Ever Considered Retiring Overseas?

Brits and Americans are increasingly retiring to locations overseas for a whole range of reasons – so why hasn’t this concept taken off in Australia? The UK has one of the world’s strongest currencies and ironically one of the worst climates! Retired...

Happiness And Negative Emotions

To what extent are negative emotions consistent with happiness? When and where are negative emotions appropriate? Do happy people ever get upset? These and other questions were posed after an innocent tweet/post from last week when I published an age old...

Best Friends

There’s an old saying that goes something like this, ” The greatest thing a father can do for his children, is to love their mother.” Based on that saying alone (although I have collected other data over the years to confirm this) my Dad is clearly...

Living Beyond Expectations

The greatest antidote to cancer is to be fully engaged in living the life you came here to live. When we actively engage in a fulfilling life and take care of ourselves physically, mentally, emotionally and spiritually then we create the ideal physiology in which our...

Hint For Staying Together

Love is blind, they say. But if there’s one thing that restores clear vision, it’s living with someone day-in, day-out. Nothing like that to topple a lover off their pedestal and expose their flaws, right? Well, sometimes not it seems. The idealised view...

Change Of Life – It Effects Both Men And Women

A personal viewpoint from a nursing sister / counsellor Most of us baby boomers, having reached the “Fabulous Fifties” should now be entering the more care free years. Unfortunately the 50’s can present us with a range of challenges – some expected and some...