Healthy people are giving people.

Have you ever been struck by the fact that some peoples faces and bodies mirror their personalities as you perceive them.I say as we perceive them, to leave room for the fact that we can be very wrong at times in our perceptions of others.

But we can also be very right!Aren’t we right until proved [...]

Do something different.

When we think about health……..it is my conviction that doing something different, something outside the normality of your life, routines or schedules is really good for you. Susan and I recently married after having known each other for three years. I have been really keen to build new memories for us that become pages in [...]

Thanks to the Queen

I have found myself over the years so believing that every weekend should be a three day weekend. Believing because after a three day weekend, apart from thinking Tuesday is Monday and turning up for things on the wrong days for a while until the penny drops, believing because it feels so good. How did [...]

Beauty Therapy in a nutshell (a muse)

I have been thinking and wrote this……….health in a wider concept perhaps.Writing is such a part of my emotional health…..

Beauty Therapy in a nutshell (a muse)

I find myself hungry for beauty. Not the kind you might think. Beauty has many faces & unfortunatelythe deepest & rarest beauty is born through pain.Birth is never a painless [...]

Loving healthy….a Saturday muse

I have been thinking lately about the changes in my life, and the nature of love.

I  find myself so grateful for this moment that I live in now and how all the deepest changes and the creation of some kind of beauty in my life have been facilitated by relationship, [...]

Health & Mothers Day Thoughts

I have been reflecting recently on the love and faithfulness of my mother, before Mothers day arrived even!. I have come to the conclusion that my mother who she has been and continues to me is a significant part of my overall wholeness and emotional healthiness. And that is not because of some perfect woman. [...]

Is Sushi good for you?

The other night I went to a sushi cooking class at The Auckland Fish Market. It was a wonderful birthday present from a good friend.I have always enjoyed sushi and bought into the ‘It’s gotta be good for you’ vibe.Some lunchtimes I had dashed down to the local sushi bar and felt all virtuous for [...]

Smaller workouts…….more often

I don’t know about you but sometimes smaller works better.Most workout/fitness  programmes end up being at least 1 hour long. I have learned that when you exercise for 35 minutes plus you are into  the zone that eats into fat reserves, and the available carbohydrates have been burned. Ultimately the 1 hour plus 3 times [...]

Foods that help circulation.......

Blood circulation has to be something that is really important. Blood transfers nutrients and oxygen to all parts of our bodies, it also plays a role in eliminating used carbon dioxide, lactic acid and other waste materials. The ability and ease with which it delivers and removes waste/used materials must be pretty important.
Here are some [...]

Well well well

Yes the silly season has arrived and I ain’t got no money, and you know what, I am hilariously happy.  When I see everyone out and about flooding The Warehouse getting prezzies, there is a certain amount of gladness that not being flush don’t mean you cant give.AND in all this I so damm well [...]