Welcome to my blog
There is a lot of information around on the importance of looking after our health, like maintaining a healthy diet and plenty of exercise… Which is all well and good if your aim is just to keep your body healthy. But what about your brain?
From chocolate to coffee and sleep to sharper smarter thinking, join me for an article or three as I share insights, tips and ideas on what it takes to keep your brain operating at full speed, so you can wake up feeling refreshed, happier and healthier every day.
Welcome to my blog
There is a lot of information around on the importance of looking after our health, like maintaining a healthy diet and plenty of exercise… Which is all well and good if your aim is just to keep your body healthy. But what about your brain?
From chocolate to coffee and sleep to sharper smarter thinking, join me for an article or three as I share insights, tips and ideas on what it takes to keep your brain operating at full speed, so you can wake up feeling refreshed, happier and healthier every day.
How to Boost Your Mood with Healthy Food
It’s depressing news but one in 16 of us in Australia is currently living with depression and one in seven struggling with anxiety. While we are getting better at talking about mental health issues, we’re not doing so great at looking for ways to reduce the risk of...
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Why it pays to be more sleep aware
Deep sleep is the sleep needed for you to wake feeling refreshed and restored. It’s the sleep needed for memory consolidation to make it easier to retain and recall information, and for the production of growth hormone (super important for kids).
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Do you need a friend at work?
It’s good to have friends, including at work, because many of us now spend more time with our colleagues than our partners and families. Having a friend at work makes us happier and more productive.
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Happy World Brain Day
Almost every week new discoveries are challenging how we think the brain works, uncovering the aetiology of some of our most baffling medical problems and uncovering the potential for new treatments for those conditions previously thought to be untreatable.
Here are just five from 2018.
Why Creating More Kindness and Compassion Matters
One day when I was eight, I went on a trip to a funfair with one of my best friends and her parents. We had such a great day. But when it came to the large merry-go-round my friend didn’t want to go on the ride, so I clambered up on my own to sit astride a gaily...
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How to Lighten Up with Effective Stress Management
Feeling stressed?
It might be better to ask who isn’t?
Stress is everywhere and people are complaining. But there’s a massive difference between the stress we experience on a daily basis and the type of severe chronic stress that puts people at risk of burnout.
“I’m so stressed” has become such a universal catch cry it’s become a new normal. The problem here is that if everyone is so stressed how do we reasonably distinguish between normal healthy stress and burnout?
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