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Support Your Health by Creating a Healthy Home
Perhaps you’ve heard about “healthy homes” and wondered how a home could support your health? Or maybe you’ve wondered what you could do to create a healthy home? And, if you’ve been with me for a while, you’ll likely just be eager for more strategies to support your...
Shielded Canopies Considerations
Shielding and Shielded Canopies are something that I am often asked about - and why I list only a few shielding products for the building on my website. The reason for this is that shielding needs to be done with great care – and is unique to each site. For me,...
The Best Building Materials for Each Climate
Today, we're joined by guest Raymond Alonzo who shares his tips about building materials for different climates. Raymond is studying journalism in Phoenix, Arizona. He's interested in learning more about how our actions affect our environment. Based in the US, his...
Lead and Sound Healing
Lead and Sound Healing - Let's talk about the "unexpected" link. (As well, this may help to explain why I now include Sound Healing in my services.) Lead and other heavy metals can be taken up and stored in the body. Source of lead include paint, solder in pipes,...
Lead Poisoning: Prevention is Better than Cure
Lead Levels and Lead Poisoning Prevention come to mind every October... Because #ILPPWA: International Lead Poisoning Prevention Week of Action happens every year in the final week of October. And 2021 marks the ninth week - thanks to the work of Elizabeth O'Brien,...
Plastic-Free July (and every month)
Why Avoid Plastic? Avoiding plastic has always been something high on my agenda. When I was a teen and a twenty-something, it was about protecting the environment - not creating waste, minimising the creating of single-use items, and protecting our beautiful planet...
Featured Businesses
Discover Our Featured Businesses Just recently, I ran a competition in my free Facebook group - Healthy (and Safe) Living. The prize was worth almost $2800!!! Each of the following businesses donated a product or service that formed this massive prize - Which was won...
Time for New Habits
The end of the year is a time when we look to create new habits. We reflect back on the year that we have had. And decide what we would like to do differently. Do you do that? I do. I love this practice and tend to do it way more often. Here’s are 5 new habits that...
Spiders: Managing them Naturally
Spiders… Cockroaches… Beetles & Bugs Spiders, cockroaches, beetles and bugs can give even the toughest person a bit of a shock. I am a massive insect lover, but I can get spooked sometimes. One night, I crawled into bed. Closed the mosquito net and snuggled down...
Time Indoors – Is it Affecting Your Health?
Spending more time indoors, you may discover that your place is not supporting your health. Did you know that on average Australians generally spending 90+% of their time indoors? This can include home, work, in vehicles and places of worship. Whether it be a change...
Environmental Stressors Can Cause Blindness??
Environmental Stressors Can Cause Blindness?? Say what? Environmental stressors can cause blindness???? Yup. Let me illustrate this with a story about Billie. Billie (not her real name) is a young Mum who is super keen to ensure her bubba is safe. She’d heard about 5G...
Managing Mould
Managing #mould. It’s everywhere, so how? Managing mould doesn’t have to be an uphill battle. Managing Mould At Your Place Since mould is a moisture issue, we are going to focus on moisture. Moisture can come from weather-events, building-related issues and occupant...
Air Quality – Understanding the Information
With the bushfires that destroyed so much of Australia in the summer of 2020, air quality became a bit of an obsession - and rightly so with all the smoke that our fires have produced spreading globally. There are apps and websites and indexes… There is PM2.5, PM10,...
Smart Meters – What Can Be Done?
Smart meters have been rolled out in many parts of the country, have you got one? Given I am so immersed in this kind of technology, I am always surprised when someone hasn’t even heard of them. 🙂 So, let's start with what they are. What are Smart Meters? A smart...
House Hunting?
Moving (and house hunting) is a highly stressful time... Add to the mix the need to avoid environmental stressors, keep to a tight budget and manage with low tolerance - house hunting becomes almost impossible. Sound familiar? I get it - not only have I been there...