Triple Two Wellbeing

09/02/2026

Take the Lead on Your Health

Most of us are aware that access to timely healthcare is becoming more challenging.

There's rising demand, the system is overwhelmed, and there's a growing burden of long-term conditions.

The result: people wait longer for appointments, have less time with their healthcare providers, and often feel unsure where to turn for support between visits.

Lifestyle-related conditions account for a significant proportion of healthcare need, yet traditional medical systems are not designed to provide preventive or ongoing lifestyle/health behaviour change support.

The result is a gap between what people need and what the system can sustainably deliver.

This is where a trained, credentialled health coach comes in to help bridge the gap between medical care and making lifestyle and health behaviour changes stick in real life.

By providing time, partnership and personalised guidance, a skilled and credentialled health coach supports you to identify what is important to you and build the knowledge, confidence, skills and lifestyle habits needed to take proactive ownership of your health, aligned with your lifestyle, and your life schedule.

If you want to know more about Health Coaching and how it could support you, whether you have specific challenges to overcome or simply have prevention in mind, then please see the UK & International Health Coaching Association (UKIHCA) guide here:
https://www.ukihca.com/images/Guide-to-HC---2025-FINAL.pdf

The UKIHCA also maintain a register of qualified Health Coaches here: https://www.ukihca.com/locations

For a free no-obligation discovery call for more information, or to talk about how my practice can help you, then contact me directly or visit: https://222wellbeing.co.uk/

07/02/2026

Wisdom earned through silence, loss, love, and letting go...
Here are 12 LIFE LESSONS FROM A 90-YEAR-OLD MONK:

1. Let go, or be dragged.
Suffering rarely comes from life itself—it comes from clinging.
Clinging to people, identities, expectations, or outcomes turns life into a struggle.
Letting go doesn’t mean you stop caring; it means you stop strangling peace with attachment.

2. Your ego screams, but your soul whispers.
The ego demands validation, victory, and control.
The soul asks for truth, alignment, and peace.
If you slow down enough to listen, you’ll realize the quieter voice is the wiser one.

3. Time is your true currency—spend it like it’s running out.
Money can be earned again. Time cannot.
Every moment wasted on resentment, fear, or proving yourself is gone forever.
Spend your time on what gives life back to you.

4. If it costs your peace, it’s too expensive. Walk away.
No relationship, job, or situation is worth chronic anxiety and inner chaos.
Peace is not a luxury—it’s a necessity.
Anything that constantly steals it is asking too much.

5. You become what you tolerate.
What you excuse, you slowly accept.
What you accept, you eventually embody.
Raise your standards—not from arrogance, but from self-respect.

6. Never chase people.
Chasing drains dignity.
The right people don’t need convincing—they choose you freely.
Those meant to walk with you will not require you to beg for presence.

7. The quieter you become, the more you hear.
Noise numbs intuition.
Silence sharpens awareness.
In stillness, you hear truths that shouting could never reveal.

8. Heal so deeply that even your triggers get bored.
Healing isn’t about never feeling pain again.
It’s about no longer reacting from old wounds.
When triggers lose their power, freedom begins.

9. Most people don’t listen to understand—they listen to reply. Don’t be one of them.
True listening is rare and sacred.
When you listen to understand, you dissolve conflict before it begins.
Presence heals more than advice ever will.

10. Rest is not laziness.
Even the moon disappears for a night.
Rest is how the body repairs, the mind resets, and the soul exhales.
Burnout is not a badge of honor.

11. Never argue with fools.
Arguments with the unconscious only drain energy.
Spectators often can’t tell who’s wise and who’s loud.
Silence, boundaries, and distance are sometimes the highest intelligence.

12. You don’t find yourself—you remember who you were before the world changed you.
Before fear.
Before conditioning.
Before survival taught you to shrink.
Your essence was never lost—only covered.

✨ A long life teaches this simple truth:
Peace matters more than pride.
Depth matters more than noise.
And wisdom is not accumulated—it is uncovered.

Read slowly.
Live gently.

06/02/2026

Tapping your way out of the stress trap

Clients approach me for different reasons. Whether it's…

🆘 a need to address a specific issue (e.g. weight loss, high blood pressure/cholesterol, pre-diabetes, etc.)

😎 a desire to turn up as their best selves every day (e.g. manage energy crashes, brain fog, a lack of motivation)

💚 a desire to avoid ill-health in the future (e.g. they feel genetically exposed to a chronic condition, or they simply want to maximise their health span)

But regardless of why people first got in touch, an ever-growing proportion of them need to focus on managing their stress as priority ONE, often not realising the extent to which it is affecting nearly every aspect of their health and wellbeing. It's actually quite often the root cause of their challenges.

