EMOTIONAL PAIN AND EATING

Eye Movement Desensitisation and Reprocessing (EMDR) is a psychological therapy tool that I employed regularly when practising psychology. While some clients found EMDR confronting, I found it to be highly successful in desensitising painful memories. During EMDR it...

Diet

My advice to those wanting to keep their weight the way they want it to be, is to start with your normal diet and gradually modify it by trading bits and pieces of it for substitutes that are lower in calories; lower in salt, sugar and saturated fat. This approach is...

DUBAI HERE I COME!

After a lot of thought, I’ve decided to compete again this year at age 72 in the INBA Pro-Am World Championships in Dubai on June 13! I wasn’t sure I’d compete again. However I’ve decided to continue to do my part in defying the age and gender stereotypes and continue...

THE ONGOING ADVENTURE OF LIFE

This morning at the gym I saw a male friend of mine in his mid-sixties, lying on a gym mat exercising with a Swiss Ball. He looked depressed. In fact he’s been looking this way for a while. ‘I can’t do what I used to do,’ he lamented. This friend of mine used to be...

HAPPINESS

I believe that the recipe for happiness is inside us and that we are the only ones who can know what that recipe is. I’ve seen people miserable in what would be seen as ideal scenarios and I’ve seen others beaming with happiness while struggling through situations of...

IT’S YOUR CHOICE

Labelling Emotional Arousal I organised a Xmas party for my fellow gym seniors, who as regular as clockwork, attend the gym three mornings a week. I had tried to think of everything that would make this Xmas party successful. I had made name tags with Xmas stickers...