The Simple Medic

Health I Wholeness I Playfulness

Author: Nomadic Medic

  • In the Wild of the Changing Tides

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    Let the waves roll in. Let your toes get sandy. Let the wind pull at your hair. Let the uncertainty be. You don’t swim By grabbing the water. You relax. You accept, You float. And then you move You glide With it. Not against it. You don’t have to fix everything. You don’t have to…

  • Make Your Life Colourful

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    We need to make our lives colourful. We must forget and forgive any misgivings we’ve had in the past. Use them to help strengthen and shape you but never to hold you back from embracing the present moment. See the colour in everything – in the vibrancy of the grass, the flash of red on…

  • Swimming Upstream: Shifting from Medicine to Health

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    In a world full of endless stimulation and urgency, most of us live reactively. We move through life in a reactive nature, in a state of catch up. The urgency means  we chase deadlines rather than the long term goal. We respond to the noise rather than the signal. We seek shelter from the storm…

  • Do be do be do

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    This fridge magnet is one of my favourite items in my great Aunt and Uncle’s house. They live in a big farm house, with dogs, cats (and used to be lots of sheep), open doors and hearts to neighbours, family, friends and strangers. They’ve always been welcoming, deliver fierce strong, warm hugs and are a…

  • Perfectionism, procrastination and promises to myself

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    Growing up I was (and still kind of am) a perfectionist. I wanted to feel like I was producing something of worth – something original and distinctly me. This was an ego-driven desire tangled with the want to do those around me proud. This feeling stretched from Christmas cards I would create for family members as…

  • Seek and ye shall find

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    “The raw material for a sweet life or a bitter life is always there. The story you emphasise is the one you notice.” Mindset is talked about a lot these days—and for good reason. It colours the lens through which you view the world. Your mind is capable of great feats of flexibility, of bending…

  • Hello <3

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    I love surfing (though I’m not that good), hiking, skiing, cafe trips and coffee and warm toast with butter. I am a sucker for an almond croissant. I prefer waking up and going to sleep early rather than late. I am 22. I drink my coffee black unless I’m buying it out (I adore cappuccinos).…