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After years of struggle with my health I found what worked for me and I want to share my experiences, recipes, helpful tips and even snippets from my day-to-day life in this blog.
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How Micellar Water Works

I’m new to the world of Micellar Water – I know where have I been living for the past 10 years. When I heard the phrase Cleansing Waters I honestly thought we were talking about the likes of the Bath Spa and Jane Austin! Now I love a bit of Jane Austin but here’s the real facts about Micellar water! Turns out they are a beauty phenomenon for good reason. In the dark old days, removing make-up, especially around the eyes, could be troublesome especially if you were using face wipes of a drying foaming cleanser. The arrival of French, no-rinse, micellar water was revolutionary as a single piece

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How to Marie Kondo your makeup and skincare

I’m a bit of a hoarder. There I’ve said it and I’m out. I love tying up the bits of ribbon that come off parcels, and pretty boxes never seem to get thrown away. I’m a sucker for a tin – cake, biscuit, tea, notecard. I have a collection of empty Arbonne Genius Bottles – you know those little tiny bottles with the Phytinol (Vitamin A) in them that literally takes your skin to another level, which I regularly use to display garden flowers. My garage is filled with stuff! But I also love tidying. Nothing gives me greater pleasure than a good clear out, setting a box To Throw, a box To Rehome and

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Are you living with IBS?

We’ve all heard the old adage ‘you are what you eat’ but there is new evidence appearing almost daily identifying that what’s inside us, the quality of our microbiome, can affect everything from our immune system to our mental health. Over 2000 years ago Hippocrates said, ‘All disease begins in the gut,’ yet it’s taken us over 2,000 years to really get to grips with this. There’s new scientific data appearing daily that is enabling us to have a greater understanding of the microbiomes, or collections of bacteria, fungi and microbes in our bodies which help fight germs, break down food and

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How To: Choose Your Perfect Lipstick Shade

Finding the perfect colour lipstick can be challenging. Read my guide and find out how to you can choose the perfect shade every time. Have you ever found yourself staring blankly at the lipstick counter, feeling lost and confused? This was always a big one for me as I’ve never really known what I was doing in this department! Now give me a fabric to colour match and I’m all over it but give me a lipstick counter and I used to be a gibbering wreck! Fortunately, Arbonne has taught me a few tips that can help you in your journey to find the perfect shade. Keep reading and I’ll reveal what they

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How to eat during exams

When it comes to exam stress and nutrition you can be treading on very uneven ground. I’d love to say that as a health coach I practice what I preach but with a teenager in the house, it’s not always the case. We went through GCSE’s a couple of years ago and are about to hit the A level mocks so I fully understand the pressure on parents. It’s so easy to reach for the easy option and allow them unchecked time on social media and unhealthy food to fuel their moods but we all know that in the long run this won’t be a good payoff. Exams can be a stressful time for the whole family. As parents we

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What's holding you back from creating a healthy lifestyle?

I talk a lot about mindset and health and how the two are intrinsically linked. I believe courage plays a major role in whether you’ll be successful in creating lifestyle change and in sticking to it long term. So how do courage, lifestyle change and weight loss come together? Firstly I believe you have to have the courage to adjust your priorities. So often we put all those around us first, eating poorly or missing out on exercise so we can fit things in for our families. How often have you downed a coffee in lieu of breakfast but made sure the kids eat before leaving for school, or skipped

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