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May is Mental Health Month. The initiative, first started in 1949 by the National Association for Mental Health in the US was designed to help raise awareness of all things the mind.  While historically it has been governments that have been the key advocates of better emotional and psychological awareness,

What’s that, two newsletters in a week? What can I say, I struggle to maintain healthy boundaries. But I just had to step into my writing shoes and explore some of the ideas behind the absolutely brilliant Baby Reindeer on Netflix.  If you’re not familiar with the show,

What do you crave? Beyond the usual: food, a drink, a break, a holiday, not to work anymore, and spend your days posting pictures on Instagram from exotic locations with the caption “today’s office 🤷”.  What I mean by that is, what is the thing you always seem to think

Have you manifested lately? Even if you haven’t, you probably know someone who has, or at least, professed to the benefits of bending the universe to their whim.   Indeed, since the COVID days, Google searches for “manifesting” went up 600%. Over on social media, it has become one of

Self-care, wellness, focusing on you, being selfish. These have become synonymous with our times. The global wellness industry, which captures everything from traditional medicine, mental wellness, wellness tourism, personal care, healthy eating, spas, all the things designed to help us care for ourselves, is worth $5.6 trillion. Yes, I

While the world has gotten better at talking about its feelings, there is still at least one emotion where things remain a little tricky: Grief.  It’s that emotion that we never seemed prepared for. The one we see on TV and film, and say to ourselves, “oh yeah, I

Boundaries are everywhere. They turn up in our politics, in our sports, and of course, it's a top trending topic on social media. But they make us feel weird. We don’t like it when they’re imposed on us, we’re uncomfortable about having to impose them