Lorraine McGuigan

Love You: The Ebb and Flow and The Start-Over Surge 💖

The ebb and flow of life call for reinvention. After months of focus, it’s time to let yourself move on. Dust yourself down, pick yourself up, and start over today. #Growth #NewBeginnings

Love You: 🎃 Trick or Treat? A Halloween Reflection on Lifestyle Choices

As Halloween approaches, I’ve been thinking about the idea of trick or treat-not just in costumes and candy, but in how we cope, consume, and conform. 🧠💭 How often do our “treats” turn out to be tricks? Something we indulge in for comfort, celebration, or escape… only to regret it later. Maybe not immediately, butContinue reading “Love You: 🎃 Trick or Treat? A Halloween Reflection on Lifestyle Choices”

Love You: From FOMO to JOMO – The Courage to Create Happy Memories Your Way

Yesterday was such a hoot. We were supposed to be going to see the amazing Katy Perry in concert, well that didn’t happen…. Here’s what did. A good few months ago, I had the chance to get tickets. There are a handful of Katy Perry songs that I love. 🎆 I thought, Lorraine, you goContinue reading “Love You: From FOMO to JOMO – The Courage to Create Happy Memories Your Way”

Love You: The Double-Edged Sword of Excitement and Exhaustion

Identifying Sensory Overload and Overstimulation in Everyday Life. It’s 10:03am and already I feel like I need a wee lie down 😴.I’m en route to the BSLM Annual Conference in Brighton—something I’ve been looking forward to for a whole year. I was up at my usual time, and unusually for me, I’d even done aContinue reading “Love You: The Double-Edged Sword of Excitement and Exhaustion”

Love You: Harvest Well-being

Embracing the Seasonal Shift 🍁 Well hello again!After a long summer break from writing, I’ve returned with renewed focus—largely thanks to diving deeper into the core accreditation in lifestyle medicine. This course is still a work in progress, but the key word is progress, and I’m embracing that. Here in this beautiful corner of Scotland,Continue reading “Love You: Harvest Well-being”

Love You: Pause for Summer

As my youngest prepares for her final day of primary school, our home is gearing up for a relaxed summer ahead. This Friday will be a bittersweet occasion, marking the conclusion of one chapter and the exciting start of another. While our holiday isn’t for a few weeks, I plan to mentally “hit pause” wheneverContinue reading “Love You: Pause for Summer”

Love You: Love What you Eat and New food experiences

To begin today, we need to meander back to my primary school in the 70s and school meals. I have a memory of steamed puddings and blue custard (but this may be wrong). What is definitely clear in my memory is over cooked, green beans 🤮. I still get upset thinking about them. I canContinue reading “Love You: Love What you Eat and New food experiences”

Love You: Cultivating Joy in the ever changing Landscape of your Life.

“You’ve changed” was the comment I recall being made to me, unsolicited, when I returned home one summer from medical school. This was not said as a complement. I remember thinking, thank goodness (although those closest to me would probably realise I would naturally use a more sweary word than goodness – which might haveContinue reading “Love You: Cultivating Joy in the ever changing Landscape of your Life.”

Love you: Light the Candle, Use the Soap- give yourself a wee boost

I am blessed with my closest friends. One dear friend whom I have known for years but due to my surviving having kids at a later stage – had lost contact with. Recently we have been blessed to reconnect – and it’s been wonderful. I love the type of friendship that has room and spaceContinue reading “Love you: Light the Candle, Use the Soap- give yourself a wee boost”

Love You: The Love You Philosophy meets needing to start over…. Becoming your best self

The last two weeks we have looked at goals and the narrative assigned to them. The Love You philosophy embraces the ebb and flow of life and encourages balance between the 6 pillars to be your best self. I was writing to encourage not getting to a place of needing to start over. But whatContinue reading “Love You: The Love You Philosophy meets needing to start over…. Becoming your best self”