Why Exercise?

Protein, Fasting and Imposter Syndrome

When it comes to nutritional science, who's opinion do we believe? Do we even think about it? Or are we quite happy to let someone else do our thinking for us and pretend that everything they say will be correct and perfect for us? How much evidence do we need before we might consider that not all nutritional advice is create equal when it comes to a specific and singular case, like ourself.

You can't go back

Considering things in our past is sometimes valuable. But how do we actually view those things in relation to how we feel about our present? Do we wish we could change the past? Or do we reframe it? Do we wish we could bring a feeling state from the past into the present? All of which can be telling on our current sense of self, and possibly needs addressing.

Stress and How Low Blow It Goes... part 2

Yet more on everyone's favourite subject. Big picture stressors and their impacts on how we perceive ourselves in relation to them, and on how many levels this stress impacts us.

Stress and How Low Blow It Goes... part 1

What IS Stress? and how is that relevant to you? How does it work, what does it do to you and what does that really look like?

Why Exercise?

What does exercise do, when we consider it regarding mental health? Does it do anything? Is it the exercise itself, or the decision to do some exercise? The physiological benefits, or the psychological ones?  And how do we find and create those benefits when it comes to something typically associated with uncomfortable pain and stressful sweating?