OH! Magazine - Australian Version August 2014 (Australian Version) | Page 15

ANNA-LOUISE
BOUVIER

HAPPY BODY, HAPPY MIND

happybodyatwork.com.au

( Mind/Body Happiness )

Anna-Louise Bouvier (aka ‘the feel good physio’) provides her tips in this new
article series, to help you have a happy mind and body – for life!
y grandmother was Italian, and
strong. She could beat a cake
without a mixer, make her own pasta, boil
clothes in a copper, turn them through a
hand ringer, hang three loads of washing
on lines strung off old wooden posts,
chop wood, stoke a stove, clean floors by
hand and look after four children – and all
before lunch! She had arms like a wrestler,
but the posture of a Countess. Life made
her strong.

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In the 1950s and 60s, it took physical
work to do most things. Winding a window
in a car took strength. There was no
power steering so you struggled to turn
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