One Life, One Skin: Recent Episodes
Ashley Cahill
A Beauty and Well Being Podcast containing information on Mental Health, Looking good, feeling good on the outside and in. Including, divorce, alcohol, menopause, sleep,
In this episode I explain how I went from Queen of Procrastination to Blasting it right out the water with a massive Detonator!!!
FEELINGS
I feel. How many times have you heard yourself say this? Everybody feels. I feel. You feel. We feel. He feels. She feels. They feel. But what are feelings? How do we express them and how do we measure them? Tears prickle down our cheek after watching a dog die in a film – we’re feeling sad. We smile wide after our beau tells us they love us – we’re feeling happy. We walk along with our head held high, like we’re walking on air – we’re feeling good. Feelings dominate and dictate to us
LIVING WITH DEMENTIA
This is an incredibly emotive subject area for me – living with dementia. It touches every part of my life and my dear parents are both living with dementia. It is a monumentally tragic and heart-breaking condition. I wanted to chat a bit about it here to attempt to shine a small light on what it is, the signs and symptoms to watch out for, and how to support someone living with it. As you know from listening to my podcasts, I’m all for educating and extending my knowledge
IMMUNE SYSTEMS
Lockdown has catapulted us into a new world. One that is certainly strange. I think you’ll all agree it’s tough to comprehend it. How did this even happen you might well be wondering? Whatever your views are on this rogue virus that has insidiously crashed like a tidal wave onto global shores and seeped through countries like a molten lava, being in lockdown will have taken some effect on aspects of your life – your job, your income, your family and friends, your health…
CAREER CHANGES
Do you often find that you constantly jolt yourself out of daydreams where the dream theme is your good self doing a job that you’re not doing at the moment? Sure, we are all struck down with work fatigue from time to time, there are so many factors that can come into play – not getting paid enough, awful bosses, not enough holidays, bogged down with too much responsibility, stress and anxiety, feeling underappreciated and undervalued…
LIVING IN AUSTRALIA
Let’s be honest, Down Under has always seemed to have this mass appeal and many of us think it’s simply amazing. We each have our own images when we visualise Australia; the beaches, the laid-back lifestyle, the incredibly cute wildlife, friendly neighbours like the ones who live on Ramsey Street… I could go on. We remain forever envious of their weather. I mean, how wonderful would it be to actually have a BBQ on the beach on Christmas Day. Granted, the novelty
THE MENOPAUSE
In terms of life events, it’s one of the things that a woman fears the most – I’m talking about the menopause. An event that changes a woman in many ways; physically, mentally, emotionally, physiologically… It’s not something we can escape or hide from. It’s a naturally-occurring process. A fact of life. But it doesn’t have to mean your life is over – far from it.
I want to talk about what it actually means, what is happening to you, how you can best support yourself thro
LOVE THE SKIN YOU’RE IN
The skin we are in, we are stuck with from the cradle to the grave, so it’s vital to look after it as much as we can from as early on as we can. The key to confidence and feeling good comes from within and if you shy away from the mirrorbecause you can’t face yourself, you will no doubt feel worthless, your self-esteem will nose-dive and you certainly won’t want to interact with other people. Skin covers an area of approximately two square metres of our body and ac
MENTAL HEALTH
The shocking circumstances surrounding the tragic & massively premature death of Caroline Flack has just shaken me to the core. The emotion that has been pouring out of me since that moment when I read about it is so very raw & I think it will take me a while to come to terms with it. Caroline was a human being; a beautiful soul who just wanted to live her life. Yes she was a celebrity and probably had digits in her bank account some of us will only dream of seeing. At what cost?
Do you ever really think about your life, the way that it works & are you mindful about the decisions that you make? Do you think that you have your life mapped out & know exactly the steps that you need to take in order to reach your so-called final destination. You may or may not have heard of Compound Effect; you may be practising its techniques without even knowing it. It is a best-selling book penned by an American guy called Darren Hardy who started his first business at the age of 18.
MORE ABOUT ME AND MY STORY
I started to do these podcasts because I have such a passion for helping people through my treatments and through my words. I wanted to provide some insight into various topics covering health, wellbeing and lifestyle. I don’t profess to be a top expert but what I do bring to the table is my vast experience, knowledge and my willingness to help make a difference.
If listening to this podcast gives someone a giggle, some hope, a light-bulb moment, some respite
GETTING A GOOD NIGHT’S KIP CAN CHANGE YOUR LIFE
Do we really give much thought to our sleep and if we actually get enough or get what we
need to function? You’ve either said this yourself or heard others say it – ‘I’ll sleep when I’m
dead.’ Sleep is so underestimated. It’s incredibly vital to us, it’s how we keep ourselves well
and ticking over. If we don’t get enough ZZZs then we are going to end up doing serious
damage to both our bodies and our minds. Who on earth would want th
RETHINK THE DRINK
How many times have you heard yourself say something along the lines of ‘Never again’?
Has your Dry January gone belly up literally days into the New Year because you can’t shake
off that craving to have a little tipple? Are you of the opinion that ‘Just the one won’t hurt’?
You’re most definitely not alone.
IT’S OKAY TO BE GAY! SEXUALITY AND COMING OUT, HOW THE TIMES HAVE CHANGED
Unless you’ve been hibernating or have a self-imposed social media blackout you’ll be well aware of that fact that TV presenter Phillip Schofield recently came out as gay in the most public of ways.