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You’re Not Imagining It: Why the Weather Really Does Affect How You Feel

You’re Not Imagining It: Why the Weather Really Does Affect How You Feel There’s a familiar scene that plays out in homes across the UK. ...

Marching into a Happier Healthier Spring

As we move into March and April, the signs of spring are all around us – lighter mornings, longer evenings and a renewed sense of ...

Your Winter Balance

The seasons have definitely changed; we have cold, wet, windy days, and the evenings are drawing in fast. For some, winter feels like a warm ...

Exercising in a Heatwave

With summer finally making an appearance across the UK, many of us are keen to make the most of the sunshine. But when temperatures rise, ...

Seasonal Eating for Gut Health and Wellbeing

As summer rolls in, our supermarkets and kitchens can fill with an abundance of vibrant, fresh produce. From juicy strawberries to sun-ripened tomatoes, the season ...

Moving from Winter into Spring

As the morning breaks, I’m noticing the light breaking through the curtains. It feels like we’re beginning to emerge from winter into spring. It’s not ...

2025 – A Brand New Year

Exploring and celebrating the topics in our world of Wellbeing over the coming months is one of the many ways we enjoy supporting you here ...

The Benefits of Walking – Keeping it Simple

Our Most Under-Rated Exercise!  “Our minds are shaped by the modern world but originate in nature. We suffer as a result when these become disconnected” ...

Will Meditation Work for Me?

Recently I was asked why Meditation has become part of my personal self-care. What a great question! Meditation is something we might have recommended to ...

Have I got Social Media Addiction?

Spring Clean your Social As I put pen to paper today, we’re heading for Spring. The mornings are getting lighter, the evenings are getting brighter. ...

Adapting to Change – Lessons from Autumn?

One of the greatest blessings when I’m out walking locally is the joy and gratitude I feel for living in a seasonal country. As September ...

How to Improve Your Time Management – Where is your time going?

Every Monday morning, we start the week with our coaching call. We check-in on everyone’s previous week and talk about what lies ahead. This week ...

How Important is Sleep Really?

“Is sleep really that important?”  Let’s find out! Sleep increases brain functioning – cognition, concentration, productivity and performance. Sleep deprivation has the same effect as ...

Time and Space – Finding it, why it might be important and what YOU are going to do with it!

On Monday I just needed to get out! I now recognise when I’m getting like this because I can’t think straight. The Inbox pings, our ...

Self Esteem – A Funny Old Thing!

Our self-esteem is absolutely essential for our survival. It comes from the ‘ego’ part of the brain that is going out of its way to ...

Should I Eat Organic Food?

How do you Eat Yours? As we enter the warmer months of the year, there would have been a time where we began to eat ...

Am I Drinking Enough Water?

Water, water everywhere….especially after this very wet weekend!!  Water is the most abundant substance in the human body. Effectively, we are 70% water, thickened with ...

How Much Protein is Enough?

Protein forms one of our 4 major food groups, essential for optimal health, but recent media hype around the merits of low carb/high protein or ...

What is a Balanced Diet?

A healthy diet relates to the principles of eating well so that our bodies function optimally and we don’t suffer any sense of “dis-ease”.  This can ...

New Life, New Hope

I think about lots of things sitting on top of a big hill! Yesterday was a strange yet wonderful day – reflecting on losing my ...

Why Scales Don’t Work – Weight Gain in Lockdown

So #Lockdown2020 has prompted me to put pen to paper and write about something I’m increasingly passionate about in my work with my Nutrition clients, ...

Creating Great Change, One Thing at a Time

It sounds clichéd doesn’t it? Just “Change one thing”? In the last few weeks I have found myself feeling really unsettled. I’m not sure why….maybe ...

What is Nordic Walking?

I’m just back from a lovely morning with my Tip the Balance Walking buddies, which inspired me to put pen to paper for today’s blog. ...

I Eat All the Wrong Things

I find this is a really common apprehension when I talk to many of my clients about their foodie habits. It’s actually quite rare that ...

Holiday Temptations

Can you click straight back into the good habits after a holiday? Good God! Is it only me who really struggles with Half Term temptation? ...

Had Enough of Dieting?

Having done some building work in our house, I had a chuckle to myself as I returned my cook books to the brand-new shelves my ...

Recognising our Food Behaviours

I’ll start tomorrow…or the next day! Am I the only person on the planet that can find a million things to do when I actually ...