Find Your Calm
To my clients, until further notice, I am continuing to run my practice as I’m seen as an essential service. Be assured that I have adopted sanitizing principles in the clinic and I am sanitizing between clients every day. For individuals who are regarded vulnerable, [...]
Reflect, Reframe and Respond Constructively to COVID-19
Apologies for the delay in sending another newsletter. Life has been hecticly different during the COVID-19 lockdown period as I have had to reassess how I run my business. I’m pleased that I have automated many of my processes and reviewed old ways of doing [...]
Accept and Adjust to Beat COVID-19
Here we go again!! I hear you saying My last Accept & Adapt newsletter was about beating burnout. This time, this newsletter is about adjusting to beat the damn virus. It surely is an interesting world we find ourselves in. Last time I shared about the [...]
Realistic Resolutions
I have to say, the last couple of weeks have been a whirlwind. Christmas and New Year have come and gone faster than I ever remember. In fact, 2019 just spent past. So it's hard to believe we are in 2020. I have reflected much [...]
Tips on Journalising
Many of you know that I’m an advocate for journalising. In fact, I was personally journalising as young as 15 years old, long before I knew the extraordinary benefits it affords the brain. With every new client, from day dot, I recommend that they keep [...]
Eating Our Way to Good Health
Those of you who have been on my FaceBook page will have noticed that I posted an interesting TED talk by Dr William Li, a physician scientist. Click here to view the Video He has an interesting spin to preventing and treating disease; eating [...]
Fast Break on Brain Health
FebFast is upon us. It started in 2007 to raise funds for troubled youth by encouraging us to have a break from health depleting food or drink. For example, sugar, alcohol, processed foods, coffee, etc. It could also include behaviours such as gambling, drugs, and [...]
Why we sleep and dream
With the cold weather creeping up on us, it’s getting harder to get out of bed. Sleep has been on my health agenda this year. Given the work I do as a psychologist, I am well aware that good quality sleep is paramount for a [...]
Lifestyle Change
By Dr Marie Anderson, Clinical & Health Psychologist 2019 is well underway and how are you going with changing those health depleting habits? Whether you’re implementing dietary change, increasing your activity levels, or modifying your lifestyle, your actions are transforming your wellbeing from feeling: It is [...]
How words can affect our brain
by Dr Marie Anderson We all know that positive thinking leaves us feeling great compared to negative thinking. In fact, science tells us that words are so powerful that they can influence how our genes express and control our physical and emotional stress [1]. Language [...]
Focus = Results
It’s that time of the year that we start setting our personal, business, and health goals. This is all good and dandy, except, along the way, we tend to falter- especially on our health goals. I’m as good as anyone in letting some health goals [...]
Fed up with Fatigue?
5 causes of fatigue and what you can do now... By Carolyn Revell, Naturopath One of the most common problems people come to see me for help with is fatigue. What I say to my clients is that although this may be a [...]