Leanne Halyburton. Email: spiritoflife@hotmail.co.uk
Now, more than ever, it is imperative that we become more personally empowered. The problem with the term ‘personal empowerment’ is that it is overused and smacks of glitzy self-help hype. So, let’s try putting it another way… such as ‘better equipped’, or ‘stronger from within’. It is resilience that we need, as expressed by […]
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I am 64, and I have arthritis in my right hip, left knee, and, I suspect, my left shoulder. Oh, and in the knuckle of the middle finger on my right hand. Regardless, I am two gradings away from a black belt in kickboxing (a strange choice of activity for someone in my condition, right?). […]
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I needed to achieve a particular goal, so I wrote it down on a piece of paper and left it where I could easily see it, every day. In truth, the main purpose of this was to reassure myself! “I am attracting a lovely home with a garage, that is pet friendly, in a convenient […]
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A young woman spoke to me about a new love interest. They had been talking on and off for less than a month — and she was highly anxious to know if he was genuinely attracted to her and if she should trust him. She told me she was incredibly confused — whilst I was deafened and […]
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Today I attended my usual Saturday morning fitness classes – a boot-camp session followed by thirty minutes of high intensity training. And I suddenly remembered how difficult it was when I first started kickboxing classes, around three and a half years ago… how I used to experience dizzy spells during the fitness routines. I hated […]
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More than at any other time in our recent past, we need to remember what love is – and how it behaves. And I am not referring to infatuation or sexual attraction – I am talking about love. It is so easy to throw the word around with abandon, incorrectly attaching it to situations that […]
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A young, fit, healthy woman I know has been obsessively afraid of Covid-19. She has been doubly vaccinated, and continues to take test after test, just to make sure that she doesn’t have it. I recently asked her what she was most afraid of, and she replied “of dying”. She exercises regularly, doesn’t overeat, and […]
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Overthinking is exhausting – and it can lead us almost to the edge of madness. It isn’t ‘ordinary’ thinking – it is intense and relentless… and not everyone engages in it. If you are reading this, I bet that you have been told at least once during your life that you “think too much”. I […]
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In my head, the world has changed. I am not living on the same planet that I was even six months ago. Everything feels and looks different – and not in a good way. And I have recognised that I am grieving; even typing this threatens to painfully drag the deeply buried tears up through […]
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Do diets really work? Well, for some people, yes. However, most of us view a diet as a temporary way of eating that will come to an end when (if) we reach a specified weight and can then return to our old ways! I lost almost 3 stone (around 40 lb) – and have kept […]
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