Tag Archives: #health

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: 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: 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”

Love You: Riding the waves of life and learning from a lived experience

Last week we discussed short term goals, changing our inner narrative around them and the Love You Philosophy of Well-being. To recap it was about embracing the ebb and flow of life and make goals but not start:stop or on:off to acknowledge that life will happen and is to be lived. Well-being to work shouldContinue reading “Love You: Riding the waves of life and learning from a lived experience”

Love You: The Love You Philosophy for Well-being and getting ready for Summer

This week, I was learning about the effectiveness of setting short-term goals to enhance our nutrition and eating habits. This approach is not limited to food; it can be applied to all aspects of our well-being. For instance, establishing short-term objectives can help us achieve a desired fitness level, whether that’s training for a 5kContinue reading “Love You: The Love You Philosophy for Well-being and getting ready for Summer”

Love You: Everyday movements that matter

Last week we looked at the active process of resting! This week we are looking at activity and why we need it in our lives. If movement was a medicine we would all be on it – why did I say that? Here is why 👇 So what is the magic formula? Movement, strength, flexibility,Continue reading “Love You: Everyday movements that matter”