Ingredients of Wellness

This is Part 2 of a 2 part series on 10 things you can do to help protect our marine environments and feel good about it.  Part 1 was out last week in case you missed it.  6.      Find replacements for single use plastics and disposables Use your own water bottle Take your own bag […]

If you’ve read a little about me you will know that I am interested in understanding how our relationship with nature, particularly marine environments, influences our wellness, and how this interrelationship may change our attitudes and promote positive behaviors.  In my involvement with our local green group, as a dive master and as a supporter […]

I’m very proud to say that I volunteer for our local community environmental non-profit in Discovery Bay, DB Green.  We have just finished planning the community environmental activities for 2013 and I thought I’d take this opportunity in my blog to highlight all the great events that are coming up. Community Meeting The first most important event […]

As its my intention to keep the topics and content for this blog on the ‘optimistic and fun’ side, I won’t go on a rant about one of my pet peeves, but I wanted to bring this topic up as one of the first discussion that we will file under Marine Matters.  Why marine matters?  […]

Despite the title of this post, which I admit was intended to grab your attention….did it!! I’m not sure for certain that Sipadan is in fact Marine Wellness in action.  But what we experience during our recent dive encounter in January was significantly better than our last visit in 2005, but unfortunately not as abundant as that witnessed on our first […]

While the idea of ‘Wellness’ is obviously quite distinct from the concept of mainstream health, it is interesting that as yet no fixed definition or theory exists for Wellness.  Yet this is not to be viewed as a bad thing.  The wide use of the term Wellness results in different meanings, for different groups, in […]

Miessence is the world’s first extensive range of internationally Certified Organic skin, hair, body, cosmetic, oral and nutritional products – certified to food standards.  As part of my wellness journey I was looking into using natural and sustainably produced products and was intrigued by the food standards certification of what was essentially a skin and personal care […]