7 Tried and Tested Ideas to Improve Your Mental Health

It’s particularly in times of crises that we tend to rethink our idea of mental and emotional wellbeing. As the pandemic affected our relationships, our freedom to be close and intimate with our loved ones, and our routine, some of our safest comfort zones have been forever altered. Suddenly, when a coffee date with your…

BySophia Smith21/07/20210Comments

Three Simple Ways To Enhance Your Emotional Wellbeing-

One thing I know for sure is that things are changing so quickly that predicting what the future holds isn’t always possible. I am hearing from so many people that they are feeling overwhelmed and overloaded in the midst of chaos, in fact some feel fried and frazzled. When adversity comes our way, how we respond to that challenge is much more important…

ByIrena Geller15/10/20200Comments

Wellness & Health

Why We Need To Nurture Ourselves During Times Of Crisis Or Difficulty

Written by Leora Givoni, Founder of Small Act Major Impact. Nurturing yourself during every stage of life is vital. Nurturing yourself during times of crisis is mandatory. By nurturing ourselves throughout our lives, even when times are good, our bodies build and store resilient behavioural responses. It’s like building muscles at the gym. If you…

ByThe Carousel20/07/20200Comments

Health

A Weight Loss Journey: How I Bucked The Trend And Lost 12 Kilos!

Many people have been eating to numb out feelings of stress, boredom, worry, fear and resentment, as a response to lockdown. As a result, their weight has crept up the past few months … A recent poll has found that nearly one-half of all women have gained weight during lockdown. The thing is we’ve never had a pandemic…

ByIrena Geller05/07/20200Comments

Advice Careers

5 Tips To Achieve A Good Work-Life Balance While Remote Working

With COVID-19, most of our whole work routines have changed, going from in-office to in our own homes. Although working from home allows more flexibility, it can also easily blur the lines between your work and personal life. Being at home can make it easier for us to start working earlier, finish later and sacrifice…

ByEmeric Brard26/06/20200Comments

Environment

How The Fires Affect All Children And What Parents Can Do To Help Them

“This is the new future…it will only get worse.” These words are from Neil Bibby, former chief executive of Victoria’s Country Fire Authority, and are echoed by other fire and emergency chiefs around the country, warning of the “New Bushfire Reality”. The media coverage of the horrific fires currently affecting much of the country is…

ByThe Carousel04/01/20200Comments

Beauty & Fashion Fitness Health

From Float Spas, Nap Bars To Pop Up Events – Here’s 2020’s Top Health Trends

Tell us what you think is behind the rise of experiential wellness, with float spas, wellness pop-up events, meditation studios, nap bars and express facial bars becoming more popular. In recent years people have started to think more deeply about what really matters in life and redefine what wellbeing means. This has led to a global shift…

ByRobyn Foyster18/12/20190Comments

Beauty & Fashion News & Trends Wellness & Health

Standing Tall: Why Posture is Your Secret Weapon

When people are asked what quality they find most attractive in others they often glibly reply "confidence". It's an 'I'm-not-shallow' get out of jail free response. But confidence is as much about our physicality as it is about our personality, and research increasingly indicates that the way we stand in the world has a direct…

ByRuby Feneley12/09/20190Comments

Happiness Mood and Mind Wellness & Health

Regret: What Is It And Why It’s Important For Us To Let It Go

It’s an emotion that’s not always talked about and can be the skeleton(s) in the closet. It feels like you’re always carrying it as a constant reminder of what you should have or could have done better. Or you adapt into the daydream of how different your life would be if you just didn’t do…

BySimonne Lee18/05/20190Comments

Mood and Mind Wellness & Health

How Kindness And Gratitude Help You In Your Everyday Life

The Gratitude movement is everywhere, reminding ourselves to step into the mindset of what we’re grateful for in life as a daily habit. It’s an internal process where we sit still and think about three to five things we’re grateful for and appreciate that either have happened in our day or what’s in our life.…

BySimonne Lee08/04/20190Comments