We can all take steps to improve our well-being.

Early life experiences impact how we see ourselves and build relationships. We develop our identity through life experiences and react to the world based on our learned internal schemas. Unconsciously, we chose one path over another. But this doesn’t mean that change is not possible. We can learn to identify automatic, unconscious choices and take steps towards making our own choices based on reality, not the past.

Daily habits and social conditioning determine our overall health and mindset. Many chronic diseases are preventable and linked with our diet and lifestyle choices. When diagnosed with a chronic illness, changes are harder to make – but not impossible. Still, we can take steps to maintain or improve health and increase our longevity. Poor physical health increases the risk of poor mental health and vice versa, so it’s essential to look after ourselves holistically.

Mental and physical health care needs to include a whole person approach, with interventions aimed at mindset, root causes exploration, lifestyle and social circumstances (to name a few). It also needs to be adapted to the personal and cultural circumstances and make sense to the individual.

In this blog, I will share articles and learnings from my personal and professional life aimed at improving health and overall happiness.

I work in the NHS, but the articles and experience shared in this blog represent my own opinions, not the ones of my employer.

This blog will serve as information only. Please see your health professional for more tailored recommendations.