peta pendlebury. mind, body, soul

"Look after your body, it's the only place you have to live"

Jim Rohn

thought for the day

  True heroism is remarkably sober, very undramatic.  It is not the urge to surpass all others at whatever cost, but the urge to serve others at whatever cost – Arthur Ashe

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Thought for the day

  The great thing in this world is not so much where we stand as in what direction we are moving – Oliver Wendell Holmes

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‘Bad Science’ – Ben Goldacre

I have just finished reading an excellent book that looks at the use of science by the pharmaceutical companies, the vitamin companies (sometimes the same!), mainstream medicine, complementary medicine and the media and I would heartily recommend it.  I have learnt quite a bit – and a word of warning if you decide to read […]

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scientific papers – can you trust them?

“there is less than a 50 percent chance that the results of any randomly chosen scientific paper will be true”   This is a statement I read this morning that was apparently made in 2005 and has been corroborated since by several other scientists.  It followed the submission of a bogus report to over 300 […]

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forgiveness

Read a brilliant bit this morning about forgiveness.  From the  Greek it apparently is more accurately translated as “untying the knot”.  Now doesn’t that have a wonderful image? As I keep telling my clients forgiving someone or a group for something that they have done/you have perceived they have done is not condoning what was […]

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