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Mariachi Queen! 22 June 2022|Health, Nutrition My first trip to South America – excuse the photo dump this week – a pic says a thousand words and all that… A traditional mariachi band were booked to celebrate 3 family birthdays while I was there – they were fab! Here’s the birthday ‘girl’ – 86 and…… Continue reading Mariachi Queen!

Good Times 8 June 2022|Health, Nutrition, Sustainability It’s been a while – for so many of us.  Let me introduce you to: Oxytocin, Endorphin, Dopamine and Serotonin. Those feel-good hormones arrived in the guise of good friends.  Laughter, good times, so good for the soul.  Currently typing away whilst ‘in transit’.  Why has it taken me…… Continue reading Good Times

Food for Thought 30 May 2022|Health, Nutrition, Recipes, Sustainability You can avoid alcohol, drugs, sugar, salt, wheat, dairy and carbohydrates your whole entire life, you can exercise, meditate and focus half your day on your health… But if you are swallowing your dreams, your ambitions, your regrets, your fears, your desires and your bitterness on…… Continue reading Food For Thought

8 Seats 17 May 2022|Health, Nutrition, Recipes, Sustainability We ate.  We laughed.  We cried.  We even watched Eurovision.  Connection.  A group of friends staying in our home for the first time in over 2 years.  Boy, did that feel good.  We’ve all missed authentic connection.  So important for our mental health.  It’s been tough.  We’ve missed…… Continue reading 8 Seats

What do Hugh Jackman and Bradley Cooper know about relationships? 10 May 2022|Health, Nutrition, Sustainability Here’s your chance to find out – for free.  We already know that Gabor Maté and Bessel van der Kolk know a whole bunch (that’s why you’ll find their work featured on our site).   Actors, trauma specialists and a stack…… Continue reading What Do Hugh Jackman And Bradly Cooper Know About Relationships?

Mistletoe and Wine 2 May 2022|Health, Nutrition, Recipes Sir Cliff Richard has been singing about them every  Christmastime for years, but what if we celebrated them both all year? The health benefits of the resveratrol found in red wine are known by many – the health benefits of mistletoe?  Not so much. I was advised…… Continue reading Mistletoe And Wine

A New Season 26 April 2022|Health, Research papers, Sustainability ‘How many decisions do you make in a day? More than you realise: What to have for breakfast, what to wear, how to act towards your friends, family and colleagues, even down to how you manage your work load during the day.  For today: Try to…… Continue reading A New Season

Maximiser Vos Années en Bonne Santé 11 April 2022|Health, Nutrition, Recipes, Sustainability Sometimes I just love technology.   Discovered that my French neighbours are greeted with this when they log on to the site.  Logic tells me the same automatic translation will occur when German speakers log in, Spanish speakers and so on.  If you…… Continue reading Maximiser Vos Années En Bonne Santé

Paying it Forward The Awesome Way 3 April 2022|Health, Nutrition, Recipes, Research papers, Sustainability Finnbar was a little boy diagnosed with a brain tumour aged just 5 years old.  So much of that sentence is so wrong, but so much of what has happened since is so right:  Finnbar was initially diagnosed with a Grade…… Continue reading Paying It Forward The Awesome Way

When Worlds Collide 28 March 2022|Health, Nutrition, Recipes, Sustainability I was kindly given this stunning venue for my book launch in 2019.  Three years later and they’ll be hosting a wellness retreat led by my friend during my daughter’s 18th birthday celebrations this June… Love it when worlds collide.  The book I wrote during treatment for breast cancer had…… Continue reading When Worlds Collide