covid-19

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Planting seeds for your future

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Planting seeds for your future

Spring is coming. The morning frost is still a thing in the parklands of Melbourne but now there are blossoms on the trees and some heat in the sun, when it comes out. Yet the metaphorical sun is yet to break through Melbourne’s lockdown. There’s still a month to go before we learn whether the current restrictions have helped us to control the community-transmitted cases of COVID-19. One of the difficulties that many of us now face is the inability to plan and make decisions. Even New Zealand, a nation that successfully controlled coronavirus, has seen a return to stage three restrictions in Auckland following a mystery outbreak.

The COVID-19 and vitamin D connection

The COVID-19 and vitamin D connection

It’s winter time in Melbourne and sadly we are back in isolation as COVID-19 cases surge. With the new call to wear masks whenever we are outside we are more covered up than ever! What that means is that many people’s vitamin D levels are declining and depending on how topped up people were coming out of summer, some of us may now be vitamin D deficient.

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Prioritise your health while living in isolation

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Prioritise your health while living in isolation

COVID-19 is everywhere we look, listen, and live. It feels like everybody is telling me via my email inbox, social media feed and in my conversations what I should be doing during my time in isolation. Be more productive, use this time to write that book, take up a new hobby, learn a new language while you have the time and on and on it goes.

How to manage your stress during a global health crisis

How to manage your stress during a global health crisis

Everybody keeps saying it, we are living in unprecedented and challenging times. This COVID-19 pandemic has completely up ended so many of our lives. Many of us now find ourselves navigating the logistics of how our day to day lives will work in social isolation, where our livelihoods will come from and then also contemplating the bigger existential questions that come with this.