Social Media Distraction: It’s Not Just For Kids
A recent study that attempts to put some numbers against how distracting smartphones and social media are for children who are meant to be studying, will come as no surprise…
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You Talkin’ To Me? The Coronavirus Boom of Passive Aggressive Social Media
There’s a certain type of social media post that has always triggered me into a bit of unnecessary rage. This goes back way further than Coronavirus but seems ever more…
Managing Your Finances Through the Coronavirus Pandemic
The COVID-19 pandemic has impacted virtually every facet of our day-to-day lives. And unsurprisingly, it is the source of a great deal of anxiety – chief among the concerns people…
Five Incredible Health Benefits of Medicinal Mushrooms
Mushrooms may not seem the obvious choice for keeping your immunity strong, skin glowing and blood sugar balanced, but numerous clinical studies have proved mushrooms can have great benefit when…
Life in Lockdown – What Makes Us Proud to be British?
What have the NHS, Joe Wicks, the Beatles, pubs, Marmite and a stiff upper lip all got in common? Apparently they’re some of the top things that make us proud…
Over 60s Better Prepared To Cope With Coronavirus Crisis
Over 60s feel more resilient and better prepared for the current Covid-19 crisis than millennials, according to a surprising new study. A poll of 1,000 Brits between 60 and 90-years-old…
Is It Time To Ban Bounty Reps From Baby Wards?
Delirious, exhausted, and pissing through a catheter, I spent the first day of my son’s life shaking uncontrollably as an ‘accidental overdose of epidural’ drained from my body. I was…
Women in Sport, Can We Change the Game?
This week at Belle we received results of a research study conducted by Harlequins Rugby Club. The headlines made pretty grim reading and elicited a bit of a groan from…
A Celebration of ‘Mother’ – The Word Connecting Cultures Across the Globe
We all love and cherish our mothers in our own, special way. Each bond is unique and personal, and yet motherly love is a feeling that resonates across the world.…
Surviving Bowel Cancer
Rachel Haynes is the owner of her own marketing company Everywherebrand.com, and a mother of two. In 2011 Rachel, now 54, was diagnosed with Stage 4 Bowel Cancer, which only…
