A ‘Dye Hard’ choice It’s a tough choice to make to stop colouring your hair. Especially when you’ve been doing it for decades. It’s the bungee-jump of vanity. It means a changed ‘identity’ or rather, a change in how others will see and recognise you. The payoff is, that for once, you will see your…
Category: Health & Wellbeing
My take on those ‘Before’ photos
Society’s morbid fascination with ‘before’ Society can often have a morbid fascination with whatever physical acceptability or perfection is perceived to be. We hear of body-shaming stories all the time. These can be directed at us from others, or even worse, at us from ourselves … It’s not what you say to everyone else that…
The journey to healthy weight loss starts with ‘Why’
When ‘What’ comes before ‘Why’ How many times when weight loss crops up in a conversation, is the first question often asked, “So what are you allowed to eat?” After which we start listing the items that ‘The Diet’ prescribes we should eat – as well as when, and how much … This drives me…
My journey to a healthier me!
Celebrate a range of milestones. It’s not just about the weight. You are making a conscious lifestyle change – so why do you need to be rewarded for that?
Jacaranda Nostalgia
One of my most favourite and almost spiritual views of all is the vista of the urban forest that is Johannesburg as experienced from the terrace of the Westcliff Hotel. The best time for a visit to the Westcliff Hotel for me is during the jacaranda season in late October. My first excursion to…
A Rose-Scented Life 