Wiggle your big toe. Go on, wiggle it. While Uma Thurman might have been recovering from a far more extreme place when she delivered this line in Kill Bill: Volume 1, there’s no doubt all of our feet could do with a little more conscious movement. Our only connection with the ground, the feet have …
To source a spa treatment Sue Harmsworth, founder of spa brand ESPA, rallied her industry to recognise the need for therapists to be trained specifically to cater to clients undergoing cancer treatment. She’s developed a training scheme launched at the end of September, and established the pioneering Standard Authority in Touch for Cancer Care (SATCC) …
Has your sex life taken something of a nosedive in recent months? It’s likely, at this point in lockdown, that the answer is yes, since the majority of us fall into one of two camps: those who have been unable to see (or meet new) sexual partners; and those who have now been inseparable from …
“The worst part about having a mental illness is people expect you to behave as if you don’t.” So wrote Joaquin Phoenix, on a notepad, playing the part of the mentally troubled comedian Arthur Fleck, whose mistreatment by society finally tips him over the edge into his alter ego in Todd Phillips’s film Joker. If …
The pandemic has introduced the concept of sex bubbles, raised (and then squashed) rumours of a global baby boom and triggered a spate of divorce proceedings, but beyond putting added pressure on our most intimate relationships, has the Covid-19 crisis changed the ways we have — and talk about — sex? Yes, says sexual wellness …
I’m five foot three inches tall and I weigh roughly 10 stone. If you prefer metric that’s exactly 160cm and 64.5kg. According to the Body Mass Index, these two figures alone are enough to quantify if I’m underweight or obese. There’s no need to know my waist size, age, gender, cultural heritage, how often I work …
If you go down to the woods today, you’re sure of… not a surprise, but how about a sense of increased peace and happiness with some stress relief thrown in? Communing with Mother Nature is an instinctive human impulse; you need only cast your mind back to previous lockdowns and the amount of people suddenly …
A rare positive to emerge from the past year is a wave of hi-tech wellness innovations for use at home. Welcome to the future! Clear the air Dyson Purifier Hot & Cool Formaldehyde £599.99DysonShop Now Dyson’s commitment to improving at-home air quality has gone up a level. Along with purifiers updated to capture 99.95 per …
Spotify’s year-end Wrapped lists are always something to behold; a unique and deeply fascinating form of social anthropology. But in 2020, a year defined by unprecedented levels of stress and anxiety, it was all the more intriguing to get a peek into the audio offerings that helped get people through it all. Some takeaways, according …
One of my earliest memories is of pain. My teenage years were filled with hospital appointments, calendars circled with dates for surgery. At 13, over the course of one night, my spine twisted like a plumbing trap to more than 80 degrees. At one point, a piece of hardware from the titanium rods supporting my …