Paula Fairbairn Health & Wellbeing Coach

20/04/2025

12/12/2024

SAD (Seasonal Affective Disorder) can be very difficult but if you have mild symptoms it can be managed. Playing badminton today I realised that a good way to deal with SAD is to do something unseasonal. We don’t need to be victims to the dark days or the weather.
Today was dull - but I try not to think this way. It’s so important to flood our minds with positivity. So, instead of saying ‘it’s dark and miserable’, I’d look for the positive and say to myself, ‘it’s very calm and still’, you get the idea. Anyway, my thought for the day was try unseasonal activities such as meet a friend for a walk (layer up, there’s no such thing as bad weather, just the wrong clothes), enjoy a coffee sitting outside, buy yourself flowers, apply fake tan, anything that carries you through the darkness 🌻🌻🌻
D3 and K2 are essential for those in the northern hemisphere ☀️☀️☀️

10/12/2024

We’re always running around making sure everyone else is ok. Typically this affects women more. We can eventually burnout and become overwhelmed, feeling anxious and depressed.
The message we’re given during a flight is to put your oxygen mask on first, then attend to others. In the real world this is what your oxygen mask looks like:

1. Eat real food. If in doubt, do the opposite of government advice, eat the meat, eat the butter, eat the eggs. Avoid sugar and ultra processed food.
2. Sleep. Don’t underestimate the importance of enough, quality sleep.
3. Exercise. Move every joint and every muscle every day.
4. Get out in nature.
5. Speak to family and friends.
6. Pray and meditate.

This is your survival kit.

03/10/2024

Are you sick and tired of being sick and tired?
Time and again I hear people say they have aches and pains and sadly they seem resigned to always feel this way. This happens more often with our older friends and family.
Don’t let anyone tell you it’s your age. What many people don’t realise is that our bodies regenerate, they have the ability to self heal and they are self regulating. Given the right environment ‘miracles’ can happen.
From now until Christmas I am on a mission to help as many people as possible to be inspired to improve their lives. With this in mind an hour session will cost £20. I don’t believe finances should be a barrier to health therefore let me know if this isn’t affordable and we can work something out.
All I need from a client is a willingness to change and improve.

Christmas gift vouchers can be bought for £20 for the first hour and a half session and can be used up to the end of February 2025.

31/07/2020

Division
We must stop looking for the things that divide us. Instead concentrate on those that unite us. We may demonstrate different levels of concern for different issues but fundamentally we share the same hopes and dreams.

We all need peace.
We all need love.
We all need each other.

This will probably be one of the biggest tests we will experience globally in our lifetime and we must pass. Our humanity depends on it. We mustn’t become fragmented and sit in judgment of each other, that is not who we are. We are better than that.

Kindness first.

One of the first lessons I remember from my parents was ‘if you have nothing nice to say don’t say anything at all.’ That’s not to say that you shouldn’t stand up for yourself or for your beliefs but do it from your heart.

Kindness is infectious too ❤️

30/07/2020

Exercise
If you are starting out in the world of exercise it can be rather daunting. You might want to lose weight, you may be doing it to improve your physical or your mental health. It’s maybe all of the above.
Here are 7 steps which will hopefully help you:

1. You might have put on weight over the last few months but that’s ok. There’s absolutely no place for guilt here. You are taking the first steps to a new life so start with positivity. Trust me this can be fun!

2. Decide to enjoy it. Choose an activity that makes you happy.

3. When you get dressed in the morning put your workout gear on whatever that may be 😀. This will encourage you to do it and to do it early. The earlier the better, get it out of the way and feel smug the rest of the day! (That rhymes! Feel free to use it if it helps 🤪)

4. Wear the same thing (or the same few things) to exercise in every time so that you will not only feel the changes in your body but you will also see them.

5. Bite size pieces. If you are a reluctant exerciser that is normal! Start small, 2 minutes. The 2 minutes will pass so quickly and you may find yourself inadvertently doing 5 minutes.

6. Have a notebook and in 1 sentence write down how you feel before you start then again in 1 sentence how you feel when you finish. It’s a great reminder for the tougher days.

7. Don’t make the mistake of waiting for motivation because you’ll wait for a very long time. Simply show up, the motivation will then flood in! You’ll feel inspired and recharged, ready for anything!

Good luck and remember it can and should be fun ☀️
Pmn

28/07/2020

You can’t outrun or outcycle a bad diet.

At long last some appropriate advice from the government. Get on your bike, I think the message is? If not, it should be. Remember though you cannot outrun, outcyle, outwalk a bad diet.
Eat better (not necessarily less!) Make better choices. Move more and switch the TV off (mainstream at least) ❤️