Physical
Our bodies are incredibly intricate and created to work for the most part with little conscious thought from us. One thing we can do consciously is choose to fuel ourselves well in order to maintain and maximise our physical vitality. Good sleeping habits, healthy eating, and moving well are all important fuel for our bodies, replenish our energy and live in abundance.
Applying 2020 Vision for 2021 Goal Setting
Happy New Year! There have been a number of social media posts floating around over the past few weeks, all with the same sentiment: ‘New Year, new goals…how cliché.’ It seems many of us have goal setting fatigue. Many of us don’t want to do the ‘set new goals for…
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Healthy Holiday Habits For Life
Let’s dig in and look at some simple strategies for creating healthy holiday habits that you can adopt for life. Living A Bespectacled Life is all about long term, positive change. This kind of change takes time, so you won’t find a magical solution or well marketed empty promise about…
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What is a Bespectacled Life? Living on purpose…
In short: A Bespectacled Life is the act of putting on your life-spectacles and clearly seeing the next step forward to positive lasting change. It’s a call to live life on purpose… There are three main parts to living a bespectacled life: Living well across all domains of health: WHOLEistic…
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Its time to put down our phones!
Prefer to listen? Check out my podcast on this topic (or find it in Apple Podcasts) I think its time we learned how to put down our phones. A friend shared a bunch of art on Facebook that really caught my attention. One image particularly stood out- it was a…
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Can’t Sleep? Don’t worry, me neither, so I’m writing this blog instead…
Ah, for some beautiful sleep. Curled up in bed with a warm blanket and just drifting into a land of comfort and sweet dreams. “Dad…Mum? I can’t sleep.” Oh. My. #@!* goodness. Me either, for some unknown reason. Oh that’s right, you woke me up! AGAIN. Cue death stares and…
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7 Ways to Get Motivated to Move More
Prefer to listen? Check out my podcast on this topic (or find it on Apple Podcasts) I’m not sure about you, but I have never been one of those people who love exercise. I never really played a team sport growing up. Despite living by the beach and having my…
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What is Wellness Coaching?
Wellness Coaching is an emerging field in Lifestyle Medicine that I believe will become more mainstream as we begin to recognise the importance of taking charge of our own health. Most people are unaware and a little bit dubious when they hear the term “wellness coaching” so here is some…
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Sleep for Health?
Do we really need to sleep well to improve our health? That is the question…. Some other important questions: Do you sometimes love to hate sleep because it alludes you? Do you sometimes wake up and wonder if you actually did fall asleep at all the night before? Do you ever…
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Part 4: Putting it all Together
If your curious but can’t be bothered reading all the blogs in this series, this is your blog! It sums the other three up nicely! So…I have been harping on about these three concepts (Body, Garden, God), and my blog is categorised into these three concepts also. You…
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Body, Garden, God Series- Part 1: The Incredible Human Body
Have you ever stopped to think about the incredible creation you are? You are fantastically fashioned in a purposeful way by a designer with eons of experience. Before you were born he knew you. He knew the shape of your eyes, the way your cheeks dimple when…
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What is Lifestyle Medicine
Once upon a time, when I thought about the meaning behind the word ‘lifestyle,’ it conjured up images of lying on the beach in a stylish outfit with fashionable sunnies on, sipping a cool drink. Erm…if you thought that had anything to do with Lifestyle Medicine, you have come to…
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