Health and Well-being

Welcome 2023 New Year

Posted By SK Reid,
07/01/2023 20:00 PM
As I sit here reflecting on the New Year, I feel both excited and daunted at the same time: so much promise, yet so much uncertainty. In the midst of that uncertainty, one easy step to offset this...

Finding Safe Haven

Posted By SK Reid,
23/09/2021 16:00 PM
Beyond Pandemic Stress: Creating Buffer If you have been following my recent posts about the fallout from the pandemic and the terrible toll on our psyches and bodies that the pandemic has had,...

The Reasons Why Pandemic Stress May be Doing You Harm

Posted By SK Reid,
20/08/2021 21:00 PM
Stress Can Kill In my last post, I shared with you a little bit about trauma and the adverse impact of the pandemic in terms of mental health and general wellbeing. We noted that there has been a...

Why the Stress Effect is Deadly Serious

Posted By SK Reid,
20/07/2021 21:00 PM
The Stress Effect   In my last post, I wrote about the impact of trauma on people’s lives - particularly pandemic trauma. The pandemic has affected people globally and everyone has been impacted...

Shocking facts about Covid-19 trauma people are afraid to know

Posted By SK Reid,
15/07/2021 20:50 PM
In my last post, I wrote about the impact of the pandemic from the perspective of trauma and how similar to other types of trauma the pandemic is - there are lots of parallels.   To briefly...

The Truth About Trauma

Posted By SK Reid,
13/07/2021 20:00 PM
An Unforgettable Milestone   Recently, the world passed the 4 million deaths from the COVID-19 milestone. This is not a milestone anyone wants to know about. In fact, unless we are directly...

One Life. Make it Matter.

Posted By SK Reid ,
30/01/2021 20:00 PM
Remembering Jody Today is the anniversary of the death of a friend who passed away from breast cancer six years ago. She was such an amazing human! I started this little group called the...

Why New Year’s Resolutions Don’t Work and 5 Steps to Lasting Change

Posted By SK Reid,
01/01/2021 20:00 PM
Wait! What? Change is possible? We’ve all been there! The countdown to the New Year and with it the toasts and resolutions to do things differently in the New Year. Then January is upon us and we...

October is Breast Cancer Awareness Month

Posted By SK Reid with Reena Devi,
26/10/2019 21:00 PM
A Moment of Truth The doctor ushers us into the room. The moment of truth has arrived. We are greeted with the surgeon’s brisk, no-non- sense manner. I involuntarily hold my breath for a moment. Here...