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2020 has begun. A new decade. And yet, it is just a another day. But a brand new one. A day that starts a brand new year. A day that is as significant (or insignificant) as YOU make it.
What makes new year significant for you?
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In the 21st Century, a common theme for everyone is anxiety. We are anxious about change, about the future, about ourselves, about others. It seems unavoidable. But … there is hope …
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“Feeling lonely can pose a bigger risk for premature death than smoking or obesity”
(Holt-Lunstad, 2010).
Loneliness can be associated with poorer cardiovascular health and, in old age, a faster rate of cognitive decline and dementia. Loneliness has become a health issue.
The two age groups most affected by this may surprise you.
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It occurred to Pooh and Piglet that they hadn’t heard from Eeyore for several days, so they put on their hats and coats and trotted across the Hundred Acre Wood to Eeyore’s stick house. Inside the house was Eeyore.
April in North East Victoria. Photo credit – author’s own
Hey there patient readers (I guess the other kind have given up)!
I’m making a return after another lifestyle change. This one – a tree change – to North East Victoria to a town of 941 people (now 943).
“Why?” you ask.
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