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NDIS Planning Meetings: Be Prepared to Get the Most Out of Your Plan

NDIS Planning Meetings: Be Prepared to Get the Most Out of Your Plan

One of the most crucial steps to your child’s NDIS plan reassessment is meeting your planner, also known as the LAC or Local Area Coordinator.

While in the meeting, you will be able to review the current NDIS plan of your child, assess progress, and make the necessary adjustments to help ensure that your child continues to receive the right support.

You must come prepared and know what to expect to make the most of that meeting.

That being said, here’s what you should expect out of an NDIS planning meeting and tips to help you prepare:

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How Funeral Companies Can Provide Help With Grief Support And Counselling

Whilst there are many services offered by a funeral company that is well-known to most people, such as coffin selection, transportation, and the arrangements for a funeral service, there are others that many are not aware of but are nonetheless extremely important and valued by those who have recently been bereaved, due to the death of a loved one.

One such service that a funeral company may offer its clients is grief support and counselling, which has proven to be highly valued and welcomed by those who are mourning and trying to come to terms with the death of a family member. As for how a funeral company might provide these services, we have outlined much of that below.

What Is Grief Support And Counselling?

No matter when or how a family member passes away, it can leave those left behind in many different emotional states. Many will be saddened but accept it as part of what it means to be human. Alternatively, there will be others who are traumatised by their loss.

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7 Ways to Live A Healthy Lifestyle On A Limited Budget

It is often stated that living a healthy lifestyle is the privilege of only those with lots of money, but we are here to tell you that is not true. In fact, many things relating to finances where financial planners advise on investments, savings, and retirement planning, are just as accessible to those on low to medium incomes as they are to those with high incomes.

Admittedly, many of the specifics, such as how much someone can invest will vary depending on income, but the fact remains financial planning is for everyone. As such, whether you earn $1,000 or $10,000 per month, do not hesitate to seek the advice of your local financial planner.

The same goes for living a healthy lifestyle we mentioned at the start as no rule states you must be rich to be healthy nor to lead a lifestyle that promotes your health. Even if your finances are limited or you do not have a huge budget for spending on a healthy lifestyle, these should not deter you, especially as we have seven ways below that a healthy lifestyle can be achieved on a low budget.

Buy Cheaper Workout Gear: No fitness rulebook demands all exercise must be done whilst wearing Nike’s latest $400 tracksuit and $500 sports shoes. You will get no fitter wearing them than you would with an old t-shirt and shorts with trainers that have been around the block a few times.

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How To Create A Wellbeing Corner In Your Landscaping Design

How To Create A Wellbeing Corner In Your Landscaping Design

You can include multiple features in a landscaping design, and many of them will depend on what you want to achieve within your garden. You might want it to be a kaleidoscope of colours. Or you might wish to grow lots of natural foods. You could prefer to have lots of manmade features such as walkways and patios. Or it may be the case that you want a garden with as little maintenance required as possible.

At your first consultation meeting with PrincipalLandscapes, these options and many others can be discussed along with your preferences for your garden. If you are someone who wants to have a quiet spot within their garden where they can relax, do yoga, or meditate, for example, that will require what is commonly known as a well-being corner to be included within the landscaping design.

Let us first point out that it need not necessarily be in the corner of the garden so the reference to “corner” is merely a turn of phrase. What is not in doubt is the fact that this spot is to enhance the well-being of those who use it, so let us look at some ideas as to what needs to be included.

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5 Tips For Dealing With Nerves Before Your Dental Implant Treatment

5 Tips For Dealing With Nerves Before Your Dental Implant Treatment

For someone scheduled for dental implants at Dental O So Gentle, the days leading up to treatment can feel quite overwhelming.

While those who’ve never had this procedure might not classify it as major surgery, for the person sitting in the waiting room, any fears and nerves typically reach their peak right before their appointment.

Feeling some worry before any medical procedure is completely natural.

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Gym Etiquette

All You Need To Know About Gym Etiquette

For many people joining a gym for the first time and then going along for their first workout, it can often feel akin to their first day at school or in a new job.

Not knowing anyone, wondering what it will be like, and the realisation that you do not know where everything is so you find yourself wandering around, obviously looking lost, can all make you feel like the quintessential newbie.

Thankfully, most gyms are welcoming, with staff and other members happy to welcome new people, and the vast majority of them being friendly and helpful.

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7 Proven Tips That Will Help You Stop Smoking

We are going to assume you are reading this, either out of interest or more importantly, that you wish to give up smoking, so what you will not be reading here is a list of reasons why stopping smoking is highly beneficial for your health.

We presume you already know that it is, plus all the negative consequences of smoking for one’s health.

So, we will instead outline 7 proven tips that thousands of smokers have used to help them stop smoking, and stop for good. We list them in no particular order as that would suggest one of them is more likely to work than the others.

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Healthy Eating Habits

7 Healthy Eating Habits You Should Try

If you do any amount of research into staying fit and healthy, you will undoubtedly find copious text relating to the fact that what we eat plays a huge role in our well-being.

Everything from diets to help lose weight, to lists of healthy and not so healthy food can be found.

No doubt for some, the reason they have not yet altered their eating habits to healthier ones is that the sheer number of available diets make their head spin trying to decide which one to pursue.

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A Beginners Guide To Meditation

Whenever the subject of our health and well-being is raised, in most cases the subject being discussed relates to physical health, at least that was the case until recently.

With the world being more attuned to the importance of mental health, especially in light of how people had to cope with all that they had to face due to the Covid-19 pandemic, everyone is more aware that the health of our mind is every bit as significant, as the health of our bodies.

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How Botox Treats Migraines

How Botox Treats Migraines

Botox is a cosmetic injectable that thousands of people have seen value in for smoothing out their fine lines and wrinkles.

While it’s certainly beneficial for this reason, several thousand people are also seeing the value in it for migraines.

Could Botox for migraines be right for you?

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