Well-being
Healthy mind, healthy body, healthy soul... One needs to find the balance in everything. I am always exploring ways to be holistically more healthy.
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Joy Jar – Week 1 Creatively Grateful
Piglet noticed that even though he had a very small heart, it could hold a rather large amount of gratitude. AA Milne We are one week into our creativity challenge. Well done to…
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Creatively Grateful – A 8 week Creativity Challenge
Creatively Grateful, our 8 week Creativity Challenge starts today. It's just for fun to encourage us all to be more creative. Week 1's task is Joy Jar... read more details in blog post.
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Treating Children’s Coughs and Colds- Home Remedies and Basic Medicines
The cold and flu season has arrived late this year…We’re at the start of our summer but so many kids (and adults) are sick! This has apparently got something to do with less…
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Animal Love – Week 8 (and last week) of Encouraging Creativity Challenge
“The greatness of a nation and its moral progress can be judged by the way its animals are treated.” Mahatma Gandhi This week we focused on our love for animals. I noticed there…
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Thoughts and Feelings – Week 7 Encouraging Creativity
“The best use of imagination is creativity. The worst use of imagination is anxiety.”Deepak Chopra This week we took time to think about some of our thoughts and listen to some of our…
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Movie Covers, Music and Books – Week 6 Creativity Challenge
“There is no greater agony than bearing an untold story inside you.” ~ Maya Angelou This week was quite a challenge! I am really impressed with what people came up with! And some…
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Spring and New Beginnings – Week 5 Creativity Challenge
“Where flowers bloom, so does hope.” It’s Spring! Here in the Free State it was definitely warmer these last few days. New blossoms, flowers and green grass have started appearing. I’m sure the…
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Blank Face – Creativity Challenge Week 4
Wow! I was really impressed with what everyone came up with using this “blank face” as a topic! Well done! A blank face is a bit different than a blank page… Both have…
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Moon – Week 3 Creativity Challenge
Have you seen the beautiful full moon!? They say full moon is the time to slow down and reflect. It’s the time to let go of things that need letting go. The moon…
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Play with Your Food – Creativity Challenge Week 2
Back in the day children were taught not to play with their food. Now research suggests that playing with food is actually good for children because it makes them less fussy eaters. Our…
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Noticing Nature (up close) – Creativity Challenge Week 1
Week 1 of of our creativity challenge was about noticing nature up close and it was so nice to see everyone’s perspective. I particularly loved this picture of a beautiful rose with aphids…
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8 Week Creativity Challenge
Are you ready to get creative? 1 theme/topic every week for 8 weeks. Interpret and depict the topic by drawing, painting, writing, taking a photo or creating something. Share your creation/thoughts on our…
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Covid Isolation with Kids
Take a moment to take a deep breath in and slowly breathe out… That’s my current advice to myself and my fellow South Africans. We’re all dealing with Covid, effects of post Covid,…
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Covid Home Treatment Check List
Covid has exploded in the last 2 weeks in South Africa! I hear of so many newly diagnosed people daily. It’s scary! We have finished our 10 day isolation today. I thought I…
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Encouraging Creativity
“Start where you are. Use what you have. Do what you can.” – Arthur Ashe Creativity is something so uniquely human. Creativity sparks new ideas, new inventions, artwork, literature and feeds the soul… …
