Debs Natural Wellness aims to bring together real life experience and a genuine passion for using natural products that improve health & wellbeing for anyone but particularly for mid-life women who've had little time to think of themselves. Here you will find tips and access to products that can help you grow your inner and outer glow.
Wellbeing is sometimes so hard to achieve isn't it? - but I'm so glad that you have found us and I look forward to being part of your journey towards improving function and aesthetics.
Having faced my own challenges with fitness, neck pain and skincare, I have found solutions that work well for me, both practical and holistic. My aim is to guide you through mobility, strength and mental-health improvements using natural approaches and honest advice to help you to choose the right way forward for yourself.
So if you are ready to embrace a new approach to wellness that fits your lifestyle and your stage of life, you’re in the right place.
You will find links on the health technology and natural skin care pages to things that I've found useful on my journey with information about products that I use and links to my shops so that you can try things out for yourself if you'd like to.
My contact information can be found at the bottom of each page and I'm always happy to chat if you'd like to talk through your issues in person so that we can explore together what might work best for you :)
Connection: Spending quality time with others, working on relationships, enjoying companionship. We are made to live in community, as much as we may enjoy our own company, at heart, humans are social creatures who thrive on positive connections with others. So work on those relationships, spend time in communal activities / hobbies that bring you pleasure and enhance positive connection with other people.
Exercise: I don't know about you but that's a bit of a dread word for me. Exercise doesn't have to be strenuous to improve health though. It can be a short walk in nature, intentional walking five minutes at a regular pace, three minutes at a brisk pace for 16 minutes then turn around and do the same thing on the way home. Alternatively, dancing, swimming and yoga or pilates classes are all great ways to improve strength and stamina.
Learn new skills: Keeping your brain active by learning new skills is a great way to improve self esteem and confidence and can also improve your social life as you engage with learning together with like-minded people.
Kindness: who knew that being kind to others, the act of giving whether financial or time is so good for us? It increases endorphins and our oxytocin levels, the happiness hormone. So as we do something kind for someone else, our body releases a chemical reaction that makes us feel good and even works to help improve our physical health!
Mindfulness: learning to be present in the moment, focusing on what is happening in our bodies; how we are physically and emotionally reacting to whatever is happening around or to us; is a great way to improve wellbeing as we learn to recognise negative triggers and learn to manage our reactions to them.
For much of my life, like many women, beauty felt like something external, something to achieve, maintain or quietly measure myself against. I never really felt I could measure up to it because it was shaped by trends, comparison and an unspoken belief that how I looked said something about how worthy I was. So I didn't really try that hard because I never felt truly beautiful no matter if people told me I looked good (usually my hubby bless him).
Have you ever found yourself feeling as if growth is exhausting? So much effort required that you begin to wonder if it's ever worth it? For a long time, I believed that growth and burnout were somehow linked. That if I wasn’t feeling stretched, tired, or slightly overwhelmed, I probably wasn’t doing enough. Somewhere along the way, exhaustion became a badge of commitment, proof that I was serious about work or business.
January always arrives with a quiet question beneath the noise of resolutions and fresh starts: how do I actually want this year to feel?
And as each year draws to a close, there is a particular stillness that arrives alongside the festivities. It’s the quiet pause between what has been and what is yet to come.
As the days get shorter and the temperatures drop, many of us find ourselves slowing down.
Natural Wellness: Changing Small Daily Habits Can Create a Healthier, Happier You
“Love & compassion are necessities, not luxuries. Without them humanity cannot survive.” ~ Dalai Lama
“I define vulnerability as uncertainty, risk and emotional exposure. To be human is to be in vulnerability.”
“Keep your face to the sunshine & you cannot see a shadow.” – Helen Keller
When we build a life with someone, our sense of self often intertwines with theirs over time. Our routines, decisions, and even our dreams become shared. So when that relationship ends, whether through divorce or bereavement, it’s not just the person we lose. We can lose ourselves, too.
There are many ways in which we can lose our sense of self as life changes and I thought it may be useful to think about three of the major ones in separate blogs.