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Diet and the Menopause: What Makes a Healthy Menopause?
A healthy diet is one of the cornerstones of optimizing health across the menopause continuum, and yet less than 20 percent of women in the United States maintain a healthy diet during their menopause transition […]
How to Challenge Feelings of Guilt and Improve Your Self-Esteem
Guilt is a very familiar feeling for so many of us. I have felt a lot of guilt in my life – about things I’ve done wrong when I didn’t really know better, and things […]
Three Different Ways to Meditate
The growing popularity of mindfulness means that most of us know all about the benefits of meditation and taking a few minutes for yourself each day. But you may not know that there is more […]
How to prepare your child for the move to high school
Time passes in the blink of an eye. Surely it was only yesterday when that warm, mewling bundle was placed in your arms, eyes fixing on yours with all the intensity and knowing of […]
Three delicious, fibre-rich recipes
The recipes below have been extracted from The Healthy Fibre-rich Cookbook: Recipes to Increase Your Fibre Intake and Help You Feel Fantastic by Catherine Atkinson. Catherine Atkinson has a degree in Food and Nutrition BSc (Hons). […]
How to start your own street food business
Miranda Roberts is one half of the team who set up Shrimpy. After seven years of running Shrimpy successfully, and sometimes not so successfully, she’s learned a thing or two about what can make an […]
How to build yourself back up after trauma
In this article, editor-in-chief of ELLE UK, Farrah Storr, outlines a powerful method to help overcome trauma. One of the ways I confront trauma is through what psychotherapists and psychologists call ‘exposure therapy’. It is […]
How To Use Meditation to Boost Creativity
It is a well-known fact that meditation and mindfulness can be used to create feelings of calm and relaxation. But an unexpected benefit of meditation is that it can also boost your creativity. This is […]
How Fasting Can Boost Your Energy
How many times in the last week have you felt completed exhausted, at only 4pm? For many of us, burnout has become a constant problem and we often feel tired all the time. I […]
Featured Reads
How to use up leftovers
Leftovers can be inspiring to cook with and making a good meal out of something that would otherwise be thrown away is rewarding in several ways; creatively, economically and deliciously if you do it right! […]
How to Plant Flowers That Won’t Die in Your Garden
There are some easy steps to follow when learning how to grow flowers. Planting them correctly is the first – and, most important – step. Giving them a good start will help them do well, […]
The Power of Reading Aloud
A miracle occurs when one person reads to another, when words on a page are transformed into dynamic quests that move the heart, brain and imagination. Grounded in neuroscience and behavioural research, The Enchanted Hour […]
Rethinking Self-Esteem: Busting Myths and Offering Solutions
It is a widely held belief that those who are more successful and higher above the average are happier and more satisfied with themselves and their lives than those below average. But if this were […]
Focusing on Your Mental Wellbeing
We are often open about our physical health – whether it’s feeling under the weather, a terrible bout of flu or a crippling migraine – but how often do we seriously consider our mental health? Many […]
Coping with Anxiety
Most of us feel anxious at certain times in our day-to-day lives, for instance when taking an important exam, going to a job interview or making a public speech. Usually, as the situation passes, the anxiety drops. […]
