Selfcare: Nutrition

Selfcare: Nutrition

If you’ve followed me for long enough you’ll have seen me go through some stuff with my health. In 2019/2020 I had multiple IV iron infusions because the diet I was following was not sufficient to nourish my body. I doggedly continued that diet, which led me to...
Sportlife Hack: Nalgene Bottles

Sportlife Hack: Nalgene Bottles

  Nalgene, where have you been all my life! ? How do I love thee? Let me count the ways. 💘 1. You are the most amazing tramping hot water bottle. Snuggling down in a snow cave, my body wrapped around my toasty Nalgene bottle, I was in heaven. 🔥 … aannddd so…...
Selfcare: Grounding and presence

Selfcare: Grounding and presence

If you find yourself out of balance, here’s how to recenter and ground yourself, wherever you are: Set your phone down. In your immediate surroundings, find: Five things you can see. Four things you hear. Three things you can feel. Two things you can smell. One thing...
Sportlife Hack: Poles

Sportlife Hack: Poles

Jack and Jill went up the hill…to drag my sorry arse up to the top! Meet Jack and Jill, my running/walking/hiking poles.  Why Jack and Jill? It was a moment of delirium as I was desperately working my way to the top of a 90-degree hill (that may be an exaggeration,...
Empowerment

Empowerment

  Something that I have learnt over the last few years, is that to be empowered I have to go out and do the things – myself. What things?  The things that are hard, that scare me, that I don’t think I can do – the things that I would normally defer to someone...