Tag: Anxiety
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Dehydration: Why You Need To Load Up On H20
The amount of fluid in our body affects the way our cells function – meaning that dehydration can interfere with healthy aging. According to nutrition expert Linda Drummond, we don’t feel thirsty until we’ve lost about 1% of our body weight in water. If dehydration continues, we experience greater thirst, discomfort and loss of appetite.…
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The 5 Essential Nutrients To Relieve Anxiety
Living with anxiety can be immobilizing. It’s difficult to navigate your day if you don’t know when or where your next panic attack may occur. Even though anxiety is often seen as a mental issue, one forgets that neurotransmitters and steroid hormones largely influence our mental state. Even though it is important to look at…
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Can You Optimize Your Brain Functioning Post Trauma?
Have you ever felt that the impact of traumatic experiences has limited you and caused you to react in a way you can’t understand, with fear, anxiety, anger, sadness or despair? And although you know it’s not an ideal way to respond, you feel incapable of getting a proper hold on it and changing it?…
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South Africa’s first Snoezelen room has been launched
“Snoezelen”: (pronounced snoo-ze-lin): “snuffelen” (to seek out, to explore) and “doezelen” (to doze, to snooze). First developed in the 1970’s in the Netherlands, the Snoezelen room has found its way to South Africa. The brain child of Jan Hulsegge and Ad Verheul, created during their time at De Hartenberg institute in the Netherlands, the Snoezelen…