Read our posts about Wellbeing

31Mar

Arianna Huffington: "It's not all about money and power"

Welldoing

wellbeing, women

Soul

Arianna Huffington is founder and former owner of The Huffington Post. Her new book Thrive: The Third Metric to Redefining Success and Creating a Happier Life  is out now. What’s wrong with the current definition of success? Our definition of success right now is based almost solely on money and power. And so to succeed, we lead lives of overwork, sleep-deprivation and burnout. These are actually considered badges of honor! We voluntarily drive ourselves into the ground, if not the grave. This idea of success can work—or at least appear to work—in the short term....
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24Mar

Writing a Diary Saved My Life

Jackee Holder

creativity, wellbeing

Soul

Imagine getting to the end of your life and there's no record of who you are, where you've been, no trace of the range of emotions, feelings you’ve experienced at various points or stages of your life. What if your memory slowly melted into candy floss, too soft to recall the intricate, sometimes simple and other times significant details of your past life? Leaving you without hard evidence and data of what you’ve lived through, the obstacles you'd overcome and the success you'd achieved over the years? A point brought home in an advert I clipped out of a magazine for...
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14Mar

Knitting Therapy

Rin Hamburgh

creativity, stress, therapy, wellbeing

Soul

Knitting therapy: relaxing, stress relieving, meditative, productive.
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12Mar

Cycling Can Change Your Life

Jess Henley

body, exercise, health, wellbeing

Body

How cycling can help with general health and boosting your mood
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28Feb

It's Good for You: High-Strength Fish Oils

Welldoing

nutrition, wellbeing

Body

How high-strength fish oils can boost your immunity and offer other health benefits
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18Feb

What is Scaravelli Yoga?

Lucy Greeves

exercise, wellbeing, yoga

Body

Having studied with some of the most inspirational teachers in India, Vanda Scaravelli set up her own yoga style, based on gravity and its effect on the body
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17Feb

Is Your Diet Causing Chronic Inflammation?

Noonie Zand

nutrition, wellbeing

Body

When studying nutrition I was initially very taken by the idea, provided by one of my tutors, that inflammation is the seat of all chronic disease. This concept had never crossed my mind before as I had always thought of inflammation as being the acute kind – the pain, heat, swelling and redness that is the result of scraping your knee or cutting your finger. Of course this kind of inflammation is important and, in a place without antibiotics or antiseptics, it is life-saving. This is because it is the body’s primary mechanism for dealing with trauma and...
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05Feb

What You Should Know About Sleep

Louise Chunn

sleep, stress, wellbeing

Body

Don’t smoke, cut back on the booze, try to stick to a healthy diet, get some exercise --- that’s enough health rules to be getting on with surely?  But there’s one essential element that many people forget about. Sleep is as important as any of those in keeping us on the rails. This was one of the main messages I took away from a visit to Champneys Tring recently. I was at the well-known health spa to sample a Lifestyle Improvement Plan, for which food and drink intake, exercise levels and daily activities are monitored in advance. The aim is to illustrate that...
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09Jan

Can You Teach Yourself to be More Empathetic?

Roman Krznaric

empathy, relationships, self, wellbeing

Soul

Roman Krznaric explains why empathy is an essential element of wellbeing
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17Dec

Two Poems To Help With Anxiety

Rachel Kelly

anxiety, stress, wellbeing

Soul

Reading poetry can help when you feel overwhelmed by anxiety, says author Rachel Kelly
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