The brand new New Forest Spa & Wellness Centre at the Balmer Lawn Hotel offers guests and New Forest residents a complete wellbeing experience including 15 person Finnish Sauna, 12 person Steam Room, an Ice Room,and Rainforest & Monsoon Showers! Plus six tranquil treatment rooms and a serene relaxation area. Read on!
On Sunday 26 January, Careys Manor & SenSpa is hosting its first ever Wellness Festival.
This will be a totally free one-day event incorporating interactive workshops to help mental and physical wellbeing and talks by renowned speakers on aspects of wellness including improving sleep quality and nutrition to strengthen your brain... read on!
SenSpa at Careys Manor has just launched its brand new 'Soothe & Soak' spa membership, a monthly membership which includes a host of member benefits to encourage you to make a regular commitment
Lymington’s foot saviour to the rescue! When is a verucca not a verucca? When it's a corn, swiftly and painlessly removed by podiatrist Paul Gray whose Lymington clinic takes place on Fridays and Saturdays - and Thursdays in Barton on Sea.
New from SenSpa in Brockenhurst comes 'Sen Sound' - combining the harmonious rhythms of sound with the therapeutic powers of hydrotherapy and aquatic bodywork.
New from SenSpa in Brockenhurst comes 'Sen Sound' - combining the harmonious rhythms of sound with the therapeutic powers of hydrotherapy and aquatic bodywork.
The ultimate relaxation experience that nurtures both body and soul - try traditional Thai Massage at SenSpa at Careys Manor Hotel in Brockenhurst.
New Year, New You in the New Forest! From Resolutions to Results with Health Club Membership at SenSpa the fabulous on-site spa at Careys Manor Hotel with its wide range of holistic treatments and therapies together with hydrotherapy pool, thermal rooms and ice room. Read here.
Ed Note: As our feet begin to emerge from behind thick socks and winter boots it's a timely moment to take a good look at them and see if they need some tlc. Which they probably do!
And whilst it may not seem a particularly obvious Mother's Day gift, you could consider that she'd probably never treat herself to a foot treatment, and this warm wax therapy session sounds pretty appealing to us! Apparently it's proving a very popular add on for patients after their Podiatry treatments.
Spring is arriving and with that the summer arrives swiftly behind, but my feet are not ready for the summer yet! What can I do to help improve them and not feel embarrassed to put them into my summer shoes, I hear you say?
Read along for our condensed A-Z of spring/summer useful tips.
A is for Athletes Foot known medically as tinea pedis – a fungal infection which often doesn’t look very pleasant and itches like mad. To reduce this alternate your footwear to reduce fungal spore build up and also use products such as daktarin spray to eliminate fungal spores and stop reproduction.
B is for Bunions – Footwear is key for this problem it needs to be suitable for the accommodation of the deformity, so check the width of those shoes before you buy them so they do not press on the area and irritate!
C is for Corns – These can be uncomfortable and unsightly. There are also different types so book an appt with us for removal to get you ready for the summer!
H is for Hammer toes – using hammer toe cushions can reduce pain in these toes also we can apply padding and tapes to make these more comfortable, also often hammer toes form corns on the tops or the tip of the toe which we can remove and make you summer ready.
N is for Nails – Nail cutting technique is important to prevent an ingrown toenail which can be painful and lead to infection. Not wearing nail varnish for long periods of time as this can cause discoloration to the nails and make them appear unsightly.
P is for Plantar Fasciitis – Thickening of the band of tissue running from your big toe to your heel can cause all manner of pain when you first stand up, come see us for advice, exercises and even a pair of orthoses to offload and make your summer walking more bearable.
V is for Verruca – We have many different treatment options to rid you of that awful looking verruca so you do not have to hide your feet in the sand whilst you are on holiday!
