Grief is intense sorrow caused by loss; this could be the loss of a job, the loss of our home, the breakdown of a relationship or the death of someone we care about. This blog concentrates on the grief we experience when we lose someone who has meaning to us, someone who has been a […]

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Let’s weigh in on the problem! Weight loss is something that a staggering number of people have an issue with. Did you know that … age-standardization comparison in the 2011–2012 Australian Health Survey reported 28.3% of Australian adults to be obese, with a massive 63.4% being overweight or obese. This figure is pretty frightening. Even […]

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Domestic violence refers to any form of threat—physical or mental—that causes you fear. As a survivor of spousal abuse, I know and understand the psychological warfare that goes on within yourself, more so when you know on an intellectual level that you should go yet somehow your emotions override your intellect. This insidious cycle of […]

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In the past two decades, scientists and neurologists have made fascinating inroads into understanding the mind. When we say the mind, we look at both the conscious and the subconscious mind. What is known and accepted is that we operate with our conscious mind only 10% of the time. Now, I can hear you thinking […]

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