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My Top 10 Big Ideas – Optimized Wisdom Distilled
I spent the better part of 2020 participating in an intensive Coach Training program that focused on core wisdom (from ancient wisdom and modern science) and life’s fundamentals. As part of the program, we all had to participate in an obstacle course race. The...
The impact of one simple change – stop eating sugar
In 2011, I watched my partner lose a few kilos – initially 2kgs, ultimately about 10kgs. For a man in his late 40s, he had a six-pack! I was a happy woman Anyway, all he did was make one change to what he ate – just one – and the weight seemingly just melted off him....
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
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
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...

