Outrageously Healthy

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.

Myth Read more…

Worries about money, the economy, income levels, and finances are behind many women’s stress eating and overeating these days.  In a recent group coaching call, every participant’s dominant concern boiled down to money worries of one form or another.  Even if your own financial situation is secure, the worries, stress, and difficulties of others surround us in a big way.

Feeling out of control, anxious, worried, or unhappy are all triggers for emotional eating, Here are some tips to keep Read more…

How would you like to feel Outrageously Healthy every single day of your life? If you are living any life other than the Outrageously Healthy Life you deserve then you’re in the right place.

As a fitness professional I see people from all walks of life looking for a solution to their fitness and weight loss ‘problems’. But here’s the thing – what these gorgeous people really want is what they think getting thin and fit will give them: feeling Read more…

With deadlines upon us, bosses checking our work and colleagues inviting us out for lunch, it is easy to let good practices slide at work.

Once we are out of our home environment we do have to be mindful of the influences of others who may or may not be – or may not want to be – as outrageously healthy as you.

Taking your lunch to work is a great strategy, and it looks after your financial budget as Read more…

Stop taking the easy option when you’re at home and make a commitment to being outrageously healthy all the time. Eventually it will become so ingrained, being outrageously healthy will become second nature to you.

The key is to fully commit to and take action to support your decision. So let’s set ourselves up for success, by supporting our decision to be outrageously healthy at home and create an environment in which this decision is supported and feels like an Read more…

It is so easy to commit to make changes in an area of your life and then forget about them once you are relaxing or out with friends and family.

We may have decided to give up smoking, take up exercise or stop eating chocolate but somehow our resolve leaves us when we are playing. It’s one thing to make a decision but it’s another to fully commit to it and take action to support that decision. So let’s set Read more…

How many times have you started on Monday? You know what I mean – Monday is the day you’re starting that diet, exercise program, giving up smoking or stop biting your nails.

Have you started on Monday more than once? Yes of course you have, and so have I. But why did we need to start more than once? Why wasn’t the first time the solution that got us to our goal?

I have an idea why all these Monday Read more…

“It costs nothing, but creates much. It enriches those who receive, without impoverishing those who give. It happens in a flash and the memory of it sometimes lasts forever.”?Dale Carnegie, How to win friends and influence people

Have you ever heard it takes more muscles to frown than it does to smile?

It can take as little as five and as many as 16 to smile. Like any muscle the more you use your smile, the stronger it gets and Read more…