Lifestyle Archives - Christine Connor

This Time Last Year

Do you remember what you were doing this time last year? I certainly do! On 1st April I had left my clinic early for the day as I had a meeting with the school that evening. Luckily I did and luckily it was also on Monday, which is typically a quieter day, and my colleague had left work on time at 5.00pm. At precisely 5.10pm I received a call from the Centre Manager advising me that a car had just driven into my clinic. This is what I was fronted with when I arrived. In my short time as a small business owner I have certainly been presented with challenges that I never imagined and I’m sure none of us ever imaged the current scenario we are experiencing with the advent of the COVID-19. Whilst life may seem like a car crash for some of us at the moment, in…

Bootylicious Downunder

In my recent article about instant gratification, I talked about my weight gain since opening the clinic and set myself a goal to be under 70kg by 18 July. Well I thought it was time for an update … I’m pleased to say (if I must say so myself!) my skin looks amazing! However …. The past couple of months has been an absolute roller coaster and I have found it challenging establishing routine and discipline and in fact when I returned from holidays at the end of July I actually weighed 78kg!!! It’s not all bad news though! My dear friend Emily Rovere is helping me establish good eating habits again and by participating in her Body Transformation Challenge I was able to lose 4kg over the past four weeks and am now down to 73.7kg and already feel much lighter and brighter! And I have set myself a new…

Paying it Forward

Recently on my holiday in Lombok I learned of an amazing story of Paying it Forward. Pictured here with me is Sonya. Sonya was born and raised in Kuta, Lombok. Her family were unable to afford to send her to school, so at 8 years old she started selling pineapples on the beach. At 15 years she started selling sarongs and did this for the next 12 years. Sonya was married at 13 and had her first child when she was 14. She now has eight children and is 34 years old. In 2010 she met Jessica, a then 19 year old on holiday from England. Jessica lent her money to start her own restaurant best known as …. well … Sonya’s! Sonya’s sells fresh fish and seafood off the boat that day and it is cooked in front of the restaurant on the BBQ. Sonya has repaid the loan…

Uniquely Me, Uniquely You

Since opening the clinic, I have had the privilege of meeting many wonderful people with unique threads that make up this fabulous and rich tapestry of life. In this section I want to introduce you to some of those people who have woven their threads and brought great colour into my unique tapestry and love the skin they are in. Ingrid Pich is one of those. Ingrid is 70-plus years young, and is an anti-ageing health advocate, a supporter of life change, and a master of vitality! After getting divorced at 57 she set herself new goals and began to create a life that she loved! At 60 she did her first solo paraglide and started running, completing three marathons. Two years later she had a massive career leap, leaving the corporate world to become a personal trainer and group fitness instructor. Ingrid says she is finally doing things she…

Instant Gratification

As humans we are hardwired to want things and in this day, our preoccupation with consumerism has a lot to answer for…. It’s when we want it and we want it NOW! It’s called instant gratification. I think the most noteworthy example of our desire for instant gratification is in the world of weight loss. We are all tempted by the promise of losing weight in the shortest period of time but the reality is weight doesn’t go on overnight and conversely it doesn’t come off overnight. Fat loss cavitation is not the panacea for weight loss but aids in removing stubborn pockets of fat that exercise and diet won’t shift. Since I opened Unique Laser in November 2018, it has become evident that we seek instant results in clinic treatments. Fat loss cavitation, inexplicably linked to weight loss, is an example of this. It doesn’t cause weight loss but…

Is the customer always right?

I’ve worked in retail for many years but that has largely been behind the scenes in the store support centres. Now that I’m working at the coalface and directly with customers, I ponder the question is the customer always right? Don’t get me wrong, I really enjoy the relationships we have with most off our customers but, like any retail business, there have been a couple of challenges. The philosophy that “the customer is always right” was first used by successful retailers such as Selfridges, unbelievably, in the early 1900s. However it was also pointed out as early as 1914 that this ideology doesn’t look to the other side of the equation and that is, customers can also be dishonest, have unrealistic expectations or merely rely on this age old adage to get what they want, regardless of terms and conditions and what they’ve signed onto as a consumer. One…

April Fools Day

As most of us know, 1 April is an annual celebration commemorated by practical jokes and hoaxes. So you would forgive me for thinking that centre management was playing a practical joke when I received a call on that day at 5.10pm telling me that a car had driven into my clinic. But alas, it was no joke as I was reminded that the practical jokes and hoaxes cease at midday after which it is no longer acceptable to play pranks! When I arrived at the clinic it was quiet surreal. Flashing lights, police, Melbourne Fire Brigade, Ambulance and the whole area cordoned off. The question on everyone’s lips was and remains, how did this happen? To this day I still don’t know but accidents happen and I’ve always been a big believer in three sayings – out of every negative comes a positive, every cloud always has a silver…

Clean and Green

Clean and green have become two common words in our vernacular of recent times, and not for their original meaning. Clean has become the word to use for products, production and foods that are attempting to eliminate toxins and questionable ingredients and going green is making more environmentally friendly decisions such as to reduce, reuse and recycle. Personally I have been using my own shopping bags for a long time and have always despised the free light-weight plastic bags and, more recently, the heavier re-useable ones! That being said, I have three children who don’t always think to take bags with them to the supermarket and I have developed a small collection of the re-usable bags selling for 15c each. I did a count and have amassed a total of 21. One of them said “I choose to re-use” and it got me thinking – does anyone really do that?…

How I Changed My Life!

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I’m loving the skin I’m in!

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