I finally got around to watching the most incredible documentary this week, Spellers. It tells the stories of eight non-speaking young people with autism who learned to communicate through a letterboard. For their entire lives everyone including their families had assumed they were cognitively impaired as they showed no sign of understanding or expression of feelings. How wrong they were.Autism is an incredibly complex condition...
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Life is tough. Unreasonable deadlines at work, an abusive boss or partner, financial worries, job insecurity, racism, stressful living situation, physical ill health, death of a loved one, relational difficulties… are all part of the human experience. What is it that enables some people to face these challenges with resilience and a positive outlook while others succumb to emotional ill health? Even those who are...
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Known for its excellent food and wine (as well as its unusually low levels of heart disease compared to the rest of Europe and the US) there is one more reason to love France – their willingness to stand up to the cell phone manufacturers. In case you haven’t heard the buzz, France announced a ban on iPhone 12 sales due to them failing safe radiation...
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I’m not one for celebrity gossip. I don’t watch the shows or read the magazines. But the other day two celebrity health issues came across my path which highlights to me so much of what is wrong with modern medicine. I watched more TV than usual on this particular day as I was recovering from a painful infection in my elbow. I’d had a mosquito bite...
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If you ask a bunch of people especially in the US and especially in the middle part of the country, why are you a Christian? You’ll probably get a range of answers like “I was raised in the church”, “my parents are Christians”, or “I’ve always been one”. Or maybe you were lucky enough to have had some type of “experience” that seemed supernatural and...
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Just the fact I am recommending a pharmaceutical product is astounding. Despite growing up as the daughter of a pharmacist and my first job being counting pills in my Mum’s suburban pharmacy in England, I avoid pharmaceuticals wherever possible. I am an advocate of getting to the root cause of your problem and finding natural solutions to support your body in addressing it. Masking symptoms...
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Last week I was dropping off my older son to start his freshman year at college and got to spend a couple of days on the beautiful campus getting him settled in. His unlimited meal plan includes some guest passes so we ate together at one of the dining halls. I have to say I was fairly horrified at the poor food options with the...
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It took me 8 years of going to church and studying the evidence before I became a Christian. I was raised in a traditional Jewish home going to Synagogue every weekend and celebrating all the Jewish festivals but there seemed to be no reason for the rules that we followed. Many of our actions were hypocritical such as following dietary laws at home but not...
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