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Keeping it clean and green

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Here at Salus Fatigue Foundation we know the benefits of being kind to ourselves, our thoughts, words, movement, nutrition. What we put in and on our body can have great benefits and impact on our physical, mental and emotional health. And with this in mind we are trying to be kind in our working environment and to our planet. Our teas that both staff and beneficiaries use are plastic free, no plastics in us or in our recycling. The tea bags go into our little pot before being taken to compost. We also compost our apple cores, banana skins and any other plant based food waste. This then gets used in one of our team member's gardens and we benefit from the cooking apples grown in the compost. The nature of our work now means we are printing less but any paper and card is recycled (we use single sided printed paper as our note pads).  Any single use plastic, which is rare now, is also recycled if it cannot be used for storage of stationery. The weekly waste we

From fatigue to fantastic

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In 2016 I was struggling with teaching, a secondary school PE teacher who couldn’t even put the trampoline out never mind demonstrate moves. I was also teaching sports massage but I was hurting through fingers, wrists, elbows. I was also part of the medical team at my local rugby club. Cold rugby pitches were awful places when everything was hurting and I could not get myself warm. I found more and more that I was not able to dress myself easily, I was collapsing in lessons, being driven home on multiple occasions. Reading and writing became challenging if I was over tired, the futon was where I spent many a night in order that I could give my husband a better night’s sleep. I was in pain and discomfort most nights and struggled to feel refreshed enough to get up in the morning. A lot of this will resonate with a lot of people. I was determined that I would recover from this quickly and carry on with teaching, being a wife and mum, running marathons and bei