The marriage officiant and civil celebrant in today’s society understands that a wide range of ceremonies are necessary to fulfill the needs of the average person, to add meaning and purpose to lives and as a result benefit society as a whole. Most officiants and celebrants conduct wedding, name giving, funeral, commitment and renewal of [...]
The marriage celebrant
In 1973 civil marriage celebrants first started to officiate at weddings in Australia. A decline in church attendance and personal choice being two contributing factors. This practice has spread now throughout the western world. Many popular traditions used in today’s ceremonies come from European and ancient Greek and Roman times. Nothing new under the sun, [...]
Stroke information for kids
There has been a rise in older members of our population mainly due to the post World War II baby explosion – the baby boom. This coupled with the facts, that advances in medicine and better lifestyles have us all living for much longer. With this longevity, come degenerative diseases, the diseases that many of [...]
Eloping
Eloping is gaining in popularity! Why is this? Now more than ever couples are eloping………often 6-12 months ahead. Its not the young, wild couples parodied in films and stories of the past but responsible, successful, intelligent young couples….our sons and daughters! A very large percentage of these couples have given the ceremonial act of marriage [...]
Parkinson’s explained to kids
According to many doctors Parkinson’s disease is one of the most baffling of all neurological disorders and sadly one of the most common. Because the overall numbers of aging people in our society has risen its very likely that more children than ever before will have a grandparent or an older friend of the family [...]
Dementia explained to kids
Never in human history have we lived so well or for so long and as a result of this the frequency of diseases such as Alzheimers Disease and other forms of dementia that become more common in old age, has increased with the aging of society. And it’s because of this that children are more [...]
Taking responsibility for your own health
Faced with immune system health problems myself during the last 40 years, I have had a lot of time to observe, listen and discover answers to many of my health related questions and to situations I found myself, members of my family or our friends and acquaintances in. Its largely because I have taken responsibility [...]
Arthritis explained to children
Arthritis is a very common disease but it wouldn’t be the subject of conversation for most children. Recognizing this, how would they then, get to know anything about it? I guess you could also say why would they want to know about arthritis? The answer to that lies in the fact that people are living [...]
Listen to your body
By constantly observing your habits and listening to your body you will not only monitor arthritis pain and soreness but begin to isolate the likely cause of the pain. How good is that? Does it seem to you that is it only in the summer time that your fingers and wrists get sore? Do a [...]
Arthritis and your diet, they go together.
I believe that diet and nutrition as part of arthritis management, is tremendously under emphasized by conventional medicine practitioners. You don’t have to look far, to see obese people with arthritis of the knees and hips, even those fronting up for hip and knee surgery. If your doctor hasn’t reviewed your dietary habits, it’s logical to assume all is OK, or at worst unimportant….