Refreshing cucumber facial mask
This beautifully fresh facial mask is quick and easy to make and will leave your skin feeling toned and mositurised. If you’re skin is dull and lifeless then cucumber is the best natural… Continue reading
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Rosemary, Lavender and Sweet Basil Body Scrub
Being a bit of a cosmetics junkie, I have fallen off the wagon a few times, in my efforts to reduce the amount of chemicals I put on my face and body. Yes,… Continue reading
Casting for Recovery
I have read about Casting for Recovery, fly-fishing retreats for women who’ve been through breast cancer before, so am delighted to learn that last month they had their first retreat in the Republic… Continue reading
Music as Medicine
Earlier this month I attended the inaugural International Association for Music and Medicine conference in Limerick, hosted by the University of Limerick’s Irish World Academy of Music and Dance in association with UL’s… Continue reading
Lindsay Wagner embraces mind, body, spirit.
As a child growing up in the seventies, I loved watching Jamie Summers, the Bionic Woman, on TV on saturday afternoons. Lindsay Wagner, the actress who played the role of Summers, is now focussing her hero powers… Continue reading
Music not just for the soul
Music directly affects the heart, arteries and lungs in ways that may be therapeutically useful, a study has shown. Researchers in Italy who played random classical tracks to 24 volunteers found that music… Continue reading
Mind-body connection
Great post today by Dr Christiane Northrup, at the Huffington Post, on the science of the mind-body connection. She writes: “People often ask, “How can we become healthy in our current society?” If you… Continue reading
Write a letter to cancer
If you could write a letter to your cancer, what would you say? What words would spill onto the page, words of sadness? anger? despair? or hope? gratitude? I believe that writing is a… Continue reading
The power of music to heal
I attended the “Music and Medicine” conference, hosted by the Irish World Academy in association with the Graduate Medical School, University of Limerick, today. Some very interesting presentations, and of particular interest to me… Continue reading
