Health

February 27, 2020
in Bach Flower Remedies, Emotional Wellness, Energy, Family, Health, Mindful Living, Stress

Fear is normal. In fact, it can protect us from danger. But it’s also insidious: it can wrap itself around us, infecting our thoughts and emotions to ensure we don’t take risks and we stay alive. Real or imagined, fear can take us further into the fight, flight or freeze animal responses. It can then paralyze and debilitate us.   Fear and the days we live in With mounting concerns around COVID19 (coronavirus disease 2019), fear is an emotion felt by many. “Am I safe?”, “Are my loved ones safe?”, “Where do I get...

January 15, 2020
in Balance, Emotional Wellness, Health, Mindful Living, Stress

It’s 2020! The start of a new year; the start of a new decade. Starting a new year calls for new plans, new resolutions and new dreams. Some we accomplish; others we don’t. Some are nice-to-haves; others are life-changing. Here’s a new habit that I hope you will consider. After all, a plethora of research confirms the positive impacts on your health and happiness, and your physical, mental, and emotional wellbeing.   Embracing your community and friends. It sounds simple enough, but the reality is that our busy and bustling lifestyles can push healthy...

March 25, 2019
in Health

  A new documentary wins our hearts: HEAL. Often, on our quest for healing, we forget a fundamental truth: our bodies are interconnected systems that depend on each other to function. Healing, therefore, is complex and it can never consist of one unique formula. Collating the insight and experiences of scientists, healers, renown spiritual teachers and patients, Heal cleverly navigates the complexities of holistic healing. As a wellness coach, wellness practitioner, and patient, I treasure teachings that are educational and holistic, and that acknowledge the role of energy. Based on my learnings from the...

March 25, 2019
in Balance, Emotional Wellness, Health, Stress

 Kung Hei Fat Choi! The Year of the Pig is upon us. I wish you all love, luck, and laughter! As every year tends to throw in a medley of wonderful experiences and unexpected stumbling blocks, how do we fly with the highs and flow with the lows? Gratitude. "Gratitude turns what we have into enough, and more. It turns denial into acceptance, chaos into order, confusion into clarity...

October 25, 2018
in Emotional Wellness, Health, Mindful Living, Stress

As October – the month we honor mental health – draws to a close, let us remember that acknowledging and respecting our mental wellbeing is imperative all year round. All too often, we focus on the physical being, spending our time and resources to keep our bodies fit, healthy and strong, and we overlook our mental health. However as David R Hamilton, PhD, shares in his book “It’s the thought that counts”, medical research shows that body and mind are intertwined. Every thought, feeling, and intention you have sends ripples throughout your...

April 1, 2016
in Emotional Wellness, Family, Health, Iridology

This month, as we acknowledge World Health Day, let’s think about our family health genes. Are our physical, mental, emotional and energetic health challenges entirely our own or are they an unavoidable consequence of our relationships with grandparents, parents and siblings?   In her groundbreaking book “Childhood Disrupted – How your biography becomes your biology; and how you can heal”, award-winning science journalist Donna Jackson Nakazawa explores the link between our life experiences and adult illnesses. Scientists now know on a bio-chemical level exactly how traumatic life experiences such as family violence,...