Buffering is something we do to avoid fully experiencing our lives. We don’t want to face the truth of our lives because we don’t want to experience negative emotion. We think we are entitled to feel happy all the time because we are constantly bombarded with ways to feel pleasure.

We’re so confused about how relationships work. We’re under the impression that other people need to behave a certain way so we can feel good.

We have so many rules for our relationships that we have stopped experiencing them and are locked into our expectations of how these...

Why do we want to feel our emotions? Yesterday’s blog post addressed how most of us resist our emotions, react to them, or distract ourselves from them. Today I am going to explore how we can learn to feel our emotions, how we can allow them to be there.

But first let me remind you...

How long did it take you to answer that question?

Did you instantly know if you were happy, sad or mad, or a variant of one of those? We have 100s of feelings and emotions to choose from (note that consider feelings and emotions to be the same thing), but some of us are very unaware of our...

Yesterday I wrote about saturated fats and what I suggest you consider with regards to whether to include them in your diet.

Today I will explore unsaturated fatty acids and consider how to ensure we are getting the right proportion of healthy fat in our diet.

Unsaturated fats are...

I encourage my clients to eat plenty of healthy fats. Fats are one of the three macronutrients that provide energy and a host of other health benefits for our bodies. Fats are essential for growth and development, they nourish our skin, our hair, and our nails. They help us absorb fat-soluble...

This is part two of two-part blog post. Check out part one posted yesterday.

Life is made up of the internal and the external. The thoughts in your brain create the reality in your life. You need to start organising your mind before you start organising your life; otherwise, the...

Is it time for a spring clean?

I love packing away the winter coats, hats, gloves and scarves to make way for summer clothes. Not only does it lighten my draws and make space in my cupboards, I feel mentally lighter too.

This is part one of two-part blog post. Today I am writing about...

I haven’t written and posted a blog post for the past three days and I feel a bit gutted about it.

I really wanted to meet the goal I set myself of writing and posting for the 40 days of Lent. And well life got in the way, just like life does.

It’s been interesting to...

Emotional childhood occurs when we don’t take responsibility for managing our feelings.

Most of us act from a place of emotional childhood at certain times in our lives, often emotional childhood shows itself in our relationships, but it can also appear in relation to how we are...