Category: wellness
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Lessons of 2015
With great challenges come great lessons. While this year has been one the most heart breaking and challenging periods in my life thus far I can honestly say that I have also never felt more alive, capable and on purpose. I want to share my big lessons from this year in the hope that they enrich […]
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See the person not the disability
Today is international day of people with a disability and I’d like to share a story that was shared with me when I first started working at Scope. A few years ago, a colleague of Scope was travelling by train to a business meeting in the city. He planned to catch the train to […]
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Learning to Live
When my dad first passed away a number of people who had lost loved ones told me that you never really get over your loss. At the time it felt like I was being told that I was never going to be okay again, that somehow I was now broken beyond repair and I truly hated hearing it. […]
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Self Care
Taking the time to look after yourself before you burnout and or get sick is one of the greatest preventative medicines out there. Self care in essence is a simple concept and yet so many of us struggle to make the time for ourselves. Perhaps it’s that some of us feel guilty and a little selfish making […]
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The Puzzle of Life
One night I woke up at 2am struck with an idea about life and how it all fits together. Being only half awake I wasn’t sure if it was brilliant or just pain silly but I wrote it down all the same and drifted off back to sleep. In the morning I came back to it and started […]
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30 Days of Kindness – my journey
The biggest thing that came out of me doing my 30 day kindness challenge was probably the change in how I define kindness. When I set out to do my 30 day challenge I wrote out a list of nice things I could do for myself which included things like massages, flowers, yoga and other self […]