Category: Wellness

Wellness

Why I Won’t Be Looking For Mistletoe This Christmas

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Why I Won’t Be Looking For Mistletoe This Christmas

The holidays and singleness go together like fish and cheese. Not overly offensive at a glance, but when you get down to it, it just falls a bit short of a decent Christmas dinner. If you’re home with your family for Christmas there are the inevitable questions to tackle from well meaning, but seriously frustrating distant relations.

What happened to Mr. X who you were dating last year, Almaz? Oh well, that’s a shame you can’t seem to hold down a man for more than 3 weeks. Oh yes, that’s very modern of you to be so upbeat about the fact that you’re still not married and almost 26. Thank God you’re a bright girl and can make your own living. That never would have happened in my day. I was married at 20, you know. 30 will be kicking on your door before you know it, love. Tick, tock, better get a move on. 

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Hustle, Wellness

How Eat, Pray, Love Led Me To Understand What Happiness Is

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How Eat, Pray, Love Led Me To Understand What Happiness Is

I was recently watching Eat, Pray, Love; you know, having one of those existential life crisis moments that can only be solved by watching Julia Roberts galavant around the world sharing life wisdom and eating pizza. Continue reading “How Eat, Pray, Love Led Me To Understand What Happiness Is” →

Travel, Wellness

3 Life Lessons I Learned In Japan

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3 Life Lessons I Learned In Japan

Japan is a country that is difficult to describe, but easy to feel. At the risk of sounding like the worst kind of millennial cliché; it’s an absolute vibe. It’s a land where trains run like clockwork, where everything you can ever imagine can be purchased from a vending machine, and where bathing naked with total strangers is a regular Saturday night out. Japan is wild.

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Wellness

This is How I Make The Most Out Of Each Day – And Feel Less Stressed

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This is How I Make The Most Out Of Each Day – And Feel Less Stressed

Here at The Good List we are pretty keen to share (and learn) ways to live a less stressful life (if you hadn’t already noticed…) We are, after all, an incredibly busy society; we go from one task to the next without a moment’s pause and all the while we are constantly connected thanks to social media, and there’s pressure for our responses to be constant and quick. Continue reading “This is How I Make The Most Out Of Each Day – And Feel Less Stressed” →

Wellness

The Heartbreak Hotel: Dumped, But Never Defeated

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The Heartbreak Hotel: Dumped, But Never Defeated

It came like an earthquake. Nothing for a very long time. Stillness and calm. Chirping birds and mellow crickets. Warm breezes and soft waves. Glowing sunsets and warm hugs. And then all at once, a sudden jolt, violent and unexpected. Entirely undetectable and overwhelmingly unsettling.

He said he’d been feeling this way deep down for a while, but had only just realised I wasn’t the one for him. Tears rolled down my cheeks as my sweaty thighs stuck to the seat of the stuffy car. He was sorry – I could see it in his eyes – but he also gave off an air of quiet relief.

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Wellness

Dear Anxiety, You Will Never Win

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Dear Anxiety, You Will Never Win

You know when you have a thousand tabs open on your computer and then out of the blue, one of them starts playing music? You frantically flick through the tabs, searching for the culprit. Because, of course, you are in a quiet library and your mute button isn’t working. Your hands start to get sweaty, they might even twitch a bit, clumsily trying to find the tab where the music is coming from. Well, that feeling, the ‘noise’ coming from somewhere (with no logical ‘quick-fix’ way to turn it off*) and the frenzied panic of trying to stop it… that my friend is what anxiety feels like to some of us. Continue reading “Dear Anxiety, You Will Never Win” →

Wellness

Why Self-Love Should Be the Most Important Part of Our Day-to-day Routine

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Why Self-Love Should Be the Most Important Part of Our Day-to-day Routine

I know, you’ve read the articles and seen the damning headlines, you’ve most likely even felt the effects of millennials being the most anxious generation. There’s so much going on in our heads; so many expectations, whether these are ones we set ourselves or ones others inadvertently set for us. We want to be someone, do something and see everywhere – we want to live our best lives; a life worth talking about.

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