Are you living the life that you post?
Feb 26, 2018
‘A Social Life’ is a short film about a career-driven woman named Meredith who's living the life she's always dreamed of … online. Meredith is unconsciously creating her ‘image’ with her social media ‘friends’. But she awakes one day to realise that. Click here to...
Recovery today
Feb 26, 2018
Get this glossy, online, free monthly magazine featuring personalities you will recognise. Their recovery stories are so inspirational. They declare: ‘‘When you ‘Recover’, you get your life back. You get it back the way you want it, which is better than before the...
Connect in real time with loved ones.
Feb 26, 2018
Pause texting, rather phone or visit and have face-to-face chats. Technology really has done so much to enabling us to keep connected, but it has also had some ‘not so good’ effects on our overall wellbeing. Researches are now finding that of all the things which...
Experience joy with daily acts of kindness.
Feb 26, 2018
Making someone smile spreads happiness all around. This is all about doing little things for people just for the fun and pleasure of it. Not big stuff, just little gestures, like a warm sincere smile as you pass a stranger in the passage, drawing a smiley face on a...
Create daily quiet time.
Feb 26, 2018
5 minutes of calm and deep breathing reduces stress. Guaranteed! With all the busyness in life it can often feel as if the external world is driving and controlling us. This can leave us feeling unsettling and off-balance. One of the best cures for this is to develop...
Surrounded by drama and stress.
Feb 26, 2018
Are you needing the adrenalin rush? We’ve all heard of someone being described as a drama queen – man or women. And we may even fall into that category ourselves. You know, the times when we turn something unimportant into a major issue, blowing things way out of...
Checking your phone every few minutes?
Feb 26, 2018
Escape this social media trap. It’s an addiction you can quit! Social media is a great way of keeping connected, seeing each other’s picture, sharing jokes, checking in on each other and just keeping up with what’s going on. And here is the big BUT, too much of a good...
Hooked on sweets & junk food?
Feb 26, 2018
Watch out, they can be addictive! Find healthy alternatives. When we feel sad, lonely, depressed, angry, fearful, tense, any uncomfortable feeling, we naturally want to move to a more pleasant feeling. Sometimes when we’re not able to do this, we look for something to...
Care for your health LUCKY DRAW
Jan 30, 2018
Stand a chance to win a life changing opportunity. This Lucky Draw is only open to registered Phela Wellness members. The closing date for this Lucky Draw is the 16 March 2018. If you have arrived at this page from clicking the link on the March 2018 newsletter you...
BUNGED-UP? Let’s get moving!
Jan 30, 2018
Desk exercises + drinking water = easy constipation relief. When all the organs and systems of your body are functioning together at their best, that’s called homeostasis. You can simply call that vital health. But when systems are not ‘used’ regularly, they ‘go to...
FEELING TENSE? EAT LUNCH SLOWLY
Jan 30, 2018
Focus on chewing and tasting, it will have a tranquilising effect. It is established in neuroscience that the sympathetic nervous system excites us – that’s the part that ‘winds us up’. Meanwhile the parasympathetic nervous system relaxes us - ‘that’s the part that...
LOW ENERGY? EAT BREAKFAST!
Jan 30, 2018
It powers you to keep up with the day's demands. The old saying: “Eat breakfast like a king, lunch like a prince, and supper like a pauper…” is still recognised to be true. ‘Breaking-the-fast’ (breakfast) recognizes that the body has been deprived of nutrients, often...