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Relationships

Why Are Relationships Challenging? Part 1

Why Are Relationships Challenging? Part 1

  This is a guest post by Michael Doherty from The Michael Files Why do our close relationships start off being wonderful, and all too frequently deteriorate into conflict or apathy? To answer this question, we need to look at how our relationships begin, and why they begin. We all have an image in our subconscious minds of our ‘ideal’ mate. This image is formed from our conditioning during childhood. Often, aspects of our parents will form part…

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Depression

The Mindful Way Through Depression – Freeing Yourself From Chronic Unhappiness – Book Review

The Mindful Way Through Depression – Freeing Yourself From Chronic Unhappiness – Book Review

Title: The Mindful Way Through Depression – Freeing Yourself From Chronic Unhappiness Authors: Mark Williams, John Teasdale, Zindel Segal & Jon Kabat-Zinn Published: 2007 Publisher: Guilford Pages: 273 Price:  £15.99 (paperback) 20% discount for UK readers using MINDKMS13 code (Valid from 1st August – 30th September) Click HERE Other parts of the world : $21.95 (RRP) Click HERE Genre: Self Help   Winner of the Association for Behavioural and  Cognitive Therapies (ABCT) Self-Help Seal of Merit!…

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Product Reviews

SweetLeaf Liquid Stevia – Chocolate & English Toffee – Product Review

SweetLeaf Liquid Stevia – Chocolate & English Toffee – Product Review

As summer set in this year I had this incredible urge for ice-cream, and as I was past 6 months of my sugar-detox I was wondering how on earth I could have ice-cream without sugar? I was blessed with finding a few ways to enjoy my favourite summer treat and then I came across some fabulous recipes on-line that indulged my ice-cream love even further and instead of sugar they had liquid…

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Stress Management

The Positive Thinking Culture Is Creating Neurotic Spiritual Seekers

The Positive Thinking Culture Is Creating Neurotic Spiritual Seekers

Over the past year I have begun to notice a growing trend in spiritual circles, so much so I feel the need to talk about the rather large elephant in the room that many spiritual teachers are failing to address fully. The intense emphasis on positive thinking is creating a state of neurosis in many people on the spiritual path. While some people are brought up to view life experiences…

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Product Reviews

REVIEW: Rio Rosa Mosqueta Anti-Ageing Day & Night Cream – GIVEAWAY

REVIEW: Rio Rosa Mosqueta Anti-Ageing Day & Night Cream – GIVEAWAY

APOLOGIES For Missing Images – Change Of Hosting Resulted In Some Missing Images From Older Posts Some of you may already know the fantastic experience I had with Rio Rosa Mosqueta Rosehip Oil on my rosacea HERE, but I have also had the opportunity to review the Rio Rosa Mosqueta Anti-Ageing Day and Night Cream. This cream compliments the oil beautifully and works during the day to protect the skin and…

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Recipes

Home-Made Coffee Ice cream – Sugar and Egg Free

Home-Made Coffee Ice cream – Sugar and Egg Free

My house-mate Mike is always on the look out for a good coffee ice-cream, most of them taste so artificial or don’t have enough coffee flavour and he is always grumbling about manufacturers making coffee ice-cream and adding chocolate. He tends to swear a lot about companies adding chocolate to everything (needless to say he has not tried a lot of the recipes I have been making as I love…

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Recipes

Healthy Frozen Chocolate Yoghurt Recipe

Healthy Frozen Chocolate Yoghurt Recipe

I think I’ve only ever had frozen yoghurt once, in Australia over 13 years ago and had totally forgotten what it tastes like. I also think it freezes differently to ice-cream (either that or I am not doing it correctly). Anyway, here is a quick and easy frozen yoghurt recipe borrowed from SUGAR-FREE MOM’s site. I highly recommend you take a visit to this site, it’s full of so many great recipes…

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Anxiety

Attached To Feeling Good

Attached To Feeling Good

Many ‘spiritual’ teachings encourage positive thinking, yet by doing so they are resisting the entirety of our human experience. The teachings can often be so generalised that they do not take into account an individual’s personal history, conditioning and much more. What we need is balance, and to not be attached to feeling joyful or blissed-up and happy. In Buddhism it is said non-attachment to everything is the key to…

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Anxiety

Holding Fear With A Compassionate Heart – Anxiety

Holding Fear With A Compassionate Heart – Anxiety

When fear arises, most of us will do anything to not feel it. We use all kinds of mechanisms to resist fear; overeating, drinking, watching TV, playing computer games, listening to music, over-socialising, over-working and generally keeping busy. Yet the underlying fear still remains.  It’s like trying to hold a balloon under water. All these attempts to diffuse the feelings simply do not work. I was like this for most…

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Product Reviews

Urban Minerals – Mineral Make-up With Soul – Product Review

Urban Minerals – Mineral Make-up With Soul – Product Review

  I am a passionate ‘mineral make-up’ fan. After countless years in my youth of applying horrendous brand name foundations and powders like poly-filler, I realised how much the chemical-full make-ups were damaging my skin. My pores are very large now and I am convinced it’s because when I had acne as teenager I used those filler type foundations that claimed to give you an even finish. Of course they…

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