by Anthony Eldridge-Rogers in
04 Family Wellbeing, 19 Reading and Writing, 26 Food Exercise Relaxation sleep, 31 Technology, 32 Mindfulness

HOLD THE BIGGER PICTURE

Anthony We all get focused on those small important things in our lives. We become focused and attached to behaviours and things that we have decided are either important and that feel compelling, or that are in some way addictive. We can get stuck in our thinking and beliefs, our attitudes and emotions. How easy it seems for us to start believing that the world that we see close-up around us is the only world there is. How much do we expand our view beyond the current crisis? Why is

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by Anthony Eldridge-Rogers in
04 Family Wellbeing, 19 Reading and Writing, 26 Food Exercise Relaxation sleep, 31 Technology, 33 Podcasts

SELF DIRECTED LEARNING & LIVING

What does it mean to be self directed? Most people consider that they are self directed. They will believe they make decisions freely for themselves and their families and that they are autonomous in their lives to a large extent. This confidence in the idea of being self directed extends to beliefs. Most of us argue that our beliefs are our beliefs because we chose them. It seems that way I know but it is not hard to understand that we are highly influenced by family background and social conditioning.

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by Lehla Eldridge in
04 Family Wellbeing, 18 Self Care for Parents, 26 Food Exercise Relaxation sleep, 28 Self Care

Day 6 – Do Exercise you love!

I am not good at running, I often think, why I am running? Nothing is chasing me, is it? The truth is when I go running I don’t massively enjoy it, I know people that do but it has never clicked with me. I think if I was hunter gatherer type I might be the one that gets eaten by the lion…So the trick I have found is to do exercise that I actually like. I LOVE dancing and swimming. So at the moment I am dancing a lot and also

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by Lehla Eldridge in
02 parenting for the future, 09 For Parents, 26 Food Exercise Relaxation sleep, 34 The Environment Sustainability and Climate Change

That moment when the whole family go VEGAN…

It was one lunch time sitting around the table that my husband started talking about values and that we don’t always do what we say we do, even though we really try to. He went on to talk about the parmesan, that my daughter was generously grating over her garlicky tomato spaghetti. He said ‘for example, take parmesan, we are vegetarian but is it vegetarian?’ One of my daughters got up and looked at the plastic packet that it came in. ‘Mum, what is rennet?’ she asked. I knew it

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by Lehla Eldridge in
02 parenting for the future, 09 For Parents, 26 Food Exercise Relaxation sleep, 34 The Environment Sustainability and Climate Change

Where have they gone?

Normally, I would rise to the sounds of my family waking up. I have just spent three weeks without them. I wake up right now and the flat is empty. I walk down the corridor to the kitchen to make myself tea and it is so quiet. I wait for the ‘Good Morning’ Whatsapp message, I follow them on Instagram as I see their travels, a sad sad Mummy stalker, who is missing them badly…   I came back to the UK for a 25 year drama school reunion and

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