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June 2021: Changes at the Top & Near Death Experiences
A Turning Point This month marks a turning point for Helix House. After a two-year change-over period, which we never expected to include a global pandemic, Clive and Kerstin are now stepping down as owners and directors of the practice. Many of you will have met Yan-Chee Yu over the last five years as a…
Read MoreMarch 2020: The life saving nature of Friendship
Love and Connection: A fundamental Human Need “The world’s longest-lived people chose–or were born into–social circles that supported healthy behaviours, Okinawans created “moais”–groups of five friends that committed to each other for life. Research from the Framingham Studies shows that smoking, obesity, happiness, and even loneliness are contagious. So, the social networks of long-lived people have favourably…
Read MoreA crack in everything: that’s how the light gets in: Transforming our global food system-February 2019
Ring the bells that still can ringForget your perfect offeringthere is a crack, a crack in everythingThat’s how the light gets in. Leonard Cohen In my last blog of 2018 I mentioned, in passing, the little thing about, “the collapse of civilisations and the extinction of much of the natural world” that will happen if…
Read MoreLosing the boozing
Reduce your drinking for a healthier you Although you may first visit an osteopath to treat a particular injury or condition, a priority of osteopathy is to help you to improve your overall health and wellbeing. There are a range of things that we do to our bodies that can either help or hinder this,…
Read MoreNew Year, New Life. January 2016
Happy (and ‘lucky’) New Year. January 2016. “The harder you practice, the luckier you get.” I just purchased a Lottery ticket for the first time today. I know, my chances of winning, and having the pleasure of becoming a serious Philanthropist, are about 65 million to one! But I have been thinking about lady…
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