Outrageously Healthy

‘What fits your busy schedule better, exercising one hour a day or being dead 24 hours a day? – Randy Glasbergen

Dee Britton

Exercise is one of those things that I know, that you know, that you should make time for.

You know that it makes you feel better when you make an effort to do it regularly – but if I know you well, then I am guessing that it often gets left out of your busy schedule.

Personally, Read more…

Dan Buettner and his team study the worlds ‘Blue Zones’, communities whose elders live to ages in excess of 100. Not only that, they live  with vim and vigour. In his TedxTC presentation he shares the common diet and lifestyle habits that keep those who live to 100 healthy and active .

1. Move Naturally  – they tend to have a lifestyle that includes lots of incidental exercise – like house work and tending the garden. Intentional exercise is pursuing Read more…

By Kim McMillen

Some time ago I purchased a lovely book When I loved myself Enough by Kim McMillen (with Alison Mc Millen), each page holds a beautiful thought which all start with the line ‘When I loved myself enough…………..

Many of the thoughts touched me and when I read the conclusion at the end of the book I cried.

The book was written by Kim McMillen and published after her death by her daughter Alison. Kim had no idea she was going Read more…

By Guest Blogger Nancy Boyd

As a flower essence practitioner, I often scan the internet to see what people are interested in and what they are saying about flower essences; it’s a good way to learn what people want and need.  But it sometimes makes me cringe, too, when I read all the erroneous information that others are saying about flower essences.  This article will set the record straight about the most common myths floating around about flower essences.

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Female Libido — Why the big “O” is more than just ooolala!
by Gabriela Rosa

Intimacy is an Important Part Getting Pregnant

You may be trying to conceive, and although some couples report experiencing a lull in their sex lives as a result of what can become the ‘trying to conceive’ rollercoaster and/or long standing infertility—it is important to reframe your thoughts around being intimate with your partner.

Perhaps view it as a way to reconnect with your partner as opposed to another stressful (possibly “failed attempt”) Read more…

by Gabriela Rosa

How to Get Pregnant Naturally

It astounds me when I see how many women are completely out of touch with their bodies.  I suppose this could be a result of conditioning (from what girls were taught about puberty, sexuality and womanhood at a young age), or from the pure distraction of a very hectic or disorderly lifestyle.  Regardless of the reasons, women could gain a significant amount of control over their health, fertility and reproductive planning simply by getting in touch with Read more…

How to Create The Healthy Baby Of Your Dreams (Part 2)

By Gabriela Rosa

When you want a little Angel Baby of Your own

Step 2: Try to conceive naturally

Depending on you and your partner’s age and previous medical history, after you complete 120 days of preconception health care preparation and are both in optimum health you are ready to begin your conception attempts. For various reasons some choose not to use technologies such as IVF. Others prefer to attempt natural conception for a period of time before moving Read more…

How to Create The Healthy Baby Of Your Dreams

By Gabriela Rosa

So you are trying to get pregnant? Does each month you’re not pregnant seems like an eternity. You start to think “Am I doing something wrong?” or “Is there a problem?” but you don’t really know where to go or who to ask… Well, read on because this article will answer many questions for you will clarify the options available to you.

Currently in Australia 1 in 6 Read more…

Today is day 12 for me on the Sugar Detox – I started on the 30th December. I haven’t strayed at all and really haven’t felt deprived as such, although I still don’t feel over sugar YET. How do I know I hear you ask? Because I saw a picture of something sweet and delicious and still thought ‘oh yum!” Granted I didn’t do anything about it, nor have I been looking for sweets to eat or food in general, Read more…

Yesterday I spoke about eating food closest to its natural source, there are so many great reasons why you would want to do this however many nutritionists are now recommending all kinds of non foods – like low calories beverages, artificially sweetened yogurts, low fat where ever you can get it (read low taste and satisfaction) however the reality is that the health concerns facing western culture not only persist but are getting worse!

So if the definition of insanity Read more…