Other general tips include:
For all year round expert advice and treatment for your feet visit the Forest Foot & Health website
In these strange times I'm sure many of us are missing our hugs, especially people living alone, in fact those of us lucky enough to have partners and families living with us are very fortunate that we can still get a hug when we need one. In fact I did it myself this morning. It's my dear late mother's birthday, she died two years ago after living for 14 years with Alzheimer's, suddenly and for the first time since her death a big bawl came upon me - and still sobbing I just needed my husband's hug. How pertinent.
Not hugging is not great for mental health either.
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This article was written by my niece Jessica King who is a 2011 Cambridge history graduate and a published author of a number of articles about the intricacies of finance. (See her LinkedIn profile here.)
"When was the last time you hugged someone?"Who is missing hugging? When was the last time you hugged someone - even if wearing PPE or a face mask?
While we all appreciate the necessity of maintaining our personal space and not inflicting our personal hygeine and our bacterial/viral footprint on our friends and family, and we all have to do our part while we ride out the pandemic….. a lack of social contact can also be detrimental to mental and physical health, studies have shown.
Today in Psychology Corner, we will touch briefly on the science, then move onto ways we can get that vital human contact while not breaking the rules.
An oft-cited 2010 meta-analysis, by Juliannne Hold-Lunstad at Brigham Young University in Utah*, found that a lack of social interactions was as significant a cause of death as lipid count, lung disease or cholesterol.
“We also found that social isolation had a similar influence on likelihood of mortality compared with other measures of social relationships. This evidence qualifies the notion of a threshold effect (lack of social relationships is the only detrimental condition); rather, the association appears robust across a variety of types of measures of social relationships.
This meta-analysis also provides evidence to support the directional influence of social relationships on mortality,” i.e. the level of social and community support received by someone who is already ill but not, in the majority of studies, sufficient to require hospitalisation — 60% involved a community cohort giving outpatient support.
Social support was also demonstrated to have tangible effects mediating depression and stress, which can impair the immune response and lead to other physical health conditions.
A number of studies indicate that social support is linked to better immune functioning, I can give you the references if you're interested.
A more recent ongoing study at University College London and Royal Holloway, University of London, shows that subjects are reporting the negative effects of the withdrawal of their traditional social networks; Mariana von Mohr, one of the project’s leaders, told the New Scientist, “The deprivation of intimate touch during covid-19 is associated with worse psychological well-being, including feelings of loneliness, anxiety, less emotional tolerance for social isolation and poorer mental health in general.”
Especially when the only positive feedback I get from my actual "social network" is ‘Well done Jessica, you cleaned your room. It has passed inspection…. No you can’t have your washing back. As you left it in the laundry room, which is a communal space, we have locked it away for your own good.’
No they are lovely people really. I just miss the time I could choose who I associated with and hung out with, pre-lockdown. Now you are stuck with the people you happen to share a house with, those of us who did not carefully pre-select their housemates are slightly regretting accepting a tenancy co-habiting with a couple of grumpy 70-somethings with incontinence issues, a rehabilitated junkie who still thinks it’s the sixties, and an up-and-coming young man who’s trying to downplay his criminal assault charge.
Oh, and the old lady next door who periodically throws away my sports trainers when she gets jealous I am still limber enough to go jogging.
So, look after your social networks folks, and they will look after you. Neglecting your social network is akin to self-neglect. So don’t forget to water your friendships every now and then or they may wilt."
Hammersley Homes and its mission to provide a safe, secure home for life - including hugs!Put simply, there are many, many people with mental illness who right now are struggling to live a fulfilled life in a community which largely shuns them. The simple things can be challenging enough like managing their meagre money - but also to feel ostracised in their day to day lives is completely dispiriting. Plenty of these people are highly intelligent and well educated, they want like the rest of us to have a sense of purpose and progress in their lives, but are prevented by their illness from so doing.
A home for life in a Hammersley Home would give them a settled platform to enable them to just feel better for a start.
To learn more about the Hammersley Homes mission to provide a home for life do watch the short video below and then visit https://hammersleyhomes.org/. There you will also see a number of ways in which you can help them to fundraise towards their goal - including increasing your collection of masks now so necessary to our daily lives, by making a donation.
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