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How to do a digital detox
We are spending more time than ever in front of our screens. While it has allowed us to keep in touch with people, work from home and stay connected during a year where we have had to ‘stay home to save lives’, it can be very draining and it means we are exposed to a huge amount of negative energy. A regular digital detox will allow you to break habits that can quickly turn into addictions and will give you a chance to recharge, reconnect and refresh your energy. Here are my top tips for making the most of a digital detox.
Painful muscle cramps? Try these tips…
Muscle cramps are something most of us experience at some time. They can be incredibly painful, especially when they take us by surprise at night. I chatted with health coach, Lindsay Henderson of LHHL Coaching about what she would recommend for managing cramps and together we came up with this list of tips…
Stressed? How journaling can help you…
Do you find that things get stuck in your mind, and go round and round in a never ending loop, leaving you stressed and nowhere closer to a solution? Getting it down on paper might be what you need to break that cycle. Journaling is something I recommend (in several...
How can you practice self-care, work from home and home-school?
Self-care is never selfish. Fill your own cup first. Take care of yourself and you'll be in a much better position to take care of others. This is all true but what if you can't get a single second to yourself? If you're working from home and home-schooling or taking...
How NOT to lose it during lockdown
A few weeks into lockdown, how are you doing? No really, how are you doing? However you are feeling, it is absolutely valid ... scared, bored, lonely, happy, rested, accepting, angry ... all of these and more in the space of an hour. We are knee deep in an experience...
Ready to change? Here’s how to succeed!
Is there something in your life you want to change? A habit you want to break or make? Would you like to eat more healthily or exercise more? Do you want it enough? To be motivated to make a personal change, you must be either moving away from something awful or moving towards something wonderful – if you are not, it won’t be important enough.
The Practical Goddess – Review by Alison Daniels
Sometimes, I feel that I’m fading away in some ways despite the malicious efforts of my scales to tell me the opposite is true. We spend so much time on the dull routines of everyday necessity, on pleasing others and being there for every little bump in their roads,...
Making the most of Mercury Retrograde
Does Mercury Retrograde strike fear into your heart? Are you sure that for the next few weeks, everything is going to go wrong? Or do you not have a clue what it means but notice that it gets blamed for a whole load of upheaval? This blog will help you to make the...
Goddess Interview – Tanith Carey (child behaviour guru)
This week's blog is for all you frazzled parents out there. Last week I chatted with Tanith Carey, award winning journalist and author of some really fantastic books on parenting, about her new book 'What's My Child Thinking?'. I took the opportunity to quiz her for...
How to shine your light without burning out
Would it surprise you to know that studies have shown burn out to be very common in therapists? One study in particular, published by the British Psychological Society even showed that when burn out happens, therapists are most likely to blame themselves. As a life...