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“No one who achieves success does so without the help of others. The wise and confident acknowledge this help with gratitude.” Alfred North Whitehead As we round the corner between autumn and the advent of the holiday season, I suddenly find myself t...

At 35 years old Roslyn Cure weighed 300lbs. Her weight put so much stress on her joints that doctors predicted she would need knee and hip replacements before she hit 40. “I remember it took me 20 minutes to climb a flight of 13 stairs to my door an...

OK here we go! The Halloween candy is in the stores, making shopping trips torturous for all parents everywhere. It’s normally placed at kid-height to capitalise on pester-power. As parents, we know we shouldn’t give in but after a long, long day a...

Covid-19 has piled stress on all of us; Keisha Allen-Smith is offering help with managing it. She lays it all out in her book, 77 Ways to Reduce Stress and Energize Your Life, which is aimed at anyone looking "to improve their physical, mental, emoti...

I was having a chat with the staff in the clinic the other day and we got onto the subject of pet names. All of a sudden there was a flurry of names flying around as everyone remembered their favourite and commented on the trends they had noticed in...

Monday evening I went on a run. I was aiming for three miles however my back tightened up and prevented me from finishing so I walked the rest of the way home. After taking time to analyse why my back was aching I realised that my sleeping patterns...

In her 20s, Carrie DeSilva thought that if she could just lose weight she would be happy. She tried everything from the Keto diet to fasting, to meal replacement shakes, belly wraps and waist trainers. “I found a raw foods diet in the back of a book ...

“We measure genius by quality, not by quantity.” Wendell Phillips If I asked you to sum up your experience over the last two years in just one word, what is the first word that comes to mind? For me, it is fatigue – isolation fatigue, lockdown fatigu...

When we're working out, more times than none we do so with the idea of pushing ourselves. A "challenge accepted" mentality strikes and we push through fatigue, never giving up and inviting the discomfort of change. At least that's how I workout. One...

“Obstacles are those frightening things you see when you take your eyes off your goal.” Henry Ford Regardless of how the pandemic has touched your life, one of the things that we all have in common is the fact that social-distancing has taken an enor...