Author: doublezero100

Three Fingers 23 March 2021|Health, Recipes, Sustainability One finger for each year free of cancer.  This was me today in front of Oncopole, Toulouse’s cancer hospital.  This is the ‘why’ of Double-Zero: I had no idea that I was unhealthy, a ‘type C’ person as Laura Bond calls us in her wonderful book Mum’s not having…… Continue reading Three Fingers

Learning Never Ends 15 March 2021|Health, Recipes, Sustainability, Testimonials We’re signed up to this free event!   Keen to learn which foods to eat and which to avoid to fight inflammation and disease? Effective strategies to manage stress, overwhelm & anxiety? How vitamins C & D can be used to boost your immunity? Why your…… Continue reading Learning Never Ends

What’s a ‘Fedge’? 9 March 2021|Health, Recipes, Sustainability And why should we have one? Welcome to the world of conscious gardening.  We all know gardening’s great for sustainability… Isn’t it? Jen Gale’s podcast was added to our site this week and is truly ‘food for thought’. Sustainability, she believes, is all about doing what you can, one…… Continue reading What’s a Fedge?

Step Back 3 March 2021|Health, Recipes Fight, flight, or freeze.  Like most of the planet I’ve felt all of these emotions in the past year!  Irena suggests that there is another option:  We can step back.  In this short video she’ll show us how.  She shares with us a simple technique to distract our brain when…… Continue reading Step Back

Lifelines 22 February 2021|Health What are yours?  Is your faith your anchor?  Your family?  Friends?  Pets? Habits?   What is keeping you afloat?  This is from Donna Ashworth: (Ladies Pass It On). You’re not imagining it, nobody seems to want to talk right now.Messages are brief and replies late.Talk of catch ups on zoom are perpetually…… Continue reading Lifelines

Self Love 14 February 2021|Health, Sustainability, Testimonials It has been said that we cannot truly love another until we love ourselves.  Dr Bruce Lipton, a former medical school professor and research scientist explores how truly connected the mind, body, and spirit are in his book The Biology of Belief. Charlene Fursland (pictured) concurs.  She has healed…… Continue reading Self Love

In Memory of Sebastian 8 February 2021|Health, Nutrition Our guest blog today features my friend Eva, whose son Sebastian spent 6 loved days on this earth. On this podcast she talks of the importance of community, of sharing their loss, of the part talking therapy played in her healing, of her continuing, unbounded love for…… Continue reading In Memory Of Sebastian

New Kid in Town 1 February 2021|Health, Recipes, Sustainability, Testimonials Watch out Deliciously Ella, there’s a new kid in town.  Well, new to us here at Double-zero:  Healthy Living James’ lemon drizzle cake was a big hit for dessert tonight. With 163k followers on Instagram this young man’s going places.  ‘The more the healthy merrier’ we say.…… Continue reading New Kid In Town

S.A.D. 25 January 2021|Health, Nutrition, Research papers Seasonal Affective Disorder, Standard American Diet, Struggling Against Depression (ok I made that one up, but they’re all very real today.) Wikipedia describes Season Affective Disorder as: ‘a mood disorder subset in which people who have normal mental health throughout most of the year exhibit depressive symptoms at…… Continue reading S.A.D

A Healthy Mind During Difficult Times 19 January 2021|Health, Recipes, Sustainability ‘Healthy Mind’ is the title of one of the sections on our site. I’m not sure they are particularly bountiful.  In fact having a healthy mind feels pretty aspirational right now.  Our mental health affects our physical health too – that mind/body connection is…… Continue reading A Healthy Mind During Difficult Times