Improving Wellbeing with Five Small Actions

I recently participated as a panelist for the Health Promotion in Panemics Global Webinar for Youth, organized by the Alliance for Health Promotion, an international NGO based in Geneva. I had the good fortune to work alongside other experts in the wellbeing field as well as youth activist making a positive impact on the wellbeing of the […]

Thirty years and still going strong!

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LOVE IS IN THE AIR My husband and I celebrated our 30th wedding anniversary over the holidays. Yes I was young when we married. We even dated for 6 years before we married so I guess you could say that “Dan was the Man” for me. This sort of relationship is not so common with […]

The Times They are a Changin`… Bob Dylan

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Life stage changes seem to loom in front of us, whether they be a two digit birthday with a ZERO at the end, a marriage, starting a family, parental passing, menopause, becoming an empty-nester. There is excitment at most of the earlier stages in life. The latter stages can cause anxiety and much inward reflection. […]

FOUR Aspects of LIVING a New Year

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A calendar new year has just begun. We spend time and energy deciding how to celebrate and who to celebrate with and hopefully we have fun or find joy in whichever way we celebrate. As well we often set resolutions for the year with gusto but often we have not really taken the time to […]

Taking Advantage of the Winter Months!

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As the sun sets on 2014 we look back on the year and forward to the new one. Besides the usual revelry, gatherings with family and friends, traveling and the making of resolutions to do things differently next year, this is the time of year for some rest and recuperation. In nature, these colder, darker […]

Daily Affirmations

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For those of you that know, I am a certified Louise Hay Practitioner. Louise started “You can HEAL your LIFE” and so much more. She is world renown and I would say the GURU of Self Affirmation and linking emotions to illness. Affirmations help us overcome fears, change thinking habits and change the beliefs we have […]

BE CURIOUS

One of the 3 principles of a Sophrology practice is to explore things with curiosity and wonder. Some exercises have us focus the curiosity on our body, experiencing our body for the first time. Other exercises have us explore and experience gravity for the first time, or our emotions. The practice of curiosity, when we […]