Welcome to Healthy Reads. This is where I share what I’ve learned in years of coaching about eating well and feeling better: nutrition, stress and burnout, sleep, hormones and menopause, healthy habits and simple ways to relax. Every article is based on science and written for real life, so you get clear steps you can start using today. No fads, no guilt and no extremes. Pick a topic below, or simply start reading.
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Let’s Talk About Exercise: Gentle Ways to Move Every Day After 50
Protein is the material, and movement is the message. Here are gentle, everyday ways to keep your body strong, steady and full of energy after fifty.
Nurture yourself this spring with primary foods
Spring is not the moment to be hard on yourself. Look at nature, do as she does, and nourish yourself with these simple primary foods, on and off the plate.
Breathe: A Gentle Introduction to Coming Back to Your Breath
Most of us spend the day breathing high and short without noticing. Here’s a gentle introduction to remembering your breath, with one simple practice and a little sticky-note trick.
Let’s Talk About Cravings: Where They Come From and What They’re Telling You
Cravings for crisps, cheese or chocolate usually come from stress, comfort, hunger, tiredness or habit. Here’s how to find out where yours come from, and what helps.
Give Yourself Permission
You have spent a lifetime adapting to what others expect. Now give yourself permission to be more than you have dared so far: to say a clear yes, a clear no, and to choose your life deliberately.
Let’s talk about sleep: simple habits for better nights
Good sleep starts long before bedtime. Here’s how your day, your meals, your stress and your evenings shape your nights, and what I suggest people try first.
Let’s Talk About Diets: Why I Don’t Believe in Them
I hate hearing about diets. Here’s why they so rarely work, what they do to your body and mind, and what I suggest instead.
Why You Need More Food, Not Less (Especially After 50)
When we eat very little, the body takes what it needs from elsewhere, and muscle is one of the first places. Here’s why eating enough is an act of care.
11 tips for better mental health
Looking after your mental health is mostly made of small, ordinary things done regularly. Here are eleven of them, and a gentle way to begin.
Have You Ever Tried Dry Brushing?
Dry brushing, or garshana, is an Ayurvedic morning ritual that leaves your skin soft and your body wide awake. Here is how to do it gently, step by step, and when to leave it out.
Ask Yourself Four Simple Questions to Overcome Stress: A Book Recommendation
One thought going round and round can spoil a whole day. Byron Katie’s book Loving What Is gives you four simple questions to ask of it, and they can change how you feel surprisingly quickly.
What Is Intuitive Eating? A Gentle Way Back to Trusting Your Body
Intuitive eating isn’t eating whatever you like all day. It’s learning to trust your body again after years of rules, and here’s how to begin.
The difference between self-esteem, selfishness and self-acceptance
Many of us hold back from looking after ourselves for fear of being selfish. Here is how to tell self-esteem from selfishness, and why self-acceptance is the ground they both need.
Take Care of Yourself This Winter
Winter invites you to slow down and look at what your body, mind and soul really need. Here are seven gentle habits to help you feel rested and well until spring.
Meditation, or How to Withstand the Stress of Today’s Life
There are days that flow and days that don’t. A few quiet minutes of simply being, every day, can change how you meet all of them. Here is why meditation helps with stress, and how to begin.
The Power of Time Off: Recharge Your Thinking
Two days off, and still as tired as on Friday? Here is why real time off matters so much, how to find the kind of rest that restores you, and how to make room for it in a full life.
4 Secrets to Find Happiness
If you want happiness, stop looking for it! The harder we chase it, the more it slips away. Here are four ways we get in our own way, and what brings contentment instead.
Take Care of Yourself in Every Possible Way
Children, work, shopping, friends, projects: you manage it all, and yet a quiet voice asks “What about me?”. Here is what taking care of yourself really means, and where to begin.
