Lifesaving surgery at four months old led Flo to a mental breakdown when she was just eight, and resulted in a childhood defined by mental health. As a teenager, Flo had the lightbulb moment to stop letting her mental illnesses define her While my birth was pretty straightforward, when I was four months old everything
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According to findings, unrealistic beauty standards are increasing the pressure that girls feel to look a certain way Posting photos online should be a fun way to express yourself and stay in touch with friends and family, but new findings from Girlguiding’s annual Girls’ Attitude survey has highlighted a worrying trend among young people. In
It’s a 21st-century experience that most of us can relate to: getting stuck in a social media spiral that sucks us in at any given opportunity. But is there a dark side to our technology habit, which could be impacting our mental health? The unsurprising answer is, yes, there is. A study by the Royal
Here we look at the way seven writers share, reveal and teach us about mental health through their poetry Just like artists effortlessly pick and mix colour on a canvas to create something beautiful, so do poets. Choosing and rearranging words on a page, they give us the language we didn’t know we needed to
Do you feel like you’re constantly waiting to be found out? That you’re a fraud and shouldn’t be in the position you’re in? You’re not alone. Here we take a closer look at imposter syndrome As I read and re-read the message I’d been sent, I couldn’t help but feel a wave of imposter syndrome
Charity has launched a new advice line for businesses to support employees experiencing or at risk of domestic violence This year we’ve spent more time at home than ever before. Coupled with this, unemployment, financial insecurity, anxiety and stress have all been rife – all of which are conditions known to aggravate domestic violence. Yes,
As we move into the final quarter of 2020, Alexandra Davison and Lottie Keble-Wyatt, the duo behind the inaugural Live Life Well Festival in May this year, are bringing together a plethora of experts once again, to share their advice, professional wisdom and actionable ideas for living healthier, happier lives as part of the upcoming
Two schoolgirls launch Our Schools Now, a campaign seeking ‘cultural and educational change’, calling for mandatory education of street sexual harassment and violence in all UK schools British schoolgirls and students have had enough. Enough of the unwanted sexual harassment and violence on public streets that they are subjected to on a daily basis. Our
Do you constantly worry about what could go wrong if you try something new? Here’s why letting go of this anxiety, and embracing the idea of failure, could lead to bigger and better things… In a world where carefully-curated social media feeds show us pictures of perfection and success every day, failure is not something
New research published in The Journal of Physiology shows that oxytocin plays an important role in combatting stress disrupting our digestive systems Stress rarely leaves us feeling good physically or mentally, but research conducted at the Penn State University College of Medicine has revealed it could be having a greater impact on our digestive health