Mind Your Language!

It only takes one poorly phrased comment on someone’s weight (‘don’t eat so much, you’re putting on weight’, etc) to affect their self-image and feelings around food for years to come. A number of studies carried out have captured the impact of unhelpful language when referring to weight, in particular, that of the parent’s to their daughters. In one retrospective…

Do You Understand Your Emotions?

I had the pleasure of reading a soon to be released white paper on the importance of understanding emotions written by Jeanine Broderick of the Happiness 1st Institute. Not only did it reinforce what I already knew about the emotional scale and how we ‘label’ each other based on appearance & behaviour it also provided…

Mindset – Staying Positive

Do you get up with a spring in your step? Do you look in the mirror and smile at your reflection? Let’s get down to the topic of mindset – staying positive…It’s your mind remember… No one else controls it and therefore you choose what goes through it, stays in it and what you boot…