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Conspirituality: How mindfulness, spirituality, and mistrust took over the web 💆

Conspirituality: How mindfulness, spirituality, and mistrust took over the web 💆

Dip into social media and you might find your favourite fitness/wellness/spirituality guru diverting from their usual soul-soothing content in favour of something a little left field. It might be something around vaccines, or 5G, or the things found in food, or alternatively, an ‘herbal’ remedy that can

How One Book Changed Who We Think We Are 📚

How One Book Changed Who We Think We Are 📚

Are you experiencing ADHD symptoms? Do you feel like you might have BPD? Or perhaps you had Aspergers but now you’re not so sure? The language around mental health is everywhere. In particular, the language around diagnosis. With the rise of the internet came lots of things: memes, flame

The rise of wellbeing washing 🫶

The rise of wellbeing washing 🫶

It’s Mental Health Awareness Week! Which means your news feeds will be absolutely choked full of posts regarding mental health. And rightly so. Millions of people experience emotional and psychological challenges at any time. Raising awareness is a good thing, right? RIGHT? Well, yes and no. Talking about mental

Mental Health has an influencer problem 🤑

Mental Health has an influencer problem 🤑

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,

The psychology behind the Netflix show, Baby Reindeer 🧠

The psychology behind the Netflix show, Baby Reindeer 🧠

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,

Scarcity: how the things we lack dominate the way we are

Scarcity: how the things we lack dominate the way we are

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

Why we need to all stop manifesting 🙏

Why we need to all stop manifesting 🙏

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