Amy Eksteen

Financial Wellness

Wellness Series Part 5 As planned, this week we will be diving deeper into the fifth wellness dimension in our wellness series – our Financial Wellness.When discussing the concept of wellness and self-care, looking to our finances is the last thing that we usually do, but financial wellness is actually considered to be a very […]

Environmental Wellness

Wellness Series Part 4 As we slowly work through each wellness dimension every week, I hope my readers are learning more about how to incorporate a wellness based lifestyle into their every day lives. I hope that by exploring our wellness, my readers realise the importance of their overall health and well-being. So here’s to […]

Social Wellness

Wellness Series Part 3 Last week we explored the concept of Emotional Wellness, why it is important for us, the benefits that can stem from learning about our emotional well-being and how to start prioritising our emotional health in our personal self-care plans. This week we will be discussing part 3 of our Wellness series […]

Emotional Wellness

Wellness Series Part 2 We have officially started our Wellness journey off with a bang! In last week’s blog post, we explored the concept of Physical Wellness. We were able to discuss why prioritising our physical wellness is important, the benefits of taking care of our physical health as well as we looked at various […]

A Wellness Journey

A happy October to all of my readers! In honour of mental health awareness month, I am really excited to announce and start our new Wellness series here on the blog.Reflecting on how the act of self-care has recently impacted me, I wanted to start a series that would allow me to embark on a […]

Misconceptions about Counselling

Mental Health Series Part 4 I aim to use this blog as a way to provide a platform for myself and my readers to openly talk about mental health. I therefore thought it would be a good idea to continue our ‘mental health series’ and discuss 10 common misconceptions about the counsellor and the counselling […]