The Ocean Effect

07/01/2022

This is 100% accurate 😂

Nailed it Twisteddoodles

08/12/2021

If you needed any further motivation to avoid highly processed, nutritionally devoid foods......

'A dozen studies from countries like Canada, Spain, Japan and Australia have shown that people who eat a healthy, wholefood diet have fewer symptoms of depression and anxiety than people who eat a poor diet (mostly ultra-processed products).'

ANALYSIS: Irrational and abusive public outbursts seem to have escalated in recent years. Diets heavy on processed food could be partly to blame.

12/11/2021

Some useful tips in here, for example:

'Focus your time and energy on the areas that you have control over – self-care, kindness, how you spend your time and who you spend it with – even virtually.'

OPINION: We're having to really dig deep at the moment, as individuals, whānau, and a country - here are some ways you can look after yourself.

09/11/2021

This might be helpful to anyone dealing with depression?

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03/07/2021

As someone who has experienced burn out, embarked on a whole range of study/learning/self-development to help myself and then others, the thing I have found most frustrating is that even when people are given the knowledge and tools needed to help themselves, their circumstances (home life, work etc) often conspire against them.

Workplace stresses can play a big role in this. This is one of the first articles I've read aimed at business leaders which actually contains some practical suggestions for helping staff that go beyond simply providing 'wellness' education and instead look at the organisation's leadership and culture. If you're involved in leading a team or running a business it's worth a read.

https://www.nzherald.co.nz/business/bruce-cotterill-mental-health-the-new-workplace-challenge/FFKPBUQLTQOI5SGDQHGP5OJYTU/

The old days of 'harden up' are over. But for business, what comes next?

29/06/2021

Excellent advice as always from Dr Libby.

Detoxification is a term often synonymous with short term programs and overnight results. The reality is that detoxification is happening 24/7, 365 days of the year. The main detoxification organs are the liver and kidneys, and the bowels and the urinary tract are ancillary to these. The skin via sweat, and the lungs via carbon dioxide, are also detoxification organs.

The lifestyle choices we make can interfere with how efficiently our body can detoxify and therefore eliminate the problematic substances that make their way into our body. Although ideally, we minimise our exposure where we can, realistically we can’t avoid everything (think air pollution), and we need to make sure that our detoxification pathways are working as efficiently as possible to avoid storing problematic substances inside us.

Simply eating more whole real food and making lifestyle choices that enable the liver to do its detoxification work more efficiently – such as consuming less alcohol and ultra-processed foods, while amping up your vegetable intake – can be great steps to take to better support detoxification.

For some, when they think about detoxification, they think of drinking only fresh juices or smoothies for an extended period of time – and while some people feel great doing this, others feel depleted. It’s important to notice how YOU feel. The premise of a juice cleanse is that you are giving the digestive system less work to do plus concentrated nutrition, so that stored problematic substances can be mobilised and eliminated.

Ideally, what we want to aim for with supporting our detoxification pathways, is robust health and excellent, consistent energy – rather than physical weakness or depletion. Energy is the true currency of health – and without it, everything is challenging.

A great question to ask before you eat, drink, do, or say anything is – will this energise or deplete me? And then act on your answer.

18/04/2021

So very true.

Until you give up the preoccupation that happiness is somewhere else...it can never be in the place where you are 🧡

31/12/2020

'No more diet wankery' 😂😂 Love it and she's so right - any form of restricted eating is highly unlikely to be sustainable.

https://www.nzherald.co.nz/lifestyle/diets-are-dead-the-best-way-to-tackle-weight-loss-in-2021/X572GMBLECFVMTZTX3Z2SSDSR4/

If you still plan to shed lockdown kilos, here's how not to do it.

18/11/2020

As usual some great, simple tips from Dr Libby.

11/11/2020

This is gold. Read it!

HIIT can be a great tool for both fitness and mental health, but it can also put a lot of undue stress on the female body if certain measures aren’t taken before, after and between sessions.

27/10/2020

'...consumers of both sugary and artificially sweetened drinks (containing substances like aspartame, stevia, and sucralose) are up to 20 per cent more likely to suffer heart disease, stroke or heart attacks than those who avoid consuming sweetened beverages altogether'

https://www.nzherald.co.nz/lifestyle/diet-drinks-may-be-just-as-bad-for-your-health-as-full-sugar-versions/E47QMKBDMDJCKA7KPZKT7LJVYI/

If you have been opting for diet drinks, you may want to reconsider.

17/09/2020

Give yourself a break...

17/09/2020

Ooh this is good!!

01/08/2020

This is quite a long but VERY interesting read.

Dr Lisa Mosconi, whose ground-breaking research focuses on women’s brains, talks about the hidden health risk most midlife women don’t know about.

30/07/2020

**This**

11/07/2020

Imposter syndrome - this is something that I experience and even admitting that feels like a failure😆.

'Have you ever had the feeling that your life isn’t quite your own? That you somehow don’t deserve the house you live in or the friends you have or – most commonly – the professional position you hold?

Odds are you have felt a version of “imposter syndrome”, a psychological pattern that was first given a name in the late 70s and has gained traction ever since'

As many as 70 per cent of us go through life feeling like frauds.

31/05/2020

Yoga is the key to happiness...😊

When coronavirus forced the closure of her Nishi Gallery yoga studio, owner Odona Farska decided to keep her 600 students happy by providing three weeks of free online classes.

19/05/2020

Some info on the role of diet on mental health. We are what we eat.

'Some of the strongest evidence that how we eat affects our mood comes from research by Deakin University's Food and Mood Centre, which found that swapping refined carbs and packaged foods for more wholegrains, vegetables and fish for 12 weeks reduced levels of moderate to severe depression.'

If ever we needed to value the part food plays in our mental health, it's now.