#selfcare – Love you: Health and Well-being with Lorraine

Love You: Owning Who You Are! Inside-Out and Outside-In Wellbeing

Inside-Out and Outside-In WellbeingWe often say yoga is a work in, not a workout. In Yin, we concentrate on how the postures feel rather than how they look – a stark contrast to other aspects of our lives.Over Christmas, I re-watched The Devil Wears Prada and thought about that meme moment: “Yes, because that’s reallyContinue reading “Love You: Owning Who You Are! Inside-Out and Outside-In Wellbeing”

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: 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: 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: 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”