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How A Few Personal Training Sessions Could Supercharge Your Exercise Routine
Like many women, I'd sooner attend a fitness class than work out in the testosterone-filled weights room. This isn't because their big beefy frames intimidate me - I just don't have a clue what to do....
View ArticleLondon's Best Rooftop Bars, Restaurants And Spaces
As the sun begins to beat down on London town, summer is well and truly upon us - hurrah! And frankly, there's no finer place to be than perched on top on of a rooftop to soak up the rays. Whether to...
View ArticleHow It Feels When Secondary Breast Cancer Treatment Ends: So This Is It
So it's happened then. The moment I have spent the last three and a half years running away from has happened. The moment when the doctor says the chemotherapy isn't working anymore and there are no...
View ArticleIs It Possible to Enjoy the 'Good' Days When You Have Post Natal Depression?
You have Post Natal Depression, you are going through hell and despite your chosen methods of treatment the light at the end of this bloody tunnel is nowhere to be seen. Then all of a sudden, you wake...
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Saddle Sore at Midnight
Growing up, I always had hand me down bikes, whilst my peers had choppers and BMX's, I always had some crappy rust bucket of a bike, with massively fat tires, but I loved it! Last year some friends of...
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World Wide Knit in Public Day - Knook, Needles or Loom?
As I sit here writing this piece a momentous week of celebrations has just kicked off. World Wide Knit In Public Day began in 2005 as the brainchild of Danielle Landes. With just 25 events in the first...
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Why Should You Merge Workout With Wellness
Globally, 65% of the population is overweight or obese. In the United Kingdom, among the citizens, aged 16 or over, this is 64%, which means, that almost the two-third of the people are overweight and...
View ArticleFathers Day Without a Father
My dad died four years ago this August. I often think of him and especially so when important dates approach. Oddly, I think of him most around Fathers Day. I say oddly because I anticipated that his...
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Asking for Help IS Okay
The other day, I showed my middle school students in my Girls' Lifestyle Camp a few clips from the show So You Think You Can Dance. I thought it was important for the girls to see these dancers who...
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Four Bottles, 6,920 Miles and Why It Survived the Baggage Hold
Hands up who's left a great bottle of 'souvenir' wine behind for fear of breakage in the case - if there's spillage, those white jeans will never be the same again. Or you've spent hours wrapping a...
View ArticleChildren's Hospice Week - Busting the Myths of Palliative Care
Today marks the start of Children's Hospice Week - seven days of awareness raising, highlighting the vital care and support that these services provide to seriously ill children and their families....
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Why We Need to Admit Social Media Isn't Making Us Happy
I have a joke. It's not particularly funny, but it always gets a laugh. It rears its head at any awkward social occasion, any knives-scraping-on-plates dinner party lull. It goes a little something...
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9 Ways To Fix Your Snoring Problems According To An ENT Expert
Snoring: the final frontier. When it comes to your other half losing their temper at yet another night of lost sleep, that is. Dr Yves Kamami, ENT surgeon at The Private Clinic of Harley Street and an...
View ArticleTen Foods That Will Stop You Snacking
Here are my fail proof filling foods that will stop you snacking throughout the day! Wholegrain Bread Complex carbohydrates such as wholegrain bread, granary bread and seeded bread all help us to stay...
View ArticleThis Week I Ate...Umu
As trains leave Banbury, the market town in Oxfordshire (where at some point a white lady did something on a fine horse by a cross with a cock, or was it a cock-horse and a fine lady on a white horse,...
View ArticleThe Life Lessons Travel Teaches You and Why It's Important to See the World
What's sitting at the root of so much that we do wrong in this world? Prejudice, ignorance and bigotry. How does this state of mind manifest in us? By being insular, lacking empathy, allowing ourselves...
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Wise Up With Mindfulness: Developing Minds for the Modern World
A great paradox has arisen in our modern society - the more we invent faster and smarter ways of getting things done the more we are creating and caging ourselves in a frightening word of information...
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Brazil World Cup 2014 Street Food: How To Tell Your Empadinha From Your Acaraje
Brazil may be better known for its drinks (caipirinha, anyone?) than street food, but that doesn't mean it doesn't offer a good spread via street cart. In Brazil, they are called salgados or...
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Wilderness Festival 2014: HuffPost UK's Conversation Starters Series At The...
As part of HuffPost UK's media partnership with Wilderness Festival, we're excited to host a selection of talks from our HuffPost Conversation Starters series. The talks will take place throughout the...
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Want to Become More Mindful? Try Moments of Collective Self Reflection
If you've been following my recent blogs here, and my posts in the Mindful Together community, then you probably noticed my passion for exploring the societal dimension of the mindfulness movement....
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