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Healthy diet 301
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 396
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 283
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 531
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 393
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 365
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 470
“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 522
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 579
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 473
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 614
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 404
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 565
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 673
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 668
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 456
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 368
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 599
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? ...
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Communication 571
Mobile Phone, the Screen that Screams for Attention… Observation from a University Student
In the last couple of weeks I have found myself feeling quite surprised by the amount of time that mobile phones consume my – and many other of ...
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Global Issues 566
The Evil in War
The dictionary’s definition of war is “a state of armed conflict between different countries, or different groups within a country.” (1) The word ‘war’ comes from the old ...
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Relationships 455
Sex and Intimacy – a Journey of Understanding
For many years in our marriage relationship there was very little true intimacy between my husband and I as we know and feel it today, although at the ...
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Global Issues 395
Judgement, Acid Attacks and Lack of Love for Others
In the world today there are many different ways people live; whether it be their financial, educational, religious or health choices that differ, for each individual how they ...
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Relationships 524
Relationship Ripples
Who would have thought that relationships and their ripples would have such a profound impact on life, everywhere? Relationships present an opportunity to evolve in one’s own relationship, ...
