If you feel stuck at home (and we are glad that you are obeying this recommendation), then you might feel isolated. We have had to rethink our social life. Knowitall.ch posted a few meeting sites a few weeks ago but now our agendas are filling up with virtual parties every day. Please This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. your experience and other sites or Apps and we can add to the article.
A few tips to make it successfull:
- Make a specific time and date (either once or on a regular basis).
- Clean your space around you.
- Get your drink and snacks ready.
- Think of it as if you were going out to meet up in a restaurant or bar. Take a shower, put on your glad rags, and put on a bit of lippie to make yourself presentable. You will feel better and it will be something to look forward to.
- Set a time limit.
- If you are living with other family members not participating, remember to let them know you are "out" and will be "home" for dinner at a specific time.
- Enjoy talking about positive things and not dwelling on your fears or problems. No-one will continue to meet up with you if you are a downer.
- If you have something to show, then get it ready or nearby your screen so you don't have to walk around with your phone making everyone dizzy, or letting them stare at empty space.
- Remember, they can see you too... so don't run off to the loo with your phone (it happens).
When Lucy recently recommended Katharine Minton to knowitall.ch, we knew others could benefit from this English-speaking counsellor, "Going through therapy with Katharine has been a life-enriching process. One reason why Katharine is such a good fit for me is that she enables me to understand better what's going on for me. I am in control and she journeys with me. She has helped me move forward with my issues. I would thoroughly recommend Katharine to others who are seeking a counsellor who listens with empathy and who is attentive, engaged, kind, and knowledgeable."
Katharine Minton offers counselling to help people with a wide range of issues such as:
- anxiety
- depression
- trauma
- grief
- issues in relationships
- personal concerns
She describes herself as an integrative counsellor using a variety of interventions tailored to clients' individual needs. The relationship with clients is of fundamental importance and she aims to create a warm, supportive and confidential environment to help people address their specific needs. The interventions she uses include:
- person-centered therapy
- cognitive behavioural therapy (CBT)
- gestalt therapy
- creative interventions
- mindfulness
By Laraba Friedman, Balanced Healing
As I celebrated the New Year with my family, I asked each one of them what they would like to give back – the answers were:
- to continue to raise money for a friend’s education in Africa
- to lower personal plastic consumption
- to be vegan 2 x week (at least)
- to continue eradicating waste at school through a special committee
- and to befriend an older person in the community.
I was proud. As for me, I want to continue on my minimization of plastics and to create a pace where I am able to enjoy the moments without wishing them away. And… because of who I am, I want to continue my adventure to a healthier gut!
Where are you with your thoughts for 2019?
Want to join me on the path of a healthier gut (and mind)? If so, I invite you to participate in one of my Healthy GUT….Healthy YOU, 4 week workshops starting 17 January.
This course is a great way to get to know your body (and its limits) and to take note of what is over ‘committing’ in the physical and emotional sense.
I recommend people do my workshop twice a year, as it gets you back to basics and thinking about a healthier way of living. If you have already done one course then why not try it again? You do have the tools but from personal experience, it’s much easier to do it with others.
When Lindsay Moody moved to Switzerland in 2013 from the UK she was surprised that sunbed shops here do not provide a spray tan service. So she did what any entrepreneur would do in this situation — she set up a business providing year-round airbrush tanning solutions!
It wasn't as simple as all that. She needed to first complete a Sienna X training course. She admits, "I have always had a passion for fake tans being of Celtic origin and thus quite pale! I am also a firm believer in staying out of the sun, looking after your skin and keeping it healthy. Sadly, the number one enemy is the sun. We all want a tan but a tan is just sun damage and is your skin’s way of telling you it’s being damaged, dark spots, premature aging, wrinkles, and in the worst case scenario, skin cancer."
Not only is this treatment with immediate results but a great confidence-booster, particularly in the grey winter months. Sunless tanning is perfect for a simple pick-me-up, parties, weddings, pre-holiday, special occasions, and perfect for naturally pale skins that burn and never tan. The custom airbrush spray tan is a 1-on-1 personalized spray tanning session done in privacy. The process takes around 10-15 minutes for a full body spray tan and takes around 6-8 hours to develop. The "One Hour Tan" is also available and can be washed off after one hour and the color develops over 2-4 hours. (designed for people that want to quickly wash off the color guide and not sit around in tan for hours while it develops).
Lindsay said, "I found spray tanning is the perfect business to run alongside my current home and life commitments. I am a mother of 3 young boys and it provides me with a sense of fulfilment outside my busy role of mother and wife."
Free 40-minute discovery session and follow-up consultation for knowitall.ch readers (conditions apply)
Do you feel frustrated or stuck as you struggle to manage your work-life balance and cope with things like food, exercise, stress or sleep?
Do you find that you are always preoccupied with the problem but lack the time or motivation to get the results you crave?
If so, then now may be the time to enlist the support of a health and wellbeing coach to help you take the first steps towards finding your authentic, vibrant self again!
With more and more health coaches setting up business in this region, it’s important to find someone you can relate to, someone who’s on your wavelength and understands your issues. But how can you be sure to find the right person, without spending a fortune on lots of introductory sessions with different coaches?
To help make the selection process easier, one coach, Ellen Kocher is offering our readers a free 40-minute discovery session that will give you all the time you need to ask those important questions relating to your own health and wellbeing. If, following the discussion, you decide to follow a course of coaching with Ellen, then she is also offering an additional 50-minute consultation free when you book 4 x 50 minute Skype or Phone consultations with her for the price of Fr. 400.-. There is absolutely no obligation to take up the consultation offer to claim your free discovery session, and if you just want to head straight to the consultation then you don’t need to have the discovery session first!
