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Lucks Yard Clinic

The chiropractic clinic that helps you keep going …

The chiropractic clinic
that helps you keep going …

Lost connections and social prescribing in nature

...... or the story of therapeutic horticulture Last year I heard a podcast by Dr. Rangan Chatterjee when he interviewed Johann Hari about his book called ‘Lost connections’.  It really struck a chord with me, and a few months later when I had the opportunity to lease a walled garden behind our clinic at Luck’s [...]

Learning and Teaching

This September Tone took at course by a group called Syntropy, created by two inspired chiropractors who teach both adjusting skills, but more importantly emphasise the importance that the therapist look after themselves. They encourage the chiropractors to meditate, but also teach a series of movements that they recommend the chiropractors to do each day to [...]

The Wellbeing Garden at Luck’s Yard

The Wellbeing Garden at Luck’s Yard is a therapy garden initiative, based in Milford Surrey. Our aim is to promote the wellbeing of teenagers’ mental health in the sanctuary of a secluded walled garden behind Luck’s Yard Clinic. The project is the inspired idea of Tone Tellefsen Hughes who owns Luck’s Yard Chiropractic Clinic.  Community is at the [...]

Planting for Bees

Planting with pollinators in mind As part of Luck Yard’s sustainability focus in 2019, Tone asked me to write a short piece about the importance of gardening - not only for the positive effects of the activity for ourselves (see more about Luck Yard’s gardening for mental well-being programme here: https://www.lucksyardclinic.com/lucks-yard-wellbeing-garden/), but for the positive [...]

How to look after your brain

“A healthy brain is fundamental to our creativity, compassion and courage.” Melissa Carter has some succinct but useful advice on how to look after our brains.  Small changes can make such a difference to our mental and physical health and she has a good book recommendation too: Life Lessons from a Brain Surgeon by Rahul [...]

Luck’s Yard Wellbeing Garden

As you know Luck’s Yard Clinic has been part of a community project called the Surrey Teen Summit running health and wellbeing workshops for teens for the past four years. I have also taught wellbeing classes in schools all over Surrey and Sussex for the past ten years. I have been concerned about the rise [...]

“Compared to you – how am I enough?”

Neuropsychologists and researchers looking at the effect of positive psychology tools have found that a significant number of us do not feel as if we are enough.  This deficit manifests in health symptoms and negative behaviours - being one of the main contributors to lack of self-belief, lack of confidence and lack of personal growth. [...]

1851 Trust’s Girls in STEM

We are incredibly excited to be key speakers at the 1851 Trust’s Girls in STEM event, for the 2nd year in a row, held on March 8that the at the INEOS TEAM UK building in Portsmouth. The event marks the beginning of Science Week and is fundamental in inspiring an “I Can” attitude in Science, Technology, [...]

Positive Exam mindset with the Teen Summit

It’s that time of year when spring is in the air, the flowers and trees are in bud and the warmth of the sun is gradually bringing more light to our days.  Spring is an encouraging season, a motivating time; there is a greater sense of positivity on the breeze.  We are inspired to move [...]

Sustainability and Our Children – A Parent’s Purpose

“Sustainability or sustainable development is development that meets the needs of the present, without compromising the ability of future generations to meet their own needs.” I write today both as a parent and as a professional who wholeheartedly believes in “future-proofing” children.  Preparing our children for a future that we aren’t even sure about can feel daunting and [...]

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