Healthy Tips

The food you eat can either be the best medicine or the slowest poison. Learn to make healthier choices with a health coach this autumn.

There is a lot of confusion out there, and a lot of contradicting information in the wellness and nutrition arena. But the reality is simpler than that: the physiology of the body does not change very quickly and there is common knowledge and scientific evidence…

A few weeks ago I sat down with James Haven of HealthCare Beans Podcast to talk about all things related to health coaching and lifestyle change. It was a really good conversation and managed to touch so many topics. The title of the podcast is…

Emotional eating is one of the main reasons why people can not keep up with a diet or healthy eating regime. It can result in feelings of frustration, guilt or shame that simply help to perpetuate the cycle. Join me for this free webinar, on…

Intuitive eating or attuned eating is a way of approaching food that is person-centered and not dogmatic. One of its core beliefs is that you should “allow yourself to eat”, and there is no food that is “good or bad”. Many recent studies have in…

With the New Year comes the time of punishing diets or “detox” to make up for the indulgences of the festive season. And while the idea of starting afresh and clearing out the system and your life from what did not work the previous year…

Menopause can be a challenging time for many women, a time of change, on a physical, emotional and mental level. It can feel overwhelming, which is why I have created this blueprint to help you navigate the change. Five easy steps to manage the changes…

Intuitive eating is a way of eating that follows your natural cues and is opposed to diet culture and obsession with calories. In intuitive eating, we rediscover our natural rhythms and the pleasure of food. Food becomes nourishment and self-care. Important health organizations like The…

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Emotional Eating is one of the most common reasons why people cannot lose weight or sustain healthy eating habits. You may have been there yourself. You have been on your best behavior most of the day, eating your veggies, reducing your carbs, or maybe even…

HUMAN BEINGS ARE WIRED FOR PLEASURE AND INSTANT GRATIFICATION I will tell you a secret. Human beings are wired for pleasure and instant gratification. Nobody is really looking forward to making sacrifices or giving up on things like chocolate, wine, comfort food or sweating at…

When shopping for healthy fruits and vegetables it is always difficult to know which are best to buy organic and which one are OK to bought conventionally grown. The EWG, the Environmental Working Group is an American organization that annually publish a list of the…

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If you’re experiencing a dip in your sex drive, then follow these tips from Margo Marrone, Co-Founder of The Organic Pharmacy, to help boost your libido naturally. Everyone’s libido is different, and it can even decline as you get older. But, in some cases, external…

Over the past ten years, I worked with many women in their late thirties and early forties, and while I was supporting them in their juggling between the demands of a high-powered job and caring for a young family, I kept on seeing the issues…

Few weeks ago I had the honour to be part of a panel of experts on how to keep fit and healthy during this Covid19 outbreak for the new health and wellness online publication Health Web Magazine . My best advice is to simply decrease…

We all know that we need to eat our “five a day” portions of vegetables, but do we really know why? The first thing that comes to our minds is definitely fibres and gut health, which are obviously vey important, yes, but is that the…

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Health coaching is a profession that is growing and is expected to grow even more in the near future. There is a lot of confusion though, about what a health coach is, and how a health coach can help clients make realistic and sustainable changes.…

There is a lot that we don’t know about COVID19, but what seems clear so far is that people with underlying conditions seem to be more susceptible to the virus and more likely to develop serious complications. Another pattern that is emerging is one of…

Are you keeping yourself busy, busy, during lockdown? Whilst keeping busy could be an effective coping mechanism to anxiety in the first place, it can also become a way to escape our reality and be faced with our inner self. We live in a society…

Vitamin C is one of the most important vitamins for the body. It is a major anti-oxidant and its involved in more than a hundred cellular reactions. It helps iron absorption, and collagen formation ( yes it is anti-aging that is why it is often…

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Self-isolation can be a frustrating time, but also one of self-discovery and self-growth. Staying indoor, maintain social & physical distancing while staying idle with all this time on your hands is the perfect recipe for negative thoughts, low energy, overthinking and anxiety. You need to…