Sarah’s Health Notes: Poems please
What do you long for when you feel low? A hand to hold? A hug? An arm around you? For writer Rachel Kelly who has written about her own experiences of being engulfed by depression, one of the ways tha...
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Editorial - Sarah Stacey
Sarah’s Health Notes: Natural ways to help soothe eczema
Eczema is a beast. This inflammatory, dry skin condition, aka dermatitis, affects millions of people from babyhood to old age, causing unbearable, often constant itching that leads to ferocious scratc...
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Sarah's Health Notes: Reaching Out…
We hadn’t seen each other for ten years but, as my dear friend Ben remarked, ‘it felt like no time at all’. He is an old friend both in age (84) and how long we’ve known each other – about 40 years. W...
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Sarah’s Health Notes: Feeling anxious? Get doodling…
Click through to a site called Medical News Today and you might not expect to find an article headed ‘What to know about anxiety and drawing’. Unless, that is, you are one of the many millions of peop...
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Sarah’s Health Notes: Drink water please….
Factoid: about 71% of the earth’s surface is covered with water and, in a neat bit of evolutionary symmetry, the percentage of water in the human body varies from 45-75% according to age, gender...
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Sarah’s Health Notes: Learning To Listen
Over 40 years ago, I first understood that listening could be as important as talking in helping someone – in fact even more so. I was a recovering alcoholic in AA (the 12-step programme Alcohol...
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