by Joan | Apr 15, 2019 | Wellbeing
It’s a sobering fact that up to 95 percent of cancers are linked to environmental and lifestyle factors with 30 percent of cancer deaths linked to diet. The importance of reducing unhealthy fats, processed foods and meats, sugar and alcohol is well known. But how you...
by Joan | Apr 10, 2018 | meditation, mindfulness, Personal development, Posts, Wellbeing, Wellbeing Tips
What would happen if all your usual methods of preoccupation and distraction were taken away. All the talking, moving, doing, reading was given over to gentle self-inquiry? How would it be to simply sit in silence allowing yourself to make contact with your moment to...
by Joan | Mar 30, 2018 | Wellbeing
Practical hacks for protecting your privacy and your sanity. Social media is busily disrupting our communications habits and relationships. Thanks to Facebook we can now stay in constant contact with distant family members, school chums and hundreds of (so-called)...
by Joan | Nov 28, 2017 | Wellbeing
On a trip of a life-time to India last year, I was lucky enough to take a cooking class with formidable cook and entrepreneur Shashi. Up some narrow stairs and beneath the Sunrise restaurant in the beautiful lake city of Udaipur, Shashi’s spotless kitchen is host to...
by Joan | Feb 24, 2017 | Wellbeing
How often to you find yourself unable to stop thinking about something that went wrong? The more your think about it the more insurmountable it seems (and the more overwhelmed and hopeless you feel) If you’d like to bounce back more quickly from life’s...
by Joan | Feb 24, 2017 | Wellbeing
Looking for a savoury biscuit for snacking or your next cheese platter? Want to avoid gluten, dairy, grains but baulking at the cost of expensive whole food versions at the health store? Just want a yummy cracker that is not plastic packaged, filled with additives...