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According to one study, an overwhelming 88% of us head out into the garden to help improve our mental wellbeing, while another revealed over 80% of us feel happier after visiting gardens. But what therapeutic benefits can gardening have? And how can we make the most of them? We explore seven simple ways getting back to nature and spending a little quality time in our gardens (or with our window boxes and favourite indoor plants) can help boost well-being.

1. Improve your physical and...

Not every pain or physical dysfunction we experience can be traced to a physical cause such as injury trauma or disease. Medical professionals have recognised for decades that in some patients the pain has a psychogenic root. Psychogenic pain is defined as a pain disorder associated with psychological factors. Clients will often come to complementary therapists for support with their physical issue after feeling dismissed by the medical profession once tests such as MRI scans have failed to...

Is it me or have I been reading more about the importance of sleep lately? Sleeping is essential and as important for us as eating, drinking and breathing. Experts explain that a good night's sleep is vital for maintaining good mental and physical health. But what do we do if sleep doesn’t come easily? Or it might come easily, only for us to lay awake a few hours later unable to drift to sleep again. At times when sleeping through the night was a struggle for me I used to feel really bad,...

Stress is one of those things that it is quite easy to be in total denial about. “Stress? Bring it on! I thrive on pressure.” Then you end up wondering why you don’t sleep so well, or your digestion isn’t great. Perhaps your headaches are really getting to the point where you feel sick and have to go and lie down in a dark room, or you experience those few days before your period which aren’t just painful, but border on malicious. Live life in a healthy way When your car indicates it...