We will never eliminate stress, as many of the triggers are outside of our control. However, learning stress resilience is a must in our modern world if we are to avoid the slippery slope to chronic stress and burn-out.

For many, breathing techniques and meditation offer useful tools in building resilience to stress, and their effectiveness is well documented and widely accepted as being way beyond "woo-woo".

However, for more serious cases, EFT Tapping (EFT=Emotional Freedom Techniques) offers a more intense technique with which I've seen clients combat acute anxiety and PTSD.

A quick search on YouTube will provide guidance on the tapping points, and example guided sessions for you to try if you're interested in getting a feel for it or finding out more.

I also recommend this website: https://www.thetappingsolution.com/
Their app is very good too for those who find that EFT Tapping is useful. It's scope of use also goes beyond stress resilience.

For more info on Health Coaching and wider Health & Wellbeing support, visit:
Triple Two Wellbeing: https://222wellbeing.co.uk/
UK & International Health Coaching Association: https://www.ukihca.com/

30/01/2026

Happy Friday!

Health Coaching explained...

23/01/2026

20/01/2026

Men aged 40+: Avoiding the 'inevitable' health and wellbeing slippery slope

A study by the UK government in 2023 showed that the mortality rate for men with cardiovascular disease was 60% higher in men than in women. It also found that the rate for cancer was 41% higher in men as compared to women.

The saddest part of this is that chronic disease is often preventable.
It's pretty well-known that men aged 40+ tend to be the worst demographic when it comes to looking after themselves. I have first-hand experience of this!

Many of us put our chances of developing chronic disease later in life down to our genetics. However, this does not have to be the case. Modern Genomics has shown that the environment to which we expose our genes is way more significant than the genes themselves. Food for thought when we want to understand how to take the inevitability out of developing chronic disease (not to mention feeling great and making ourselves optimally resilient to day-to-day life while we're at it!)

When we consider "the environment to which we expose our genes", we are, of course, talking about our lifestyle, and the health & wellbeing of that complex biological machine that we refer to as our body.

Our genes may 'load the gun', but our environment 'pulls the trigger'.

If you're someone who has received a 'warning shot' from your medical practitioner (apologies for all the shooting analogies!) , whether it's having high blood pressure, high cholesterol, discovering you're pre-diabetic (becoming more common), or being clinically obese - to name a few of the common ones - then it's time to consider 'unloading the gun' by looking holistically at your health.

The 'holistic' approach is important because the key dimensions of health and wellbeing (such as diet, how we move our bodies, quality of sleep, how we manage stress, and mental health) are all staggeringly inter-dependent and contribute to that 'twitchy finger on the trigger' in ways that will surprise you. It's an approach that has become known as 'Lifestyle medicine', and if you haven't heard the phrase, look out for it - you will see it more and more as the government actions it's 10 year health plan and attempts to rescue our beleaguered NHS.

Perhaps it's time to consider what lifestyle medicine you or your loved one need to help unload the gun?

“Take care of your body. It’s the only place you have to live.” - Jim Rohn

A UKIHCA qualified Health Coach can provide advice, support and accountability for translating the latest health science into relevant, practical and easy adaptations that are tailored to the client's unique health profile, lifestyle and (and most importantly) their life schedule.

More information about my Health Coaching company:
https://222wellbeing.co.uk/

Find a local UKIHCA (UK and International Health Coaching Association) qualified Health Coach here:
https://www.ukihca.com/locations



[Image: Craiyon.com]

16/01/2026

I stumbled across this quote from Robert Farrar Capon:
"A good time occurs precisely when we lose track of what time is"

It reminded me: while Health Coaches like myself sometimes use meditation for stress management and the alleviation of anxiety in clients, it also has a more mystical purpose from its origins in the far east: One of discovering joy in a thought-free present moment, unpolluted by thoughts of the past or future (where our minds reside most of the time in today's modern world!)

The same joy is experienced when we're 'in the flow' - that feeling of being so engrossed in an activity that everything but the current moment experience seems to disappear. Whether it's an artist completing that perfect painting, a tennis player dominating a crucial set, or a racing driver completing that perfect fastest lap (fill in your own favourite activity here), the natural flow of the moment is experienced as a kind of joy.

Some people refer to this as experiencing vertical time. Normal (horizontal) time is forgotten or lost, albeit briefly.

So, recharge your batteries this weekend, whether it's fully embracing meditation, or simply getting engrossed in that favourite hobby or past-time that results in 'the flow' and that natural joy of the present moment (you'll actually be meditating without realising it!)

