Healing After Heartbreak: A Practical Guide to Rebuilding Your Confidence
The strangest part about heartbreak, for me, wasn’t the grief. I expected the grief — the acute missing, the replay of conversations, the involuntary checking of a phone that wasn’t going to ring. What I didn’t expect was how thoroughly it dismantled my confidence. Not just in relationships, but in myself. I’d stop mid-sentence at […]
Managing Anxiety in Your 20s and 30s: What No One Tells Women
I was in my late twenties when a friend pointed out to me, fairly gently, that I had a habit of deflecting whenever she asked how I actually was. Not deflecting into misery — the opposite. Deflecting into competence. “Fine, busy, managing.” The conversation always bounced back to her, to us, to anything except what […]
2026 Is Your Year: 10 Ways to Keep Your New Year’s Goals on Track
Every year, millions of people set goals with genuine intention and abandon them by February. This isn’t a character flaw — it’s the predictable result of common goal-setting mistakes that make ambitious intentions structurally impossible to sustain. If you’ve declared that 2026 is your year, the question isn’t whether you want it badly enough. It’s […]
Don’t Expect Sympathy From Social Welfare in Your 20s or 30s — Here Are 7 Reasons Why
Nobody prepares you for the moment you actually need the social safety net and discover just how uncomfortable it is to access. Whether it’s housing benefit, jobseeker’s allowance, universal credit, or any other form of social support — the experience of trying to navigate welfare systems in your 20s or 30s comes with an emotional […]
How to Have a Confident, Strategic Pay Rise Conversation With Your Boss
Most people don’t ask for pay rises they deserve. Not because they don’t know they deserve them, or because they don’t want the money — but because the conversation feels deeply uncomfortable in a way that’s hard to prepare for and easy to keep deferring. There’s always a better time. After the project finishes. After […]
How to Reduce the Impact of AI: 7 Ways to Protect Creativity, Community & the Planet
I’ve been thinking a lot lately about the strange position creative people find themselves in right now. We’re watching AI systems produce, in seconds, things that would have taken us hours or weeks — writing, images, music, code. And we’re being asked to have a settled opinion about this, to be either enthusiastically for it […]
7 Ways to Pick Up a Compulsive Liar (Even When They Don’t Realise They’re Lying)
There’s a particular kind of disorientation that comes with realising someone you care about has been lying to you — not occasionally, not about small things, but habitually, reflexively, as a way of navigating the world. It messes with your sense of reality in a way that’s hard to articulate to people who haven’t experienced […]
7 Reasons Health Professionals Say You Should Start Your Fitness Journey Now—Not on a Select Date
There’s a date you’ve probably set at some point — a Monday, a 1st of the month, a New Year, a birthday milestone. A future point at which you’ll finally start. Finally get serious. Finally begin the fitness journey you’ve been meaning to begin. Health professionals — GPs, personal trainers, physiotherapists, sports psychologists — are […]
7 Must-Watch Christmas Movies to Get Into the Christmas Spirit
There is an art to the Christmas movie. Not every film set during the holidays qualifies — it takes a particular combination of warmth, nostalgia, genuine heart, and either genuine comedy or genuine emotion (ideally both) to create something people return to year after year. The best Christmas movies don’t just fill time during the […]
Mastering the Art of Job Interviews: 7 Key Attributes That Make You Stand Out
Discover the 7 key job interview attributes that make you stand out to recruiters. From clear communication to emotional intelligence, master the skills that get you hired.