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Light up your life. Three forms of light to enhance your well-being.

Light up your life. Three forms of light to enhance your well-being. As you know on the happy path I like to share ideas of the tools I find help overcome anxiety or depression. I always think you need the right tool for the right job, often many tools to do one job and what…
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Poetry to Ignite the Mind and Stir the Soul: For Happiness

For those that don’t believe in themselves and have given up on the idea they can and should have happiness. This is for you.
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Three ways you should be kind to yourself mums.

I am loving seeing all the Mother’s Day messages here in the UK. It is so nice to scroll through my social media feed and see such an outpouring of love and appreciation for the role lots of us are thrust into or strive to obtain. Being a mum and thinking about our well-being and…
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Poetry to Ignite the Mind and Stir the Soul: Back against the door

I wrote this poem for the national poetry competition last year. I didn’t win. But I wondered if sharing it could do some good. This poem was inspired by a couple of nights I spent as a child sleeping against the bedroom door afraid that my sister and I would not make it to morning.…
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5 Daily Rituals to Make You Happy

Recently I have started trying to form some daily rituals. The sense of a consistent solid rhythm is appealing and plenty of studies show if we cast our actions into daily routines we are more likely to persist with them. Here are my top five daily rituals for well-being. Gratitude I truly believe gratitude is…
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Poetry to Ignite the Mind and Stir the Soul: International Women’s Day

To all those fabulous ladies I know. I hope you see a little of yourself in these words. You inspire me. In my darkest moments, you drag the stars down from the sky.And if their twinkle doesn’t work, you simply sit with me and cry. You always think of others without a single hesitation.You give…
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Five reasons why you should never give up on your dreams.

When I was kid my head was filled with hope and ambition to achieve so many things. As I have grown I have allowed other priorities or distractions to take the place of my dreams. But the last couple of years i have slowly began to find them again and now I wonder why I…
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Top Ten Tips to Make Decision Making EASY.

We all struggle with making decisions sometimes. For some of us it can be really stressful. I have wracked my brain to pull out all my decision making tools in the hopes it can help us master our own happiness. Here they are… Reduce the Number of Decisions. There is lots of research that suggests…
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Poetry to Ignite the Mind and Stir the Soul: Foods Embrace

With the blog talking about emotional eating this week I decide to pen a poem about food. Hope your enjoy. Foods Embrace Bring me to your embrace.Take me slowly from this place. Let me slip, into your divine.Show me that the world is mine. Sooth my aches and take my pain,And I will hold you…
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Five top tips to stop Eating your way through emotions.

If you are reading this perhaps like me you know you are an emotional eater. Or maybe you are like some of my friends who simply don’t understand how or why we let emotions drive our eating habits. So let’s start with a bit of a 101 on emotional eating. Why do people emotionally eat?…