Your health and wellbeing will thank you for it.

Have a great weekend all.

13/01/2026

Are you someone who suffers from anxiety?

More and more of the people I speak to seem to be. Not just everyday fleeting worries, but accumulated anxiety that has started to impact their lives. Sometimes chronic anxiety has even developed into depression.

The causes do vary, whether it's work pressures, constant negative world news, or family stresses. But the effects are always the same - low mood, poor sleep, a lack of motivation and low energy.

The trouble is we are born worriers. It is literally programmed into our brains to ensure that we have the built-in protection from potential threats.

When we evolved threats were very real. The potential of coming face to face with a wild animal required our nervous systems to quickly switch into 'fight or flight' mode with the associated injection of cortisol and adrenaline to shut down bodily systems that are not essential in that moment and enhance those that could make the difference to our survival.

The trouble is in modern life our brains don't differentiate too much between threats. A run-in with the boss can have the same effect as a close call with a tiger. Anxiety around a future event or recounting that conversation where I said the wrong thing and wrecked my upcoming promotion chances are often as violent on our nervous system as an immediate threat. Especially in environments with relentless pressures - all-too-common in today's world.

It's essential that we develop a resilience to anxiety. One effective method is to train our minds to spend more time in the present moment.

Most anxieties are about potential events in the future that may not even come to pass, or something in the past that we can't change. Most accidents happen when we're busy visualising the past or future scenes and not watching what we're doing in the present moment!

What if we could train our minds to stay in the present moment.

You may have heard the phrase, "neurons that fire together, wire together" - a simplified version of
Donald Hebb's theory of how the brain learns and forms connections through neuroplasticity.
In a similar vein: "Focus is the art of knowing what to ignore" - from James Clear (author of Atomic Habits).

So learning to focus on the present moment can train your brain to focus less on the past and future, along with their associated negative thoughts and anxieties.

Techniques like mindfulness and meditation, or even breathing exercises like 'box breathing' give us the tools to teach our brains to be more in the present moment, and in doing so, help us to nurture periods of presence that are free of anxiety. Over time you will experience less anxiety, and, better still, you will subconsciously become more resilient to stress!

[Image courtesy of craiyon.com]

05/01/2026

I don't believe in new year's resolutions.

Many of us choose this time of year to get our health and wellbeing back on track. However, more often than not, new year's resolutions are not the right way of going about it.

They rely totally on will power and "all or nothing" actions that are designed for a 'best case' day with 100% commitment and motivation, rather than a 'wobbly day' (or even a 'typical day'!) where the barrier of entry is just too high for our mustered will power to make it over!

When we abandon the idea of that 45 minute gym session or that 30 minute walk, the resulting self-shame, guilt and disappointment put a big dent in your "new-year, new-you positivity" and that then fuels that common seasonal low mood.

What you really need are carefully considered and achievable objectives with supporting actions that are tailored to be easy on ANY day (including those 'wobbly days'). Actions that fit into your specific day-to-day lifestyle and schedule - on ANY day. Transformational steps made easy. All with regular support and accountability to help you stick with your objectives.

We often focus on a one-dimensional approach with one primary objective (e.g. weight loss) when the best approach is to look at all the dimensions of health and wellbeing that you may not have considered to be relevant. Dimensions such as sleep, moving the body, stress management, mental health and body composition are extremely interdependent - more than many people realise. For example, many people trying to lose weight don't realise the major impact of sleep and stress, and why it's important to address these alongside the most obvious actions.

So, what we need is a tailor-made, multi-dimensional program with achievable actions and specific measures to track progress. A program that is designed to be EASY. A program that provides constant support and accountability. A program that is realistic for you and your unique lifestyle and life schedule.

This is the only real recipe for successfully achieving your health and wellbeing objectives.

A qualified Health Coach is the best help you can get to cook up such a recipe.

To find out more or even find a qualified Health Coach, see https://www.ukihca.com/

Or, I'd be very glad to have a free no-obligation chat about your health and wellbeing aspirations. You can get in touch here: https://222wellbeing.co.uk/contact/

24/12/2025

For those of us who sometimes struggle to trust our inner 'force' in taking the next step for fear of judgements, fear of what people may say about us, or fear of attracting the wrong attention (from one of my screen heroes)…

"They will criticise you for what you are, for what you are not, and for what they think you are. They will judge you for what you do, for what you don't do, and for what you fail to do. They will talk about you for what you say and for what you keep silent about. They will point at you for your successes and for your mistakes, for your decisions and for your doubts. No matter how much you try to please, there will always be opinions. So, live for yourself, because in the end, the only thing that matters is being true to your own path." - Harrison Ford