The Benefits of Deep Breathing. Podcast Episode 48.
There are many benefits of learning how to breath deeply. Deep breathing is a fantastic tool to use when we’re stressed or angry. We need to practise breathing deeply so that when we’re overwhelmed, we can remember to focus on our breath.
Benefits of Deep Breathing Podcast Episode
We live in a World of Stress
Our modern lives are full of stressors. A bit of stress can be useful, but we don’t want to live in “reactive mode” all the time.
Ideally we want to be able to see as we’re getting stressed and take measures to avoid unnecessary worry and stress.
But it’s like we live in a bubble. It can be difficult to see that we’re getting stressed.
Start By Seeing Stress in Other People
It can be helpful to start to see when other people are stressed. It’s easier to recognise it in others than ourselves. (Generally I wouldn’t recommend stepping in and telling them about it. They’re unlikely to thank you!)
I can often see my kids getting stressed and upset with each other.
Deep Bre...
How to Easily Incorporate Movement into your Day with Katy Lush – Episode # 47
Today we’re talking easy ways to add movement into our day. Having a regular exercise routine is fantastic for our bodies. In our modern lives, it’s easy to be sedentary for most of the day (even if we do exercise.) Our bodies are made to move! We feel fit and fabulous when we use our muscles. So let's find out how we can create more movement as we go around our daily lives.
Katy Lush Movement Specialist
Today’s guest Katy Lush is a passionate movement professional who lives in downtown Chicago. She’s owned a Pilates and gyrotonic studio called Chicago River North Pilates for 15 years and just last year she launched an online studio called Lush Living.
What we’re talking about
-Incorporating exercise and movement into your day
Stacking your Life to Move More
You’ve got a laundry list of everything you need to accomplish throughout the day. You have to take your kids to school,feed them, feed yourself, go to grocery shop and run errands….
There are so many tasks you have to ...
One Easy Way to Change the Way you Eat
Whether you want to eat healthily to lose weight, for health benefits or both, you need to make changes. One easy tool is to try out new changes with curiosity.
Author Bio
Dr Orlena is a health coach. She helps busy mums go from "I can't lose weight" to feeling fit and fabulous. Find out more about her here.
3 Easy Nutritional Steps To Weight Loss and Healthy Eating Podcast
Author Bio
Dr Orlena is a health coach. She helps busy mums go from "I can't lose weight" to feeling fit and fabulous. Find out more about her here.
The One Thing You Need to Do To Lose Weight and Lead a Healthy Life Podcast
Author Bio
Dr Orlena is a health coach. She helps busy mums go from "I can't lose weight" to feeling fit and fabulous. Find out more about her here.
Weight Loss and Healthy Living with the Med Style Diet. Podcast.
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Author Bio
Dr Orlena is a health coach. She helps busy mums go from "I can't lose weight" to feeling fit and fabulous. Find out more about her here.
How to Lose Weight and Lead a Healthy Life By Changing Your Identity. Podcast Episode
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Author Bio
Dr Orlena is a health coach. She helps busy mums go from "I can't lose weight" to feeling fit and fabulous. Find out more about her here.
How Gratitude Can Help You Lose Weight and Lead a Healthy Life. Podcast Episode 43
Benefit of Gratitude Articles
Being grateful can lower your blood pressure.
31 Benefits of gratitude.
7 Scientifically proven benefits of gratitude.
Children's Gratitude Journals
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Author Bio
Dr Orlena is a health coach. She helps busy mums go from "I can't lose weight" to feeling fit and fabulous. Find out more about her here.
How to Create Healthy Habits to Support Your Weight Loss Goals. Podcast Episode
People who lead a healthy life is not because they are more disciplined. It is because they have set their lives up to do healthy habits.
Step 1: Be aware of your habits
Write down all your habits and evaluate which ones you want to keep and which ones to change.
Step 2: Start working on what you want to change
Step 3: Do it
The thing about habits is we do them without thinking. But there is a transition time. If you want to change a bad habit, do it one habit at a time.
Author Bio
Dr Orlena is a health coach. She helps busy mums go from "I can't lose weight" to feeling fit and fabulous. Find out more about her here.
21 Autumn Vegetables to help Weight Loss
My husband once had the idea of opening a fruit and vegetable shop called “Little Packets Of Goodness”. Sadly the idea never came to fruition but I love the name! (Excuse the pun!)
Despite all the confusing, controversial nutritional advice out there, there is one thing that (pretty much) everyone agrees on. Vegetables are good for us!
Vegetables Contain Fibre That is Good for Us
They are packed with fibre that does more than just keep us regular. A recent “meta analysis” study from New Zealand stated that eating more than 30g of fibre a day reduces “all cause mortality”. (Dying from anything.)
For more details of the study, check out Dr Orlena’s Fit and Fabulous podcast, “How to Eat 30g of Fibre a Day.”
Vegetables are packed with vitamins and antioxidants. Colourful vegetables have antioxidants called “phytonutritients”. (Hence why people talk about “eating a rainbow”.)
Vegetables are also the mainstay of the Mediterranean Diet which is the only “diet” to have good medical resea...
