Journaling is one of the oldest self-help practices in the world. It dates to the 10th century and has only grown in popularity over time. Today, millions of people use the practice to help improve ...
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3 Steps to Creating New Habits
Let’s talk about forming new habits. We all have times in our lives where we intentionally want to change our behaviour for the better and create new habits for ourselves. There are so many areas in ...
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Why Self-Care? 5 Benefits of Creating a Life-Changing Self-Care Routine
Self-care is simple. It’s all about tuning in to your needs – mentally, emotionally and physically – and doing things on purpose to take care of yourself. It’s about setting boundaries and putting YOU ...
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Fall In Love With Yourself
Once you discover how to fall in love with yourself, you can't help but treat yourself with respect and thoughtfulness.
While seeking love, many people tend to look outward rather than inward. ...
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4 Ways to Postpone your Procrastination
We’ve all done it at some time or other. We put off our exercise routine until tomorrow; we continually delay finishing that project or starting that business.
Procrastination is the mother of all ...
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On the Shelf – 3 Books
I love reading and thought I would share some of the books I have been reading recently.
My Body, My Home
A radical guide to resilience and self-love
I discovered this at the library five ...
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5 Ways To Develop A Motivated Mindset
From time to time, each of us will find ourselves in a rut of boredom and disinterest. We seem to lose our zest for life and feel tired, irritable and unmotivated. We want to hide under the covers ...
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Self-Care is not Selfish!
Self-Care is giving the world the best of you, instead of what's left of you - Katie Reeds
Do you ever forget to take care of yourself? I know. You’re busy, looking after everyone else and finding ...
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One Habit That Has Helped Me Nourish My Body
This one habit has;
saved me time, $$$, reduced food wastehelped me nourish my bodymade my day and week run smoothly.
Wanna know what it is? Without further ado – drum roll please…..Ta dah – it ...
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Start Where You Are
What do I mean by Start Where You Are (SWYA)?
When asked by people how I changed my life, I would say that I embraced the messiness and began. I didn’t wait for things to be perfect or for x, y and ...
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Pause & Celebrate
If you have been reading my blog you will know I have been working on my health and wellbeing over the last 15 months. I thought it was timely to pause and review how far I have come from this time ...
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The Gift of Staying In
When Jacinda Ardern announced on Monday, March 23, that New Zealand would go into “Lock Down”
for four weeks, I was at a café with a friend having lunch. Life was
about to change in a big way for ...
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4 Steps to Create an Altar in your Home
An altar serves as a reminder to what is sacred to you. An anchor of sorts. I When I was in my early 30’s, I was flatting with two others – and at the time, my bedroom was my sanctuary. Within my ...
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A Sacred Space of her Own
Life can be exhausting and overwhelming at times and during these moments all you want is a place where you can retreat and call a space of your own. Some of you may be thinking this place sounds like ...
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Changes Afoot
I am a considerably happier person these days compared to who I was this time last year and two years ago. What happened? I made one change which created a ripple effect into the rest of my life I ...
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Putting Pen to Paper
Writing bought me joy as a child. As an adult, I rediscovered the joy of writing when I completed 12 weeks of "The Artist's Way" in 2018.
Putting pen to paper
I had tried to work through the ...
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I gained 4.9 kilos in 3 weeks & have no guilt!
On 22 Feb 2019, I joined WW online and weighed 162.7 kilos. It’s
been a while since I shared an update on how this journey has been going. I wanted
to be authentic and share how I coped with eating ...
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2020 Word
Last year I didn’t even have the energy to entertain a word
for 2019 – if I had it would have been “SLEEP”. This Year it took me nine days
to come up with my word for 2020 and quite frankly I was ...
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I Hated Exercising!
I saw exercise as punishment – something to be endured
rather than enjoyed! It took me a while to re-write the story I had told myself
about exercise. Despite the rocky start, this story has a happy ...
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162.7 Reasons
When you ignore something long enough – it’s only a matter
of time before you are forced to deal with it whether you like it or not. I
hope that in sharing my story, it will help someone else realise ...
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As I began
Have you ever
read something that speaks to your soul and lingers with you for a while?
A couple of years ago, I was flicking through a magazine when the poem below caught my eye! Some of the ...
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Sleeping Beauty Part 2
In Sleeping Beauty or Sleepless Beauty I wrote about how my lack of sleep tuned out to be OSA and in this second post, I share how my CPAP trial went and how it has transformed my life!
What is ...
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Sleeping Beauty or Sleepless Beauty?
In March of this year, I was diagnosed with (OSA) Obstructive Sleep Apnoea. While I was relieved that I had an explanation for the sleep issues it also freaked me out as I knew it would mean having to ...
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