Connect Well – Love you: Health and Well-being with Lorraine

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: 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: 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 Active Process of Resting

The Yin and Yang of Well-being We all know that movement is medicine! Or as the physiotherapist at my practice says, “motion is lotion”. If physical activity was a tablet we would all be on it! But what of rest? Where does that fit into the mix? Often when patients have viral respiratory infections (commonContinue reading “Love You: The Active Process of Resting”

Love You: Dealing with Emotional Distress

How often have you been advised to stop worrying or just let things be? Yet, when faced with a challenging interpersonal conflict, your emotional reaction can be so intense that it feels almost physical. It’s distressing, like an injury that you can actually sense within you. Interestingly, when you sustain a physical injury, there’s aContinue reading “Love You: Dealing with Emotional Distress”