The Healthy Lifestyles Living Wellness Blog with Larry Lewis

Is Your Current Lifestyle Making You Ill?

Are your daily lifestyle choices setting you up for illness in later life, or even worse are they impacting your life right now? Take our quiz today and find out! 15 Questions, 70 points, what's your health score?

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Hitting Rock Bottom – The Only Way Is Up

Hitting Rock Bottom – The Only Way Is Up

Rock bottom became the solid foundation on which I rebuilt my life. J.K. Rowling Those words were said by J.K. Rowling, the British novelist best known as the author of the Harry Potter books, during her commencement address at Harvard, where she explains the fringe benefits of failing and the importance of imagination. She talks about ...
Back to the Future – Always Looking Up

Back to the Future – Always Looking Up

A few days ago many of our memories returned to the Back to the Future movie. If you’re a Back To The Future fan, then the date 21 October 2015 is already transfixed into your head. Why? It’s the date that Marty McFly and Doc Brown travel to the future in order ...
4 Steps To Controlling Your Emotions

4 Steps To Controlling Your Emotions

Sadness, fear, anger, disappointment, exhaustion, loneliness. Sometimes we experience emotions that are not easy to deal with. What can one do when feeling bad? How do you go about controlling your emotions? When illness or disability strikes the issues you’re faced with can be overwhelming, and more than likely you will have ...
The Challenges of Invisible Disability

The Challenges of Invisible Disability

There are many types of disabilities that affect a person’s life as a consequence of an impairment that may be physical, cognitive, mental, sensory, emotional, developmental, or some combination of these. A disability may be clear to see by everyone or impossible to tell. Today I want to draw to your attention ...
See The Need

See The Need

Two thirds of people diagnosed with visual impairment said they had never received emotional nor psychological support. I think this is appalling considering how badly we are affected emotionally by losing a significant amount of our sight. No-one should feel like they are on their own dealing with this, and more ...
The Emotional Impact Of Vision Loss

The Emotional Impact Of Vision Loss

We take our sight for granted. We expect every day when we wake up to see things through our two eyes. Alas there is no guarantee that things will be like this forever. If it doesn't we best be prepared for the emotional impact of vision loss. The moment your doctor tells ...
Emergency,  Eye Vision Is Impaired, Exterminate, Exterminate!

Emergency, Eye Vision Is Impaired, Exterminate, Exterminate!

Emergency, emergency, eye vision is impaired, exterminate, exterminate! Straight away you’re learning something new about me, I’m a Doctor Who Fan. Part of the title may have given that away. In a recent Doctor Who episode (Doctor Who Series 9 Episode 2: The Witch's Familiar) we saw Missy and Clara walking through ...
What’s Most Important in Your Life?

What’s Most Important in Your Life?

Having just put the phone down to my doctor, absorbing the latest health issue that I now need to deal with, which I will, a question popped into my head, "What's Most Important in Your Life?" We often talk about our priorities in life. But how many of us have ever stopped ...
Don’t Just Exist, Live A Life

Don’t Just Exist, Live A Life

Don't just exist, live a life. To truly live life, means that you really experience it, enjoy it to the fullest, never taking it for granted.  Dying, death and bereavement are important parts of everyone’s lives. They happen to us all, and many of us will be affected by the death ...
Get Your Emotions In Check  – Coping with Visual Impairment

Get Your Emotions In Check – Coping with Visual Impairment

How we deal with, manage and react to what happens in our life will very much determine our progress and development. In extreme cases a momentary reaction can influence, if not shape, the next ten (twenty, fifty) years of our life. For good or bad. Yet many of our reactions will ...