both physical and mental
I’ve packed my bags, cleaned the floor,
Now watch me walking, walking out the door.
Eurythmics, Would I lie to You?
It’s Spring time on the damp coast and inevitably, my mind briefly flits on the idea of spring cleaning the house. And I do mean briefly.
It is a deranged mind that loves house cleaning. To be perpetually obsessed about ridding the world of dust bunnies or banishing bathroom mold is a bit sick and twisted. Continue reading
Tomorrow, Bell is sponsoring “Let’s Talk”- an initiative designed to create discussions about mental health. In recent years several celebrities have come forward to talk about their battles with depression and mental illness.
Unfortunately Robin Williams lost his battle with his dark depression demons.
In the dark of winter on the damp coast, it’s easy to feel depressed. The dark grey is all around you. It’s dark in the morning when you get up and it’s dark in the afternoon when you go home from work.
Everyone has experience being depressed at some point in her life. Most of the time you can pull out of it by going out into the sun or doing something you love to do.
But what if nothing helps? What if you simply cannot bring yourself to do the things you love to do any more? Continue reading
Making New Year resolutions is a bit of a double edged sword. On the one hand it can be the spark that you need to go out and achieve some goals to better your life. On the other hand it can create guilt and feelings of failure when you look back at the year past and realise you’ve not ticked off one thing on your list.
So, how to create resolutions that inspire and not depress you? You can’t make them too airy fairy, like “I want to be a better person” because there’s nothing to achieve. How do you measure “better”? Continue reading
I’m still here. Just having a rough patch and not feeling terribly inspired.
The good news is that I’m starting to feel better, emotionally and physically, so I will have a post on my Mexican vacation shortly.
Ciao for now.
My Fit and Healthy experiment all started with my finding a very cool tracking book called The Fit Book. It was just lying around the mail room and Agent K said I could have it. It was the ultimate food and fitness tracking book, all in a moderately small and neat package.
Every weight loss book or program always insists that you have to log your food intake and exercise if you want to be successful at losing weight. Over the years I’ve just logged my progress in a boring old notebook. This notebook was sexy. It had colour, it had columns and tick boxes, it had food and exercise tracking all in one spread. I got excited just looking at it.
So I decided that this little book showing up at this time was a sign that I needed to get on with my health regime. Continue reading
I was reading a book Beautiful Skin Begins Within by Dr. Martin Braun about how to keep skin beautiful and elastic before, during and after menopause.
While Dr. Martin Braun wrote the book, it is sponsored by Lorna Vanderhaeghe, who just happens to have a full line of vitamin supplements that will help with what the doctor suggests.
According to the plan, there are a number of things you need to do, besides adjusting your diet and exercise levels. One is adding a number of supplements to your diet which are supposed to help your skin turn back time and appear dewy fresh and plump. Continue reading
After I posted Regina Brett’s 50 list, I saw an opinion piece in the Globe and Mail that related to #36.
Heather Sanders published a piece in August 2014 about women and our penchant for denigrating ourselves, no matter what stage of life we’re in. Her hypothesis is that we should age gratefully, and stop being so hard on ourselves. As Regina puts it: Growing old beats the alternative – dying young.
Here’s the link to the Globe and Mail website, Ladies, it’s time to age gratefully. I’ve also included it below in case the link doesn’t work one day. PS Thank you, Heather. Continue reading
Today I took my heavy overcoat off and walked to the bus. The Japanese plum tree on the boulevard was in full bloom. The only time of the year it looks nice. Spring had arrived. Continue reading
