Total Mind and Body Wellness

 Some may say this is too soon to be posting about going Skydiving, but this blog isn't about that alone, it's about taking the spirit of adventure with you wherever you are, it's about having an adventure every day if you can. I am also covering this topic in my podcast next Monday, I do sometimes double up if it's a topic I feel strongly about, so feel free to listen too if you fancy it, it will be on my 'All the things' podcast on Spotify. When was your last adventure? Was it a big one? Or just an average every day adventure? What do I mean by average every day? Well, I count my morning dog walk as a bit of an adventure sometimes, you never know who you will meet or what will happen, will the tide be right for dog walking? I'm so out there, I don't even check the tide times, sometimes! My last BIG adventure was the Skydive I did with my husband in May, you can read all about it in my blog about it if you fancy? There are photos too! But I do like to f...

 TODAY I want to chat a little about my business, because ultimately, that's what this blog is about, promoting what I do, but not so blatantly as today, so be warned, this is more of a sales post today, but I also hope that it will make you think a bit too. MOST of my clients have an issue with their mental or physical health, that's why they come to me, to help fix their fitness, nutrition, mind with hypnotherapy or balance their body with reflexology, and so I have adopted a new stance recently by advertising an all-encompassing wellness check up service! I am NOT a medical professional, but I am a nutritionist, hypnotherapist and I understand how the body and nutrition work together, and how the mind controls all of this and at the same time is controlled by it. RECENTLY a client came to me because their GP did not have time to discuss their nutritional needs in an appointment, even though the appointment was because of a high cholesterol blood test result. We know that GP...

TODAY'S blog is inspired by the wonderful book, and now film written by Raynor Winn, and the lessons that could be learned from the story. I have also recorded a podcast to this effect for the non-readers that will be out on Monday 9th June on 'All the things' podcast on Spotify. The Salt Path, a journey that Raynor and her husband Moth took, when their lives went wrong to the max. It's a tale of loss and love, of freedom and growth. And there really are lessons within if you look, and maybe the lessons you see are different to those that I saw, but here are my thoughts. (photos taken from some of my runs on the SW coastpath) Lesson one - NEVER GIVE UP! They lost their house, Moth had an extreme medical diagnosis but they didn't fold, they took that information and followed a dream. They literally had nothing, yet carried on regardless. Lesson two - FOLLOW YOUR DREAMS. One of my favourite things to repeat on a weekly basis, LIFE IS SHORT, do all the things you can a...

 CHANGE is always going to be part of life, it's inevitable, and yet a lot of us fear it. IN spring the buds grow, in summer the flowers bloom, in autumn the leaves fall and in winter, well it's just cold isn't it? But things are still going on underground, nature is constantly evolving, and it doesn't worry about it, so why do we? MY guess is that we are lazy, why live with change if we can keep on the way we are? We are unambitious, not dedicated to living the best life that we can, but we are also living in fear of things going wrong, and that fear can take over leading us to sit comfortably without moving on in our lives. WE need to start acting like nature, we need to start living our lives, be brave, be ambitious, be challenged, otherwise what is the point of us being here at all? LIVING safety in our little comfort zones isn't going towards making the next big discovery that could change everyone's lives, settling for what we have isn't going to make ...

 IN what respect I hear you ask? I suppose it could be in all respects, because when you over-complicate any area of your life you run the risk of not doing any of your tasks properly. BUT for today, I  am talking about your journey to mental and physical health and wellness. That sounds complex in itself, so let's say, simplify your health with a holistic approach.  CHANGE only one thing at a time. CLIENTS will suddenly want to get on their health and wellness journey and they are enthusiastic, they want it all straight away and I know only too well that it takes a lot of time and patience to get results. But they change their food, add supplements, exercise, do everything at once, and never really know what part of it is working for them. When someone comes to me, firstly I say, 'how much water do you drink?' and 90% (maybe more) of people say to me, 'not enough!' So their one change for that week, nothing else, is to drink more water, that's it! The next week...

HERE we go again........'you only live once! Make the most of it!' FOLLOW your DREAMS! WE all know this is a sort of a mantra of mine, and it may get boring for you, but being this way is helping me live my best life. I think you can tell by the photos that already this blog is all about the 15,000 foot tandem skydive I did at the weekend. That's the highest you can go without needing oxygen by the way! Ryan (my wonderful husband) gave me a skydive present for my 50th Birthday and I did the same for him. We have been waiting a few months for this to happen, the thing with doing things in the sky is that the weather affects it, and so we had already had three disappointing postponements.    THE day, Sunday 11th May 2025, this was the day, although we weren't sure even then that it would actually happen. We got to Dunkeswell early on Sunday morning ready for an 8am check in. There were a few skydivers and novices like us kicking about, nervous-excited, lots of visits to t...