Category: Health

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Health
Laurel Alper

Time to Organise Our Local Community to Address the Corona Virus

It is now clear that, as a community, we are going to change the way we live for the next few weeks/months. We need various things organising, a local hardship fund, street-level contacts for elderly and disabled neighbours, to ensure supplies. Protocols agreed for visiting/dropping deliveries for such people. Many people want to do something,

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Health
Laurel Alper

Coronavirus Update

The coronavirus is spreading and it will undoubtedly begin to affect business and the way we carry on. The guidance set out below is current and it may alter based on government guidance. However, I would draw the following to your attention. Despite Boris Johnson’s announcement concerning SSP it is still unclear how his statement

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Health
Laurel Alper

Alexithymia – Alexi What??

So, let me start with a definition of Alexithymia and where it first came from to describe an emotional/mental health condition. Note I say condition, as it is not seen as a specific diagnosis of a disorder. It is not a widely known term in the world of emotional/mental health. It can be seen as a “generalised deficit of interoception”

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Health
Laurel Alper

Stop Allowing Fear to Hold You Back

Does fear still hold you back from having what you want? Do you feel paralysed to take any action at all? Do you tell yourself to wait until the perfect time and then take action? Perhaps you’re waiting for the kids to start school, or for them to leave home. Or you’re putting it off

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Health
Laurel Alper

Top 5 Root Causes of IBS and Digestive Problems

The difficulty begins because IBS is essentially meaningless; it’s a catch-all term used to encompass a huge variety of digestive issues. If you’re serious about getting to the bottom of the problem (no pun intended), I’m happy to discuss your symptoms and help find a way forward. You can book a free IBS health check

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Health
Laurel Alper

Living A Healthy Lifestyle Whilst Working Silly Hours

I have the privilege of working with business professionals on a daily basis, and I get asked a lot of amazing questions. Some very strange that I can’t answer, and some very common questions that I feel that more and more business professionals need to know the answer to. My client Heather, a successful business

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Can Backpacks Be Cool For Kids And Healthy Too?

With new technology, our habits have changed and children have become less active than in the past. In fact a study published by the NHS in December 2016 found that only 22% of children aged between 5 and 15 met the physical activity guidelines of being at least moderately active for at least 60 minutes

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