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Here's a quick and nutritious snack/side: roasted sweet potato with feta and mint.Three sweet potatoes, each cut into ei...
08/09/2026

Here's a quick and nutritious snack/side: roasted sweet potato with feta and mint.

Three sweet potatoes, each cut into eight wedges
Four tablespoons of olive oil
1 ½ teaspoons salt, or more to taste
½ teaspoon fresh or dried thyme
½ teaspoon black pepper
½ cup crumbled feta cheese
Zest of one lemon
Three tablespoons of runny honey
About two tablespoons of fresh mint, roughly chopped

Preheat the oven to 180 and line a baking tray with parchment paper. Cut sweet potatoes in half lengthwise, then slice each half into 4 wedges. Toss sweet potatoes with olive oil, salt, pepper, and thyme, then roast for about 40 minutes (or until wedges are slightly browned and tender). Mix lemon zest and honey, plate the potatoes, drizzle with the honey-and-zest mixture, and sprinkle with fresh mint and crumbled feta.

A little novelty is useful.Dr Ginny recently jumped on a plane with her friend Jenny to watch football, wearing a borrow...
06/09/2026

A little novelty is useful.

Dr Ginny recently jumped on a plane with her friend Jenny to watch football, wearing a borrowed scarf. Her impromptu adventure reminds us that looking after our mental health is periodically about doing something different.

Going someplace new. Saying yes to an invitation. Spending time with people we love. Having something to look forward to.

Getting out of our usual routine and giving our brain something fresh to notice brings curiosity, energy and frequently a trace of joy.

So, this week, perhaps take a different street. Buy the blooms. Say yes to the thing.

With love,

Tiffani

Last week, a client was frantic - they relapsed after seven sober weeks and felt hopeless. Frida sat on their feet for f...
03/09/2026

Last week, a client was frantic - they relapsed after seven sober weeks and felt hopeless.

Frida sat on their feet for fifty minutes, leaning on their legs while they cried buckets. She let out little sighs sometimes, and I guessed she was saying, "There, there."

At one point I asked, "I wonder what it would be like to approach your relapse like Frida?" I held up a little poster of the Cycle of Change, pointing to step six, relapse, a normal part of evolving.

During change, old patterns can, from time to time, return, and this is a normal part of making a lasting difference. So rather than seeing relapse as failure, we might see it as information: What happened? What was I needing? What got in the way? What might help next time?

And if you relapse, to you we say, sober or not, you matter here.

Work perks through the roof! Not pictured: some cookies that didn't last long enough to be photographed.This little lady...
31/08/2026

Work perks through the roof! Not pictured: some cookies that didn't last long enough to be photographed.

This little lady came in with difficulty swallowing. We discussed how if our nervous system is a bit 'busier' than we might like, sometimes the basics of eating and digesting get put on the back burner. Some gentle cranial adjusting, and some homework to stimulate the vagus nerve (humming and bubble blowing) did just the trick to get things back on track.

I love this job.

Our social lives are not something we can be lazy about. Research shows that feeling connected and having meaningful rel...
30/08/2026

Our social lives are not something we can be lazy about. Research shows that feeling connected and having meaningful relationships are essential for our psychological and physical well-being. Conversely, loneliness and seclusion are associated with poorer health outcomes.

Connection doesn't have to be fancy, however. Belonging can begin with one little moment of being noticed, heard, and welcomed: a call, a volunteer role, a quick hello.

This cake, blueberry, almond and lemon, is for a dinner event tonight - it's from Ottolenghi, and I'll add a link for other fanatics.

Love, Tiffani x

https://cooking.nytimes.com/article/snacking-cake-yotam-ottolenghi-eats-with-his-kids-at-home

Every morning, I pop into Slow Market for a coffee before work. The team greets me by name and already knows my order, w...
28/08/2026

Every morning, I pop into Slow Market for a coffee before work. The team greets me by name and already knows my order, which feels like a small luxury. The same familiar faces are there too, and we usually have a quick chat about what’s on for the day.

It got me thinking about how lovely it is to be part of a community - those easy, everyday connections that make a place feel a little more like home. Sometimes it’s as simple as knowing you’ll be welcomed, remembered and included.

I do have to admit that when I slump into Coles on a Saturday night with a hair mask in ready to raid the chocolate aisle and bump into 4 clients, sometimes the community feels a little TOO tight knit, but what can you do.

Here’s to the people and places that make showing up feel effortless.

In Co-Active coaching, the balance principle holds that our choices involve trade-offs: "If we're saying yes to this, wh...
26/08/2026

In Co-Active coaching, the balance principle holds that our choices involve trade-offs: "If we're saying yes to this, what are we saying no to?" (and vice versa). This meaningful query helps us carefully consider preferences, set limits, and manage our lives intentionally.

Every "yes" to a project, demand, or habit is implicitly a "no" to hobbies, family, or vibrancy. So moving away from a "default yes" allows us to coordinate our actions with our core values.

When I wanted to study Positive Psychology, I imagined the class load would be onerous, estimating the time obligation at about 20 hours per week over two years. So I asked, "What could I relinquish to make this possible?" In the end, my family affably agreed to (mostly) cook our evening meals, freeing me to roll along.

Yesterday, Virginia asked me to collect her from the airport in the wee hours, and saying yes meant sacrificing a little sleep - an easy decision after a week apart.

For this week, rather than rushing to a yes or no, please explore what each choice would give you and what it would cost you.

Remember, we are here, and we are listening.

Love, Tiffani

Gulp, I notice I am holding the book upside down, but saying yes to a reshoot will make me late for gym!

Dr Ginny is briefly in Paris, and I asked for photos and received none, except one of her and my Goddaughter, Anthea, wh...
25/08/2026

Dr Ginny is briefly in Paris, and I asked for photos and received none, except one of her and my Goddaughter, Anthea, whooping it up with a bottle of ch*****ne in front of the Eiffel Tower. Non profesionalle, qui?

So I made this one with AI!

Gin’s little trip is a reminder to us to welcome the good in everyday life and seize chances to feel positive emotions. Doing what we can to be happy is especially important in the aftermath of major loss; it is a key feature of resilience.

Tuning in to the good while facing loss is a concept Dr Lucy Hone refers to as selective attention. It does not mean denying our pain or feigning delight. Instead, it is about deliberately broadening our focus so that our grief does not entirely consume us.

Anyway, our peach will be back tomorrow. Dieu merci!

23/08/2026

Frida is impressing us with her tail-wagging approach to life, especially in the aftermath of surgery for an abscess (which is why her breath smelled like a butcher's bin last week). So she'll still be here this week, but on light duties. Pats are welcome; rough-housing not so much.

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5 Fisher Street
Gisborne, VIC
3437

Opening Hours

Monday 8am - 7pm
Tuesday 2pm - 6pm
Wednesday 8am - 7pm
Thursday 8am - 7pm
Friday 11am - 3pm
Saturday 8am - 12pm

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+61492952592

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