Simple Ways to Boost Your Immune System this Winter

Now that winter has hit and cold and flu season is upon us, one of the best things you can do for yourself and your loved ones is to get your immune system running optimally, and there are simple ways to boost your immune system this winter. When it comes to fighting off harmful infections like coronavirus, your immune system is the most effective weapon you have. Like a well-trained army, your immune system is designed to quickly spring into action at the "sound" of danger.

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Ten Simple Mindfulness Activities For Kids

Ask any parent if they’d like their child to be able to focus their attention on a task without distraction, calm themselves down when they are anxious or angry, or be kind to other children, and the answer would be a resounding yes! Mindfulness offers all these benefits and more, and can provide our children with valuable tools to help them deal with the many challenges they face growing up. Not only that, habits formed in early life shape the behaviours we adopt in adulthood. Starting at a young age with simple mindfulness activities that are kid-friendly can give our children the habit of caring for their mental health throughout their life.

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Immunity Boosting Veggie Soup

Winter is quickly heading our way and there’s nothing quite like a big bowl of warming soup when it’s cold or you’re feeling under the weather. It’s comforting, soothing, and with the right fixings, can boost your immune system so you feel better ASAP!

Our Immunity Boosting Veggie Soup is filled with nourishing ingredients and antioxidants that your body needs to recover from bacteria and sickness.

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10 Foods to Boost Your Immunity

If you’ve been thinking about ways to amp up your diet for a stronger immune system, now is the time. In the time of COVID-19, this wisdom for staying healthy is more important than ever. Nutrition goes a long way in preventing illness and supporting robust immunity. That’s why we’re providing you with a list of 10 foods to boost your immune system.

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Every day has a gift, even if the day has been a difficult one

Like everyone, I've been experiencing ups and downs lately. But it’s good to remember that every day has a gift, even if the day has been a difficult one. Sometimes I find myself enjoying the changes that have happened in my life. I find myself smiling because my hubby, kids, and our dog are all at home, and I'm grateful for their company.

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Steps to Help you Cope and Stay Healthy during C-RONA

The world as we know it is changing every day, every hour, and every minute in response to COVID-19. It is resulting in huge pressure and change for many people, and the fear from this is causing some people to panic, some to get sad and depressed, and others to put their heads in the sand - like ostriches do.

At Mummy Mojo we like to focus on the silver lining, to look for the lessons, and to use times like this as an opportunity for growth and development. That’s why we’ve put together this feature and filmed a video with our steps to help you cope and stay healthy during C-RONA.

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Worried about the Coronavirus? Watch this to help with fear and stress

These are unusual times. No one is exempt. The Coronavirus has created hysteria with people in Australia hoarding household items like toilet paper. We are washing our hands so much the skin on our fingers is starting to flake.

We are all worried, whether we’d like to admit it or not. No-one quite knows how it will unfold, although I can’t shake the feeling that this is only the beginning and that the world at large will see a worsening before it gets better.

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Bitten by ticks and my life was never the same again

At the end of 2010 I was bitten by a large number of grass ticks and my life was never the same again. This encounter with these tiny creatures that gave me a bacterial infection, one that the government says doesn’t exist here, changed everything. I went from being a healthy, energetic person to not being able to get out of bed for weeks at a time because of debilitating symptoms of fatigue, muscle pain, brain fog, tinnitus, insomnia, and IBS to name but some of them.

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Mummy Mojo's 5 Steps to a Cracking Christmas

We're already almost have way through December, and the countdown to Christmas is well and truly on.

Whether this leaves you in a state of excitement or a state of panic, there’s no denying mums have a lot to do when it comes to the Christmas holiday season.

A lot of the responsibility for shopping, wrapping, cleaning, cooking, decorating and entertaining falls on our shoulders, and we feel a lot of pressure to deliver an amazing Christmas for the kids. All mums need are 5 steps to a cracking Christmas!

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How to get your body bikini ready

So, I have a confession to make...I tried on a bikini in a shop this week as I have girl's trip coming up, and I thought it might be nice to have a new swimsuit to wear.

But, boy was I wrong! I realised a little too late that my body wasn’t swimsuit ready!

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Why Cleanse? Because we are toxic!

Why cleanse? Because we are toxic! We ingest, apply, absorb and breath toxins everyday. Stress in our bodies also acts as a toxin. Our bodies are self-cleansing machines but were never designed to process all these new chemicals we find in our environment today.

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How to get Happy, Healthy and Hot!

Becoming a mum usually comes with a side order of stubborn weight gain, sleep deprivation, brain fog, stress and exhaustion. Coffee, sugary treats, fast food and wine often become our crutches to get through the day. The problem is that each of these things, whilst providing temporary relief, actually contribute to all the side effects that led you to them in the first place.

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Eight benefits of better sleep

There are many factors that can interfere with a good night’s sleep. Even if we are no longer night feeding or tending to little wakers in the night, our hectic lives, pressure at work, family circumstances, stress and illness all play havoc with sleep.  

 For most of us it’s not possible to drop everything and implement drastic change, but the benefits of sleep don’t have to be a case of ‘all or nothing’. Increasing your sleep by as little as 15 minutes a night can immediately and drastically improve the way you feel and function.

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5G Wireless and its Impact on your health

My son and I are electro-sensitive, which came about when we were bitten by ticks and diagnosed with Lyme's disease, otherwise known as tick-borne illness. Being electro-sensitive is linked with symptoms such as headaches, fatigue, dizziness, depression, memory impairment, muscle pain, heart palpitations, and breathing difficulties.

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