Wellness blog — Health

With the help of my fabulous sister, Rachel, also a pharmacist and qualified personal trainer, we wrote up a series of easy to follow, pocket size daily resistance trainings to help you feel more limber and lively!    Limber and Lively in 10!  10 days is enough time to press play on these video shorts to get your body up and away from your desk to implement these daily stretches and weight lifting exercises.     Sitting is the new smoking…  No- really. According to studies, prolonged sitting has been shown to increase all cause cardiovascular disease related mortality. Does this...

  Dying is easy, comedy is hard. I can’t remember who first said that, but it’s someone funnier than me.   Laughter is better with friends…. It’s no secret that making people laugh is a gift. And Kyla Cobbler is truly gifted! Kyla’s on tour with me, and I count my lucky stars she said yes to my invitation! The beautiful thing about Kyla is that she appreciates her gift and delights in sharing it with others- making people laugh gives her joy! There’s also something infectious about laughter- the giggles you can’t control when you need to, or just...

Sleep and Your Skin…. It’s no secret that lack of sleep can play havoc with your skin. A couple of late nights show, not just in dark undereye circles, but also your skin tone and clarity suffer too. Usually after a late night after one too many 🍸, ahem, we also tend to make poorer food choices as well. The crisps and chocolates we crave aren’t exactly pillars of healthcare, are they?   The Science of Sleep… What happens? Why Is Sleep So Important? When we sleep our body gets a chance to reboot itself. Our brain carries out a...

We’ve all had those moments when you open up your phone and the reflection you see isn’t a person you recognise.  Who is THAT? (Cue- HEY! It’s me! I’m the problem, it’s me!)  Well this is the face I give when I open up IG and see everyone hopping on the New Year, New You bandwagon. What a load of BS!