Calm After the Storm
September 23, 2023
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Initially I noticed subtle changes in my thinking. At work and in my personal life, a distance grew between my colleagues and friends and me.
Initially I noticed subtle changes in my thinking. At work and in my personal life, a distance grew between my colleagues and friends and me.
n a world plagued by screens, it’s so important that we make time to connect with nature and appreciate our epic surroundings. Scenic tracks not only provide heaps of inspiration for my work as a landscape painter, but they also have so many benefits for my physical and mental health. If you’re visiting Coromandel with friends and whānau or you’re a local looking for a change of scene, it’s worth exploring these beautiful tracks. Here are my favourite five on the Coromandel Peninsula.
I’ve been working with athletes for more than 16 years and visualisation is one of the most common and most important techniques used in Sport Psychology. It means that you envisage a new sequence of movement, a race course or any sort of goal with all the details and with all your senses, mentally before you do it physically. This technique is so successful, because your subconscious mind cannot distinguish whether what you have just thought of was just imagination or actually real. Even your body will respond to an imagining with real-life symptoms.
My body has grown and birthed a human. My body will never be the same again. Even if I lose some of this weight, I will always have saggy skin, stretch marks and saggier boobs. Knowing this, I do sometimes miss my younger face and body.
A case for winter swimming.
Yeah, Dean Martin … you’re right. It may not be snowing but El Niño has kicked in and the sou’westers are ripping down the beach. The choppy waves are sliding sideways to the shore and grey clouds are scudding busily across the sky.
Initially I noticed subtle changes in my thinking. At work and in my personal life, a distance grew between my colleagues and friends and me.
n a world plagued by screens, it’s so important that we make time to connect with nature and appreciate our epic surroundings. Scenic tracks not only provide heaps of inspiration for my work as a landscape painter, but they also have so many benefits for my physical and mental health. If you’re visiting Coromandel with friends and whānau or you’re a local looking for a change of scene, it’s worth exploring these beautiful tracks. Here are my favourite five on the Coromandel Peninsula.
I’ve been working with athletes for more than 16 years and visualisation is one of the most common and most important techniques used in Sport Psychology. It means that you envisage a new sequence of movement, a race course or any sort of goal with all the details and with all your senses, mentally before you do it physically. This technique is so successful, because your subconscious mind cannot distinguish whether what you have just thought of was just imagination or actually real. Even your body will respond to an imagining with real-life symptoms.
My body has grown and birthed a human. My body will never be the same again. Even if I lose some of this weight, I will always have saggy skin, stretch marks and saggier boobs. Knowing this, I do sometimes miss my younger face and body.
A case for winter swimming.
Yeah, Dean Martin … you’re right. It may not be snowing but El Niño has kicked in and the sou’westers are ripping down the beach. The choppy waves are sliding sideways to the shore and grey clouds are scudding busily across the sky.
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