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Category: Health and Wellbeing

Our Words, Our Lives: Writing and M.E.

13th July 202214th July 2022  Lucy Writers

Five writers – Nasim Marie Jafry, Laura Elliott, Henry Anderson, JP Seabright and Louise Kenward – discuss what it’s like to write with M.E. and how chronic illness has forced them to discover new modes of understanding, new forms of expression, new realms of imagination (as edited by author Katy Wimhurst).

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Posted in Creative Writing, Health and Wellbeing, Non-FictionTagged: Bodies, Chronic Illness, Henry Anderson, JP Seabright, Katy Wimhurst, Laura Elliott, Louise Kenward, M.E., My Body's Bodies Editorial, Nasim Marie Jafry, writing

Owning the Body by Ayo Deforge

21st March 2022  Ayo Deforge

In this moving and powerful piece, Author Ayo Deforge discusses bodily agency, freedom of choice and consent, and the French state’s unrelenting control over citizens’ bodies during the pandemic.

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Posted in Creative Writing, Health and Wellbeing, Non-Fiction, OpinionTagged: Bodies, Corona Virus, Covid-19, France, My Body's Bodies Editorial, Pandemic, vaccination

Gargoyles by Harriet Mercer: a lyrical exploration of the space between life and death

6th May 20217th May 2021  Kathryn Cutler-MacKenzie

In the aftermath of serious illness, Harriet Mercer explores painful and often traumatic experiences in a narrative that beautifully renders what is still, too often, “unthinkable / unthought”.

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Posted in Arts, Books, Health and WellbeingTagged: Dead Ink Books, Gargoyles, Harriet Mercer, illness, pain, recovery, trauma

Interview with Shaynae Walcott of Sugared & Sprayed: ‘I am a proud black woman’

3rd December 20204th December 2020  Aysha Abdulrazak

Aysha Abdulrazak meets with entrepreneur and founder of Sugared & Sprayed, Shay Walcott, to discuss the ancient art of sugaring, speaking your hopes into existence, the beauty of black women and building an organisation that supports women of colour from the get-go.

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Posted in Health and Wellbeing, InterviewsTagged: beauty, beauty industry, black women, BLM, BLM 2020, Covid-19, hair, hair removal, London Sugaring Company, Ropo Demure, Shay Walcott, Shaynae Walcott, Spray-tanning, Stephanie King, Sugared & Sprayed, Sugaring

Mindful or Mind-full? How practicing mindfulness can help with everyday stress & anxiety

19th July 201922nd July 2019  Ruth Cocksedge

Our Health & Wellbeing Editor, Ruth Cocksedge, considers how the Buddhist tradition of mindfulness helps with anxiety and can bring calm and compassion into our day-to-day lives.

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Posted in Health and Wellbeing, Short read

Just Eat It: fatphobia, orthorexia and why diets don’t work

18th February 201918th February 2019  Helen Long

Our contributor Helen Long finds food for thought in Laura Thomas’ body positive guide to intuitive eating, Just Eat It.

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Posted in Books, Health and WellbeingTagged: Body positivity, eating disorders, fatphobia, Food, Just Eat It, Laura Thomas, orthorexia
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