Netflixβs βGuide to Meditationβ aims to alleviate the stress of 2020
After a turbulent year, Netflix is helping subscribers to breath, unwind, and reset for 2021 with an original series dubbed βHeadspace: Guide to Meditation.β When it comes to evoking a sense of FOMO, 2020 has been the ultimate adversary chiefly because, thanks to the pandemic, everyone has been missing out...
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The extraordinary medical potential of psychedelic drugs
Could psychedelics transform mental health? A growing number of scientists have begun asking whether mind-altering drugs such as DMT, magic mushrooms, and LSD may also have the potential to help treat anxiety, addiction, and depression. In the first study of its kind, UK regulators have given dimethyltriptamine (DMT) the green...
The gender health gap: womenβs bodies shouldnβt be a medical mystery
The most worrying trend in female healthcare research is the lack of it. Women (defined here as both female-identifying people, and people with wombs) have always found it much harder than men to have their bodies defined in the medical sphere. Given that histories are recorded and circumstances dictated...
Diet companies encouraging post-isolation weight-loss is triggering
First, there were the memes. Then, there were the challenges. Now, in the seemingly never-ending quest for 'perfection,' diet companies have begun banking on our lockdown weight-gain concerns to make money. In the wake of recent bids for increased legislation surrounding social mediaβs fueling of a mental health crisis, Iβve...
Selena Gomez’s ‘Rare Beauty’ to raise $100 million for mental health initiatives
The singer's highly anticipated celebrity beauty and skincare brand has launched a fund connecting under-represented communities with mental health services. Long criticised for its perpetuation of problematic body image standards, the beauty industry remains in the early stages of addressing its complicity. From the get-go itβs been the small, independent...
Lockdown has exposed how deeply embedded fatphobia is in our society
Panicked comments over gaining weight and toxic #Quarantine15 memes plaguing social media since the pandemic began reinforce an incredibly troubling narrative. It only takes a few seconds of scrolling through social media at the moment to come across a meme complaining about the possibility of weight gain during quarantine. βGaining...
