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Category Archives: Wellbeing

Focus word for 2023 - cultivate

Happy New Year and Time for a New Focus Word of the Year 2023

About Imogen, Week 1, WellbeingBy Imogen LamportDecember 30, 20228 Comments

It’s that time of the year – the New Year is almost here and we farewell 2022.   I’d like to say a heartfelt thank you for coming here, reading and commenting on my posts, joining my programs and sharing your style journey with me. After the past 3 years of Covid impacting my life heavily…

Post Operative Skin BCC Skin Cancer Update

Why It Took Me 12+ Years to Discover I Had Skin Cancer and Why You Definitely Shouldn’t

Beauty, Videos, WellbeingBy Imogen LamportFebruary 16, 20224 Comments

I’m riffling through photos from the early noughties decade 2000 – 2009 to see if I can find evidence of when the skin cancer lumps appeared next to my nose. Doing this is fun as I get to see my kids as babies, toddlers, and their cheeky little kid smiles again. I mean, how’s this…

Reflecting on the year 2021

Reflection on the Year 2021

About Imogen, More, WellbeingBy Imogen LamportDecember 30, 2021Leave a comment

Wow-what a year 2021 turned out to be.  It started off feeling like we were getting on top of Covid and living a more normal life again here in Melbourne after our long 2020 lockdown ended towards the end of that year.  Of course, things never stay the same and viruses don’t care how I…

how to stay sane when under great stress

10 Strategies I’m Using To Cope During the Pandemic

Lifestyle, Style, WellbeingBy Imogen LamportSeptember 29, 202121 Comments

Melbourne, Australia will soon be the No. 1 in the world for being the city with the most number of days in strict (stage 3 and 4) lockdowns since the pandemic started 18 months (or so) ago, by the time we are looking to lift lockdown restrictions on 26 October, we will have endured 267…

Pair of shiny patent flats

3 Tips To Feel Polished In A Corporate Environment When Heels Are Not Your Thing

Reader Questions, Videos, Wardrobe, WellbeingBy Natalie RobinsonAugust 3, 20211 Comment

Reader Question – I have a back issue that means I can’t wear heels. I work in a corporate job and I feel that wearing ballet flats doesn’t look as polished as heels. Do you have any suggestions?  The expectation that women wear high heels to work, or anywhere for that matter, seems like an…

4 Questions to Help You Let Go of Expensive or Sentimental Clothing

Reader Questions, Videos, Wardrobe, Week 6, WellbeingBy Natalie RobinsonMay 4, 20212 Comments

Some people find it easy to get rid of stuff but they are often the exception to the rule. The vast majority of us have a sentimental or emotional attachment to the time, money or the energy cost of an item.   Why You Should Become a More Conscious Shopper When you shop and you purchase…

Focus word of 2021

Becoming More Aligned in 2021

Lifestyle, More, WellbeingBy Imogen LamportDecember 31, 20202 Comments

With great hindsight and as 2020 breaths its final breath, I’m looking back to the past 12 months which have been unlike any others in my lifetime.  We started the year with terrible bushfires and it ended with a global pandemic.  Who could have predicted that? Not me, but some scientist did!  And now we’re…

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It’s that Time of Year Again – Season’s Greetings

Lifestyle, More, WellbeingBy Imogen LamportDecember 24, 20202 Comments

It’s hard to believe it’s already Christmas again, this year has been a super strange one – and even though I’ve barely left the house for the majority of the year, it’s whizzed by at lightning speed once again.   With so many plans cancelled this year (I was supposed to go to India as well…

Get yourself organised for the new year and set goals and schedule what you want to do into your diary

How to Plan and Get Organised for the New Year

WellbeingBy Imogen LamportDecember 10, 20202 Comments

It’s hard to believe (like I say this EVERY year) but it’s almost Christmas and this year is nearly over. And I, like many, am starting to think about the next year. What I want to achieve, what I want to do (maybe even leave the house). It’s a great time to reflect on the…

how to be happy in lockdown

What I’ve Learned About Being Happy From One of the Longest Lockdowns in the World

More, WellbeingBy Imogen LamportNovember 12, 20206 Comments

Melbourne is slowly and cautiously coming out of a very strict lockdown that we’ve been in for the better part of 5 months. To give you an idea of the restrictions, we had an 8pm – 5am curfew, were not to travel more than 5km from home, and could only leave the house – no…

When is the right time to wear your good clothes and accessories?

