You are made up of over a trillion cells, all living and working together throughout your entire body. Each cell has its own life span – when they die, they are replaced by new cells. And this cycle of renewal and change happens for as long as you live.

For example… your taste buds can renew every few hours, your gut lining every week, white blood cells every ten days, your muscles 3months. Your liver once a year. Even some of your brain cells renew.

On average scientists believe that over 330 billion cells within your body renew everyday, which is equivalent to 1%. So that’s 1% today, another 1% tomorrow, 30% by the end of the month.

What’s even more fascinating, is that the pace of cell renewal isn’t a predetermined thing that we all follow, it’s unique to each person depending on what you do and how you feel throughout your day-day life. Your choices can either speed up or slow down renewal.

An easy one to show this is movement. If you are someone who is active and moves your body regularly, it increases the speed of cell renewal within your muscles/tissues/blood, ensuring you are getting fresh, healthy, energy packed cells often. Whereas if you tend to live a more sedentary lifestyle, your cycle of renewal slows down, and your cells go through a process of decay before dying off and completing a cycle.

⚡ Why this is so important to consider, is that the health of the cells within each cycle are what creates the blueprint for the cells that follow. ⚡

👉 So, if in three months time, you are roughly going to have a new body of cells – what blueprint are you setting up for them? What foundation are you providing them to grow on?

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Happiness is a result of intentional, conscious choices, made day after day. It’s stopping and asking yourself…

- What do I tell myself about happiness and it’s role in my life?

- How do my days reflect what I value, what’s important to me, what brings me joy?

- Where do I give my energy and attention to things that don’t contribute to my happiness?

- How do I look at challenging situations and experiences, how do I manage BIG emotions? Do my choices pull me up and out of them or do they drag me further down and in?

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Being coeliac I used to struggle finding a muesli that was gluten free, yum, not packed with a tonne of sugar, AND affordable. Let’s say it was a mission. So often I wouldn’t bother and just stick to having eggs.

Although I love my eggs I missed variety and having something lighter I could enjoy during the warmer seasons, so after researching different recipes and playing around with flavours and textures I liked, I finally can say there is somethin out there that satisfies all my needs!

⚡️ Introducing you to Coconut, Orange Muesli - from my kitchen to yours! ⚡️

I love making a big batch on a Sunday, as it lasts for ages, and it can even be used for apple crumble toppings, or as a quick snack straight from the jar if in need throughout the week!

Give it a whirl, you can find the recipe on my blog, and let me know what you think!

Happy baking!

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Fun Fact Friday ⚡You have a second brain!

It’s called your Enteric Nervous System, and it is an extensive network made up of over 200 million neurons located in the walls of your gut, which spreads out in a thin mesh that travels all the way from your throat to your bottom.

If you were to clump your entire enteric system together, it would be the size of a cat’s brain. So it’s fair to say, it’s pretty decent! 🐱

Now the really cool thing about the enteric system is that it uses all those neurons to communicate directly to the rest of your body, in particular your main brain via a pathway called the gut-brain-axis, which is facilitated by a very important nerve called the ‘Vagus’ nerve.

The Vagus nerve sends messages back and forth all day, between your enteric system and your main brain. And this is where gut health comes into play, because all the little microbes in your gut make neurotransmitters as they break down food, releasing different hormones, and signalling different chemical reactions in the body, and the enteric system then gathers all of this information up and sends messages through the Vagus nerve to the brain about what is going on and what is needed.

⚡ So, if your gut health is imbalanced, if your microbiome living inside your gut isn’t serving you, then it can send dysregulated messages to the brain which affects your neurobehaviour and you start to experience changes in your mood, ability to concentrate, ability to access certain emotions, ability to manage stress ….on and on it goes.

⚡ And this is why food plays such a big role in your mental and emotional health and is an important element to consider when working with the mind.

Love, Sarah xx

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I believe we all deserve to be happy, and that experiencing joy is an innate right.

I also believe that many of us struggle to feel truly happy, or as though it’s within our reach on a day-day basis, because of who we tell ourselves we have to be or what we have to achieve before we are deserving of it.

Happiness isn't defined by anyone else, it is something that is 100% in your control. So with that in mind, is there anywhere you are letting your stories around happiness hold you back from truly experiencing more it?

Sarah x

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To all of us who are…

changing
renewing
exploring
shedding
re-shaping
learning
growing

xx

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So many conversations I’ve had recently have been around the fact that it’s ‘August already!!’, and I've noticed that people are beating themselves up saying things like: I haven’t done much, I haven’t achieved what I said I would this year, this year was meant to be better than last year but I’ve been struggling more than ever.

If this is you, I invite you to take a step back for a second and show yourself some grace.

It has been an incredibly challenging two years with so many changes and uncertainties in your life.

✨ So, if 2022 has been about finding your footing again, healing yourself, and doing the bare essentials so you can live a calm easy life…then I want to remind you that this is more than enough. You are already doing enough this year ✨

Too often we try and bypass what is truly needed for us to heal and recover fully, believing that it should be a quick fix or something to simply tick off so you can get back to living your 'real' life.

The truth is, healing of any kind doesn’t work like this. The definition of healing is: ‘the process of becoming sound and healthy again’, and as this definition highlights it is a PROCESS. All processes take time, understanding, compassion, ups and downs, trial and error…

👉 So that’s my invitation for you - take the time you need to recover from the last two years, don’t push yourself to be doing more if it doesn’t feel right. That moment will come when the next stage of the process is ready for you.

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