http://www.healthylifeessex.co.uk/Blog Health and wellbeing - naturally Tue, 10 Aug 2010 15:11:48 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Little Havens needs a Little Lottery Luck Little Havens Children’s Hospice has made it to the finals of the National Lottery Awards 2010! The National Lottery Awards is an annual search to find the UK’s favourite Lottery-funded projects and after a three week frenzy of voting, Little Havens Children’s Hospice is ... http://www.healthylifeessex.co.uk/Blog/?p=1187 Back in March I posted information about the Mendip & Treecot Residents Association, Wildlife Garden project. The site has now been transformed from what was effectively a rubbish tip. With new trees and whip planting It is getting the feel of a nature garden and you can start to visualise where it ... http://www.healthylifeessex.co.uk/Blog/?p=1167 Then Groundwork’s GREENAIDERS could be for you! The GreenAider Garden Project is a free service for the elderly and vulnerable adults who need assistance to get control of their garden. What can we offer?  A free half day session to help get your garden under control and make it more manageable for ... http://www.healthylifeessex.co.uk/Blog/?p=1150 What a tragedy - the last tree on Victoria Circus Roundabout, a 'London Plane' has now been removed. In a statement  today Councillor Nigel Holdcroft, Leader of Southend-on-Sea Borough Council, spoke of his “great regret” that the Council had been forced to remove a London Plane tree from Victoria Circus. Cllr Holdcroft ... http://www.healthylifeessex.co.uk/Blog/?p=1147 Mountnessing Court Residential unit won a quality prize for innovative work with patients with dementia. They were awarded an additional prize by NHS South West Essex to help expand and publicise their work and raise awareness. You are invited to attend the screening of a short film about a family coping ... http://www.healthylifeessex.co.uk/Blog/?p=1139 This "thought" by William Arthur Ward was sent to me by Baiju Solanki in one of his newsletters which always provide inspiring performance awareness tips: Believe while others ... Believe while others are doubting... Plan while others are playing.... Study while others are sleeping.... Decide while others are delaying.... Prepare while others are daydreaming..... Begin while ... http://www.healthylifeessex.co.uk/Blog/?p=1135 I have just watched this live video of Jamie Oliver in America and it was incredible. Jamie's message was so powerful. There is so much disease caused by obesity and "death by food" is one of the major causes of early death in the US, and we are catching up ... http://www.healthylifeessex.co.uk/Blog/?p=1132 The first ever Co-operatives Fortnight culminating in International Co-operatives Day took place on Saturday 3rd July 2010. A national campaign to raise awareness of co-operation: calling for people to work together as individuals, colleagues, communities and businesses. You may not know of any co-operatives in Essex other than the Co-op retail ... http://www.healthylifeessex.co.uk/Blog/?p=1124 I couldn't resist sharing this article provided by Baiju Solanki of Performance Coaching. See more of his work at www.performancecoachingandtraining.co.uk So many moments are lost forever in the cobwebs of our egos. So many promises left behind because we cower in the corners of our own self pity. So many hurtful things we ... http://www.healthylifeessex.co.uk/Blog/?p=1116 Celebrating all that Nature has given us in the year doesn't come much better than this. I was up with the larks (and I hasten to add the milkman, who poodled down the road at about 3.45am!) To watch the sun rise and to start the chanting off at our ... http://www.healthylifeessex.co.uk/Blog/?p=1115