Welcome to the next in my series of Healthy High Fives – where on the last Friday of every month, I showcase a guest interview with a health and wellbeing expert answering five questions around a subject that matters to them (and me!). And for this next edition, I’m delighted to welcome Sarah Berry. Sarah … Continue reading A Healthy High Five with Professor Sarah Berry – The Power of Food
Today marks 7 weeks until the New York Marathon, and my 50th birthday, eek! After a little summer break from writing (not intentionally, but work and life got busy), I'm using today's post to reflect on my upcoming marathon challenge and how I'm connecting it back to my why... Earlier this year, I wrote a … Continue reading Running New York – for Dementia awareness
Welcome to the next in my new series of Healthy High Fives - where on the last Friday of every month, I showcase a guest interview with a health and wellbeing expert answering five questions around a subject that matters to them (and me!) And for this next edition, I’m delighted to welcome Eddie, the … Continue reading A Healthy High Five with Eddie Phillips – The Power of Sauna
Welcome to the first of a new feature where on the last Friday of every month, I showcase a guest interview with a health and wellbeing expert answering five questions around a subject that matters to them (and me!) And for the first edition of this new monthly feature, I’m delighted to welcome my Personal … Continue reading A Healthy High Five with Lexi Uffindell – The Power of Movement
I’ve been thinking a lot about numbers and their significance recently. In November I turn 50 - half a century!! In September my cat Buffy turns 20 - 96 in cat years! And POINT3 Wellbeing celebrates 8 years this month - I wrote a few reflections on this milestone on our P3 website here. Eight … Continue reading Number crunching – does it help or hinder you?
Last time I wrote about how movement supports (my) mental health and wellbeing. But I haven't always known this... It’s really only over the last 8 years, since founding POINT3 Wellbeing, that the connection between movement and mental health has become truly clear to me. This got me thinking about my motivation to move before … Continue reading My Relationship With Movement: From PBs to Balance
This week has been Mental Health Awareness Week - with the theme of Taking Action. I've been delivering a number of POINT3 wellbeing talks on mental health: what it is and isn't, how stress impacts our mental health, and science-backed ways to support it on an ongoing basis. So, I thought I'd share a subject … Continue reading My Mental Health and Movement
One of my more recent wellbeing rituals is Yin Yoga. I wrote a little about it in a blog earlier this year, on how I'm moving my body differently. I first came across Yin Yoga two years ago when I moved to Winchester. New Energy Yoga is just a few minutes' walk from where I … Continue reading Stretching the mind as well as the body this spring…
Friday 20 March (today) is the UN’s International Day of Happiness - a day that recognises happiness and wellbeing as a universal human goal. Today is also the first day of spring, according to the astronomical calendar, as I wrote about here. And with the sun shining as I write this, people seem just that … Continue reading How I Think About Happiness Now
I learned a new word this week - phenology - the study of plant and animal life cycles and their relationship to weather and climate. All around us spring appears to have sprung - the daffodils have been out for a number of weeks, as have the crocuses; and this week the birds are singing … Continue reading Spring’s Arrival: What Nature Teaches Us
