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Is the Warrior Mind a Worrier Mind?
This is a question that I am asking you to answer for yourself. Why, because this is a very personal aspect of someone’s emotional health, especially when they are living with a life-altering diagnosis, such as cancer. Therefore this post … Continue reading
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A Beautiful Mind
I’m sharing the following post, which I recently shared with a community of people on Facebook, and like my father who set up this website did, in an attempt to express some thoughts that may be of use and help … Continue reading
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How are you feeling?
If, as Marc Brackett eloquently writes in his book, you’ve been given ‘Permission to feel’ then it’s amazing what you can uncover! ❤️ Last evening I wrote an email to those who have taken part in a survey & asked to be … Continue reading
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Be Prepared…..
It was in 1907 that Robert Baden-Powell wrote that to be prepared meant “you are always in a state of readiness in mind and body to do your duty.”Baden-Powell was an English Soldier who’s idea, as stated in the Scouting Magazine, … Continue reading
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The lifestyle of a tree and Lifestyle Medicine?
When you stop to look at a tree, do you ever entertain the thought that it has a lifestyle? I’m guessing the answer is likely to be no, as it was for me, up until a few weeks ago. Perhaps … Continue reading
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His Masters Voice and The Kings Speech – The Connection?
I find it amazing & wonderful how a thought can arise simply because of a single comment that another person just happens to have made in conversation, which is perhaps an e.g. of “the whole is greater than the sum … Continue reading
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Waiting for a bus….
The other evening, I was attempting to think of an analogy that might offer a way to explain the feeling that, for me anyway, is often associated with the anxiety that accompanies the build up to the annual scan to … Continue reading
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Living through uncertainty
I wanted to share a thought with you this morning. The realisation starting to hit me that I am feeling a little more anxious at the moment. I then accepted that I find this time of year a little tricky. … Continue reading
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Contribution to others
The website is in existence today simply because the man who started it, my father, was driven by a desire to provide help and support to the community of people who continue to be touched by cancer. As part of … Continue reading
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