commitment could be freeing. I had always thought it felt heavy and binding, but binding in a capping kind of way. Recently, my partner ...
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Exercise & Sport
The Force Behind Sport
Is the sports fanatic being disguised by a normal, healthy and acceptable lifestyle, but carefully hiding much more, by a framework of words, systems and terminology? Is it ...
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Exercise & Sport
From Terror to Joy in the Water – A New Way of Swimming
There was always a fear of being in a pool or the sea when young. Paddling around at the edge of a beach or in the shallow end ...
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Family
Sisters and Beyond the Labels
When I was younger I didn’t consider my younger sister as an equal, either to be with or to hang out with. She was just there. There was ...
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Relationships
Searching for Love in All the Wrong Places
I saw myself as a teenager, wandering around lost and bewildered, full of questions. For as long as I can remember, every birthday, every shooting star, at every wishing ...
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Eating disorders
Beyond the Box of ‘Eating Disorder’
When I first ventured to find a solution to what was at the time diagnosed as an ‘eating disorder’, I went seeking a way to fix having this ...
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Parenting
Turning Single Parenting on its Head
A friend said to me recently, “I am so inspired by your work ethic and quality of work, even when you’re really busy.” I paused for a moment ...
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Exercise & Sport
My Evolving Relationship with Movement
When I stop to consider my relationship with movement, what I feel most profoundly is how the quality of my movement has changed over the 60 years that ...
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Male Relationships
The Bulldozer, and the Butterfly
Why is it as men and women we can get into the energy of drive and literally push ourselves without regard for our bodies or others around us? ...
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Healthy Lifestyle
How I Have Come to Not Be Owned by Social Media
I was probably considered to be ‘late’ to social media, not having grown up with computers and being an adult when smart phones first started coming on the ...
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Healthy diet
Building a True Relationship with Food
Do we ‘Live to eat?’ or ‘Eat to live?’ are often questions when it comes to our relationship with food. My relationship with food is an ongoing discovery ...
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Social Issues
What Was it Really Like to Get Tattoos?
When I turned 18, I connected with everything that turning 18 apparently meant. At 18 I could now drink. At 18 I could now have a full car ...
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Healthy diet
My Food Choices and How They Resonate in My Body
Food is a daily choice that I make, whether it’s once a day or three or more times a day – there is no hiding from the fact ...
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Healthy diet
Food Choices and the Wisdom of the Body
I have come to realise after many experimentations, that how I feel when I wake up and rise each morning is very much a result of the food ...
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Death & Dying
Death and the Bereavement Process – Why do we make it so Difficult?
Most people in the world dread death. We tend to avoid talking about it, thinking about it and generally having anything to do with it. The fear is ...
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Communication
Expressing the Unexpressed
There is so much that goes unexpressed. Take for instance the day that I was told I was being made redundant from my place of employment. It was ...
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Healthy Lifestyle
Has the Plague Ever Truly Left Us?
The ‘Black Death’ or bubonic plague, as it was known – based on the boils or ‘buboes’ that formed and spread in the lymph nodes of its victims ...
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Healthy diet
Food Choices, My Body and Me
I had been working with my diet for quite some time and often found it difficult to put into practice – giving up food that made me feel ...
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Family
Interparental Hatred on Separation
Recently I attended a workshop on the impact of interparental hatred on children, where it was presented that children do not fare well in the presence of ongoing, ...
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Healthy diet
Redefining ‘Food for Thought’
I’m pretty sure most people would consider food to be all the usual things we buy at our local grocery store such as your typical meats, fruits, vegetables, ...
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Healthy diet
Ingredients Versus Energy
Have you ever experienced that situation where the same ingredients in two different foods or drinks have different effects in your body? As a rational thinking scientist, I ...
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Money
Responsibly Spending Money
Recently I was listening to a program on the radio and the presenter was talking about addictions. As I was driving I felt how relieved I was that ...
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Greed/Corruption
Shredding the Use of Fear-Based Advertising
Recently I was discussing with a friend how ridiculous some of the current forms of advertising and marketing have become and he related a story to me about ...
