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Healthy Lifestyle 60
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 148
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 143
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 205
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 233
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 386
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 462
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 323
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 570
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 415
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 385
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 495
“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 533
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 588
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 483
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 ...
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Couples 632
Building a Relationship with Myself
By the time I got to my first esoteric session I was completely worn out. I had a 2yr old son that I had chosen to do attachment ...
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Couples 408
A Love Letter to My Wife
Dearest Samantha, I remember the feeling I had when we first met 15 years ago. It is difficult to describe in words because in some ways there are ...
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Relationships 575
Who’s the Boss?
I recently realised that I, along with most other members of the teaching and auxiliary staff at school, usually refer to the principal in conversations as ‘the boss’. ...
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Parenting 675
Chores Supporting the Development of Children & Brotherhood
I have found it to be quite common and even ‘the norm’ today for kids to not to do any chores, or to complain about the little chores ...
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Healthy diet 672
To Nourish or Bludgeon – How do we Use Food?
What is it about food that keeps us coming back, already full, feeling content and satisfied and yet, in creeps that little voice saying, “You need to eat, ...
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Parenting 462
The Truth About Mother of the Year Competitions
I’ve just voted in a nationwide contest for the 2018 Mother of the Year award, but the woman I voted for almost certainly won’t win. I didn’t vote ...
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Parenting 370
Baby’s First Haircut
A beautiful Sunday summer’s morning in Australia… blue skies, cool breezes and the sounds of cicadas and kookaburras fill the air. My partner and I discuss how to ...
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Healthy diet 604
Food and Society’s ‘Way of Eating’ – How True is it Really?
Food is necessary, that there is no doubt about, BUT how many of us have ever stopped to consider how and why we eat the way we do? ...
