Mind, Body & Soul
Discover the Path to Optimal Well-Being, Balanced Living and Conscious Travel. Uncover our comprehensive health and lifestyle resources and empower yourself to cultivate a holistic lifestyle. From fitness tricks and recipe ideas to mindfulness practices and self-care routines, here’s how to uncover the secrets to living a fulfilling life.
How to Ditch Distractions and Get Sh*t Done
If you’re on the hunt for useful tips on how to actually abolish those oh-so enticing distractions from your work day, then look no further. Staying focused in a culture that’s inundated with interruptions isn’t exactly easy, but it alas, it can be done. When we learn to implement change and create healthy habits in our daily lives, we can combat the captivating call of distractions and buckle down. Here’s 10 tips on how to increase your focus and stay on track.
5 Best Workouts for Girls On The Go
When travel comes into play, our fitness routines tend to get chucked out the window. And who could you blame when the labyrinth-like alleyways, soaring mountain tops, and that cocktail on the beach feel like they’re quite literally calling out your name… But alas, staying in shape while travelling can be reframed from energy-draining, to effortless with these simple exercises. Fellow female travellers, behold: the 5 Best Workouts for Girls on the Go.
Travel Budgeting Basics: 8 Simple Steps
Whether you’re deciding on a destination, dabbling in the finite details, or simply saving up the funds for your next escapade abroad, sometimes, just organising a trip can knock the motivation right out of you. Regardless of where you sit on the scale, a travel budget is going to serve you in collocating the criteria and enjoying every aspect of the holiday-planning process. Here’s the Travel Budgeting Basics: made easy for you in 8 Simple Steps.
The Science of Random Acts of Kindness
Being kind, to both yourself and others can in fact boost your well-being, but now, there is actual science to back up one of humankind’s most cherished social currencies. When we spend our time giving and receiving kindness, we open ourselves up to a world of possibilities. Here’s the Science of Random Acts of Kindness.
How to Travel as a Vegetarian
Navigating any foreign country can render both nerve-racking and rousing thoughts aplenty. And steering through the food scene as a vegetarian can sometimes, serve up quite the challenge. Don’t get me wrong, from buzzing Barcelona to all the way to blissful Bali, I’ve stumbled across titillatingly tasty, plant-based plates, but sometimes, our luck simply strikes out. These are my top tips and tricks for How to Travel as a Vegetarian.
How Travel Can Benefit Your Mental Health
Embarking on an escapade, whether it’s in the lush tropics off-the-beaten-track or through the medieval maze-like streets of an ancient city, can in fact boost your well-being. Exploring uncharted territory, as well as its culture and traditions can be mentally, emotionally, and physically stimulating in a magnitude of ways. Let’s take a look at 6 Ways Travel can Benefit your Mental Health.
A Guide To: Mindfulness
When broken down, mindfulness is one of our most basic human abilities. To be mindful is to reawaken oneself to be present in the very moment. It involves bringing yourself into full awareness with regards to what you’re experiencing in the here and now - who we are, where we are, and what we are doing, without judging a specific situation as ‘good’ or ‘bad’.
Sleep Like a Sloth: Why Good Sleep is Important
There’s nothing like that feeling of coming home from a long day slaving away to the system, only to dramatically belly flop your way (face-first) on to that pillow-infused cloud of fluffiness (and happiness) that is your bed. But on a serious note, sleep is an essential for optimum health and well-being. Let’s suss out the following benefits of a good night’s rest.
Time Management Skills
Time management involves organising your tasks, planning and allocating your time, and committing yourself to using your time effectively. This is a skill that can usher in a wave of relief into your busy, stressful daily life.
My 20-Minute Hotel Room Workout
After countless hours spent fidgeting around in transport limbo, sometimes, all you want to do when you arrive in a new destination is collapse straight on top of your hotel bed. So it doesn’t come as a surprise that a workout falls far to the bottom of your priorities. I can tell you first-hand that squeezing in a bit of exercise can make all of the difference when you’re out venturing foreign soil. If you’ve got the time to prioritise a quick sweaty session, then look no further than my hotel room workout.
Easy Travel Recipes
Here you have it folks. My top 3, on-the-go, go-to recipes for when I’m travelling. These are easy as all hell. You can cook up these delectable dishes at any time, and the ingredients can be sourced out almost anywhere on the globe, without a hassle. For a quick, easy bite, you can’t go wrong! Buon appetito amici!
Say Yes to Simple Self-Care Habits
Self-care describes a conscious act that one intentionally takes, in order to nurture their own physical, mental, and emotional health. Practicing self-care is important not just for the individual, but for the collective community. It encourages you to maintain a healthy relationship with yourself so that you can then pass on those positive feelings to others.
4 Reasons to Shop Second-Hand
Purchasing previously-owned goods has a plethora of perks, not just for your battling bank account, but more importantly, for the environment too. If you’ve never really thrown yourself into tackling the turf of an opportunity shop, here’s 4 reasons sure to spur you into a recycling revolution.
How to Reduce Your Waste
As individuals, it is our responsibility to take the climate crisis into our own hands and take action. There are a myriad of minor changes you can implement in your day-to-day routine that will have a significant effect on our environment. Here’s a handful of simple ways in which you can reduce your waste, and from the comfort of your own home.
Conscious Travel Tips
Essentially, conscious travel encapsulates a more mindful approach to travelling the globe, one footprint at a time. It is ultimately a movement to change the way that we see travel, in terms of our values and perception of the world in which we live.
Happiness Chemicals & How to Hack them
We can get swept up in thinking that our happiness comes as a result of the physical things we have or encounter, but when it comes down to it, happiness is in fact a complex, chemical experience.
Foods that Fight Fatigue
With the stress of today’s society, it’s become far too tempting to just down 4 cups of coffee and a cheeseburger when you’re feeling fatigued. But by being mindful of what you put on your plate can be an effective way to keep your energy levels up.
9 Simple Fitness Hacks for Travel
With the relentless incidents and events of the modern-day world, it’s far too easy to get caught up in the whirlwind of distractions and find yourself a ‘valid’ excuse not to exercise. Here are some of my best fitness hacks to help you incorporate exercise, in some shape or form, into your daily routine.
Why Mental Health Matters
When battling your inner demons becomes too much and as a result your mental health depletes, it takes a toll on you both mentally and physically. That’s why learning how to protect your mental state can not only benefit and enhance your own life, but also those of others around you.
Climate Change: Get Informed
While Covid-19 continues to dominate the mainstream media, it’s important to keep in mind that the threat posed by global warming has not just disappeared right out of thin air. Right now, we are living in unprecedented times that are essentially a defining moment in human history, and Climate Change is the defining issue we need to tackle, and soon.