When is it the Right Time to Wear Your Good Clothes

Videos, Wardrobe, WellbeingBy Imogen LamportApril 21, 20201 Comment

Do you have a pretty unfancy lifestyle? Right now, you may even be in lockdown and at home, all day, every day – with no particular reason to dress up in anything other than your activewear, or tracky dacks (as we call tracksuit pants here in Australia). But does this mean that you should let…

New Year focus word 2020

New Decade New Resolution

More, WellbeingBy Imogen LamportDecember 27, 201913 Comments

Each year I choose a word as a replacement for a series of New Year’s Resolutions. I think of it as a focus word of what I want to do or where I want to go in the coming year. It’s a great reminder when opportunities arise to know if it’s something that will move…

what to wear to bed back back or pregnant

What to Wear to Bed When You’ve Got a Bad Back or are Pregnant

Wardrobe, WellbeingBy Imogen LamportJuly 31, 20198 Comments

I’ve just spent a week with my back taped up after I could barely move for a couple of days as I’d managed to do some damage to my back that caused some discs to bulge. Lying in bed and trying to heave myself over, using my hands to physically shift my body (simple rolling,…

Sick of Thinking About What to Wear? 4 Ways to Deal with Image Burn Out

Style Tips, Wardrobe, WellbeingBy Imogen LamportJuly 12, 201915 Comments

Have you ever been burnt out in your life? I’ve had three instances in my adult life where I’ve become completely burned out and had to reassess where I was going, what I was trying to achieve and whether or not my approach was working for me, given how I was feeling. The first time…

Meet Our New Puppies Bo and Arrow

More, WellbeingBy Imogen LamportMay 21, 201919 Comments

Recently we lost our gorgeous whippet Cleo to cancer and so it is with great joy that I’m introducing you to our new family members, Bo and Arrow the whippet puppies. Currently they are 9 weeks old and just starting to look whippety. They brother and sister (from a litter of 8) and we had…

Discover why I chose my focus word for 2019

My Focus Word For 2019

More, WellbeingBy Imogen LamportDecember 27, 201811 Comments

Each year, instead of making a bunch of New Year’s Resolutions, I like to choose a word that will be my focus for the coming year, a reminder, an aide-memoire to keep me on track on all my goals – both work goals and personal ones too. As opportunities arise and decisions have to be…

3 months post bunion surgery update

Free to Do as I Please – 3 Month Bunion Surgery Update

WellbeingBy Imogen LamportDecember 19, 20182 Comments

The x-rays are in and my bones are healed up, so my orthopaedic surgeon has given me the all clear to run, jump and do as I please again. This is great news and what is also great is that my toes are starting to move much more freely again as well. There is still…

Give an awesome experience gift and make some memories while you learn something new

Give an Awesome Experience Gift this Christmas

More, WellbeingBy Imogen LamportDecember 5, 20183 Comments

What to get the person who has everything or just doesn’t want any “thing”? How about an experience gift of some sort? How about something creative where they learn something new? Or go somewhere and discover something new? There are lots of fabulous experience gifts to give to someone (or just give to yourself), or…

9 Weeks Post Bunion Surgery Update

How I’m Feeling 9 Weeks After Bunion Surgery

WellbeingBy Imogen LamportNovember 29, 201818 Comments

It’s now been a little over 9 weeks since I had my bunion surgery and I thought I’d give you an update. What’s Changed in the Past 3 Weeks Since My Last Bunion Surgery Update I can stand the bed covers weighing down on my toes, it’s now no longer uncomfortable and I don’t need…

6 Weeks post bunion surgery update

Bunion Surgery Update – 6 Weeks Post Operation

Accessories, WellbeingBy Imogen LamportNovember 6, 201815 Comments

It’s been 6 weeks since my bunion surgery and I’m so so excited that I can finally drive again! I think that has been one of the hardest things about the recovery from my recent bunion surgery.  Having to ask others for help and being only able to go out and do things at the…

4 weeks post bunion surgery

4 Weeks Post Bunion Surgery Update

More, WellbeingBy Imogen LamportOctober 24, 201830 Comments

It’s now just over 4 weeks since I had my bones realigned in my right foot to remove my bunion and fix my foot. Under doctor’s orders, I’m still wearing the post-operative shoe and have to do so for another 2 weeks) and find that I still need to keep my foot elevated a lot,…

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