LIVING MORE OF A LIFE

I would like to publish this in memory of my 97 year old Grumpa, Terence Colin Granville-Jones, who deserved to be loved to the end, and was.His Last Shave - An account of a granddaughter’s loveWhen I think back now to the memories of the end, this is the last true memory of my Grumpa as the gentle, independent and fastidious man that he was:It was before his full deterioration, his mind starting to return to him and a feeling of peace for us both. I sat and watched in awe of him as he insist...

Breathing retraining was life changing for my client with a restricted airway and paralysed vocal chord causing breathing difficulties, snoring and sleep apnoea. As many as 25 years after his accident, he was recommended to LiNK BREATHING by his friend (also an existing breathing and awareness coaching client), because he felt it could help him. After 25 years, he was able to not only start running but take up paddle boarding. The difference I received via text during his recent trip wa...

We are back for Season 2 of LIVING MORE OF A LIFE podcast. In the spirit of getting started, Jane Tarrant asked Vicky Shilling, host of Just Start Now podcast to join her in a discussion of the importance of just getting started, incrementally, even if you don't have it all figured out yet.Vicky Shilling is a Business Mentor helping health & wellness practitioners turn their expertise into income. She is also the host of Just Start Now [email protected]://w...

The time has come for me to wrap up Season 1 of LIVING MORE OF A LIFE podcast in order to focus my attention on other areas in my life. Season 2 will be back in early 2021, but in the meantime, I am launching the website for my new business before the end of 2020. Anyone who has read my homepage on www.canidoitmyself.com, will know that I have been on a journey to live a happier, healthier and kinder life. Behind the scenes I have been studying day in day out, some for my own h...

Katie Ellis and I have something in common. We both realised when spending time with our grandparents how much they struggle dressing themselves. We realised they could live more of a life. For Katie, her grandmother was unable to dress herself and struggled with the loss of independence and dignity due to Parkinsons. My Grumpa is 96 and still dresses himself but has arthritis and frozen fingers, making buttons incredibly troublesome. We have both come up with solutions within our abilities. ...

I have benefitted personally from the work that Maisie Hill has put into educating herself and others on the menstrual cycle. In this conversation I share how her book, Period Power, acted as a catalyst for increased self-awareness and educated me on how my menstrual cycle provides the opportunity to achieve great things but also requires self-care at the appropriate times. Having recently recovered from chronic fatigue, I look back on my journey of recovery starting with an all importan...

When you find your kettle in the fridge and your gym socks under your pillow - is it time to make a change?In this episode we discuss how Sophie ended up co-founding FidlLeaf, an online wellbeing platform and which points in her life were the key factors towards it. We discuss self help books and how they can be extremely helpful when it is the right time, and how with current technology, an idea like hers can really flourish. What is FidlLeaf? FidlLeaf is a wellbeing and personal develo...

In this episode I speak honestly about why I am putting out a different kind of episode. I have no food in the fridgeMy house is a tipI have loads on my mindThere is a lot of business preparation to doI want to see and deliver food to my 96 year old grandpaThe list goes on...This podcast is about living more of a life. We will always be failing to some degree in each area of our lives and that is OK. We just need to be mindful of what is more important to us and our values. We need to be...

Episode SummaryDo you feel selfish if you look after yourself? Helen prided herself on being a giving person. From the biblical phrase, ‘love thy neighbour as you love yourself’, she could understand the love others bit, but she couldn’t grasp the love yourself bit. Surely loving others was good enough? Helen became a yes woman at work. It became really easy for people to give work to her. She didn’t want to stand out. She wanted to be liked but not to have attention on her. She tri...

This is part 2 of episode 15.In this episode I am joined by Lucy Burls, a friend and colleague from my estate agent days. Around 12 years ago, we worked together in our early 20s with no idea how much we’d struggle with our health in later years after giving too much out and not putting enough back in. We recently reconnected and shared our stories.We discuss what can happen when we are ‘trained’ as children to give 110% in everything without the awareness of self-care.In this particular epis...