Greenacres Health Blog

Box Breathing: A Simple Breathing Technique to Reduce Stress and Calm Your Nervous System

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Many of us underestimate the incredible power of our breath.

Breathing is something we do automatically every day, yet it has a direct and constant connection with our nervous system. In fact, when we experience stress, anxiety, or overwhelm, Read more

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Why Change Feels Uncomfortable: Understanding the Psychology of Growth

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There’s a Fault in Our Nature

All of us, at some point, want change.

We want healthier habits, stronger relationships, greater confidence, improved wellbeing, or simply a different direction in life. Yet despite wanting these things, Read more

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Language and Health: How the Words You Use Affect Wellbeing

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Most of us rarely stop to think about how the words we use – both aloud and in our minds – affect our health. Yet language plays a powerful role in shaping our mindset, emotions, and overall wellbeing.

When Read more

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Turn Dreams Into Reality With Achievable Plans

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Do you dream of a fitter body?A healthier, more balanced life?Or perhaps something entirely different that’s been quietly sitting in the back of your mind?

Whatever your dream may be, one thing is certain: dreams only become reality when Read more

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Burnout Symptoms: How to Recognise and Manage Stress

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Burnout is a term we hear more and more often, yet surprisingly it is not officially recognised as a medical diagnosis. That doesn’t mean it isn’t real. In fact, many of the symptoms of burnout closely mirror recognised physical Read more

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How Mindful Eating Supports Healthy Habits

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Soup might seem like an unusual topic, but stay with me — there’s more to it than you might think. Soup is more than comfort food — it’s a mindful, nourishing way to support your health and reduce waste.

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Vitamin D Deficiency: Signs, Benefits and Support

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Did you know that Vitamin D isn’t actually a vitamin? Chemically, it’s more closely related to a steroid hormone — a little twist that might surprise you! But now that the elephant in the room has been unveiled, let’s Read more

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Progress Over Perfection: Building Healthier Habits

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Back in the late 1980s, I worked in a duty-free fashion buying office as a merchandiser. It was a busy, buzzing environment where the buying team and we merchandisers worked closely together to make sure each shop had the Read more

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Exercise for Weight Loss: Building Healthy Habits

You absolutely can lose weight without exercise – but movement plays a huge role in keeping our bodies and minds healthy, strong, and happy.

Now, I know the word exercise can bring up some not-so-fun images of being hot, Read more

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Juggling the Plates of Wellness -The Vicious Circle of Health

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Achieving and maintaining wellness and good health isn’t a destination – it’s a dynamic, lifelong process. It involves juggling three interconnected “plates”: chemical (metabolic), emotional (mindset), and physical (fitness/lifestyle).

Drop one, and the whole system can begin to Read more

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So what is mindset?

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Mindset is defined as – ‘the established set of attitudes held by someone’

We use many phrases that in truth are referring to our mindset:

  • Being in the right frame of mind.
  • Having the right mentality.
  • It’s not in Read more
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Finding opportunity in adversity – the power of reframing

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Life is full of unexpected twists and turns. No matter how much we plan, things don’t always go the way we want them to. However, the key to happiness and success often lies not in what happens to us Read more

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Lethargy or Procrastination – The stealer of time and dreams!

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Lethargy or Procrastination? The two often get muddled up in our minds as the outcomes are often very similar.

Lethargy is more of a medical condition which is characterised by feelings of fatigue as well as a lack of Read more

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The catalyst to making changes

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My life changed dramatically surrounding my mother’s health and her eventual death in 2022. It propelled me into making changes to look after myself and improve my own health needs.

After her passing, I looked for a ‘Programme’  Read more

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Health Is Wealth: Why Your Wellbeing Matters

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In a world where success is often measured by material wealth, it’s easy to ignore the most fundamental asset we possess… our health: an important and overlooked wealth.

Money can buy us many things, but it cannot buy good Read more

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What if you do nothing to improve poor health?

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I want you to just take a moment to consider the significant implications of not addressing poor health choices.

Would you invest in a car without ensuring that the engine is running well? Your body is that vehicle that Read more

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Top 5 tips to manage aches and pains

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I was asked recently if I had any hints and tips to manage aches and pains that don’t involve painkillers. Simple actions you can take to help your body stay active and repair itself quickly

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Good self-talk to instill resilience in your Teen

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It is important to good self-talk to instill resilience in your teen. The teen years are full of challenging experiences and changes and it is easy to become anxious or overwhelmed with feelings and succumb to nerves. Mantras are Read more

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The key to managing your to-do list

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We’ve all experienced it, the ever-increasing to-do list… You know, it’s that thing you get anxious over. The thing that is niggling you but you just have to get x, y and z done first and you never seem Read more

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Why is laughter good for you?

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We’ve all heard the phrase, “Laughter is the best medicine”. There are many benefits to laughing though some are more obvious than others.

Usually we associate laughter as an involuntary fast response to something that makes us happy, but Read more

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Decluttering to refocus your mind

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Decluttering is a great way to refocus your mind – clearing out and rearranging has a great effect on lifting the spirits and raising energy.

Clear out your cupboards

Everyone has that one drawer or cupboard that becomes a Read more

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Walking Barefoot

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‘Earthing’ or ‘grounding’, is the act of walking barefoot on soil, grass, or sand, in nature, for approximately 30 minutes every day. When was the last time walked barefoot for a period to gain the positive benefits it can Read more

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Dressing to Impress and it’s importance

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Do you ever think why dressing to impress is important? This can be especially true when working from home. Today, more people have been put in a position where working from home has now become the norm.

Have you Read more

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How the weather affects our mental health

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We are in many ways lucky to have 4 varied seasons here in the UK. It is easy to say ‘enjoy the weather’ when the sky is blue and the sun is out, but what about our wonderfully varied Read more

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Exam stress… now they’re finished, what happens?

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At some point in our lives, we all have to go through exam stress and exams. Whether taking them in your younger years or as a mature student, many of us have negative feelings toward them. Believing we will Read more

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