Taking Your Blood Pressure at Home

Taking Your Blood Pressure at Home

Why take your blood pressure at home? Knowing your blood pressure is one indicator of heart health. It is important because high blood pressure is a silent, symptomless disease. Which means if you do not know it’s high unless you get it checked. Previously, that meant...
Body Mass Index (BMI) Plus

Body Mass Index (BMI) Plus

The Body Mass Index (BMI) used to be the gold standard health assessment tool. Few use it these days as it says nothing about your body composition. Which means it doesn’t take into account your muscle/fat ratio. We have much easier access to accurate information...
Is your self-care to-do list stressing you out?

Is your self-care to-do list stressing you out?

When I set myself a deadline for complete the paperwork for my Yoga Teacher Training. It was more work than I thought. Instead of extending the deadline, I worked harder, to the point where I stopped my regular self-care habits to fit it in. I’m sure you have done...
Becoming 50

Becoming 50

This year (2019) I will be fifty. Half a century. Whichever way you look at it, it’s a big birthday. I choose to see it as a halfway point, I plan to live into my hundreds! Personally I don’t think it’s by accident that such a big birthday happens...