A Squash & a Squeeze. New pelvic floor regime or wellness grift?

What is a Wellness Grift? Basically a grifter is a con artist and what they do is grifting.   The wellness industry is littered with them.  People who exploit aspects of wellness for personal gain. Lots of people have got in on this act.  Some well meaning, some foolish, some out and out grifters,  The wellness […]

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Not Running Up That Hill. Losing a regular exercise habit & how to regain it

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 Regular Exercise Habits: How do we form them and how do we sustain them? After years of the regular exercise habit of weekly running I have stopped.  The regular exercise habit just fell away.  It was not as “baked in” to my week. Why did I keep going for over 10 years  only to trip, […]

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Hiding in plain sight: Effects of stress. How I came to realise that we must manage stress better

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Chronic stress is insidious and its effects are everywhere in our body.  We must learn to recognise this and begin a process of learning to manage stress more effectively Here is my long, partly accidental and very much ongoing story.   A story of learning what stress does and how to manage it I haven’t experienced […]

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