Self-care is becoming the buzz word of our generation. It’s the realisation for most millennials that we need to take time out of our hectic schedules to focus on our mental health and wellbeing, to ...
We all know that eating well is fundamental to good health and well-being. As much as we all know that healthy food can sometimes cost more than junk food. Apparently, eating well is still a ...
The clothes we wear have a meaningful impact on our wellbeing, our mental health, can affect our moods, and influence how those around us perceive us. Fashion psychology is one of a number of recent ...
Death is a weird thing to experience. Before it happened, I never really understood its full impact. I’d lost a great aunt, a few cats and a dog, but not a dad. No one tells ...
I really did not anticipate sitting in my bedroom crying every night during my first week at university. I never thought that the supposed “best week of my life” would actually be so overwhelming and mentally challenging. From ...
Often, in important historical and political movements, the rights and needs of women have been sacrificed and relegated to the back of society’s consciousness. Writer Gwendolyn Mikell cites the decolonisation of African countries as an ...
Last year, I wrote an article for LAPP describing my fairly traumatic experience with an IUD and how dealing with that led me to (thankfully) discover that I’d contracted a high-risk strain of HPV. Although ...
Welcome. Let’s get right into it. This is the second part of I Beat Cancer, So Let Me Live, an interview with Gina Spence, (one of the strongest women I know), about her experience being ...
From the time that most of us were able to comprehend the concept of an advertisement, it seems like young women (and men) have been consistently targeted into a marketing scheme that is dedicated to ...