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What I learned from my First Aid for Mental Health course

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What I learned from my First Aid for Mental Health course So what is First Aid in Mental Health? Mental Health First Aid (MHFA) is a training course that teaches people how to identify, understand and help someone who may be experiencing a mental health issue. Traditionally mental health is a taboo subject and one… Continue reading What I learned from my First Aid for Mental Health course

What can I expect from Small Group Personal Training?

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What can I expect from Small Group Personal Training? When undertaking Small Group Personal Training with Transform, it’s not just about the exercise classes. Small Group Personal Training focuses on a mixture of fitness, nutrition, and lifestyle habits, wrapped up with support and accountability. So what does that mean exactly? Nutrition Not only will you… Continue reading What can I expect from Small Group Personal Training?

Download your daily healthy habits tracker

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Aristotle is credited with the quote ” We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit” . We all have them – some good and some bad. Quite often though we tend to focus on our bad habits rather than the ones that are positive for us. Cleaning our teeth daily… Continue reading Download your daily healthy habits tracker

Accountability Counts

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Making excuses to tell yourself and making them to tell someone else is a different story altogether. No matter how much self-discipline we have, itâ€™s much easier to stick to achieving our goals if we have someone to report to. Being accountable to someone isnâ€™t about having a strict teacher or boss shouting at you… Continue reading Accountability Counts

The Productivity Dilemma

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For furloughed workers, home workers and other people being forced to spend far more time at home during this lockdown, there is a strange dilemma around productivity. While some people are gleefully redecorating their whole houses, learning Mandarin, starting an online knitted dog harness business and teaching their kids how to fix a car, others… Continue reading The Productivity Dilemma

Don’t let stress stop you exercising

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Stress is bad for us. We all know that. Itâ€™s something we hear all the time along with so many ways to tackle it that itâ€™s hard to separate the facts from the fads. When we talk about stress in this context, we arenâ€™t talking about the sort of stress where you have a lot… Continue reading Don’t let stress stop you exercising

Have you ever wondered how your body reacts to sugar?

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Sugar, as much as we love it, can be a cause of many health issues such as chronic health problems or heart diseases. Not only can access sugar sabotage your weight loss, but it can also take over from the space that should be reserved healthy – nutritious. How about some facts? Despite all the… Continue reading Have you ever wondered how your body reacts to sugar?

The Deadly Truth about diet soft driinks

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Cheers to those hot summer days when we tend to crave something cold and refreshing. To cool our bodies down, we often reach out for a bottle of coke for example. Oh sorry, I meant to say – DIET coke, because of course, you don’t want to drink your sugar. You know what I’m talking… Continue reading The Deadly Truth about diet soft driinks