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16May

Culture Tip: To Rise Again at a Decent Hour

Camilla Nicholls

books, culture, psychology

Soul

This week's Culture Tip is the first, and may possibly be the last, to incite in me an urgent need to increase dental flossing. Joshua Ferris’s new novel To Rise Again at a Decent Hour follows anti-hero, Paul O’Rourke, who is a Red Sox fan, an avowed atheist and an acclaimed New York dentist with a thriving practice. He is a man who cares deeply about oral hygiene and his pain at his patients’ dental deterioration is palpable. He is impotent in the face of a prolific alter ego who, it seems, might just be a kinder, nicer and far from agnostic him. Paul...
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12May

Why I Left My Enchanted Cage

Charlotte Du

creativity, emotions, society

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Charlotte Du Cann is a former fashion editor with green principles
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09May

How to Surrender to Uncertainty

Judith Orloff

creativity, emotions, empathy, wellbeing

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Surrendering to the unknown is difficult. Learn how to let it be with these 7 pointers on going with the flow and embracing uncertainty, from author Judith Orloff
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08May

Middle-Aged Women: Ignored or Liberated?

Terri Apter

menopause, midlife, society, women

Soul

Middle-aged women are not so much ignored as they age, but liberated to speak out, says psychologist Dr Terri Apter
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25Apr

Why Envy is Toxic

Ros Coward

emotions, friendship, women

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Whether between friends, colleagues or siblings, envy impacts many different types of relationships. Understand the root causes of envy to help avoid it
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21Apr

Help Beat Depression by Reading Poetry

Rachel Kelly

depression, mindfulness

Soul

We are sent what we need. So it proved recently when I finished an eight-week mindfulness course with the inspirational Anna Black, teacher and author of Living in the Moment with Mindfulness Meditations. I suspected she believed in the healing power of words as she had introduced several poems on our course. As I was leaving her class one rainy Tuesday evening recently, I told her that I shared her enthusiasm for poetry.  It transpired that she had written a dissertation looking at the therapeutic role of poetry in the teaching of mindfulness as part of her Masters...
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11Apr

Culture Tip: The Martin Creed Exhibition

Mona Tabbara

Soul

Turner prize winner Martin Creed’s boundary annihilating art has been brought together for an exhibition at the Hayward Gallery in the first major survey of his work. Creed’s irreverence bleeds into every aspect of this multi media exhibition. From listening to music in the lifts to watching  a girl defecate on screen (we’ll get to that later), What’s the point of it? is an immersive, and at times invasive, cultural experience. Creed’s art endeavours to celebrate the unsung heroes of daily life. He deconstructs and rearranges our everyday experiences to allow the...
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07Apr

Celebrating Springtime

Jackee Holder

wellbeing

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Spring is the season of hope where we see the early signs of the labour of the winter months come to life. What a good time to notice the parallels in our own lives. Whether our New Year hopes and plans have failed or stalled, spring reminds us that there's still time to start over again. Spring is here I woke up this morning to find the patio outside my kitchen door scattered with big, thick, clumps of fiery green moss, fallen debris from the guttering where the magpies are making their nests, the first hints that spring is on it’s way. Researchers are...
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03Apr

Feeling Present & Grounded in the Now

Caroline Goyder

mindfulness, psychology, wellbeing

Soul

Plant your roots and find your wings: how to slow it down and use mindfulness in daily life to enhance your wellbeing and move forward
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31Mar

Arianna Huffington: "It's not all about money and power"

Welldoing

wellbeing, women

Soul

Arianna Huffington is founder and former owner of The Huffington Post. Her new book Thrive: The Third Metric to Redefining Success and Creating a Happier Life  is out now. What’s wrong with the current definition of success? Our definition of success right now is based almost solely on money and power. And so to succeed, we lead lives of overwork, sleep-deprivation and burnout. These are actually considered badges of honor! We voluntarily drive ourselves into the ground, if not the grave. This idea of success can work—or at least appear to work—in the short term....
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