Mummy Mojo's 5 Steps to a Cracking Christmas
Soul, Inspiration Amy Down Soul, Inspiration Amy Down

Mummy Mojo's 5 Steps to a Cracking Christmas

We're already almost have way through December, and the countdown to Christmas is well and truly on.

Whether this leaves you in a state of excitement or a state of panic, there’s no denying mums have a lot to do when it comes to the Christmas holiday season.

A lot of the responsibility for shopping, wrapping, cleaning, cooking, decorating and entertaining falls on our shoulders, and we feel a lot of pressure to deliver an amazing Christmas for the kids. All mums need are 5 steps to a cracking Christmas!

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How to get your body bikini ready
Health Amy Down Health Amy Down

How to get your body bikini ready

So, I have a confession to make...I tried on a bikini in a shop this week as I have girl's trip coming up, and I thought it might be nice to have a new swimsuit to wear.

But, boy was I wrong! I realised a little too late that my body wasn’t swimsuit ready!

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Why Cleanse? Because we are toxic!
Health mummymojo Health mummymojo

Why Cleanse? Because we are toxic!

Why cleanse? Because we are toxic! We ingest, apply, absorb and breath toxins everyday. Stress in our bodies also acts as a toxin. Our bodies are self-cleansing machines but were never designed to process all these new chemicals we find in our environment today.

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How to get Happy, Healthy and Hot!
Health Amy Down Health Amy Down

How to get Happy, Healthy and Hot!

Becoming a mum usually comes with a side order of stubborn weight gain, sleep deprivation, brain fog, stress and exhaustion. Coffee, sugary treats, fast food and wine often become our crutches to get through the day. The problem is that each of these things, whilst providing temporary relief, actually contribute to all the side effects that led you to them in the first place.

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Eight benefits of better sleep
Amy Down Amy Down

Eight benefits of better sleep

There are many factors that can interfere with a good night’s sleep. Even if we are no longer night feeding or tending to little wakers in the night, our hectic lives, pressure at work, family circumstances, stress and illness all play havoc with sleep.  

 For most of us it’s not possible to drop everything and implement drastic change, but the benefits of sleep don’t have to be a case of ‘all or nothing’. Increasing your sleep by as little as 15 minutes a night can immediately and drastically improve the way you feel and function.

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5G Wireless and its Impact on your health
Health Amy Down Health Amy Down

5G Wireless and its Impact on your health

My son and I are electro-sensitive, which came about when we were bitten by ticks and diagnosed with Lyme's disease, otherwise known as tick-borne illness. Being electro-sensitive is linked with symptoms such as headaches, fatigue, dizziness, depression, memory impairment, muscle pain, heart palpitations, and breathing difficulties.

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Sleep Tips For Tired Mums
Deborah Emmerson Deborah Emmerson

Sleep Tips For Tired Mums

Remember the days when you woke up naturally, and felt amazingly rested and refreshed, like you’ve had just the right amount of sleep?

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8 reasons to have an infrared sauna
Health Amy Down Health Amy Down

8 reasons to have an infrared sauna

Use of a FIR sauna has a cumulative effect on the body; that daily use magnifies its benefits. Your first experience in an FIR sauna will give some benefit. After several days and then weeks, detoxification, weight loss, immune building and other benefits will increase dramatically.

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Tongue scraping, Ayurvedic self-care ritual
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Tongue scraping, Ayurvedic self-care ritual

Did know nearly half oral bacteria live on & deep crevices of our tongue? Scraping the tongue with a tongue scraper collects toxic tongue coatings (range colour white, yellow, or green) and removes them to stop them being absorbed into the body.

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Simple steps to detox your home
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Simple steps to detox your home

Did you know that minimising your toxic load is vital in maintaining a healthy gut? Toxins and chemicals that are breathed in and absorbed through the skin have to be dealt with by your gut’s immune system. By taking the load off the good guys, this will free them up to do all of the health promoting duties on their to-do-list.

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Limber up your Lymph
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Limber up your Lymph

The lymphatic system is a circulatory system made up of lymphatic vessels and lymph nodes. Twice as big as the circulatory system, it is a network of tubes throughout the body and has twice the number of lymph vessels to blood vessels.

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Detox your skin for a healthy, natural glow
Amy Down Amy Down

Detox your skin for a healthy, natural glow

The skin is an organ of digestion and sixty percent of what you put onto it is absorbed directly into your bloodstream. Have a think about it; nicotine patches are designed to be placed on the skin and absorbed into the body, so why wouldn’t the ingredients you layer on your skin everyday be leeched into your system too?

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Top Ten Fitness Tips for Busy Parents
Lifestyle, Health Amy Down Lifestyle, Health Amy Down

Top Ten Fitness Tips for Busy Parents

The excuse people most often make for not exercising is "lack of time," but the truth is, we're all busy. Especially as parents. We all have commitments. We all have obligations. We're all a bit tired and run down, some of the time. It's up to us to choose to prioritise our life differently and prioritise exercise as part of it.

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Health Benefits of Epsom Salt Baths
Health Amy Down Health Amy Down

Health Benefits of Epsom Salt Baths

Epsom salt baths are a nourishing and relaxing way to detoxify and cleanse your body and your mind. In fact, it's one of my favourite ways to relax after a long day.  Slipping into a steaming tub of what is basically magnesium is one of the best ways to ease a sore and aching body as well as relieve stress, anxiety and insomnia.

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Six ways to support a liver cleanse
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Six ways to support a liver cleanse

Your liver is a key, frontline immune protector. One of its many roles is to detect pathogens entering the body via your gut—and then capture and clear bacteria, viruses, and toxins. It is the “CEO of detoxification”, and that’s why it needs a liver cleanse. I recommend you do this at least one a year, and here are six ways to support a liver cleanse.

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The Power of Drinking Water
Health Amy Down Health Amy Down

The Power of Drinking Water

Water is the eternal life-force, all living entities thrive on water. Water is one of the most important, and easiest, changes a person can make in their health. In fact, if there is just one change you can commit to today, choose drinking more water (half your body weight in ounces each day, to be exact).

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Why do we need to detox?
Health Amy Down Health Amy Down

Why do we need to detox?

Well for starters, the average person has 700 toxins in their body! This is from a lifetime of breathing in toxins, using chemical laden personal care products, pesticide and fungicide ridden food, and radiation which is worse than ever before. And that's just some of the exotoxins - external toxins.

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