In this episode, I share things I have been going through in my transition into a new area and things that might help others going through the same thing. There are things to look for and be sensitive of in yourself while going through the changes to find your own space in your new world. I have included my health update and what has been happening to me both physically and mentally. If you are joining me on the Health Journey, please let me know what you are doing and how it is going so we can support each other! You can email me or DM me on any of my platforms below:Find Coffee, Wine, & Chocolate:Website; Instagram; TikTok; Blog; TwitterEmail:coffeewineandchocolate1@gmail.comwonderingbelles@gmail.com**I also share a story of a group that got together and went in to Kabul to rescue 3500 orphans. Here is the link: (Boss of private equity firm puts together a team, charters planes and get orphans out of Afghanistan before the airport closes.)Starts at 17:22https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/m000z5hc Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
In this episode, I talk about updates on me and my life, what is going on, what has been happening and what I am involved in. Then I share a positive article about Whole Life Balance.Links:Power of Positivity - 4 Reasons You Need a Whole Life Balance by Matthew TurnerWonder Drug by Jennifer VanderbesI hope you all are enjoying my new layout of my podcast. Please let me know by leaving a rating and/or informative comment. It helps me and helps others find my podcast. Thank you!!Find Coffee, Wine, & Chocolate:Website; Instagram; TikTok; Blog; TwitterEmail:coffeewineandchocolate1@gmail.comwonderingbelles@gmail.com Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
In this episode, I share the death of my cousin and changes we go through. I also share an article from Power of Positivity regarding Five Reasons Someone Loses a Sense of Purpose. I hope you enjoy! :)Links:Power of PositivityI hope you all are enjoying my new layout of my podcast. Please let me know by leaving a rating and/or informative comment. It helps me and helps others find my podcast. Thank you!!Find Coffee, Wine, & Chocolate:Website; Instagram; TikTok; Blog; TwitterEmail:coffeewineandchocolate1@gmail.comwonderingbelles@gmail.com Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
In this episode, I talk about Malt Wine now that it is the season for warm drinks and holiday enjoyment. I also discuss my love for music, what it means to me and how music has a positive effect on our moods and well being. Along with all this, I share some songs from my CD, Welcome Inside. I hope you enjoy!Links:The Benefits of Listening to MusicHow Listening to Music Can Have Psychological BenefitsMusic Can Be A Great Mood BoosterHow To Look After Your Mental Health This WinterTwitter PostMulled Wine RecipeI hope you all are enjoying my new layout of my podcast. Please let me know by leaving a rating and/or informative comment. It helps me and helps others find my podcast. Thank you!!Find Coffee, Wine, & Chocolate:Website; Instagram; TikTok; Blog; TwitterEmail:coffeewineandchocolate1@gmail.comwonderingbelles@gmail.com Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
In this episode, I talk about the yummy combination of coffee and chocolate candy, dealing with homesickness and the benefits of bird song.Have you ever tried coffee and chocolate candy? If not, and you love them both, you really need to try it!Homesickness can be a hard thing to deal with at times. Find your niche and what helps you get through. I give you pointers in what I have found help the best.Have you ever heard of birdsong being a good mental health benefit? Listen to this article I found and the birds in the background.I hope you enjoy! :)Listening to birdsong may be key to feeling chirpyI hope you all are enjoying my new layout of my podcast. Please let me know by leaving a rating and/or informative comment. It helps me and helps others find my podcast. Thank you!!Find Coffee, Wine, & Chocolate:Website; Instagram; TikTok; Blog; TwitterEmail:coffeewineandchocolate1@gmail.comwonderingbelles@gmail.com Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
In this episode, I talk about things like dealing with manipulation, change, being happy with yourself and needing your own space. I then share a positive news article on dealing with mental health.Links:How To Be More Comfortable With YourselfTaking a mental health day can be good for youI hope you all are enjoying my new layout of my podcast. Please let me know by leaving a rating and/or informative comment. It helps me and helps others find my podcast. Thank you!!Find Coffee, Wine, & Chocolate:Website; Instagram; TikTok; Blog; TwitterEmail:coffeewineandchocolate1@gmail.comwonderingbelles@gmail.com Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
In this episode, I talk about yummy chocolate desserts, the importance of family and a company that is mass producing t-shirts that were once massed produced. Chocolate desserts are sinfully delightful and get made a lot in the next few months as the holidays of Halloween, Thanksgiving and Christmas roll in. So, I would love to receive some recipe ideas from my wonderful listeners!In the past few years (7 years to be exact), I have gone through a lot and learned a lot while still being me, with a few changes. I have realized during this time the things I didn't do and did do that I needed to change where my family are concerned. I share these things in my podcast this week.Finally, I share a great story about a t-shirt company that is taking old mass produced t-shirts, shredding the material and using the fiber to make new t-shirts to mass produce. A great way to repurpose t-shirts to help save the environment!Mass Producing t-shirtsI hope you all are enjoying my new layout of my podcast. Please let me know by leaving a rating and/or informative comment. It helps me and helps others find my podcast. Thank you!!Find Coffee, Wine, & Chocolate:Website; Instagram; TikTok; Blog; TwitterEmail:coffeewineandchocolate1@gmail.comwonderingbelles@gmail.com Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
