This week’s Thrive In Five is about Laughter and why it really is the best medicine Laughter there is nothing quite like a good laugh is there? And let me tell you why laughter is important for health and wellbeing. Laughter releases endorphins Firstly laughter releases endorphins. Endorphins interact with […]
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This week’s Thrive In Five is about Doing Something Relaxing Together as a family during the homeschooling day So this is the last in the series of at-home Thrive in Fives. This week is all about doing something together that helps to relax your nervous system. Moving from the sympathetic
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In this episode, let’s dive into something that you can do every single day to relax your nervous system. Topics Discussed in this Episode: The benefits of meditation Eustress vs distress Combining meditation and breathwork Key Takeaways: The autonomic nervous system in the body has two branches, the sympathetic and
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Have you ever thought of joining the Bear Grylls Survival Academy? Listen in as I share how I’ve benefited from being an instructor in a the Bear Grylls survival course. Topics Discussed in this Episode: My Bear Grylls “Survive the Highlands” experience The survival skills that I learned in the
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This week’s blog, as many of them are, was inspired by a conversation I had recently with a client. On his first session I was introducing him to the concept of meditation, which he has since started doing. And he contacted me and said, “I’ve had this really interesting insight.
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Welcome to the Thrive in Five weekly blog, this week I want to impart with you some wisdom from an 11-year-old friend of mine. This lad suffers with a bit of anxiety and he is often trying to look at ways he can alter his behaviour and just generally feel
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This week’s blog is all about sleep. I’ve got a tip for you which i’m going to credit to Nick Littlehales. He’s written a small book called ‘Sleep’ and it’s fantastic! Along with Professor Matthew Walker’s book, ‘Why We Sleep’ have really helped to shape our ideas and inform a
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The body is an extremely efficient machine when it comes to exercise. Initially, we might have to work very hard to perform a workout or complete a spin class. Quite rapidly the body will adapt to that volume and intensity of exercise and you’ll soon find it much easier and
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This week’s blog is all around digestive health. Digestion is our fifth signal in our Six Signals® methodology. We start with sleep, we go on to mental health, then energy, then body composition, which was last week, digestion this week and it’ll be fitness next week. The concept I want
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This week’s blog is all around body composition. I’ve got a real tip for you, for how you can maintain a healthy weight, or even lose a bit of fat, without actually changing anything at all that you eat. Here’s the trick. What most people under-appreciate is the amount of
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