Latest Articles
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Healthy diet 9
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 25
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 24
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 26
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 ...
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Communication 48
Relationships – They are What we Make them
“Relationships are fraught with tension because most avoid expressing love in full.” (Serge Benhayon) (1) Blame is a prominent ingredient in our relationships – whether they are friendships, ...
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Family 84
Looking Closely at the Family Album
When I was growing up, family was considered firstly to be my parents and siblings and then on outwards to include other relatives. It never occurred to me ...
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Education 78
The Child with the Green Tinted Brush
Have you ever seen a group of soldiers marching in time, a mass of bodies with not one footstep out of place as they clump obediently to the ...
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Communication 80
My Relationship with My Son
I remember the exact moment that it happened. My partner, our 15-year-old son and I were going down a very long escalator on the underground in Prague when ...
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Global Issues 69
To Flag the Truth
Something occurred to me the other day when I noticed the U.S. flag was at ‘half-mast’ at my workplace after yet another mass shooting that occurred here in ...
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Communication 126
The Interview From Hell Which Turned Out to be One Hell of an Interview
It went something like this: Having applied for an amazing sounding job that seemed to have my name written all over it, I was invited for a telephone ...
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Healthy diet 136
Our Youth’s Waistlines are Expanding… What Does this Say about Us?
Living in Western Australia, there is much to see and do if you are willing to be just a little adventurous. My family and I recently took a ...
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Communication 132
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 113
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 173
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 205
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 184
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 271
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 266
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 412
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 495
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 341
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 593
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 454
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 ...
