The Vitality Mark with Mark Rowe & Helen Mort on Mountains & Motherhood

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The Vitality Mark with Mark Rowe & Helen Mort on Mountains & Motherhood

Dr Mark Rowe has been a practicing family physician for over 25 years, after his own experience of burnout he became one of the first medical doctors in Ireland to study lifestyle medicine. His latest book The Vitality Mark – Your prescription for feeling energised, invigorated, enthusiastic and optimistic each day helps identify gaps in our wellbeing and offers evidence based strategies to transform the quality of our life. He discusses his book with Clare. Helen Mort has always been drawn to the thrill and risk of climbing, the connection to the natural world it brings but when she became a mother for the first time she began to reexamine her relationship with the elements and she joined Clare to discuss her memoir – A Line Above the Sky – a story of mountains and motherhood.

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