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Recognising the significance of cancer language on emotion health.
How often do people stop to consider the #emotional consequences of a word. I’m hoping by sharing a result like this, more people make the time to learn to become more aware of such consequences of words. (More on that … 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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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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A thought on ability….
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Spiritual Discernment (Continued)
What more is there to say? But then let us suppose that the ‘high wire’ artist singles me out from other bystanders with an invitation to “wheel me across” the same ravine “in (his) wheelbarrow”. Ah! That is different. As … Continue reading
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“TIME AND TIDE WAITS FOR NO MAN”. (Continued from previous blog.)
And there is another important lesson for all of us to learn here. I remember returning home from university during undergraduate days at the commencement of vacation, about two years after my father had died. At the time of his … Continue reading
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’Shades of Einstein”·. (Cont’d from previous blog).
Textbooks will ‘tell’ you that it was one Aaron T Beck who originated a theory of emotion and emotional problems, by defining their core problem in depression as a “thinking disorder”. This disorder, so he explained, developed out of “negative … Continue reading
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