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 […]
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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 […]
I’ve had this expression in my head now for a number of weeks, and it was whilst out on another lovely walk yesterday that a graphical way to help describe what it is I’ve been to trying to say, came to me. As some of you reading this may know, March 2015 was not the […]
I went for a walk with a friend at the weekend. We both share a connection with the brain tumour world (he has a lovely son, who had surgery to remove a tumour about 3 years ago plus some radiotherapy). It was when we shared some stories about baking, some of the disasters (😂) as […]
This week, from the 5-7th of April it has been the International College of Person Centred Medicine’s 13th Geneva Conference on Person Centered Medicine, Self-care and Well-being in the Times of COVID-19. Not surprisingly, it was held virtually and I had the pleasure and felt very honoured to be amongst a wonder community of Global […]
I don’t know about you, but when faced with a challenging situation, the old cogwheels start turning and they tend to turn even faster when it relates to a family matter. This weekend I found myself contemplating how and why an eating habit or behaviour can become unhealthy, with the potential to becoming an ‘eating […]
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