Despite knowing this January would be the bleakest on (unofficial) record, I embarked upon an alcohol-free month. For my physical and mental health, and having overindulged at Christmas, I wanted to have a month devoid of the hard stuff, a feat I’d never achieved before. Which is all well and good, but when the monotony …
There’s a gadget for everything nowadays: we use them to knead our bread; clean our teeth; dry our hair. The best do such a good job, we wonder how we ever got by without them. And the name to know now? The Theragun, the fitness tool that’s taking the industry by storm. While the Theragun …
Growing up in the Arab world, as a woman, from pre-pubescence onwards, I was often taught to view my body and desires with a sense of shame. For years, it seems the media, schools, doctors, and even friends and relatives have perpetuated the myth that my virtue is tied to my chastity, and that being …
Wiggle your big toe. Go on, wiggle it. While Uma Thurman might have been recovering from a far more extreme place when she delivered this line in Kill Bill: Volume 1, there’s no doubt all of our feet could do with a little more conscious movement. Our only connection with the ground, the feet have …
After a long, exhausting year, studies show we’re more stressed than we’ve ever been, and since many of us aren’t taking a real break, it’s high time we turned to some small, day-to-day activities to help us summon calm incrementally, rather than in one big holiday-sized go. Mindfulness is one such tool, which has been …
Boundaries? What boundaries. My bedroom is my office and my children are my colleagues. The work day begins when the Zooms begin, but collaborators on the West Coast call in for our 9 a.m. EST, and you can bet they are not in business attire, even from the waist up. What this time isolating at …
It all started when the world began making sourdough during lockdown. Then it was banana bread, all cracked and perfectly imperfect. And in the latest evidence to suggest that bread is bound for world domination, a number of famous erstwhile carb dodgers are confessing that they now embrace the good stuff in ways they never …
If you go down to the woods today, you’re sure of… not a surprise, but how about a sense of increased peace and happiness with some stress relief thrown in? Communing with Mother Nature is an instinctive human impulse; you need only cast your mind back to previous lockdowns and the amount of people suddenly …
The lunch break, something we all used to look forward to, is starting to feel like a thing of the past. A huge 79 per cent of us don’t actually take a break at lunch, with one in five of us using the time to run errands or spending it on social media instead, according …
The rise of wellness is nothing new, but this year has really made us take the time to focus on our health. Instead of working out to the point of exhaustion, people have taken a more holistic approach to their overall wellbeing, factoring in what makes them feel happy and healthy, rather than simply the …