There are four aspects that comprise your health and wellbeing: your mind, spirit, body, and emotions. And all four of these need to be integrated, balanced and in harmony when seeking optimum health and wellbeing.

There are a number of ways in which you can elevate your health and wellbeing. But remember, while these will enhance your health, they can't create it for you if it doesn’t already exist.

So it’s important to focus on all aspects of you and to make time for yourself as often as you can.

As you probably know, there is no one size fits all when it comes to food and diet. And by diet, I don’t mean dieting in order to lose weight. I mean diet as in what you consume. This includes what you allow in mentally too, by the way, not just what you put in your mouth, but that’s a topic for another post.

When I was studying my nutrition certification through the Food Matters Institute, they taught us that there are 10 Nutritional Principles we should aim to abide by. I think they’re really useful, and something we would all find useful, and so I’m going to be running through them here. And then I’ll let you know what I believe number 11 should be. So do watch for that one at the end.

Most of us go through life seeking the approval of others. Be it our parents, teachers, friends, partners. We are so afraid of doing what we want to do because we’ve been conditioned to need other people’s approval.

And sure, this probably stems back to the days of our ancestors when to not be approved of and accepted into the tribe meant certain death as you’d be left to fend for yourself against the deadly threats and predators out there.

So you learned to get along, acquiesce to the demands of the group…

I recently came across this beautiful and apt summary of the history of healing. It describes how we have come full circle when it comes to our understanding and use of natural or alternative healing.

Some of you may have come across it before during wellbeing workshops, seminars, retreats, or meditation sessions.

This really resonated with me. I hope it does for you too…

Adult colouring books have been around for a few years now, so you may already have bought yourself one, or borrowed a book from a friend and had a go.

The first time I tried it, it was with a good friend and lots of bubbles (aka sparkling wine). I think garlic prawns may have been involved too...