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No one is self made. We’re all made up of the people who have helped us along the way
St Albans recently hosted its first ever TEDx event. The theme of the day was Community and I had the privilege of being one of the speakers. The title of my talk was "Why loneliness may be worse for us than cancer". The title of this post is actually a quote from...
No one is self made. We’re all made up of the people who have helped us along the way
St Albans recently hosted its first ever TEDx event. The theme of the day was Community and I had the privilege of being one of the speakers. The title of my talk was "Why loneliness may be worse...
The Weekly Wellbeing Round-Up #14
Welcome back to the Weekly Wellbeing Round Up. We've taken a couple of weeks off to focus on the low down on low carb diets, and digital wellbeing. I'm pleased to say that this week normal...
The Weekly Wellbeing Round-Up #13: digital wellbeing.
Any doctor reading this who had a pound for every patient who has uttered the words "I think I need an MOT, doc" would probably be reading this from the deck of their yacht, floating on the...
The Weekly Wellbeing Round-Up #12: my week of learning more about low carb diets.
As those of you that read the Weekly Wellbeing Round Up will be aware, there was a bit of a scuffle last week in the media about the low carbohydrate diet. This all kicked off due to the...
The Weekly Wellbeing Round-Up #11
Good morning and welcome to the latest edition of my weekly wellbeing round up. Plenty to cover today, so let's get started... Smoking This BBC news article reminds us that passive smoking...
The Weekly Wellbeing Round-Up #10
Good morning and welcome back to the weekly wellbeing round up. I though this week I would start with... Digital wellbeing Last week I posted from our family holiday in Verona. My three...
The Weekly Wellbeing Round-Up #9
Good morning from lovely, sunny Verona. We are having a family break and so in the interests of wellbeing, I am taking a (sort of) break from weekly Wellbeing Round Up. So instead of...
The Weekly Wellbeing Round-Up #8: my week of sleep for wellbeing
I have previously confessed on the pages of this blog that of the four pillars of health and wellbeing, sleep is the one that I need to work on the most. I have suffered from...
The Weekly Wellbeing Round-Up # 7
Good morning and welcome to the latest edition of the Weekly Wellbeing Round Up! Today I thought I would kick things off with news about things that don't work. The Health Supplements Don't...
The Weekly Wellbeing Round-Up #6
Welcome back to the Weekly Wellbeing Round Up! I hope you have had a good weekend, enjoying the weather and the world cup final. Having overcome the disappointment of England not getting...
The Weekly Wellbeing Round-Up #5: My real life wellbeing week
As someone who spends a lot of time talking to people about their own wellbeing, and summarising wellbeing related news for this blog, I thought that this week I would share with you what my...