Peak Insights
NEW YEAR – Threat or Opportunity?
This year will be stressful. It will be full of things that create stress on you mentally, physically and chemically, called stressors. Much of what will come at you this year will be completely out of your control. How that stress affects you though, whether it helps...
Why Chasing Your Needs Sabotages Your Happiness
We are often driven most by our immediate needs. While these give us something that we want to avoid, they can also end up sabotaging our quest for happiness. I’m hungry, I’m sore, I’m tired, I’m lonely… Hunger, pain, fatigue, isolation and the like are strong forces...
Vitalism – Living To Our Full Potential
I want to chat about my favourite principle of health called VITALISM. Vitalism is the understanding and principle that all living systems are self-organizing, self-developing, self-maintaining and self-healing. This means that we are more than just machines made up...
Women: Champions of Change
The female body is amazing, it is specifically designed to produce another human being! That does mean however, that based on our anatomy, we have specific women's health challenges. Your menstrual cycle is a pretty central part to female existence and periods,...
Freedom of Mind Begins in the Body
After years of trial and error, many mistakes and a lot of pain I have discovered something powerful. One of the best ways for me to feel better about myself is to move with freedom. Mobility, strength, power, speed, agility, balance and co-ordination: When I feel...
Flu Is Not A Season!
When we head into the winter months here in Cape Town, chances are that most people you speak to will tell you they have been ‘man down’ with the flu. First, let's clear up one thing – a runny nose and a sore throat doth not a flu make. The cold and the flu are...
Does Structure Alter Function?
Everything has structure, without structure things can fall apart. Your body is an entire structure including all your cells, tissues, organs and glands. These are all co-ordinated and regulated by your nervous system which ensures homeostasis and vitality. The skull,...
Nourish Beyond Food
What Does Nourishment Mean To You? If asked, “How nourished are you?” most people would think about their food status and hunger. Let's move a step beyond that and look deeper into being nourished. On a basic level, nourishing something means feeding, providing for or...
Mother’s Day – The Bull S#!t of Mother’s Suffering
Mothers Day has many different origins: The second Sunday of May became Mother’s Day in America in 1914 after Anna Jarvis started campaigning for it when her mother died. She didn’t have children but wanted mothers to be honoured. Like most countries, in South Africa,...
Winter Is Coming
Having come from Scotland, I have to say that it does make me chuckle that what used to be a nice spring or summer day for me with the temperature in the mid-teens has now become my autumn or winter days. We have a saying in Glasgow whenever the sun comes out and the...
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2022 Values
So we’ve come to that time of year when everyone is valiantly trying to change their lives for the “better” and many of us fail miserably at sticking to those New Year’s resolutions. Perhaps you’ve failed so many times before that this year you didn’t even bother...
Can Chiropractic Care Help Plantar Fasciitis?
Have you ever experienced pain at the bottom of your heel or bottom of the mid-foot area? It may have been plantar fasciitis. What is Plantar Fasciitis? The plantar fascia is a long thick band of tissue that lies beneath the skin on the bottom of your foot. It...
Are your beliefs stopping you from living the life of your dreams?
The current world we live in seems to have left us in a fearful disempowered state and a waiting game that is dictated to us by other entities; be that doctors, scientists and governments. This way of existing leaves us all feeling a bit flat and resonating on a very...
Shoulder Pain and Chiropractic
If you’ve ever had shoulder pain, put your hand high up in the air. You can lift your arm way over your head because your shoulder is the most moveable joint in your body. Its closest rival is your hip joint but it’s not really a contest - try to swing your hip in a...
