Well Mind – 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: 🎃 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: 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 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: Love Your Home🥰

Candle; Music; movement and journal to the ready! Learning to re-frame cleaning. Re-framing the way you think about things you don’t like doing but know are good for you. I dislike cleaning – or at least I thought I did. It always feels like a chore and something I can quickly resent (especially if itContinue reading “Love You: Love Your Home🥰”

Love You: Really Do

We are all familiar with the concept of securing your own life jacket or oxygen mask before helping others. This is not a selfish act but a matter of safety. Yet when it comes to self care we often have difficulties. It can be easier to place the needs of others before the needs ofContinue reading “Love You: Really Do”