This month’s HealthyMe test kitchen brings two bright and colorful summer recipes. Stuffed red bell peppers and carrot and pineapple salad. Easy to make and enjoy. If you are looking to cook your way to happiness … then this is a fun way to spend 2 hours in the kitchen.

Need to feel curious about your life? Mindfulness may be the route you need to succeed. When you practice mindfulness, you use the What and How foundational skills. This helps you to be present and thoughtful and observe what's going on. Whether inside you or around you. You’ll experience and participate in your life, in the current moment. This enables you to make choices about how you respond. Control over your choices is a real benefit of mindfulness.

A timely reminder can focus our thinking and make a real difference. As we work to gain greater control of our lives, we need tools to help us. We know if we can widen the gap between stimulus and our response, we gain power over our actions. The topic of coping cards was discussed at a recent workshop. “Not my monkey” was on one delegate’s coping card. It really resonated with me. The delegates shared how they use their own coping cards. I was so impressed by their stories I thought I research these tools a bit more. Perhaps they’ll be useful for you too…

80% of new year's resolutions fail – you can beat this trend!

New Year resolutions, are you crazy…its June? Yes, and with the blessing of summer comes a new opportunity to relook at our goals and finish our year on a high. Please do take a moment to consider what you had planned. A big congratulations for every new year’s resolution that you are still working on.

The good news is that today is a gift – and that is why it’s called the present.

We visit with Dr. Lupu to hear how to make positive changes.

This month’s HealthyMe recipe is something a little different. It’s a savory Cheesy Cauliflower Cake. Yes – that’s right cake – or delicious bread. The subtle cheesy flavors provide a tasty alternative to mealtime bread. Or this dish can be jazzed up to include more spices and another veg. It would be equally yummy lightly grilled with cheese or as a starter with fish or liver pate.

Is your brain your greatest friend, or not? Our brains are amazingly efficient thought-generating machines. In this blog we learn more about how when we provide our brain evidence, we can cause updates to the way our brains think. For example, your brain may have decided that you are not a person who likes to exercise. Need to shake up the status quo? Dr. Lupu joins us to share how she has supported many people make future positive changes.

When life punches us in the guts, we feel devastated. Tough things happen and they can have awful implications, for us and our loved ones. When control is swept away from us, we lose balance. Why didn’t all the investment and hard work in these skills, protect us?

Let’s unpack some popular fiction about Mindfulness. When you type ‘mindfulness’ into any search engine, be prepared for instant information overload. In this blog, we take a step back and examine four common myths. Mindfulness is all about relaxing – sorry no it’s not! It is an escape – sorry no! It will help us suppress emotion – sorry it’s a no again!! Oh, and finally it’s simple and easy. Well … sorry no (again). It’s so much more.

We caught up with Dr. Lupu and asked her about her favorite subject, a healthy balance of eating, exercise, and sleep.

With so many fads, promising instant results, and perfect people on social media, learners often get confused and frustrated. Dr. Lupu helps us understand a little more.

We spoke with Lindsay Reimer, an experienced psychiatric nurse and asked her to help us understand emotions that contribute to happiness.

Jeff Thompson combines psychotherapy experience with a proven set of skills to support clients to find their life worth living. Helping others to break through life’s barriers is close to his heart.