In this episode, I share a recipe for Dalgona Coffee, The Importance of Family and Friends and then finish up with a positive story of a man that helped deliver a baby on the streets of San Francisco and meets that baby 30 years later.Links from this episode:Recipe for Dalgona CoffeeMan who delivered baby in San Francisco streetI hope you all are enjoying my new layout of my podcast. Please let me know by leaving a rating and/or informative comment. It helps me and helps others find my podcast. Thank you!!Find Coffee, Wine, & Chocolate:Website; Instagram; TikTok; Blog; TwitterEmail:coffeewineandchocolate1@gmail.comwonderingbelles@gmail.com Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
In this episode, I share the interest in Port Wine, followed by the difference in writer's block and being empty and the steps to improve or move past them both. I finish it up with a cute article about the blessings of puppy love.I hope you all enjoy this episode. I really enjoyed sharing!Links:Wikipedia definition for writer's blockHow to overcome writer's blockI hope you all are enjoying my new layout of my podcast. Please let me know by leaving a rating and/or informative comment. It helps me and helps others find my podcast. Thank you!!Find Coffee, Wine, & Chocolate:Website; Instagram; TikTok; Blog; TwitterEmail:coffeewineandchocolate1@gmail.comwonderingbelles@gmail.com Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
In this episode, I talk about favourite chocolates, be it milk chocolate, dark chocolate or white chocolate and what brand. I then discuss the importance of sleep to our mental and physical well being. Ending the episode on a happy story about a little girl losing a tooth on the plane and the captain of the plane signing a letter for her to give to the tooth fairy.Links:Sleep is an Essential FunctionHealthlineTooth FairyI hope you all are enjoying my new layout of my podcast. Please let me know by leaving a rating and/or informative comment. It helps me and helps others find my podcast. Thank you!!Find Coffee, Wine, & Chocolate:Website; Instagram; TikTok; Blog; TwitterEmail:coffeewineandchocolate1@gmail.comwonderingbelles@gmail.com Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
In this episode, I share traveling and coffee favourites and making a difference in the world beginning with your local community. It is something I have been thinking and looking at and thought I would share it with you, my dear listeners. The positive article is about a girl helping at a hot meal place for her local area and her discussion with an older man and the great conversation they had and shared.Links:Seven Ways to make the wold a better place10 Simple Ways to Make the World a Better PlaceHow to make the world a better placeI hope you all are enjoying my new layout of my podcast. Please let me know by leaving a rating and/or informative comment. It helps me and helps others find my podcast. Thank you!!Find Coffee, Wine, & Chocolate:Website; Instagram; TikTok; Blog; TwitterEmail:coffeewineandchocolate1@gmail.comwonderingbelles@gmail.com Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
In this episode, I share the benefits of wine (of course I had to cover wine benefits after chocolate and coffee!) and the main part of the episode on the benefits of nature. To wrap it up I share a great article called Turning Survival Inside Out, talking about survival and life. I hope you enjoy!Links:The benefits of drinking wineNature and Mental HealthHow Does Nature Impact Our WellbeingNature: How Connecting With Nature Benefits Our Mental HealthThe Benefits of Nature for Health and WellbeingI hope you all are enjoying my new layout of my podcast. Please let me know by leaving a rating and/or informative comment. It helps me and helps others find my podcast. Thank you!!Find Coffee, Wine, & Chocolate:Website; Instagram; TikTok; Blog; TwitterEmail:coffeewineandchocolate1@gmail.comwonderingbelles@gmail.com Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
In this episode, I discuss the benefits of chocolate, followed by the importance of friends and our well being. I share articles and my own insight into the importance of friends. Bringing the episode to a close I share the beautiful story of a couple, after fifty years, finding each other and starting the rest of their lives together.Links:Why Friendship is ImportantFriendships: Enrich Your Life and Improve Your HealthWhy Friendships Are So Important For Health And WellbeingFriendship And Mental HealthWhy Your Friends Are More Important Than You ThinkChocolate, Are There Health Benefits?Long Lost Lovers Find Each OtherI hope you all are enjoying my new layout of my podcast. Please let me know by leaving a rating and/or informative comment. It helps me and helps others find my podcast. Thank you!!Find Coffee, Wine, & Chocolate:Website; Instagram; TikTok; Blog; TwitterEmail:coffeewineandchocolate1@gmail.comwonderingbelles@gmail.com Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
