I aspire for a fulfilled life that does not require for me to switch off from any one of my roles but be able to move through each responsibility I have with fluidity.
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Art of Balance
Art of Balance
Search for: Art of Balance career / home / Relationship / Self-care Art you in? I’ve been invited many times to speak on the concept of balance. I think when people look from outside in, they see this person who has it all figured out. As I type this,...
10 Tips For Starting Your Own Side Hustle
1. Analyse your time usage and where you can steal time or cut down activities to invest that time back into your side hustle Before deciding to start a side hustle, it is important to assess your schedule and look for moments in your day that can be...
Trust Your Gut: Gut & Liver Health
My Story I’ve always been one to listen to my body and allow it to cue me towards good health and function. But lately, no matter how much I tried, eating healthy, fasting, drinking plenty water, moving more… you name it, my body was just not happy. I was feeling...
Fallacy or Fact: Working From Home Is Productive
This past year was atrocious to the whole world and at the moment, no one wants to revisit the memories created during the height of the COVID19 pandemic. Nevertheless, that painful period educated many of us. We learnt new words like ‘Zoom dysmorphia,’ ‘Comorbidity,’...
Feb Editor’s Note: Growing in Love Where You Are Planted
Olwethu’s February Editor’s Note.
Here Is Why Your Child Should Start Practicing Yoga
On this day, we celebrate the physical and mental well-being that yoga brings into our lives. Yoga benefits stretch further than just physical exercise (pun intended). The Yoga philosophy teaches us that we are part and parcel of everything. On this...
What Do Parents Need To Know About Micronutrients?
One of my biggest concerns during the 2020 lockdown and findings of the COVID19 pandemic on our South African shores had to be the children that would further be thrown down the rabbit hole of malnutrition. So, when Nestle Nido 3+ asked to partner and not only...
‘’I Can’t Start My Day Without…”
In between the busy lives we lead, are those five to ten minute breaks we take to quickly get a ‘fix’ or to recharge and boost the energy we need to keep up in order to meet those back to back deadlines. Some of us don’t have to keep our energy levels high, however,...
The Art of Trusting Your Gut: The Imbalance
Always seek the guidance of your doctor or other qualified health professional with any questions you may have regarding your health or a medical condition. This is not medical facts but from my own experience and research I have done on my healthcare journey. Why Am...
My Top 10 Cleaning Tips
1. Invest in a good quality HEPA filter vacuum cleaner – your family’s health will thank you! 2. View cleaning as a form of self-care 3. Clean as you go – don’t wait for a mess to grow and get out of hand and always disinfect high...
Your Schedule Holds A Key To Your Self-Care
For a lot of small business owners especially women owned small business owners, the idea of self-care and time management to accommodate self-care seems to be such a farfetched idea and unrealistic. But if you don’t exercise your self-care muscle, burnout will...
Success Is Balance – Focus On Being Balanced
Ever felt completely out of flow and off balance? Success is balance – focus on being balanced. See... here's the thing with balance: When your life is in balanced, it's difficult to harbour jealousy or even create feelings of jealousy or negativity over...
How My Unmet Needs Affect My Parenting
…And how I am working on them In life we have a habit gravitating towards the familiar relationships. Some are conscious and some are unconscious. Conscious – is he attractive? Is he romantic? Is he adventurous and religious? Is he financially stable? Is he reliable?...
Do You Know What You Need To Feel Loved?
The biggest misunderstanding about self is thinking you need an external force to show and tell you how you should be loved whilst also loving you in a way that makes you feel loved. I have never met anyone who wakes up in the morning and thinks "Hmmm... I can't wait...
Establishing A Collaborative Partnership
I’m a big believer in collaborative partnership Relationships should help emancipate us from our small self to your bigger self. They make us better people than they found us. You have to listen to the wisdom and guidance behind a partner’s complaints to see how...
Your Bandwidth & Your Strengths
I want to talk about the power of delegating and collaboration on this blog post. As well as exchanging skills to lift each other without exploiting each other. A lot of us grew up under the toxic notion that we need to get out of people what we can in the shortest...
Balance Demystified
Let’s talk the home/work ‘balance’ or as I like to call it ‘integration’ For many years women have been duped into this trap of ‘balance’. Picture this: as a clown at a circus juggles balls with the aim to keep all of them in balance, some remain in the air whilst...
The Art of Balance | Week 1
Hubby and I went away on staycation this weekend. The main purpose of this staycation was to just be able to think without distractions of the things that need to be done around the house. From renovations in full effect to 2 new dogs to the boys constantly in need of...






















