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HIIT to Start It’s summer time again and before you know it some friend will be telling you which diet they are trying or which intagrammer has the best crazy programme for getting the best bikini body. The truth is, it’s not about one thing, or one programme. It’s about…
Sleep during the Pandemic As reported by the BBC, the hashtag “can’t sleep” has been trending for a couple of weeks. Many people have taken to social media to share their struggle to fall asleep and stay asleep during the night due to the coronavirus outbreak and the measures taken…
Dealing with allergies in the outside world is one thing, but to deal with them inside your home is something you can have complete control over. Following some of these suggestions will help to keep your home allergy-free. How to Allergy-Proof Your Home Taking proactive steps to allergy-proof your home…
When it comes to allergies, the summer months are often the time when we suffer the most. This can be due to an increase in exposure to pollen, insects, and heat which can aggravate the immune system and result in a wide variety of symptoms. Common summer allergy symptoms can…
How to Combine Vitamins and Supplements for Safety and Best Nutrient Absorption The popularity of supplements has grown immensely in the past few years. According to research, about 36% of Americans between the ages of 18 and 29take a daily multi vitamin or mineral supplement. The numbers go even…
Worried about the virus? We all are, protect yourself and your family by washing your hands regularly for 20 seconds with soap and water or using a hand sanitiser gel when out at the supermarket or opening post. The virus can last for a number of hours on various surfaces…
Another Moment of Great Big Clarity If you’ve read Too Relieved To Grieve, you will know how essential my War Council was to me when my life shifts hit the fan. For the uninitiated: “… my War Council is compromised of those who coalesced around me at the point of…
Recognising a Relationship Breakdown and How it May Affect Your World Think you might be going through a relationship breakdown? Read on to discover how this might affect your world, and how to prevent this from happening… Having a significant other is often a great thing, and it’s true…
Your Skin Will Be Perfect After Birth. Tips, Secrets. Worried about how your skin is going to react after birth? Get ready to handle everything that comes your way with these tips and tricks we prepared for you! As opposed to after birth, during pregnancy, a significant number of uncontrollable…
WHY SELF-PUBLISH? Because I’m a control freak? Yes, that’s an undeniable fact at this point in my life. Because I’m a masochist? Generally no, but even I started to wonder during the seemingly endless editing process. Because no one else would publish my work? No actually, there were a couple…
Hello There Chicks! WE ARE BACK! Some of you may have followed our partner yoga project in 2017, but if you didn’t, here’s the gist of it: Every day, we post a new partner yoga pose on our Instagram page, with some words of wisdom and sometimes some bloopers. It…
Mental Health throughout Your Twenties, Thirties, and Beyond Sadly, mental health is still a subject we don’t talk about enough. True, things are beginning to shift, and more and more people are speaking out about their own struggles, slowly lifting the stigma we associate with mental health challenges. As…
Achieving Your Resolutions With Scientific Hacks After the holiday craze swiftly followed by the January blues, our New Year’s Resolutions don’t stand a very good chance of making it past January. How many of you are still sticking to yours? Whether you made big or small goals, it’s easy to…
WHAT MAKES YOU HAPPY? I’ve had a thing for New Year’s Eve since 1981, when as [ahem] an embryo, I was allowed to stay up late and see in 1982. It quickly became my favourite day and night of the year; easily surpassing Christmas and even my birthday. As I…
For women who have very large breasts, a breast reduction can quite literally feel like a weight has been lifted from them. Now a new study has shown that young women who undergo a breast reduction procedure before the age of 25 experience lasting benefits ten to even thirty years after their procedure. Quality of…
Sleep is not just a time to allow us to rest and recuperate, it is a time when our body can heal and restore. Lack of sleep can affect our relationships, our work and our energy levels, making us moody, irritable, unable to concentrate, hungry and tired but it can…
IS CBD OIL GOOD FOR MENTAL HEALTH? There is even more emphasis on mental health nowadays. With so many people coming forward about their struggles with their own mental issues, mental awareness has been on the rise. The stigma of keeping feelings and emotions bottled up is slowly lifting. People…
Being Less Lonely – How Dogs Can Help Fight Depression There are many reasons why dogs are great – apart from the fact that they’re just so darn cute. But there are other ways in which our furry little friends can also be useful on a daily basis. Indeed, many…
Some people will tell you that because you are now eating for two means that you can overindulge and eat whatever you want. Pregnancy is a great excuse, however, indulging too much in the bad foods that are out there can lead to unforeseen issues during your pregnancy for you…
Walking Towards Beauty Will you walk with me? Will you walk towards, and into, a life of beauty – leaving the fear and destruction behind? Because it’s what our planet needs…what we need. It’s when our backs are against the wall and we have limited options, that our truth emerges….
Not Worth Me Someone much wiser than I once said: “Maturity comes not with age but with responsibility“, and it’s true. Maturity is not measured by age, because it’s an attitude built by experience, blended together with a grown up acceptance of personal responsibility. Can you think of a person…
Five Reasons Why Women Have to Deal with Anxiety and Depression More Than Men Job, children, husband, in-laws, parents, money, career, hormones, relationships, and everything under the Sun worries the woman. Juggling a hundred things from morning to midnight drives a woman crazy. But men have hectic lives too, right?…
In Too Relieved To Grieve I tell you my story from September 2013 until the beginning of June 2017, which were without doubt the hardest years of my life. To say Life had decided to give me lemons was something of an understatement. For reasons I wouldn’t appreciate until years…
The Power of Eye Contact As women, learning how to make strong eye contact is one of the most powerful skills we can develop, both in our professional and our personal lives. Humans are social creatures, and the way we meet the gaze of others reveals a lot about what…
Vitamin D Our concern of skin cancer through sun exposure has lead us to cover up resulting in us not getting adequate vitamin D from sun exposure. This is impacting our health in many ways. Vitamin D deficiency can affect our immune system, respiratory system (especially incidences of asthma) depression, heart disease,…
Emotional adulthood in your relationship. Are you an emotional adult yet? “You make me feel sad… frustrated… disappointed!” is a common way to express our emotions to our partners, when we are unhappy. Most of our emotional wounds are caused by other people, such is our perception anyway. It’s most…
Yoga: Sun Salutations 1.Start by entering your body, connect to your breath-the sacred flow of life within you. Long smooth inhales, releasing any tensions with smooth, full exhales. Standing in mountain pose – tadasana (hands at heart or by the sides palms forward) 2. Inhale arms over head, ribs…
It Pays to Engage with Charm Charm is the power of delighting, attracting and fascinating others, and having the ability to influence benignly; so why wouldn’t you? Perhaps it’s just me, but I am becoming increasingly aware of the levels of aggression we’re encountering these days, as opposed to the…
Do you ever wonder why some people have boundless energy throughout the day or are able to laser-focus on activities? Their morning routine might have something to do with it. Some of the most successful people in the world have healthy morning routines that they implement daily. For example, Miley…
How do you turn your Passion into a Thriving Online Business? Every single person on this planet is entirely different from the one standing right next to you. But almost all the people share one dream – to be able to take what they like and turn it into a profitable…