Family Health
Advice for the whole family: See the importance of a preventive approach, the role of optimum nutrition, and the benefits of supplementation.
The Role Of The Father In The Family
Fathers shape their children’s emotional security, boundaries and resilience. This updated guide by Dr Adolf Lowies explores modern fatherhood, the realities of parenting after divorce and the impact of the Children’s Act, offering clear, compassionate guidance for families navigating complex dynamics.
Instant Energy: Restoring Balance To Beat Fatigue
Energy depletion is not just about stress or busyness. It often reflects deeper imbalances. Learn how to restore equilibrium with functional medicine insights, lifestyle changes and simple kick-start techniques for instant, sustainable energy.
Post-Marriage and Baby Blues: Dr Demartini on Emotional Healing After Life’s Big Changes
Marriage and motherhood aren’t always blissful. Dr John Demartini explores why emotional lows may follow life’s ‘highs’ and how self-awareness can turn breakdowns into breakthroughs.
Relationship Intelligence
We all bring our past into our relationships. This insightful piece explores how unmet emotional needs, subconscious triggers, and emotional independence affect couples — and how self-awareness, trust, and negotiation can help build more fulfilling partnerships.
Hormonal Health for Men & Women
Testosterone, progesterone and oestrogen are the sex hormones belonging both to males and females. These hormones, like the many others in our bodies, act as messengers and need to be kept in balance to ensure a healthy mind and body.
Healing the wounds of love and sex
Sex, love and relationships are such a complex combination that it is a small wonder they create so much anguish. In this article Barbara Brennan shares her approach, based on healing the specific wounding suffered in childhood.
Ageing with a Lagging Libido?
Reignite intimacy in later life with natural and practical advice for overcoming common challenges like low libido, vaginal dryness, and erectile difficulties. Discover tips, supplements, and lifestyle changes to keep love alive at any age.
10 Steps to Body Confidence
Discover 10 powerful steps to build lasting body confidence. Learn why internal perception matters more than external appearance and how to break free from damaging beauty myths.
Tired All The Time?
Chronic tiredness and fatigue leads to diminished productivity and a lower quality of life. This article explores common causes of fatigue and offers a holistic approach to managing it through nutrition, lifestyle changes, and natural remedies. It highlights ginsenosides in combating fatigue. By addressing fatigue holistically, individuals can improve their energy levels and overall well-being.
Teenage Stress in Today's World
Teenagers today have to charter far choppier waters than we, their parents, ever had to. Increased competition in the classroom and on the sportsfield, challenging economic times and the demands of social media are, quite simply, stressing our children out.
Headaches versus migraines
This article explains the differences between headaches and migraines, detailing their causes, symptoms, and treatments. It also covers natural therapies and self-help tips for managing these conditions, with a focus on a holistic approach to pain relief.
Manage Menopause Naturally
Discover natural ways to manage menopause symptoms like hot flushes, mood swings, and insomnia. Learn about the importance of oestrogen, herbal solutions, and lifestyle tips to ease your transition.
Beating Exam Stress Naturally: Tips and Solutions
Are you staying up late into the night consuming copious quantities of caffeine in the form of pills, hot drinks, energy drinks and chocolate bars in order to stay alert, focused, upbeat – and awake? There are much better ways to boost your brain power.
A Look At Bone Health
Dem bones, dem bones .... A few words of the old familiar lyric may bring a smile to the face, but bone decay is no laughing matter. Sandi Nye discusses the many factors – far more than calcium alone – that contribute to bone health.
Finding Calm Amid Panic Attacks
Panic disorder is an anxiety disorder characterised by unexpected and repeated episodes of intense fear accompanied by physical symptoms that may include chest pain, heart palpitations, dizziness, shortness of breath, or abdominal distress.
Borderline Alcoholics
While some alcoholics are at the full-blown or chronic stage, most are in earlier phases. This article is for those still on the road, the ‘borderline alcoholics’ about to cross the boundary into the dark realm of addiction and heartbreak.
The Reality of Depression in High School Learners
If you are a teenager and your mood is down or if you know of a teenager who may be suffering from depression, you need to read on. With double the incidence of depression in teens compared to adults, research further shows that anxiety disorders and depression are particularly high in South African teens
Understanding Bipolar Mood Disorder
Bipolar mood disorder is a serious and chronic condition that requires recognition, understanding and empathy. By coming to terms with and managing this mental illness the sufferer and their loved ones will enjoy a better quality of life.
Treating Anxiety and Mild Depression – the natural way
Everyone feels a bit blue from time to time. Some of us often feel sad and depressed, however, and for little or no reason. It’s a good idea to consult with a professional if your depression is severe, but for mild depression and anxiety there’s a lot you can do to help yourself feel better. You don’t need to pop a pharmaceutical – here are some tips to help bring sunshine back into your life the natural way.
Are There Different Types of Stress?
When I feel stressed, the symptoms I experience are not always the same. Sometimes I feel overwhelmed, driven and generally ‘hyper’, sometimes I can’t stop worrying, and at other times I just feel exhausted, or ‘down’ and lacking in motivation.
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