Posted by: catalystonline on: November 13, 2009
Poetry can throw us a lifeline and provoke thoughts and feelings that we don’t access every day. Until this week I hadn’t known there was actually an organisation that promotes poetry as a healing force, not until I came across the Poetic Medicine website that is.
John Fox is a certified poetry therapist, author, and associate [...]
Posted by: catalystonline on: June 7, 2009
As part of my Catalyst Newsletter I offer creative exercises and share resources that will give you pleasure and stimulate your own creative process. I was recently sent a stunning compilation of various artists around the world that gave me such pleasure that I want to pass it on.
Posted by: catalystonline on: June 1, 2009
I have a lot of time for spirituality, though I do struggle with religion, and I like to visit the wisdom of as many cultures and belief systems as I can. It is enriching to see other’s points of view and I came across this from the sayings of Buddha recently which I wanted to [...]
Posted by: catalystonline on: February 20, 2009
Stress is a natural part of life; it’s how you deal with it that makes the difference between health and illness, success and failure.
I have been writing and talking about health for over 20 years, and in that time I have seen so many people challenged by the stresses of their everyday lives. In today’s [...]
Posted by: catalystonline on: December 30, 2008
No matter what your good intentions, it can happen that you might have raised a glass too many to see in the New Year and are faced with the effects of a hangover. If you have then there are some natural remedies that can help, but first let me just suggest that however you feel, [...]
Posted by: catalystonline on: December 27, 2008
If you have found yourself making the same resolutions every year, then please stop doing it and ask yourself how much you really want it? The answer is going to be ‘not much’ if you have repeated the same ones – they are usually very general and revolve around worthy aims like losing weight, getting [...]
Posted by: catalystonline on: July 26, 2008
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If you weren’t/aren’t a Star Trek fan that phrase will mean nothing to you, but since I started reading science fiction in my teens it has been extraordinary how some of the stuff of those writers imagination has become reality. Meals in seconds via the microwave, complete nutrition in a pill or powder shake, robots [...]
Posted by: catalystonline on: July 14, 2008
There are thousands of people who every day quietly get on with taking care of someone either in a professional, or personal capacity. It may be a child or an adult, a long-term illness or a lifelong disability but what doesn’t vary is the sheer effort and emotional cost of such caring. It is not [...]
Posted by: catalystonline on: March 29, 2008
Bumble bees: many people are afraid of them, or rather their sting, but the humble bee brings us many benefits. Pollen to help with hayfever, delicious honey for our bread, and they are absolutely vital to the pollination of orchards and various food crops. You may not have heard of Colony Collapse Disorder, a disease [...]
Posted by: catalystonline on: March 19, 2008
CHILDBIRTH – DOES IT HURT? ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
I wanted to share another of my ‘whoever gave them money to study this’ stories from my Healthy Newsletter. Apparently first time mothers’ expectations of a pain-and-drug-free labour differ markedly from the real event. I can practically hear you all falling over in shock, but Joanne Lally of Newcastle University [...]
