World Health Day: My top 10 healthy habits
Today is World Health Day, which I think is a great time to ask ourselves what the word ‘health’ means to us. Personally, I’d define health as simply a state of mental and physical wellbeing…
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Why it’s time to throw away …
I recently posted a picture on Instagram celebrating my newfound body confidence, which I would like to explain in more detail. Loving our body is something that doesn’t come easily to most of us, and…
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How to beat the broken resolution crisis
The run up to a new year is always such an exciting time. I would actually go as far as saying that New Year’s Eve is my favourite holiday of them all; there’s just something…
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‘Blue Monday’ isn’t as innocent as …
Unless you’ve been living under a rock in recent years, it’s more thank likely you have heard of ‘Blue Monday’. Boldly characterised as ‘the most depressing day of the year’, it’s hardly one to look…
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National Stress Awareness Day – My top 5 stress-busting …
Today’s post is a day early, but seen as it’s national stress awareness day, I thought this would be fitting. Each and every one of us is affected by stress from time to time; some…
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SAD: The mental illness nobody talks about
It’s estimated that 1 in 15 people in the UK suffer from it[1], but how often do we hear about Seasonal Affective Disorder, also know as SAD? Until I was diagnosed with it myself, I admittedly knew…
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An insomiac’s guide to sleeping soundly
Sleep – love it or loathe it, it’s way more important than we tend to think. For some of us, a restful night’s snoozing comes naturally, but for others it can feel like a minefield.…
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Why body confidence has nothing to do …
As a young teenager I, like so many, would constantly critique the way I looked. More to the point, I would obsess over other people’s traits and how I wanted to look like them. Every day…
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My ultimate stress-free revision timetable strategy
In hindsight, this post may have been better done a bit earlier, as by this point we’re almost into the full swing of exams. However, if you haven’t yet created yourself a revision timetable, it most definitely…
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Erase this word from your vocabulary and …
Let’s just think about it for a second; language is simply a string of sounds. A string of sounds that has the power to make us feel a spectrum of emotions. One string of sounds…
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