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A Lesson in Hope – The Tattooist of Auschwitz

In the middle of the year, within a relatively short space of time, I had two people say to me, “I think you’d like the book, The Tattooist of Auschwitz”. Within two weeks of the second mention of that book, I saw that book – at my mother-in-law’s place. Well, when...

Stronger Than You Think

We all ‘know’ that exercise is important. However, as we get older, exercise becomes even more important. If you are a woman over 50 (or of any age for that matter), weight-bearing exercise (eg strength exercises) becomes even more important (for maintaining muscle...

Giving Up

English is a funny language at times – sometimes in a humorous way, and sometimes in that strange kind of way. I find it interesting how we can have the same word or phrase, yet in different contexts, it can mean entirely different things. In a recent conversation,...

Mindfulness Meditation

Mindfulness Meditation

What's all natural, costs nothing, and boosts your well-being? This is a quote from American psychologist, Jonathan Haidt, author of The Righteous Mind, The Coddling of the American Mind, and The Happiness Hypothesis. Knowing that, if meditation came in the form of a...

My two core fundamentals to Mindful Living

My two core fundamentals to Mindful Living

  Earlier this year, my life got rocked to the core. My beautiful mother went from being pretty independent to having two falls (she’d never had a fall and these were just one week apart), two hospital stays, then subsequently died in late February. I now...