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
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.
Mental Health And Managing Healthy Boundaries
We are living in an era that is committed to progress in most dimensions of our lives, and society as a whole. In the past couple of years, mental health is one major subject matter that has been widely discussed across different platforms. Psychologists, medical...
Setting Boundaries For Stress-free Working
Disclaimer: You may only proceed to read this article if you can relate to any of the following: Do you find yourself clocking off from work way past your usual hours? Are you guilty of sending or responding to emails in the wee hours of the morning? Are you...
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...
A Good Day Starts With A Poop!
There is a picture circulating on social media of a man covered in a blanket while sitting on a toilet. It is a joke highlighting the fact that we are experiencing a bitterly cold weather, and as mentioned in the previous blog, our eating habits tend to change due to...
Don’t Let The Cold Weather Outside Add Some Kilos On Your Scale
Nothing beats getting home to an aroma of a hearty hot meal cooking on the stove. It seems like we are going through one of the coldest Winter season, and what sounds like a solid idea, is seeking comfort in those early morning freshly baked scones, midday slap chips...
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,...
Happy Full Moon Day!
Most of us can relate to moments in our lives when we’re just a bag of mixed emotions, or times when our energy levels are inconsistent, or perhaps times when you just feel unexplainably mentally exhausted. There are several reasons why this could be, but have you...
Manuka Honey Benefits
Honey, don't sleep on Manuka Honey! In my teens, my mom would make us homemade face masks to combat our acne prone teenage skin and balance it out with some homemade green juices and lemon water. She believes in the power of taking care of our bodies, inside out....
The battle against Hypertension
Watching TV, playing endless TV games and of course, looting the grocery cabinet were the most common things many households did during the harrowing period of lockdown. Since the past year, this season has completely slowed down routines and movements for many...
Doomscrolling? Stream binging? Sacrificing sleep to catch up on ‘me time’? Consider this a wake-up call.
Revenge Bedtime Procrastination… “I started stealing two hours at night just to write in some silence, go back to sleep then be up again for a morning run… I didn’t know there was a name for it” – Karabo Mokoena, Mom Blogger. Remember that popular cellphone network TV...
Parenting Through The Trauma
Tuesdays are usually our date nights and on 2 March 2021 we sat in the office at around 5.30pm trying to decide what we would be doing that evening. Do we tackle this deadline that’s looming? Do we go home, sneak into the house and lock ourselves in our bedroom with a...
Just Here Minding My Gut
I learnt a new word on this gut and liver health journey I am on... microbiomes aka gut microbiota aka gut flora are the microorganisms including bacteria, archaea and fungi that live in the digestive tracts of humans (and other animals including insects). Everyone...
Reckoning with Myself – A Journey
My name is Thabiso Mahlape, and I live with several addictions. When I was commissioned to write this piece this is not the statement I imagined I would open with. But the events of the past two weeks have absolutely dictated that I must. The death of a famous...
