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Healing a toxic relationship with food

18 Jan 2019

In the run-up to Christmas, we were bombarded with the message that eating till we burst is an indulgence we deserve. A co ...

New year, so what?

02 Jan 2019

It’s another new year. And so what? The pressure to transform overnight, to resolve all of life’s issues, and to b ...

The experience of loneliness at Christmas

20 Dec 2018

In the run-up to Christmas and well into the New Year many people experience loneliness.   The type of loneliness I a ...

Managing expectations at Christmas

19 Dec 2018

It really has begun to look a lot like Christmas. Having only been a few short weeks since the clocks have gone back, the ...

Having a mentally healthy Christmas

11 Dec 2018

Christmas as we know can be a wonderful joyous time. It’s a time for giving and receiving, spending time with our families, friends ...

Coping with loss at Christmas

06 Dec 2018

Christmas can be a difficult and challenging time for those who have been bereaved.   There is the loneliness, the pain, the i ...

5 scientifically-tested ways to boost your winter wellbeing

06 Nov 2018

The clocks have gone back, the temperatures are dropping, and the daylight hours feel non-existent. It may feel as if summer is ju ...

Happy Gut, Happy You

19 Jul 2018

In a world plagued by constant diet fads and new foods deemed “unhealthy” by the latest Facebook campaign, it can be difficult to kn ...

8 Ways to Cope with Distress

03 Jul 2018

A break-up. Death. A bad grade. Breaking something expensive or timeless. A computer crashing. Burning your breakfast when you ...

Rejection, my Best Friend

25 Jun 2018

My name is Maggie Sanders. I am from Dallas, Texas, I went to college at the University of Arkansas, and have lived in the US my who ...