CHRONIC PAIN
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Health Coaching In South Africa– Everything You Need to Know
Introduction to Health Coaching If you are eager to reach your health goals and you are curious as to how you make real, quality changes to your lifestyle, then this guide is for you. I’m really passionate about health coaching. I see how transformative it is for...
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Controlling your Catastrophizer
Suffering equals pain x resistance A few years ago, a good friend, let’s call her Leia, started on a journey of pain and suffering. It didn’t go away. She went from physiotherapists to doctors, back to physios and back to her general practitioner. Over 2 months,...
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5 Scientifically Proven Benefits of Gratitude and How It Will Change Your Life
Gratitude is a powerful practice These past few weeks, I’ve been mentally transitioning from one life stage stage to another. I was either a student or full time employee, and now I'm growing my Health Coaching practice. For the first time in my life I am in charge of...
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Meditation: the Art and Practice
Meditation is a practice. One that is done regularly, with the intention of calming the mind, creating focus and building resilience. Life throws you ups and downs, and challenges that will test you. For instance, pain, physical or emotional; conflict with loved ones;...
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The Pain of Sleep Debt
Sleep has a huge impact on our experience of pain, more so than we thought. There is pain to sleep debt. This article will unpack the science behind it and what you can do to help reduce your pain by improving your sleep. Let's set the scene Your alarm goes off with...
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Chronic Fatigue, Pain and Motivation
64% of people who have chronic widespread pain also experience long-lasting fatigue (Creavin et al., 2010) In a recent topical review of pain (van Damme, Becker and Van Der Linden, 2018), it was highlighted that 64% of people who have chronic widespread pain also...
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Pain as a Protector
Know pain, know gain Last year I was working as a physiotherapist in a township called KwaMashu outside Durban. It was usually very busy, with seeing one patient every half hour. We had to work quickly, efficiently and effectively. One day I saw a new stroke patient...
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The Science Behind Cultivating a Good Night’s Sleep
What’s the science behind good sleep? How much sleep do we need and how can we become sleep experts in our own homes? This article will dive into the findings of a recent sleep study But first, why the interest? I’ve just spent a few days in the Cape Town...
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Meditation: the Art and Practice
Meditation is a practice. One that is done regularly, with the intention of calming the mind, creating focus and building resilience. Life throws you ups and downs, and challenges that will test you. For instance, pain, physical or emotional; conflict with loved ones;...
read more
The Pain of Sleep Debt
Sleep has a huge impact on our experience of pain, more so than we thought. There is pain to sleep debt. This article will unpack the science behind it and what you can do to help reduce your pain by improving your sleep. Let's set the scene Your alarm goes off with...
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Seven Steps for Significant Sleep
“Sleep is God. Go worship.” ― Jim Butcher Sleep. An underrated gem. A time of rest, restoration, renewal and, more often than not, neglect. What follows, are seven steps for significant sleep. We’ve all gone through times where sleep has definitely not been a...
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The Race Toward Recovery
If you’re an athlete, you know how races can deplete you. You give it your all, run a good race but you end up physically and mentally exhausted. If you’re an endurance runner, cyclist or CrossFit athlete, it’s always a race to recovery. How do you nurture your...
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Four Life Changing Steps to PCOS Transformation
You’ve been to the doctor and got your tests done, it turns out you have the signs and symptoms of PCOS. What steps are you needing to take to address the underlying causes? Your doctor may want you to go onto Metformin, which is a common medicine recommended to women...
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The Unspoken World of PCOS
Polycystic Ovarian Syndrome. I have had a few health coaching clients that have come to me with this diagnosis, delivered to them by their gynae. She said some things about scans, cysts and possibly infertility. She’s not wrong. Getting a diagnosis like this is hard,...
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The Ancient Secret of Intermittent Fasting
What views do we have on intermittent fasting? Is it as faddish as the South African flag covers for your car side mirrors over the 2010 World Cup? Or could it actually have lasting health benefits? In this article, I explore what intermittent fasting is, who it...
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Chia Bircher Muesli Recipe
Eat clean with this Chia muesli recipe. It is easy, filling and jam packed with health benefits. Bring on a good start to your day with this recipe! Wandering around Berlin has got to be one of the most rich sensory experiences. The spring blossoms blow in the wind...
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Auto-Immune Wellness
A client of mine woke up this morning, made breakfast, and was ready to start with work on Monday morning as usual. Fast forward 45 minutes later and you find him face down in his bed, napping. “What’s going on?”, he calls me to ask. This client is someone who has...
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Bone Broth Breakdown
Eat your way to health You mention bone broth in a crowded room of friends. It’s followed by silence. And then a whole spectrum of views are thrown at you. Some are utterly irked by the idea of it and others would smile gleefully if you offer them a hot mug of it. I’m...
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The Last Time – A Perspective On Mindfulness
The Last Time A perspective on mindfulness; and the sacredness of time. Take a moment to think of all the things you will experience for the last time. Of course, the eventuality of death shows that at some point, everything will be done for the last time. But long...
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5 Quick Tools to Unwind
In my last blog post, Stress and how it uniquely impacts our health, I outlined the importance of stress reduction. If you’ve gone the extra mile for every other healthy lifestyle habit, but haven’t targeted your stress levels, you’re bound to be missing out on...
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Stress and how it uniquely impacts our health
Photo by Aarón Blanco Tejedor Stress. There is goes, winding us up Stress can be our constant evil sidekick. We don’t realize it’s with us day in and day out. Sometimes, we even crave stress. Stress creates a natural ‘high and you constantly seek. And when you do make...
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The Race Toward Recovery
If you’re an athlete, you know how races can deplete you. You give it your all, run a good race but you end up physically and mentally exhausted. If you’re an endurance runner, cyclist or CrossFit athlete, it’s always a race to recovery. How do you nurture your...
read more
5 Scientifically Proven Benefits of Gratitude and How It Will Change Your Life
Gratitude is a powerful practice These past few weeks, I’ve been mentally transitioning from one life stage stage to another. I was either a student or full time employee, and now I'm growing my Health Coaching practice. For the first time in my life I am in charge of...
read more
Four Life Changing Steps to PCOS Transformation
You’ve been to the doctor and got your tests done, it turns out you have the signs and symptoms of PCOS. What steps are you needing to take to address the underlying causes? Your doctor may want you to go onto Metformin, which is a common medicine recommended to women...
read more
Meditation: the Art and Practice
Meditation is a practice. One that is done regularly, with the intention of calming the mind, creating focus and building resilience. Life throws you ups and downs, and challenges that will test you. For instance, pain, physical or emotional; conflict with loved ones;...
read more
Monking around with Meditation
Monking around with Meditation What are our thoughts on meditation? I picture a bald monk practicing meditation hour after hour, sitting cross-legged on a stone cold floor. He comes out of a meditative trance with an aura of lightness and bliss. But surely sitting...
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