Cultivating Wellness with FebFast

In 2014 I kicked off my first official FebFast effort and blogged about here and why it’s a such a great thing to do. While I haven’t officially enrolled this year, I’m still undertaking the effort and while the broad reasons remain the same, this...

Cultivate Wellness…grow your garden.

Wellness. What is it? If you search for an outside definition you’re likely to find “the active process of becoming aware of and making choices toward a healthy and fulfilling life.” You’ll also likely find the WHO boldly states that wellness is a “complete physical,...

SLEEP: Beyond Beauty.

Professor Paul Gringras  from Evelina Children’s Hospital in London recently participated in a study analysing the light emitted by devices such as e-readers, tablets and smartphones. The study’s data indicated the blue light emitted from these devices...

Be smart and ditch the resolutions…

Wow, it’s been a full 6 months since my last blog post and well…in blogger years hat’s at least 10 years. The latter half of 2014 was full with travel, presentations, consults and end-of-year planning, which seemed to leave little time for writing. But this year WILL...

Wonders of Winter…

Winter’s arrival here in the Yarra Valley has been anything but subtle. Last week the solstice brought with it rain, chilling wind and even snow in the mountains. Snow. In Australia. After all these years I still have trouble fathoming that concept. Despite the...

Gone Fishing…

Growing up in Alabama, I spent a lot of time on lakes and rivers fishing with my family. Sometimes it was grueling, especially in the heat of summer or at the 5 a.m. wake up call to get the fish before it got too hot. And let’s not even talk about the worms and...