Healthy store cupboard alternatives Today’s blog is from Kathleen Dubo of Interwoven Wellness as she offers healthy alternatives should supplies of your regular staples dry up. Living in thehttps://kathleendubo.com/ mountains of Virginia in the US, Kathleen has a large vegetable garden and enjoys an abundance of winter greens. Something in the past few weeks has drastically...Read More
Take good care of yourself At the start of the year we could never in our wildest dreams have imagined being in the situation we are now in. It could easily be something out of a fiction novel. I’m sure I’m not alone in feeling I need to pinch myself at times as I wonder...Read More
Healthy New Year Resolutions Make resolutions, fail, repeat! Who doesn’t know this pattern? A reported 60% of us set New Year’s Resolutions, 55% of them being health related. Recurring resolutions include: I’m going to cut junk food I’m going to exercise more I’m going to go to bed earlier I’m going to stop drinking (or...Read More
Healthy present ideas It’s that time of year when the nights are dark and time is short. Regardless of our best made plans and despite powering through our To Do lists, we’re still not done. I’m here to help you get your Christmas shopping done and dusted with gift ideas for the runner, cyclist, gym...Read More
SLEEP! That was a command! As sleep is a natural activity to us humans, why do so many have trouble with it? The 2017 Sleep Council’s survey of over 5000 people found that: Almost a third of respondents get a poor night’s sleep most nights with over half reporting stress or worry as the cause....Read More
Health and Happiness Health and happiness are two things that most of us want in life. Whilst health and happiness both sound straightforward in themselves, achieving them is not as simple as we might think. In this month’s blog, I look at the relationship between happy and healthy to ask: Does happy lead to healthy?...Read More
Sept 2019 – June 2020 For many years now, I’ve coincided my ‘New Year’ with the start of the academic school year. Making plans for the year ahead in the depth of winter and at the end of a busy festive period doesn’t feel right for me. Whereas there’s something refreshing as we near the...Read More
Still Craving Chocolate? A few days on from Easter and who has vowed to return their chocolate consumption to more normal levels? What do Easter, Christmas and birthdays (not to mention Halloween!) all have in common? Yes, these are all times when our chocolate and sugar consumption can get, quite frankly, out of hand! It’s funny...Read More
All About Yoga Jennifer Aniston, Gwyneth Paltrow, Kate Hudson, Lady Gaga and David Beckham – want to take a guess at what they all have in common? They’ve all sung the praises of yoga as part of their regular fitness routine or helping them with aches and pains. Yoga in the city Gone are the...Read More
Healthy Trends Despite the millions of books, magazine articles and podcasts on healthy, you could be forgiven for being more than a little confused about what healthy really is. Like anything else, health trends go in and out of fashion. What’s in favour one day can be rapidly out of favour the next. Take clean...Read More
