Hello to all our Green Apple friends
Question: Were you sucked in to the New Christmas ceremony of eating Hot Cross buns on Boxing Day? I was listening to Spencer Howson on ABC who was finding it difficult to believe that Hot Cross buns were being sold everywhere to meet the community need for buns on Boxing Day. WOW I thought. Buns as a follow up to the excesses during the lead up to Christmas Day and on the day might be the straw that breaks the camel’s back for some of us.
Thank goodness we already have the exercise habits established to save us from any overindulgence. We should all be back on track with our exercise now the New Year is here!
The Green Apple team had a great Christmas get-together on Tuesday 11 am prior to Christmas. Mistress Sparkle, Katrina Bethell, organised everything and utilised our usual weekly Team-Meet-time onsite. We had to bring along a unisex present to the value of not more than $10 and a plate of food to share.
Katrina explained that we would all get a number and would choose one gift when our number was called out. We would open the present and it would be ours for as long as nobody else wanted it. The rules of the game allowed anyone opening a present they didn’t want to swap their unwanted item for the preferred item.
We ate, laughed, shared, and enjoyed ourselves so thank you Katrina for insisting we all needed to do this together!
I would like to share with you the Christmas/New Year LinkedIn Post Petrina and I submitted.
Reflections on Sustainable Health at Year End
Across healthcare and community settings, long-term well-being is rarely achieved through intensity or short-term intervention. It is built through consistent habits, appropriate supervision, and models of care that recognise individual complexity, particularly for people living with chronic conditions, pain, injury, or reduced confidence.
At Green Apple Wellness, our focus remains on supervised, evidence-informed exercise delivered within a supportive environment. For many individuals, the primary barriers to movement are not motivation but safety, reassurance, and confidence. Addressing these factors is essential to reducing risk, improving adherence, and supporting functional independence over time.
I am grateful to the members and health professionals who place their trust in our approach. Supporting an illness-to-wellness continuum requires clinical rigour, patience, and a commitment to long-term outcomes rather than short-term measures.
As we move out of the Christmas period, a continued focus on achieving a balance of gentle movement, and sustainable habits remains central to maintaining health across populations.
With gratitude for the shared work we do, I hope our colleagues and wider health community had a peaceful Christmas and are looking forward to a healthy year ahead.
Cheers
gazetted.
Reflections on Sustainable Health at Year End As the year comes to a close, it is a necessary time to reflect on what genuinely supports sustainable health outcomes.