Move well: notes on my 12 week workout challenge

I’ve just completed my first 12 week workout challenge – Heather Robertson 4.0 via You Tube (completely free). 5 work outs per week, including strength training, cardio, HIIT and Pilates as well as mobility exercises. Due to life’s interruptions including work travel, a back issue and a 10 day reprieve when I got my eyebrowsContinue reading “Move well: notes on my 12 week workout challenge”

Look well: modern day beauty

Beauty is literally more than skin deep. It starts from the inside, from your diet and your mindset. Despite the marketing juggernaut that is the multi-billion dollar beauty industry, working tirelessly to make us feel bad enough about ourselves to spend our hard earned money on their products, I see the tide on beauty turning.Continue reading “Look well: modern day beauty”

There’s an App for that: wellness apps we love

Who doesn’t love a life hack? Apps would have to be the most useful, innovative tools for life hacking invented this century. With the potential to save us time and money, connect us to like minded people and rich content from thought leaders and creators across the globe, all in the palm of our hands,Continue reading “There’s an App for that: wellness apps we love”

Move well: Running from anxiety

In 2020 I ran my first half marathon. It took 9 months of training, where I’d run 3-5 times per week, almost always early in the morning and always on my own. I’d committed to doing the run for the Got Your Back Sista “I Run for Her” fundraising campaign against domestic violence, so IContinue reading “Move well: Running from anxiety”

The well club: 66 days to wellness

Your habits will determine your future Jack Canfield It takes 66 days to make a new habit. Over those 66 days, there are three stages: The first 22 days – honeymoon period. You feel excited by your intentions, courageous in your resolve and curious about what will change for you. You’re highly motivated and enormouslyContinue reading “The well club: 66 days to wellness”

Well Read: A book list

It shouldn’t come as a surprise to anyone over the age of 25 that making reading a daily discipline enriches your life. Read one book a month on a topic you’re interested in, and after a year you’ll have some solid expertise in that area. So what’s on your reading list? Is it enriching you,Continue reading “Well Read: A book list”

Move Well – your guide to moving your way to wellness

Movement. It’s a tarted up word for exercise, but that’s partly due to the stigma that has become attached to exercising. When I think about exercising I think hot and sweaty, gyms (group fitness classes or weights circuits), boot camps, punishment, uncomfortable physical exertion and expensive workout wear that never looks as good on meContinue reading “Move Well – your guide to moving your way to wellness”