What impact do you have?

Blue tuk-tuk on an autumn forest road with text asking what impact do you have

A week without a car made us consider how nice it would be not to have to care for one. Amid gifts of a music performance and a bubble on wheels we watched as stress frothed over that left us asking: Is this how you want to be?

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The value of valuing

5th Place header image in earthy greens and ambers representing the value of valuing

After doing whatever needed to be done to get people to pay their bills, a weekend of variety and difference brought up thoughts about how we value what we choose to pay money for and what we choose not to.

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Enabling the how

Dramatic view of Earth from space with glowing horizon and text Enabling the How for emotional fitness

The start of Mental Health Awareness Month in South Africa, a book about the link between stress, trauma and illness and a solution to the problem of mental and emotional health occupies the focus of a week just past and a future beginning every day.

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Move it before you lose it

Woman on rocky hilltop waving pink fabric over mountain landscape, emotional fitness

Sometimes things go wrong and all the little irritations leave you feeling low. Waking up feeling a little fed up Matthew and Chantal went for a walk and it made all the difference to their mood and state of mind.

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What is stage 6?

Stone Buddha statue illuminated by candlelight with text What Is Stage 6, emotional fitness

What is stage 6? Welcome to South Africa’s crazy days, and dark nights, of on again, off again, electrical dance. Not many were having much fun with it, however, but learning to accept and let the rage go is one way of reaching emotional equilibrium.

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