Welcome to Fit Brain Dragon

Welcome to my Blog and to musings, wisdom (perhaps) and other stuff from my world of Mental Health and Dragon Boat Racing in Adelaide, South Australia.



Mental Health is but one aspect of overall health and shares this Blog (and my mind) with Dragon Boat Racing, an accessible fitness activity that I have chosen for myself. I am not alone in my conviction that you can not have health without having mental health. It is also true, though less often said, that you can't have mental health without having physical health.



This rather obvious relationship is surprisingly missed too often by too many. This Blog will feature my thoughts about mental health and about the value of Dragon Boat Racing in my life.



In my experience as a Mental Health Nurse and a Counsellor many people with chronic health problems such as Diabetes, Arthritis and Depression may find enormous advantage in linking themselves to medical and other supports as well as a team sport such as Dragon Boat Racing.

It has been demonstrated in Type 2 (late onset)Diabetes for example that a proper routine of diet and exercise is a more effective first line treatment than medications.



About Andy Kelly

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Adelaide, South Australia, Australia
Skype: andykinoz

Lose Weight, Fight Diabetes, Stay Healthy, Get Fit, Keep Fit, Fight Depression and Anxiety

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Sound like you? Why don't you think about acting on your own behalf right now.
 
Where you are is where you start taking charge of your own physical and mental health. Feel ready now? Fantastic...start now.
 
Feel fearful about not fitting in, meeting new people, not being good enough (or some other thing)? Doesn't matter because the perfect person doesn't exist so we don't expect them to turn up.
 
Carrying too much pudding around the middle? Hey...ain't we all...and some of us are doing something about it. Why not join us?
 
Only got one functioning leg? Bring it along and join in.
Stiff back, neck or shoulders? Some of us have found relief after many years.
 
Finding hard to get motivated? That's OK but come out anyway...you might just find that it builds its own motivation.
 
EXERCISE IS AN ABSOLUTE KEY ASPECT OF HEALTH AND PREVENTION, TREATMENT AND RECOVERY in depression,  anxiety and many other disorders such as type 2 diabetes.


There's no 'way' that you have to 'be'. Just do it! As Susan Jeffers would say, 'Just feel the fear and do it anyway'


CALL THE COACH OF POWERBLADES NOW ON 0410653015 and make a time to give Dragon Boat Racing a try. Try out as a paddler.....You won't be sorry!
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