by Leanne Spencer | Dec 20, 2019 | Health & Fitness, Mind and Body, News
In this blog I’d like to share with you a Scandinavian word you might or might not have heard of before – Arbejdsglaede. And what does it mean? Happiness at work. It’s a Scandinavian concept and no other country has a word for this, which I find quite...
by Leanne Spencer | Nov 6, 2019 | Health & Fitness, Mind and Body, News
Welcome to month’s post on Oxytocin – the love and connection hormone. It was World Mental Health Day last month and I thought it would be a good time to continue to talk about this subject and about a hormone inside our body called oxytocin. Oxytocin is a very...
by Leanne Spencer | Oct 24, 2019 | Health & Fitness, Mind and Body, News
This month’s post has actually been inspired by a podcast I did recently with Sarah Williams of Tough Girl Challenges – a cracking podcast, which you can listen to here: Adventure, Freedom, Autonomy And Inspiration With Sarah Williams Of The Tough Girl Podcast It...
by Leanne Spencer | Sep 30, 2019 | Health & Fitness, Mind and Body, News
This month I want to talk to you about simplicity. I think one way that we can get more time, more freedom, more headspace, therefore more simplicity in our lives, is to have a bit of discipline around mobile phones. I’ve recently read a great book called ‘How to...
by Leanne Spencer | Aug 28, 2019 | Health & Fitness, Mind and Body, News
I want to talk about some of the better alternatives to BMI. I’ve heard this number bounced around quite a bit. It stands for Body Mass Index, and it is an equation (based on height and weight) that is done to give you a rough indication of whether you are overweight,...
by Leanne Spencer | Jul 29, 2019 | Health & Fitness, Mind and Body, News
Are you worried about your blood pressure and not sure how you can lower it? Maybe your doctor has told you that you have high blood pressure, or maybe you keep a track with a kit and you do your own blood pressure testing and it’s a little bit higher than you’d like...