Opinion – our obsession with wellness is hurting both us and the planet
Although wellness touts itself as being the key to a more fulfilling life, it may in fact be destroying both our bodies and the planet. Throughout the last decade, ‘wellness’ has become such a ubiquitous part of mainstream culture that in 2022, it’s relatively difficult to imagine a world without...
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Opinion – Let’s drop our self-improvement obsession in 2022
Reports predict almost half of UK citizens vow to exercise more, improve their diet, or lose weight at the turn of a new year. But is that an image we should still be chasing? Food, sparkling wine, Christmas markets and snow; I have loved this time of year ever since...
Could prescribed park visits aid our mental health?
Canadian healthcare practitioners are now allowed to prescribe patients a year-long pass to the country’s national parks in a bid to improve their mental and physical health. If you’ve struggled or are currently struggling with mental health issues, I know what you’re thinking: when has a medical professional suggesting...
Influencers may soon have to label digitally-altered images
To combat the rise of eating disorders and body confidence issues post-pandemic, a proposed bill in the UK is calling for commercial photos featuring retouched bodies to be labelled as such. Last February, the UK’s Advertising Standards Authority (ASA) ruled that social media influencers had to begin disclosing when using...
Political community ‘Coup de Cake’ returns to promote mental wellness
Coup de Cake are returning with ‘Cake Confessionals’ to spread awareness on understanding peace of mind - one iced bake at a time. Coup de Cake - a political community forged in icing - are teaming up with artist agency hen house to bring their ‘Cake Confessionals’ icing workshop to...
How colourful post lockdown fashion is helping to boost our moods
It’s the question on the mind of fashion lovers around the world - can orange really be the new black? According to fashion psychologists, it already is. After spending the majority of the last year moping around in loungewear and PJs, many have emerged ready to experiment with their fashion...
Why is empathising with celebrity mental health issues so hard?
Celebrities struggle with mental health problems too - but can their public disclosure ever be useful when so many find it hard to truly believe them? Stigma around mental health struggles is diminishing. Workplaces are starting to take it seriously, discussing the subject more openly, while online spaces are becoming rife with advice on how to cope. But opening up about depression or anxiety is still inherently difficult. It requires being...
The hashtag destigmatising mental health medication
#PostYourPill has been making the rounds on social media this month. What is this viral trend and how is it seeking to change the way we view antidepressants? In 2021, some may say that the mental health conversation is a double-edged sword. This is because while arguably more work has been done during the last twelve months to eliminate stigma than in recent decades, never before have so many of...
Psychedelics are on course to be a catalyst for mass mental health
Poised to be the hottest new therapeutics since Prozac, psychedelics have come a long way since their hallucinogenic hippy heyday. Last year, upon discovering that a growing number of scientists had begun asking whether mind-altering drugs such as DMT, magic mushrooms, and LSD could help treat trauma, addiction, and depression, I posed a question: do psychedelics have the potential to transform mental health? Almost twelve months on, and the answer is...
The femtech start-up tackling gender bias in healthcare
Despite accounting for roughly half of the world’s population, women must continually overcome hurdles before receiving adequate treatment. Tia is fighting to close the gap. Though women’s health is undergoing a generational culture shift that’s prompted more open discourse around historically stigmatised concerns regarding our wombs, we continue to find it much harder than men to have our bodies understood within the medical sphere. Constantly dismissed by both male and female...
