Category Archives: Lifestyle Health

Who decides when a medical condition is progressive – the doctor or patient?

Neither, in my view; especially when a person or service provides, or plans to provide, valued #personcentredcare. Perhaps more significantly, also neither, if they wish the person to have #hope, that by attending the service, they will receive the highest standard of care to live their best life. To explain, the following are two contrasting […]

EATIOLOGY: The study of simple observations and the sharing of thoughts on the causation or origination of mental and/or physical lifestyle related disorders, associated with our eating habits. 

Here you have a selection of foods that people are known to eat in one day – especially on a Sunday, with the roast dinner.  Before I go any further, do you know what the UK official recommended daily consumption of carbs is for the average person, who is regarded as healthy with no medical […]

Moving Thoughts: How Emotions change the way you think.

In this short article my mind has selected several words to form various thoughts, that I have come to appreciate as ’heart-felt’. This is because I believe they have passed through the heart, while listening to and hearing from many ordinary people, living extraordinary lives. These are people whom I’ve met physically or virtually through […]

“The secret of change is to focus all of your energy not on fighting the old, but on building the new” Socrates

I hope this images has sufficiently sparked your curiosity to start reading this post, which is to simply to share a few thoughts about ‘change’, especially when it is unplanned/forced and therefore often very unwelcome. But even when planned it comes with it challenges. It can throw mind into chaos, triggering significant #stress and #anxiety for many.  Last night […]

The emotional turmoil of migraine: Are we doing all the right research to prevent it?

As some of you reading this may know, people who experience migraines often describe the condition using phrases such as “more than just a headache” or “not just a headache”.  In one recent article the author, Victoria Stokes opened it by stating that “Migraine can be debilitating — not just in the physical sense, but in […]

Feeding the roots of life and your microbiome

Spring is definitely in the air, and it’s that time of year when those lucky enough to have a garden and who enjoy growing their own fruit and veg, start preparing the ground. And if you are a keen gardener then you will certainly be familiar with the important step of digging in the compost […]