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Continue reading →: The Secret Benefits of -WalkingThink walking is just the “easy” form of exercise? Think again. From improving creativity to strengthening your heart and even supporting your brain, a simple walk might be one of the most underrated things you can do for your health. Whether you’re running upstairs in desperate need of the loo…
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Continue reading →: Healthy Eating Doesn’t Have to Be Boring*Writes article whilst eating chocolate. If you are anything like me then eating “healthy” foods can become a bit of a bore and a chore. The last thing we want right after a stressful day is to munch on a celery stick from the back of the fridge, right? But…
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Continue reading →: Poetry – The PositivesDid you know that experiencing moving poetry activates similar brain regions as listening to a favourite piece of music, and can even trigger physiological reactions like chills or goosebumps? Yet despite poetry’s remarkable ability to move us, many people still see it as something reserved for classrooms and dusty anthologies.…
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Continue reading →: Poem – Will I Ever Find Love?I search for you in every corner of my mind’s eye, Swirling corridors, crooked crevices, And still, I cannot find you. A figure of my imagination, I imagine growing old together, Making plans together, Holding hands together. Yet time slips like sand through my fingers. My face ages each year,…
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Continue reading →: Poem – A Closed FistI am hungry,But you feel no need to feed me.I ask you, ‘why?’You quite simply give no reason.You would much faster feed a dying dog in the streetThan acknowledge a fellow human in need.Or am I not human?Am I not human enough for you?Or are you not human?Are you not…
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Continue reading →: To New Beginnings…..Goodbye to ‘The Neon Squid’ and hello to ‘Curious Conversations With Natasha’! It’s been a long time since I last wrote on here with consistency. Life changed, and this little corner of the internet sat quietly for a while. But I’ve realised I still want a place to share ,…
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Continue reading →: Poem – The WaterNumb, too much time has passed. Like driftwood afloat on the ocean’s surface, Directionless. I am carried through life, lost. No mariner meets me halfway, I’m half alive, half dead. To have a friend right now would be respite. From the thoughts inside my head. It’s just me and the…
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Continue reading →: Episode 1 Sickle Cell: When Pain Is DismissedWhat if you lived with episodes of pain so severe that it felt as though your bones were being crushed from the inside? Would you want your suffering to be believed? Listen to the full episode on Spotify below, and subscribe to the podcast for more conversations exploring the human…
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Continue reading →: Audio: What’s In A Tattoo?What’s In A Tattoo? Do you have tattoo? If yes/no, why? Are they works of art, or, blights to our sight? For some they are sentimental expressions of inner emotions, for others, regrets on a drunken night out which they can’t live down. When I see someone with a…
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