Weekdays

After four years, 636 Ninja runs and 106 grand final attempts, Perth’s Ben Polson was crowned Australia’s first Ninja Warrior. Bec had a chat with him about how it all felt! 

Bec had a chat with Sally Hewitt who is the co-founder and creator of Ageing Gratefully. Ageing Gratefully is to counter act the view that ageing is negative. For many people ageing is seen as a negative experience and with Ageing Gratefully Sally provides solutions to empower people to be grateful for the age that they are. Sally lost her husband a couple of years ago and when she started the healing process she found that her healing came from being grateful for what they had together and not for what she lost. She found that she had to change her language she was using and had to change her mindset from being negative and sad to being grateful and thankful.

The first step of being grateful is to find 5 things you are grateful for and thank God for them. Begin and end the day with these grateful things. Meditate on them and this will hel The choice lies within ourselves to be grateful.  Being grateful is a choice and will become a habit. Be present. When you are grateful it pulls you into the moment. Be grateful for where you are in life at that moment in time. Gratefulness is powerful to pull us into the moment. 

"You cannot be alive and living and not grow older. It is the journey of life" - Sally Hewitt

Bec had a chat with Danielle Jeyaratnam who is one of the pastors at Hillsongs Church in Perth. Today they spoke about serving and what some of the benefits are of volunteering. As Acts 20:35 states, "It is more blesssed to give than to receive". Serving connects you to the community and makes you feel belonged. If you don't know how to volunteer, volunteer in what you are good at. 

Bec had a chat with Penny from Kin Women and today they spoke culitvation our strengths. We need to focus on our strengths which are the things that people tell us we are good at. Another sign to know what you are good or to know what your strengths are is to look at the things that come naturally to you. Things you might see as mundane, someone else can see it as a strength. We need to stop comparing our strengths and weaknesses to others and start focusing on our own strengths. Everyone has their own strengths. But remember be open to recommendations. Ask the question to someone you trust, "Tell me what you see what I don't see", to be able to determine your strengths. Be bold and wise in your gifts.

"Don't try to put in what God left out but try to draw out what God put in cos that is hard enough" - Marcus Beckingham. 

June was the National Burns Awareness Month and Scott Phillips from Kids Safe WA joined Bec in the studio for a chat about the common causes of burns and scalds, safety strategies and the proper first aid measures to take. 

Bec had her regular chat with Melanie Jaye from Eden Naturopathy and today they spoke about what supplements kids and teenagers can take. One great supplement for kids and teenagers to take is fish oil which helps with concentration and brain development. It can also help with skin care, eczema and dry skin. Calcium is another good for good one for teeth and dental hygiene. Vitamin D helps with the absorption of calcium in the body and vitamin K mineralizes the calcium. 

If you want to boost your kid's immunity, zinc and vitamin C can be taken daily. Vitamin C is a great antioxidant, whereas zinc helps with strecth marks from extreme or rapid growth. It helps repair the skin. 

Bec had a chat with Sue Joy who is the author of the Joyful Table. This morning Sue bought in her delicious savoury scones which are nut free, gluten free, and dairy and egg free. It only contains all the healthy ingredients such as nutritional yeast, ogranic natural coconut yoghurt, paprika and some spring onions. These are definitely a show stopper. You can check out the recipe on her website at: https://susanjoyfultable.com/recipes/muffins-cakes-slices/savoury-scones/

Bec had a chat with Melanie Jaye from Eden Naturopathy and they spoke about Iron. Melanie discussed iron rich food and supplements we can take if we lack iron. 

The impacts of the Australian bushfires and the loss of connection due to self-isolation has left many Aussies feeling anxious, disengaged and frankly just a little un-Australian. Birthdays, Christmas, Mother’s and Father’s Day are all ‘card-worthy’ events throughout the year, however with a rough start to 2020 across the globe there has never been a better time to send someone a card just to say ‘thinking of you!’.

In challenging times, personalised messages are valued highly with 83% of people feeling happy when they receive a personal letter or card in the mail.

In fact, despite digital channels helping to spread important messages across the nation, three in five (60%) Aussies still prefer receiving letters, invitations and cards via physical mail with almost three quarters of Aussies still checking the mailbox every single day.

Seeing the handwriting of someone we love and knowing that they took the time to buy a card, sit down and write a message gives us the ‘warm fuzzies’. And we could all use some more ‘warm fuzzies’ at the moment.

This Thinking of You Week (14 – 21 June), the Australian Greeting Card Association is encouraging Aussies to reconnect with loved ones to say ‘thinking of you’. Write a card for a family member, neighbour or make a co-worker smile with some thoughtful words, but let’s get back to doing what we do best… connecting. 

Thus, Bec spoke to Henry Kovacevic who is the president of the Australian Greeting Card Association to talk about how important greeting cards are.