This week Ciaran Robinson a personal trainer who runs CR Fitness in Salthill, Galway is our guest writer. For school age children, physical activity is almost as important as their daily nutrition. Usually when schools are in session, you are somewhat guaranteed that they at least get some scheduled activity time with P.E. being a […]
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One morning this week it was lashing rain, and I decided to drive the kids to school. It\’s that time of year when I find there is so much going on, and its hard to keep up – so we were all tired and a bit cranky from a camping trip. As we were waiting
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A number of years ago when I become a qualified Personal and Business Coach, I found myself deep in passionate conversations with people about Life Coaching. I had long since bored my poor husband and close friends and family about it, so I moved onto anyone who would listen. Completing the course in 2012, studying
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Exams come and go every year, but if you have a teenager in your house who is in a dreaded exam year – the pressure is on! I heard yesterday, on the news, that the Leaving Cert in Ireland is to be overhauled and made more like the Junior Cert Exam. All I can say
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Slow Down! I am all for deep breathing and slowing things down – at least I say I am, in truth my mind, and my life, in general are huge whirlwinds, no, tornado\’s would be more accurate, multiple tornadoes of to do lists, tasks, kids, housework and jobs, I\’m somewhere in the middle juggling everything
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Brexit I\’ve always felt the need to write about what\’s going on in my life, (and what\’s going on in my head,) but also make it relevant and help others as much as I can. I feel the need to talk about Brexit (just a little I promise.. please bear with me if you\’re sick
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I have been trying to get back to work for a while now but things just keep happening, since the kids have gone back to school, I\’ve got caught up clearing out the house, also getting my out of date driver licence renewed, yesterday my son was home sick with croup and now I have
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I love Christmas, I particularly love Christmas Eve… I think its my favorite day of the year, it\’s the anticipation and the excitement, and of course this day means so much more when you have young children in the house. We have 3, so it is very very very exciting, and I am a big
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We all get comfortable in our comfort zone, its a very nice, cosy, easy place to live. We do the same stuff and know what to expect from life – even when we\’re not happy, we stay stuck because it\’s what we know, and it could always be worse. I made the commitment to myself
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The majority of calls I get nowadays are from parents worried about their child or teens\’ anxiety – probably 9 out of 10 cases I see, are anxiety related. It\’s off the scale how much this crippling thing called anxiety is stopping our kids living a normal life. Why is this? I know one mother
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