Quick Challenges
‘Doggy Style’ to relieve stress?
The aim of these quick challenges is to encourage you to make small changes that could have a big impact on your health and happiness. Today’s challenge is to do some yoga. OK, so the title may have lured you here under false pretenses, but keep reading as today’s challenge could really benefit you on
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Oxfordshire Health News
Autism Alert Card Scheme for Oxfordshire
Oxfordshire’s first Autism Alert Card Scheme is being provided by Autism Oxford. Free to anyone on the Autism spectrum in Oxfordshire, this alert card can be used in case of an emergency. It carries simple information about Autism, a telephone number for people to call for autism-specific advice and the name and number of a
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It was a tough race until the end, but we can now name Challenge Oxfordshire’s Health Practitioner of the Year 2011! It was a busy month for all of our nominees and us here at Challenge Oxfordshire, but the public have voted and decided that with 31% of the vote, Pippa Shay will be Challenge
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The Oxford Mindfulness Centre Starts To Offer Public Courses
The Oxford Mindfulness Centre (OMC) is going to be running its first mindfulness course open to the general public in October 2011. This course is going to be very similar to the Mindfulness Based Cognitive Therapy (MBCT) course that the OMC provides for Oxford Health NHS Foundation Trust for people with depression and anxiety related
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Oxfordshire Mind launch new Wellbeing Service
Oxfordshire Mind has announced the launch of their new Wellbeing Service across Oxfordshire from the Spring of 2011. The Wellbeing Service provides a range of new services to help people understand mental ill-health, help them identify what keeps them well and offer practical support to help them along a pathway to recovery. It is open
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£7m Chipping Norton Care Facility Officially Opened by David Cameron
The Prime Minister officially opened a new £7million care campus in Chipping Norton on Friday. David Cameron, MP for Witney, toured the facility, which comprises the Chipping Norton War Memorial Community Hospital and the Henry Cornish Care Centre, before unveiling a commemorative plaque. Henry Cornish Care Centre and the Chipping Norton War Memorial Community Hospital
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New project aims to get Hailey’s families fit
Fit families is a program run by Go Active. GO Active (Get Oxfordshire Active) is a not for profit project that aims to help people do more physical activity. Whatever your age, fitness levels or cost constraints Go Active can people to get fit and active. An important part of the work that Go Active
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Blog
The Public Vote: Challenge Oxfordshire’s Health Practitioner of the Year 2011 The nominations are in and now is the time for the Oxfordshire public to decide – Who will be Challenge Oxfordshire’s Health Practitioner of the Year 2011? Seven health practitioners from around Oxfordshire have been nominated and now you get to decide who wins. Voting closes on the 30th June 2011 at midday. The winner
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General Health
Could I be ‘Cuddle Deficient’? I have been thinking a lot recently about human contact and specifically cuddling or hugging. A few years back I read a book called Remotely Controlled by a chap called Aric Sigman. I don’t really remember much about the book, but I do remember the interview that I saw on TV with Sigman promoting his
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Your Stories
Tracey Jefferies: My New Years Resolution Part 5 It started with an innocent enough looking tweet “Hi Tracey, do you fancy trying a short jog?” I always smile at the use of the word try. An American friend of mine – Elizabeth Kuhnke – coaches people in all aspects of communication and she bans clients using the word try. To demonstrate her point
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Get Fit
The Psychological Side of Getting Fit “I’m sleepy, it’s cold outside and I’m so warm and snuggled up in bed” Those were my excuses for staying in bed this week and not getting out there for the early morning walks I’d promised myself. How about you? Are you keeping on track with any New Year fitness goals? Or are you finding
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You Decide
Should Oxfordshire PCT Follow Government Guidelines In Funding IVF? Many of you will know that I am going to be biased on this one as I ran a campaign a couple of years back to encourage Oxfordshire Primary Care Trust (PCT) to follow full government guidelines in funding IVF for infertile couples. You can read about it on the Oxford Mail website. Unfortunately my
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Nutrition
Is Irritable Bowel Syndrome ruining your life? Is Irritable Bowel Syndrome ruining your life? Irritable Bowel Syndrome (IBS) is a functional bowel disorder. Symptoms include painful cramping, bloating, gas, bleeding, diarrhoea and constipation. Wider ranging symptoms include chronic fatigue syndrome, migraines, cystitis, sexual dysfunction and depression. Each person experiences IBS differently but most report a marked reduction in quality of life. Symptoms
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Lose Weight
Good and bad emotions You have certain emotions. We all do. People feel things all day long and while they dream. Sometimes, the feelings are great; sometimes, they are not. Part of life is learning how to deal with unpleasant emotions. However, I believe that most people have been poorly, if at all, taught how to handle their emotions.
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Good Mental Health
Life can be so hard sometimes, but here is something that may just help Stress is a fact of life, and what with our modern day lifestyles, it seems to only be getting worse. None of us really like to admit to being stressed, but if we were really truthful, we’d notice that we are nearly always worrying about something. ‘Did i turn the cooker off’, ‘Have I got
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Meet The Professionals
Meet Oxfordshire Performance Coach Toby Fletcher For today’s interview I caught up with Oxfordshire Performance Coach Toby Fletcher. Armed with a handful of questions, I wanted to get to the bottom of what Performance Coaching is and how we could use it, should we find ourselves wanting to. Let’s see what he had to say… Q.Can you explain what a Performance
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