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At YouDriveHealth we believe in informing our members about relevant articles and information that can help them become more healthy and improve their overall wellness or well-being.  We want to encourage debate – we have noticed that there are different views, often conflicting, and we try to present these different points of view and then give our thoughts.  We don’t claim to be right all the time – we do our research and our team believe it’s more important to present you with facts and let you decide what’s right for you.

As we progress we want to encourage other people to write posts and articles – this will increase the variety of opinion (and increase the volume of posts!).

You’ll see all the latest posts below, and you can decide if you want to see posts of a particular type by selecting a category.

If you want to contribute, click the Contribute button which you’ll find on most pages (including this one!).

You can also go to our full blog, which simply lists all posts in date order.

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Posted: March 8, 2024
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What are mental health issues?

Posted: February 28, 2022
By: Info Support
Excerpt: What are mental health issues? Chris from YouDrive ponders whether these issues are being treated optimally.

Posts on Physical Health

You will see a list of Physical posts – click the black arrows at the side of the page to move between posts. Click the image to go to the post.

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BETTER HEALTH – LET’S DO THIS

Posted: August 13, 2020
By: Chris Large
Excerpt: Getting fitter is not just about physical activity its about mental strength and the ability to follow it through and create a new habit
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Farmed fish of any sort is not good for you!!!

Posted: July 26, 2020
By: Chris Large
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IT DOES NOT NEED TO BE THIS WAY – CHICKENS

Posted: July 26, 2020
By: Chris Large
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How much do you believe the media about Covid-19?

Posted: May 26, 2020
By: Info Support
Excerpt: How much do you believe the media in its reporting on the Covid-19 pandemic?
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How will we emerge – as better people?

Posted: May 4, 2020
By: Info Support
Excerpt: As well as the well documented problems of the disease itself and the steps taken to deal with it, we have seen some remarkable achievements. Can we emerge from this as better people?
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Where are you most likely to catch Covid-19?

Posted: April 23, 2020
By: martinbailey2301
Excerpt: There are some jobs and places that are more likely to result in people becoming infected with Covid-19

Posts on Financial Health

Posts on Mental Health

Articles

Articles are just different (often more detailed) posts – they can be written by us at YoudriveHealth or other contributors.

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Health domains

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We break down the overall concept of health or wellness into ‘bite-sized chunks’ that we can actually do something about.  The first level we call health domains.

We like the Life of Wellness site and we have chosen the following domains.

1. Emotional Wellness: Awareness and acceptance of feelings
2. Spiritual Wellness: A search for meaning and purpose
3. Intellectual Wellness: Recognition of your creativity, knowledge and skills
4. Physical Wellness: Need for physical activity and balanced nutrition
5. Environmental Wellness: Positive awareness and impact on your environment
6. Financial Wellness: Debt reduction, cash flow balance or financial future planning
7. Occupational Wellness: Personal achievement and enrichment from your career
8. Social Wellness: Contribution to your community

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Health Areas

Within each domain, we have included a number of health areas. These are specific issues that you can tackle.  Within each health area, e.g. Depression, once you have subscribed we have built additional information and exercises which you can do to help in the area.

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See which domains you should address

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Having established that we use 8 domains, you need to understand which you should concentrate on.

The 8 are:

  • Emotional
  • Environmental
  • Financial
  • Intellectual
  • Occupational
  • Physical
  • Social
  • Spiritual

You can take a questionnaire, which scores you in each domain.  You can decide which domains you are strong in, and which you need to improve.

Another analysis shows which domains you should look at, but also which domains you want to look at.

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A Butterfly Life: 4 Keys to More Happiness, Better Health and Letting Your True Self Shine

Times of change can be a challenge, no doubt! Whether it’s a relationship breakup, job loss, or being diagnosed with a serious health issue. Or you may WANT things to be different, but it feels a little scary or overwhelming. The butterfly reminds us change can be beautiful, even necessary, in order to realize our full potential and live our best life.