Exercise

  • Eating Plan: A Necessary Evil?

    I started an eating plan a couple of days ago, and I feel very weird about it. See, I have often argued against the need for diets or eating plans. They aren’t sustainable and it’s not great for your body to be so restrictive. And as we all know, the weight just bounces back after the diet has ended. After several times as a teenager that as a family we…

  • Cartwheels at dawn - walk in nature

    Self-care Tip #10 – Walk In Nature

    A walk in nature. Well. I clearly should have read ahead in my self-care list. This week’s tip about going for a walk in nature is very similar to last weeks, exercise. The examples I wrote about last week were exercising in nature, particularly taking a walk at the end of the day. But being me, I wanted to know a little more about why being in nature is such…

  • Cartwheels at dawn - exercise

    Self-care Tip #9 – Exercise

    Now, this is an easy one. I don’t even need to look into whether exercise helps when you’re feeling bad, I can use my own experience. It positively, absolutely does. And as someone who ambivalent/hostile at the thought of exercise, it does pain me to admit. An intensely crappy, work was really long, I was stuck in traffic for nearly an hour which meant I was stuck in my own…