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 […]
Category Archives: Living through…
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 […]
Lifestyle Health, Lifestyle Medicine, Living through..., Migraine, Neurology
Moving Thoughts: How Emotions change the way you think.
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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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
Six and a half years on from living through the trauma of a brain tumour diagnosis I’m so excited to be here today, Thurs 2nd of Sept 2021, in Edinburgh at the annual conference of the British Society of Lifestyle Medicine launching the Lifestyle Health Foundation, which will be based from the town of #tonbridge in #Kent, to where I […]
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If, as Marc Brackett eloquently writes in his book, you’ve been given ‘Permission to feel’ then it’s amazing what you can uncover! ❤️ Last evening I wrote an email to those who have taken part in a survey & asked to be kept informed. I wished to thank them for their contribution & let them […]
It was in 1907 that Robert Baden-Powell wrote that to be prepared meant “you are always in a state of readiness in mind and body to do your duty.”Baden-Powell was an English Soldier who’s idea, as stated in the Scouting Magazine, was ‘Scouts should prepare themselves to become productive citizens and strong leaders and to bring […]
I find it amazing & wonderful how a thought can arise simply because of a single comment that another person just happens to have made in conversation, which is perhaps an e.g. of “the whole is greater than the sum of the parts”. ie the significance of what transpires could only happen because of the […]
The other evening, I was attempting to think of an analogy that might offer a way to explain the feeling that, for me anyway, is often associated with the anxiety that accompanies the build up to the annual scan to check on a tumour. In my case a brain tumour, but for others it could […]
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