Exercising daily, even if you simply go for a walk or deep stretch session, will have a positive impact on your over all sense of well-being and improve your mood’ remove the rest of the sentence starting with ‘don’t know where to start….’

Nutrition By choosing fresh, wholesome ingredients and foods you’ll be making a positive impact on your health. Starting with small changes will be less challenging and overwhelming and therefore easier to maintain.  Some food for thought : a little meal-prep time will help keep you away from fast-foods and take aways. Popping healthy snack options to take with you for the day will not only help keep you from ‘convenience’ foods but will be more cost effective too (nuts, veg sticks, fruit are quick & easy; there are also easy recipes for homemade protein bars/balls which I share on the Community page)

Sleep Do you have difficult sleeping? Is your sleeping pattern all over the place? There are things we do throughout the day and pre-bedtime that affect how well we sleep. Are you aware of your caffeine intake. Are you overstimulated before bedtime (eg : using your phone and/or your laptop, keeping your phone near your bed, watching television – do you have a tele in your room?). Removing technology from your room, or even by keeping  your phone facedown) on the farther side of the room will improve your sleep. Exercise in the evening followed by a warm-cold shower, meditating or simply having meditation or frequency music on instead of the tele, reading and performing a stretch routine before bed will all help to improve your sleep pattern.  If you enjoy caffeine, try to limit your intake and stop drinking it around lunchtime. Ensure your intake of water is at a healthy level. In the moments before falling asleep you can try to list all the things you did throughout the day that you are grateful for and proud of.

 Mindfulness Learning to live in the present moment creates a state of peace, focus, clarity and acceptance that everything is as it should be. Thinking of the past or the future has no positive gain for us as it is beyond our control, the present moment is all we have. Practicing mindfulness allows us accept the thought as it appears and to release it. To simply acknowledge them and send them on their way (allow them in but do not allow them to stay for tea). Our minds love to think so if you have never practiced mindfulness it can seem overwhelming.  Treating the mind as if it were a muscle group that needed training, you can then accept it will not be achieved in one day or a week but rather with regular practice, patience and perseverance.  Mindfulness is not about controlling the mind and ‘not thinking’, it is about allowing the thoughts and releasing them until you begin to be in a state of mindfulness.