Preparing for life Challenges
It was in 1907 when Robert Baden-Powell famously explained that to be prepared “you are always in a state of readiness in mind and body to do your duty.” Baden-Powell wanted each Scout to be ready in mind and body, to meet with a strong heart, whatever challenges await him’.
Our work acknowledges Baden-Powells desires, the psychology of Alfred Adler & his work on “Style of Life”, and Agatha Bowley’s child psychology work, to call for more services for children, parents, grandparents and teachers that enable children to “be prepared” by encouraging support services that arise from nourishing the strong roots of Lifestyle Health
Our vision & mission includes a desire for the provision of more services that empower people to more freely express emotions. Our initial work has been to:
Encourage the sharing of existing & new resources + research evidence, that guide people of grandparenting age, parents and teachers to support the social & emotional development of children through the early years of life, via our online resources library
Create a “platform”, SmartTracker, that recognises that emotions and values significantly impact a person’s quality of life.
Encourage Healthcare & Medical scientific communities as well as Governments to recognise the significance of emotional health & lived/living experiences in supporting the healing and prevention of acquired Mind Injuries.
Why a Tree?
When you stop to look at a tree, do you ever entertain the thought that it has a lifestyle? I’m guessing the answer is likely to be no, as it was for me, up until a few weeks ago. Perhaps if the word is turned around, and it becomes a tree’s ‘style of life’, it may not seem quite so strange. After all, trees have a life. But, what about the ‘style’? Read more
What can it feel like for a person who is neurodiverse?
An article originally posted in a week when people celebrate neurodiversity, from here.
If you have experience or a relative has experience a brain injury, here we provide a selection of short summaries from the science that helps to explain how changes concerning the food we eat and the nature of the general ‘environment’ to support our wellbeing can enhance the success of a rehab programme after a brain injury. To view that document, click here.
Ordinary People; Extraordinary Lives.
Over the coming weeks & months, we will organising conversation with members of our community for them share insights from their lived experiences, for you to learn from. In this first conversation please enjoy the insights from two very ‘ordinary’ men, Chris Freer living with Multiple Sclerosis & Chris Lewis with a diagnosis of a rare cancer. You can watch it from here.
The Roots of Lifestyle Health
For those lucky enough to have a garden and you are a keen gardener who enjoys growing their own fruit and veg, you will know that preparing the ground is an important first step. This typically requires digging in the compost, before you, or perhaps with your children’s help, start sowing the seeds. It was those thoughts that lead to the article you can read from here.
@FNDHealthCoach @purposeful_pd Absolutely. And if we need to look at two further examples - #insulin injections for #type2diabetes, & now the #GLP1 injections.
Pro-insulin at high levels can trigger apoptosis.
Pro-glucagon can trigger the opposite - increased cell division (which some might call cancer).
If we use a bit of simple logic - when a child learns they don’t need to wash up after eating, because the parent (s) or dishwasher does it, will they stop even attempting or offering to wash up? @purposeful_pd @FNDHealthCoach
Perhaps this is relevant to other life situations?
It was over 20 yrs, when I set sail on our good ship @InnervateLtd. We continue to encounter ‘stormy seas’.
But when listening to a mind of a man like @purposeful_pd, what are storms?
Are they not moments imagined in a mind, thinking it is master?
Gavin, you know the answer!