In this episode, I share the health benefits of coffee, followed by extra information on mental health and getting help, either online or in person and apps you can use as well. Then to finish off the episode a great positive story of a man and his good deeds. Below are links to information I shared.Mental Health FoundationMental Health Foundation.netMind.org.ukForbes.com online top therapy appsGood Housekeeping top five therapy appsHinckley man thanked for random acts of kindnessHealth Benefits of CoffeeI hope you all are enjoying my new layout of my podcast. Please let me know by leaving a rating and/or informative comment. It helps me and helps others find my podcast. Thank you!!Find Coffee, Wine, & Chocolate:Website; Instagram; TikTok; Blog; TwitterEmail:coffeewineandchocolate1@gmail.comwonderingbelles@gmail.com Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
In this episode, I first talk about the joys of white wine, the variaties and wine tasting. For the main episode I discuss Mental Health and food, how our food can affect our mental health, mind and body, as well as help when our body is given the right foods. Then to close it out I read a positive article about seventeen bright ideas to boosting well being (with the help of our cat Angel!)Links to the articles I shared:When My Husband Left Me, I Headed For The KitchenEating Well For Mental Health17 Bright Ideas That Are Boosting WellbeingI hope you all are enjoying my new layout of my podcast. Please let me know by leaving a rating and/or informative comment. It helps me and helps others find my podcast. Thank you!!Find Coffee, Wine, & Chocolate:Website; Instagram; TikTok; Blog; TwitterEmail:coffeewineandchocolate1@gmail.comwonderingbelles@gmail.com Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
In this episode, I lead with the love of chocolate, then continue to the main topic of Thalidomide and the survivors of the drug and its affects, along with some information about Harry Evans (the journalist that pushed the issue of thalidomide) and how he helped the survivors in the UK. I finalize this episode with a post that was on Facebook shared from LinkedIn about the changes in oneself.Links to find out more:*https://thalidomidesociety.org*https://www.thalidomidetrusts.org*https://www.sciencemuseum.org.uk*https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-15536544*https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/ThalidomideFilms to see if you can - *On Giant's Shoulders*Attacking The Devil*Nobody's Perfect*Traveling Forward*Only The BeginningI hope you all are enjoying my new layout of my podcast. Please let me know by leaving a rating and/or informative comment. It helps me and helps others find my podcast. Thank you!!Find Coffee, Wine, & Chocolate:Website; Instagram; TikTok; Blog; TwitterEmail:coffeewineandchocolate1@gmail.comwonderingbelles@gmail.com Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
In this episode, I share certain tastes and ways to enjoy wine, followed up by talking about Mental Awareness Month. In this I include some information from a book by Dr. Julie Smith called Why Has Nobody Told Me About This Before; things I have gone through, and where you can get help if you need it. I finish the episode with a wonderful uplifting story about a couple in Ukraine that get married against the odds and all that is going on right now with the war in Ukraine. I hope you enjoy! Getting Started With MindfulnessMental Health Awareness MonthHere is a few places to go to find help:BetterHelp.comNHS Helpline for Mental HealthSubstance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administrationphone: 1-800-662-HELP (4357)I hope you all are enjoying my new layout of my podcast. Please let me know by leaving a rating and/or informative comment. It helps me and helps others find my podcast. Thank you!!Find Coffee, Wine, & Chocolate:Website; Instagram; TikTok; Blog; TwitterEmail:coffeewineandchocolate1@gmail.comwonderingbelles@gmail.com Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
In this episode, I share the many different ways to make coffee to start the podcast. Then for the bulk of the podcast I share some articles and thoughts on animals and pets that help us with our mental health and the different ways they do so. I have listed the articles below.* How pet ownership benefits your mental health* Pets and Mental Health* Just How Important Service Animals Can Be* Facility dogs help to heal the sick at children’s hospitals from Florida to New YorkI hope you all are enjoying my new layout of my podcast. Please let me know by leaving a rating and/or informative comment. It helps me and helps others find my podcast. Thank you!!Find Coffee, Wine, & Chocolate:Website; Instagram; TikTok; Blog; TwitterEmail:coffeewineandchocolate1@gmail.comwonderingbelles@gmail.com Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
In this episode, I discuss my favorite chocolates and how I came to this point in my favorites. The main discussion is on Music and how it helps in mental happiness and how we develop the love of the genres we enjoy. Then to finalize the episode, I share an article on Bouncing Forward from the News app on my iPhone. It is written by Jennifer King Lindley. I hope you all are enjoying my new layout of my podcast. Please let me know by leaving a rating and/or informative comment. It helps me and helps others find my podcast. Thank you!!Find Coffee, Wine, & Chocolate:Website; Instagram; TikTok; Blog; TwitterEmail:coffeewineandchocolate1@gmail.comwonderingbelles@gmail.com Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
In this episode I discuss some of my favorite wines and when I like most to have a glass or two. The main discussion is on games, apps and puzzles and how it helps to keep our minds occupied when needed. Then to finalize, I discuss how we can make a difference from an article called Traits of Difference Makers. It states five things to follow and how to make a difference. Five Traits of People Who Make a Positive DifferenceFind Coffee, Wine, & Chocolate:Website; Instagram; TikTok; Blog; TwitterEmail:coffeewineandchocolate1@gmail.comwonderingbelles@gmail.com Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.